MY FAVORITE MEMORY

My FAVORITE MEMORY: Walking Home In A Stooges Shirt, Covered In Shit and Puke.....Or, How Please Kill Me Changed My Life

Danny Fields and Justin Skrakowski Interview Young Berliner 
Joscha Blankenburg 

Fifteen years after Please Kill Me was first published, we continue to meet people who say that our book changed their lives. Always curious about the why when and where, we wanted details. And who better to ask the hard questions than the guy we dedicated our book to, the Danny Fields, “the coolest guy in the room”?

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P.K.M. GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH:

how loathsome

By Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh

Review by Legs McNeil

How Loathsome is really hard to describe, so I will let one of the writer’s and illustrator, Ted Naifeh, in a 2006 interview with Manolis Vamvounis, for the website insidepulse.com, begin to explain it to you: 

“How Loathsome is a faux-autobiographical comic about a semi-gender-queer person named Catherine Gore, who lives in San Francisco. The story kicks off when she meets Chloe, a gorgeous transsexual girl, at an S&M play party. Problem is, Chloe isn’t attracted to girls, and though she’s eager for men to see her as female, she can’t get past the fact that Catherine isn’t really male.” 

Got it?

We didn’t think so.

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P.K.M. PUBLICATION OF THE MONTH:

CAUGHT UP

Review by Legs McNeil

"Mug shots. Nothing but mug shots."

       Imagine that you’ve just pulled out of the bar after a couple of drinks, your still trying to fasten your seatbelt-- when flickering red lights suddenly appear in your rearview mirror and a police siren pops on, signaling you to pull over. After a quick hand to eye sobriety test, the police officer asks you to blow into the breathalyzer-- and it comes up snake eyes. You lose; prepare to add a DUI to your permanent record.  

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PKM GOES TO THE NORMAN MAILER AWARDS

As everyone was leaving, Legs gave former President Clinton a copy of Please Kill Me and said, “You might want to hide that from your wife….” Click the photo above to see the slideshow!

The 2011 Norman Mailer Awards to honor writers were held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City on November 4, 2011. Gillian McCain, her husband, Jim Marshall, photographer Bob Gruen and Legs McNeil were there to see Keith Richards and his co-author James Fox receive the prize for Distinguished Biography for Richards’s 2010 memoir, Life.

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AT THE RAMONES MUSEUM: Hanging in Berlin With Danny Fields

by Danny Fields

In Berlin, Germany, there’s a fantastic museum dedicated to the Ramones, no kidding! You can find out all about it at the Ramones Museum Berlin website.

Danny Fields was at the Ramones Museum to host a showing of his photographs of the Ramones, taken when he managed the band from 1975 to 1980.

Here’s what the opening of the show looked like—all photos in this slideshow are by Danny, except, obviously, for the one that he’s in. That was snapped by Monte Melnick, the road manager of the Ramones during their entire career.

But, hey ho, let’s go!

PKM LIVE! GOES TO P’TOWN

Please Kill Me Live! Goes to P’town

Danny Fields Interviews Billy Hough About Please Kill Me Live!

Our Please Kill Me Live! adventure in Provincetown owes everything to brilliant and talented Billy Hough, a real star in a place where there are lots of them. 

Billy performs in Provincetown (aka P’town) five or six nights a week from May to Halloween (and New Year’s Eve), including his regular Tuesday & Friday night gig called, “Scream Along With Billy and Sue,” with guitarist/partner Susan Goldberg. During the fall and winter months, Billy and Sue take the “Scream Along” show on the road to clubs in New York, and Boston.

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PREACHERS KIDS REBELLION

Preachers Kids Rebellion.....Or, How Please Kill Me Changed My Life

Danny Fields Interviews Nate Smith

The latest interview in our series, “How Please Kill Me Changed My Life,” is with Nate Smith, whom Gillian, Legs and I met in July of 2011 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where we were doing a book signing and a performance of Please Kill Me Live!

Nate came to Provincetown with his girlfriend Christina Mursheno, just to see us do whatever it is that we do. They had been staying in the fabled seaside resort earlier in the season, while Christina was performing the title role in the musical version of Debbie Does Dallas, and returned to Cape Cod for the PKM event.

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