It's all about perspective, and cutting through each interviewee's work-encrusted exterior. One of the best conversations is between graphic artist Frank Kozik and John Brady, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. If I can do it, anybody can. That whole victim mentality is just one big cop-out. Yeah, if you get fucking high and go skate in somebody's bank lobby, of course they're going to shut you down.
Nothing fails to dabble in hip-hop.
The general flavor of the interview with Chicago-based Hispanic punk band Los Crudos is the only thing that comes close. In some cases, the subjects get a little defensive about the severity of their ideas, proving art and activism often fail to account for all angles of human nature. We're not just a bunch of angry idiots that want to smash and destroy everything. Of course, Shan was preaching to the converted when he made that statement, but the message would have to ring true even for the most guarded reader. Joe Warminsky is a writer and editor in the Washington, D.C., area.