Summary of Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was born in 1964, and I was raised by my mother. She was a teacher, and she couldn’t control me. She always made me feel bad about myself. My father couldn’t control me either, and he often projected a deep, quiet sadness around him.
#2 I was a petty thief in junior high. I would ask to use the restroom between classes, then make my way through the school, down to the gym locker room, and rifle through the pockets of the students there. I stole whatever was there.
#3 I had a difficult childhood, and my father spent little time parenting me. I was a compulsive gambler, a fledgling alcoholic, a thief, and a porno fiend. I hid my weed and smoking apparatus in the doghouse under our carport.
#4 I had to start toughening up, which meant smartening up. I wasn’t talking about fighting, but I was tired of paying for my broken hands. I needed to be stronger and smarter than I was.

Sujets

• Pornografía
• Porno
• Pornographie
• ROCK

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669357780
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22 Insights from Chapter 23 Insights from Chapter 24 Insights from Chapter 25 Insights from Chapter 26 Insights from Chapter 27 Insights from Chapter 28 Insights from Chapter 29 Insights from Chapter 30 Insights from Chapter 31 Insights from Chapter 32 Insights from Chapter 33 Insights from Chapter 34 Insights from Chapter 35 Insights from Chapter 36 Insights from Chapter 37 Insights from Chapter 38 Insights from Chapter 39 Insights from Chapter 40 Insights from Chapter 41 Insights from Chapter 42 Insights from Chapter 43
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was born in 1964, and I was raised by my mother. She was a teacher, and she couldn’t control me. She always made me feel bad about myself. My father couldn’t control me either, and he often projected a deep, quiet sadness around him.

#2

I was a petty thief in junior high. I would ask to use the restroom between classes, then make my way through the school, down to the gym locker room, and rifle through the pockets of the students there. I stole whatever was there.

#3

I had a difficult childhood, and my father spent little time parenting me. I was a compulsive gambler, a fledgling alcoholic, a thief, and a porno fiend. I hid my weed and smoking apparatus in the doghouse under our carport.

#4

I had to start toughening up, which meant smartening up. I wasn’t talking about fighting, but I was tired of paying for my broken hands. I needed to be stronger and smarter than I was.

#5

I was 15 when I traded in all of my comic books for records. I was instantly hooked on punk rock, and soon traded in all of my other records for more punk rock. I had a very negative opinion of police officers in Ellensburg, and would frequently get arrested with them.

#6

I was one of two quarterbacks on my high school team, and we were terrible. I never did any homework, and I was treated with contempt by my teammates. I was a full-blown alcoholic after my second bottle of MD 20/20, and I would go to the park and drink it.

#7

I was a frequent target of Waddell Snyder’s jokes and abuse. One day, after practice, I found my helmet filled and dripping with soda. The prankster had been the biggest, heaviest lineman on our team, an extremely large dark-skinned black man named Waddell Snyder. I laughed out loud when my dad called the coach off our property.

#8

I was sentenced to eighteen months in prison for vandalizing a van, drinking underage, and stealing car parts. I would do my time at Shelton, the medium-security prison in Washington. The judge reviewed my rap sheet, which was drug and alcohol related, and suspended my sentence on the condition that I completed a year of outpatient substance-abuse treatment.

#9

In 1982, I was playing baseball in Ellensburg, Washington, and I was having the best season of my life. But I had failed a home economics class the previous semester, which meant I wouldn’t be allowed to play sports anymore. I would have agreed to anything to play baseball.

#10

I was not expecting to receive such a hostile welcome when I returned to school, but I was still shocked by the hostility of my teacher, Mrs. Stevens. I had dreamed of playing baseball, but that was done when I received an F on my end-of-semester project. I had no other option but to decline her generous offer.

#11

I had a high school girlfriend named Deborah who had quit college, come back to town, and moved in with me. I had quit drinking and was trying to quit, but I couldn’t get past Friday night. I would drink for twenty-four hours, no drugs, just drinking and not sleeping. Then I’d be unconscious for twenty-four hours.

#12

I had been reviled as a town drunk before I could even legally drink. I had a full beard at age 18 and started drinking in bars, always blacking out and bringing unwanted attention to myself. I was hired to repo TVs and VCRs from trailer trash who didn’t make their payments.

#13

I would go to different homes and businesses and take back what was mine. I was a big guy, six feet two and a hundred and eighty-five pounds, and I could usually intimidate people into giving me what I wanted.

#14

I met Lee, the band’s drummer, who showed me his songs. They were all written by him, and I was impressed by his talent. I recorded my vocals over his music, and we wrote cheesy words and a vocal part that felt right for the garage-style music.

#15

I was asked to contribute a vocal part or lyrics to a song, but after I heard Lee’s lyrics, I realized that they were the furthest thing from good. His lyrics were filled with phony lines about butterflies, rainbows, and smiling cats.

#16

I had always had a fascination with the perverse and strange. I saw a vintage photo of a fully tattooed man when I was 14, and I began to tattoo myself with a sewing needle wrapped in thread and dipped into India ink.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The second time the band played live was opening for a loud and nuanced power trio from Portland called the Wipers. The Wipers were gods in western Washington and Oregon. I had never gotten into their records, but when I saw them live, it stunned me like a kick to the head.

#2

I was put off by the lengthy seven-record contract offered by the Enigma-offshoot label Pink Dust. I decided to change the trajectory of the band and sign with SST Records, which only offered me one record at a time.

#3

I had become inoculated to the town’s lack of activity. I was beginning to unravel, and my girlfriend was trying to help me get help.