Rumble Fish

There's something about 'Rumble Fish' that makes me read it a few times every year. If you think this is a book just about gang fighting - you're wack. It's about wanting to be something you can't be, finally getting it and realizing that it wasn't what what you wanted. It's about being misunderstoo......more

Alright, this is not my usual thing. Not by a long shot. A book about teen angst, hero worship and fighting because it's fun… yeah, no thanks (before you post a reply dear reader, yes, I know there's more to this book than that, please hold fire a few moments). You may be wondering, "Tim, why did yo......more

Tenía ganas de leer algo más de la autora de una de mis novelas favoritas, Rebeldes. No sabía qué esperarme, pero desde luego no una historia que siguiera los pasos de su primera obra. Pareciendo un spin-off, tratando el tema de las bandas callejeras, las peleas y las relaciones sexuales, Susan E. Hi......more

Things in life don’t come with equal weight. The biggest and heaviest impacts are when an event or a moment grab a life that is completely and utterly ripe for something it didn’t know existed. The film Rumble Fish was one of the big blows of my early adulthood. To me it was (and still is) mind-blowi......more

Rumble Fish was a cool movie that looked a lot like Robert Frank’s The Americans and had Mickey Rourke perfecting his Richard Hell impersonation with Tom Waits doing a Pop’s Chocklit Shoppe routine, whilst listening to Wall Of Voodoo and The Police jamming on the soundtrack…very new wave…totally Eig......more