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 COLORING
OUTSIDE THE LINES; A Punk Rock Memoir (Site)
by Aimee Cooper. Nonfiction. 132 pages. After
accidentally coming across a live Johnny Thunders show while home in New
York during her college break, Aimee Cooper immediately decides she wants
to know more about punk rock. Returning to school in California, Aimee
lands a job with punk magazine Slash and immerses herself into the punk
rock “life-style.”
Coloring Outside the Lines is a personal look at how punk rock
affected (and effected) one woman, Aimee Cooper. Although there are a lot
of stories pertaining to punk rock music, Aimee mainly focuses on the many
friendships made after stepping into the punk rock scene. Along with the
friendship stories, the reader is made privy to various forms of high
jinx, brawls, road trips, cooking dinner for Black Flag, and of course,
troubles with the police. One aspect of this book I loved is the fact that
Aimee didn’t feel the need to be opinionated when it came to any and
everything. So many punkers feel the need to be overly opinionated and try
to force their thoughts down your throat, but not Aimee. She simply has a
story to tell. To be honest,
if a male had written this book, I wouldn’t have even read it. However,
since punk rock has so few female voices, especially from the early 80s, I
was really interested in what Aimee had to write and I surely wasn’t
disappointed. – Denis Sheehan
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