MC #76015: The Urban Hermitt is a hip hop artist who hangs out with nightmarish hippies, punks, queers, and blurs the lines separating them. Watch the Hermitt move to Seattle at the age of 18 and react to the big city through a simultaneous process of self discovery. Watch him come out as queer in the midst of LSD-induced-heterosexist-rainbow-gathering love. He writes about the counterculture, with soul. It's a book about queer studies. It's a book about underground perspectives and culture. It's a funny book. It's just a book about a kid growing up. ISBN 0-9726967-0-9
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A collection of short stories by the Urban Hermitt about the usual settings, cast of characters, and themes...this time, uh, kinda more fictionalized.
The Hermitt is the beat poet of the zeros! These are the stories that make up a life dripping with idealism. Hang your mouth wide open in awe as the descriptions spew forth of living with hippies at the bad poetry house and then again on a trip to Hawaii staying in a tent on a farm. It's a unique hip hop infused version of the English language. What may appear to be a typo at first may actually be slang. It's easy to get sucked straight up into the Hermitt's world after a few pages and really, I don't blame you for wanting to stay there. It has a pretty swell outlook on life. Featuring revelations like "just because you consider yourself to be a great artist doesn't mean you are exempt from paying rent."
The Urban Hermitt is at it again! This issue is part one of the "Primate Freedom" travelogue, when Hermitt went on the road with the tour of the same name back in 1999. Hermitt travels cross the nation with a colorful cast of characters, and attempts to share his beat -esque poetry with unreceptive audiences. The tour is recounted in glorious detail, peppered with Hermitt's witty observations. The names have been changed, but you'll have fun trying to figure out who the punk bands, punk capitalists, activists, zinesters, hipsters, teenage posi-core zinesters from Maine, and other members of the cast of HermittVerse really are. (Trust me, it's addictive, and might even know who a couple of these people are!)
yea! new stories from the Urban Hermitt and life in San Francisco filled with queers, dykes, fags and transfolk. Housemates packed apartments in San francisco always create interesting situations and Andre (the Urban Hermitt)shares his adventures with houseguests, queer bars, landlord spys, crazy parties, and more. As always, the writing is smart and clever and the "characters" are alive and real. -alex
The Hermitt is the beat poet of the zeros! These are the stories that make up a life dripping with idealism. This issue finds Hermitt living in San Francisco among a healthy homosexual community with its own share of drama, fag bars, love affairs, working in a group home with unruly teenagers, and the ongoing quest in society to be accepted as a man. It's a unique hip hop infused version of the English language. What may appear to be a typo at first may actually be slang. It's easy to get sucked straight up into the Hermitt's world after a few pages and really, I don't blame you for wanting to stay there. It has a pretty swell outlook on life.
The Hermitt is the beat poet of the zeros - and he's back! These are the stories dripping with sarcasm that make up a life dripping with idealism. This issue finds Hermitt back living in Seattle among a healthy homosexual community with its own share of drama, fag bars, hitched car rides, love affairs, queer conferences, working in a group home with unruly teenagers, and the ongoing quest in society to be accepted as a man. It's a unique hip hop infused version of the English language. What may appear to be a typo at first may actually be slang. It's easy to get sucked straight up into the Hermitt's world after a few pages and really, I don't blame you for wanting to stay there. It has a pretty swell outlook on life.
Urban Hermitt #22 is great. It's all about Hermitt's search to find a church where the pastor does not spout homophobic rhetoric. He ends up at a "hipster church" where Aphex Twin thuds on the speakers and soymilk is available with the free coffee. The anecdotes Hermitt relates are of feeling frustrated when the pastor denounces paganism and Buddhism, or talks about how having a traditional family is the zenith of weirdness. At these moments Hermitt senses that the church-goers can tell that he's, as he puts it, "a freaky queer". Issue #22 is about finding a place to worship when you feel the most spiritual while running a marathon, or meditating on a rooftop. Oh and Hermitt also wants you to know that zines are not dead!
The Hermitt is the beat poet of the zeros! These are the stories that make up a life dripping with idealism. Hang your mouth wide open in awe as the descriptions spew forth of living with hippies at the bad poetry house and then again on a trip to Hawaii staying in a tent on a farm. It's a unique hip hop infused version of the English language. What may appear to be a typo at first may actually be slang. It's easy to get sucked straight up into the Hermitt's world after a few pages and really, I don't blame you for wanting to stay there. It has a pretty swell outlook on life. Featuring revelations like "just because you consider yourself to be a great artist doesn't mean you are exempt from paying rent." Hermitt has a new zine of short stories called "Jaded Hipsters Dig Whiskey Sours". It is available for $1.
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