My buddy and colleague Chris Faraone of the Boston Phoenix has been on top of the Occupy movement since the jump off, a phrase I use there because it sounds vaguely hip hop, a subject he also covers with gusto. His work typically outshone anything coming out of the more mainstream press. Catch up some of it in the Phoenix here.
Sensing something rotten in the air, Faraone took off around the country to take the temperature of the movement, or to be more accurate, snap on a pair of latex gloves, and tell the world to bend over and cough.
The result is his new book 99 Nights with the 99 Percent, 224 pages of the real story from someone on the ground while it unfolded. Buy it here at UndergroundHipHop or on , or pick one up . From the book's press blurb:
Occupy Wall Street was the most covered news story of 2011. Among those who followed the movement like a storm chaser, Boston Phoenix Staff Writer Chris Faraone is one of the few who blogged about daily Occupy minutiae, but also stepped back to smoke lots of weed, investigate and analyze the protest, and deliver weekly features. Starting in September, Faraone published a series of deep Occupy portraits, traveling to more than a dozen cities from Boston to Seattle. His work illustrates day-to-day Occupy operations, as well the characters who make the movement tick. In the process, he also landed nationwide exclusives, like a scoop on a federation of police officers who support Occupy. Though Faraone is to the left of liberal, he wrote with a balanced reporter's eye, in many cases aggravating readers on both sides of the ideological aisle.
Faraone agreed to submit himself to a Proust Questionnaire for PTSOTL, because jacking a regular feature out of the back pages of Vanity Fair for a piece about Occupy seemed thematically legit.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
President Santorum.
Where would you like to live?
In Uncle Jessie's basement apartment with the Tanner family.
What is your greatest fear?
Needles.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
You're asking the wrong guy.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Rick Ross and Boo Radley.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
The Beastie Boys.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Regina Kelly and my mother, Ann Faraone.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Blanche Devereaux.
Your favorite painter?
Anyone who uses private property as their canvas.
Your favorite musician?
Yngwie Malmsteen and Ghostface Killah.
The quality you most admire in a man?
The ability to grow a perfect beard.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
The ability to grow a perfect beard.
What living person do you most admire?
Ralph Nader. Really.
What is your greatest extravagance?
$400 ounces of weed.
On what occasion do you lie?
When people ask if I've listened to their mixtapes.
What do you dislike most about your appearance?
Every now and then I get a giant zit on the left side of my nose.
When and where were you happiest?
The summer between high school and college.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Not ending up in jail.
What is your most treasured possession?
Commemorative set of limited edition Glenn Beck “Restoring Honor” gold coins.
How would you like to die?
With a boner.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My inability to relax.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Conservatism.
Your favorite virtue?
Laziness.
Your favorite occupation?
Best Boy Grip.
Who would you have liked to be?
Barney Frank.
What is your motto?
I'd no idea what I was getting into. If I had, I'd have gotten into it sooner.
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2 comments:
this duder's coverage/twitter feed of occupy boston has been top notch.
Yeah it is. Real deal.
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