Punks Around: Mutant Maniac

by Justin Maurer, Alexander Herbert (Editor)

You a punk? Want to read some anecdotes about other punks from around the world? Well, here you go. Mutant Maniac is the second zine in the Punks Around series. Similar to the first issue, Nizhny Life, you're going to find 1st person accounts, including stories you may even relate with (or things you won't believe, depending on your perspective. We're not all confronted by skinheads or toured the U.S. with our punk band). This sucker is Justin Maurer's time on the road with Maurice's Little Bastards and Clorox Girls, with some perverse antecdotes taking place right here in the PNW! This is a quick read that you'll probably not going to put down until you finish. But if you do that's fine. We all got shit to do.

40 pages, Paperback

Published August 10, 2018

About the author

Justin Maurer is a writer and musician from Los Angeles. He was born in L.A. but came of age in the Great Pacific Northwest where he recorded 3 albums and embarked on world tours with his storied punk band Clorox Girls. After a decade of nonstop touring, the band fell apart and he worked and lived in Madrid and London. In Europe he toured with Red Dons, sang for Mano De Mono and formed the band Suspect Parts before a full-circle return to L.A. Justin’s first book “Don’t Take Your Life” (Future Tense Books) was published in 2006. His new chapbook of stories “Seventeen Television” is now available on small press, Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

To pay the bills, he most recently worked as a Dental Supply Salesman, L.A. Cab Driver, American Sign Language Interpreter and Hollywood tour bus driver as well as a freelance writer and contributor to various publications. He is presently failing to option his first feature screenplay ”Pulling Teeth“ to Hollywood. He sings for the punk/60s pop band L.A. Drugz.and plays guitar in punk/glam band Maniac. One of his songs,“Outside Place,” was featured in Hollywood film, “The Lifeguard” (2013). He was recently featured as a “Sign Language Consultant” in a comedy bit on ABC TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

His music and writing has been featured on podcasts and radio shows such as Mike Watt’s “The Watt From Pedro Show,” Life During Wartime (KBOO), Cherry Blossom Clinic (WFMU), Champagne Problems (KDVS), Gorsky Press podcast, Bam! Radio Show (Italy) and Skid Row Studios.

Maurer’s writing and criticism has appeared in Trop Magazine, L.A. Record, Color Magazine, The Rumpus, Faster Times, Vice Spain, Maximumrocknroll, Razorcake and Vol 1. Brooklyn. He is trying to avoid a tractor-beam-like pull into the semi-lucrative field of dental supply sales. He lives and writes in East Hollywood when not being interrupted by his girl and/or his dog.