Straight from The Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné

Straight from The Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné

Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the sixties actually dates back before WW2, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue and why snore when you can call some hogs? You're not drunk - you're just plumb full of stagger-juice and your skin isn't pasty, it's just cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That's a shot of java, nix on the moo juice. Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From The Fridge Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.

Now there's a new way of talkingOr rather, there is an old way of talking ripe for revival. Jive has returned. it's all thanks to Max Décharné's recently published Straight From the Fridge, Dad - a Dictionary of Hipster Slang, the lexicon for the hep cats of London's most swinging trotteries * The Times *
If you enjoy watching noir films, listening to blues or jazz, reading pulp novels or poring over certain song lyrics, this "dictionary of hipster slang", a guide to hep as it was spoken through the first half of the last century, will prove indispensable -- Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski * The Independent *
handsomely illustrated with photos, record sleeves and pulp novel covers, this book would make a really great Christmas present for that one vintage clothing-obsessed 50s-throwback friend you have somewhere -- Stuart Hammond * Dazed and Confused *
If you are the kind of hep cat who harbours a burning urge to gas the slobs, then the righteous Max is the man. He shoots the works to fascinating and often hilarious effect * Esquire *
perfect for the wannabe hipster and will slip neatly into the inside lining of any zoot suit -- Chris Wiegand * Richmond Review *

Max Décharné was born in England, and can still speak English when his business demands it. During the past fourteen years he has flung various books and records at the public, and travelled to a variety of countries, firstly as a member of Gallon Drunk, and since 1995 with his band The Flaming Stars, in an effort to spread peace, goodwill and partial deafness among the youth of the world. He still divides his drinking time between London and Berlin.

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ISBN 13	9781842430002
ISBN 10	1842430009
Title	Straight from The Fridge, Dad
Author	Max Décharné
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2000-10-10
Number of pages	224
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