Punk rock is a tool to empower us and navigate our existence. Punk has a ‘spirit’ we can all learn from. Conversations With Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue is the companion guide to the journey—your journey. Contrary to popular belief and years of mainstream media misrepresentation, punk isn’t just a style of music or even one ideology: it’s a collective of living, feeling personalities with different ideas and experiences.
In Conversations… Bianca Valentino explores her own experience, the deeper aspects of herself and asks ‘who am I?’ Along for the adventure is a who’s who of the worldwide punk and hardcore community – spanning three decades – revealing their thoughts and feelings on as well as their experiences with spirituality, life, creativity and the subculture they help create.
In 60 intimate never before seen interviews Conversations With Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue is both inspiring and enlightening as Bianca realises things about herself she also helps those she meets realise something about themself. This is the first time many of her interview subjects have spoken publicly on the topic of spirituality. Listen to the audio trailer at: Conversations With Punx Audio Trailer
We are all navigating our existence in an uncertain world and we all face challenges and dysfunction – the question to ask is: what are we going to do about it? Each artist’s struggle and story could be your life. Each artist’s answers may inspire your own. Take inspiration from those that are doing more than just surviving the day-to-day to fit your own vision. Be motivated by punk rockers that are truly living their lives on their own terms and create your very best life. Conversations… will challenge you to embrace positive change, accept responsibility for your life and to make a real difference in the world.
What started as a journey of one has turned into something much greater than I could have ever imagined! The following peeps have joined me on this amazing voyage…
Conversations include:
Don Letts
Ian Mackaye
Dwid Hellion
Greg Attonito & Shanti Wintergate
Henry Rollins
Rob Fusco
Mike Park
Jesse Michaels
Robert Ehrenbrand
Larry Livermore
Noah Levine
John Joseph
Nick 13
Craig Fairbaugh
Vic DiCara
Greg Graffin
Efrem Schultz
Exene Cervenka
Lou Koller
Mark Civitarese
Lisa Kekaula & Bob Vennum
John Porcell
Ray Cappo
Johnny Siera
Frank Portman
Duane & Corey Peters
Louis Posen
Jonah Matranga
Jason Cruz
Franklin Rhi
Ben Weasel
Dr Know
Russ Rankin
Matt Caughthran
Brad Warner
Daniel Dart
Dan Jones
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
SpiderXDeath
Mike Herrera
Greg Boil
Ari Up
Stephen Kasner
Sena Hussain
Lord Ezec
More to be announced…
Photographer folk whose work is featured in the book!
(Please take the time to click on them & check out their amazing work)
Carey Haider
Nathan Hicks
Annaliese Moyer
Natalie Lorenz
Stephen Booth
Catie-Rae Zappala
Eric Vogel
Marc Gärtner
Benny Temper
Zach Lewis
Yosuke Torii
Rubén Navarro Martín
Amy Farina
Nat Thompson
Hiro Tanaka
Nathan Isaiah Jochum
Gary Lawson
Bruno Furnari
Christy Mehaffie
Oliver Wilke
Greg Boil
Kate Hiltz
Scott R Moulaison
Silvère Teutsch
Justin Edwards
Svetlana Dekic
Chris Blakely
Shanti Wintergate
Kim Wheeler
Tyler Nutter
And more to come…
