Monday, August 9, 2010

Four Letter F Word

"...I wanna be a cop now...If you want you can call me Fuzz, or Fuzz One, but not Fuzzy, Please."

Vincent Fedorchek tells this to a bus driver as he jumps on the bus with two garbage bags full of weed. Mr. Fedorchek is Fuzz One and Fuzz One is a writer; graffiti wooshes thru his veins every moment of his days, and he has written a book that sheds some light onto the tracks of his life. At least a decade of it. But Ayo, whadda decade that was! Any writer will appreciate this account, and as in another review I've read, this is a book for anyone who wants to get a taste of what urban life is all about.

So yep yep it's almost 400 pages long, although from pg. 312 forward it is a photo gallery, and there are many two page spreads of photos, along with the hundreds of other photos peppered thru this book. It's complained that the photos are "Fuzzy", rather ironic I think-seeing as he has such a huge collection of photos available to share, and any real writer will know these fLIcks are beautiful, and a'course they'll be blurry. Duh. Everybody born in the mid-eighties or beyond: There WAS life BEFORE hi-def cellys and Wi-Fi access!!! IT"S TRUE! Yes, no I don't know how we survived either.
Anyways the photos are true to the time and absolutely stupid dope fresh.

The stories in this book are f'n funny, sometimes mad iLLy, mostly true, and lightly exaggerated; in other words, it's a great read. So many tales of rampant adventures with neighborhood superheros and random drug addicts, bums and bomb ass writers. This guy lived 30 civilian's lives combined, and that was before he was 16 years old. There are bombing missions abound, with the likes of TFP's, I.N.D.'s, Clyde One, Comet 1, Zephyr, TC5, FDT 56, Dondi, Noc 167,-all true kings, during the era of Kings. Fuzz had a thousand different tags, and one Bugged out Moms, who treats him well till she gotta beat beat him well, but shit whose maDukes didn't? I mean Snap, Fuzz coming in at six a.m. with lame excuses just like thousands of other writers who endured the parental wrath, but Fuzz is the one who dropped a book; and even though it's sorta thick for some of y'all lugheads, just pick it up and start reading, you's gonna enjoy it.

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