Dream-Punk: A Nightscape - NOW AVAILABLE!

About the Author

John Francis Hughes holds a doctorate from Simon Fraser University's School of Communication. He is a former university instructor, journalist and bike courier. John's first book, Nobody Rides for Free: A Drifter in the Americas, was published in 2012, by BookThug. John and his wife, Cat (and their kitty-cat, Luna), own Groove Cat Books and Records in New Westminster, Canada. They also own and operate Cosmic Cranium Press. When there's a spare moment, John likes to listen to punk rock or thrash metal while reading up on Hindu philosophy.  

Dreams were the original punk rock!

Dreams can be disturbing: our nightmares are vicious, shocking, and sleazy - words often used to deride punk rock. Yet, from humanity’s first dream - now long lost to the eons - our night visions have given us a key to an alternate reality. Punk has offered us a similar perspective. Several decades ago, punk rock burst onto the music scene in a shockwave, freaking out established interests. The vision and power of punk-rock was undeniable and, just like our worst dreams, the nightmare of punk-rock cannot be fully suppressed. Even the proverbial “sweet dream” can reveal paths to personal fulfillment. With so much psychic energy at play, powerful interests have tried to control our dreams over the centuries: seers, priests, philosophers, psychoanalysts and political fanatics. Dream-Punk: A Nightscape maps dream politics while tracking the author’s five-year photo-log of night visions as a garage-punk, do-it-yourself means of taking our dreams back from establishment parasites who aim at siphoning their power. Punk rock in theory, method and content, Dream-Punk is a stunning conceptual and visual book, unlike any other.