I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9781635901832
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Language: English
Page Count: 215
Publication Date: 5/23/2023
Size: 8.01" l x 5.41" w x 0.63"
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A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s most influential artists of subsequent decades.

When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered—among other treasures—an extensive diary kept at the age of fourteen. Still living with his Christian parents in the notoriously racist Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, Sean wrote almost every day about crushes and hustling, waterbeds, blackmail, Donna Summer, gloryholes, racism, and shoplifting porn. 

DeLear would go on to become the frontman for the Los Angeles punk/powerpop band Glue. He was a punk musician, visual artist, intercontinental scenester, video vixen, party host, marijuana farmer, and sometime-collaborator of artists such as Kembra Pfahler and Vaginal Davis. His diaries capture a moment in Los Angeles underground history that shaped his own coming of age.


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