I'M ON THE GUEST LIST SO..FUCK..YOU

SIGNED BY  CHRIS WALTER

VERY SCARCE BOOK

By Chris Walter

Publisher: Gofuckyerself Press, Vancouver,

British Columbia 2007 Second Edition

This book is a Soft Cover in Fine Condition with 278 pages also with black and white photographs.

Signed by the Author on the title page.

CONTENTS

Part One = Dum Dum Daze

Chapters 1 to 39

Part Two = Going Nowhere Fast

Chapters 40 to 60

Part Three = A Long Way Home

Chapters 61 to 76

Full page Photograph of the Author

FROM THE COVER == I'M ON THE GUEST LIST

Truly the Mentors were visionaries, kings amongst men. Or maybe they were just three drunken slobs who would never get laid if they weren't in a rock band.

Regardless, I was enjoying the show thoroughly and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. I looked around the bar, and saw at least three separate battles.

Chairs flew through the air, bottles smashed, and the animalistic screams of the combatants mingled with the roar from the stage. Now this was entertainment!

This third and final part to the I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk trilogy begins in a Winnipeg Manitoba jail cell in 1984 and ends twenty-years later in Vancouver. British Columbia. 

This first hand account into the life of a punk is brutally honest, devastatingly funny, and at times, emotionally chilling.

There is no peace, love, and anarchy for Mr. Walter, only boots, blood, and massive quantities of liquor and drugs.

This is the real thing, not prepackaged punk you can buy in a mall.

REVIEW == He brings life to the small details of everyday existence, and spares the reader no ugly details about himself in much the same bare manner as Charles Bukowski.  ==== Nerve Magazine

REVIEW == The drama level is fairly high (hard drugs, extremely dysfunctional relationships), but Walter takes it all in stride, keeping an objective, humourous tone throughout.  ==== Maximum Rock'n'Roll

MORE ABOUT == Chris Walter (born August 16, 1959) is a Canadian punk rock historian, novelist and founder of the independent publishing company GFY Press.

His novels generally portray the darker aspects of humanity such as drug addiction, prostitution, and homelessness.

Biography == Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Chris was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He became involved with drugs at a very early age and was kicked out of school before leaving home at fifteen, working a succession of menial jobs and collecting welfare for long stretches.

 Forming his first punk rock band in 1980, Chris soon realized that he was never going to be a musician and began publishing a punk fanzine, Pages of Rage, which gave him his first taste of creative writing, although he wouldn’t complete his first novel, Beer, until he was almost forty.

His drug addiction raged out of control after moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, where he completed several novels but overdosed on heroin and eventually became homeless. Upon rehabilitation in January 2001, he devoted himself to work and to his family. Chris Walter resides in Vancouver with his long-time girlfriend and their son.

GFY Press == GFY Press specializes in urban fiction, “books about punks, drunks, junkies and whores,” and has published 23 titles: 12 novels by Walter, his autobiographical trilogy, two collections of short stories, novels authored by Simon Snotface, Drew Gates and Stewart Black, and biographies of Canadian punk groups Personality Crisis, SNFU, and the Dayglo Abortions. Despite their dark subject matter, Walter's books are known for black humour, presented in prose described by critics as “convincing, lively, real, accessible, and wildly entertaining.”

Other Contributions ==  Walter has also contributed to a number of publications, including The Nerve, Mass Movement, Razorcake, The Big Takeover, The Georgia Straight, Vice, Loud Fast Rules, The Republic, and Absolute Underground. He was featured in Prairie Coast Films' 2010 documentary Open Your Mouth And Say... Mr. Chi Pig, a film that looks at the life of SNFU singer Mr. Chi Pig.

Bibliography

Literary Memoirs

Mosquitoes & Whisky (2001)

I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk (2003)

I’m On the Guest List (2005)

NovelsBeer (1999)

Anarchy Soup (2001)

Kaboom (2002)

Punk Rules OK (Published by Burn Books 2003)

Boozecan (2004)

East Van (2004)

Langside (2006)

Welfare Wednesdays (2006)

Rock and Roll Heart (2008)

Wrong (2009)

Punch the Boss (2009)

Sins of the Poor (2010)

Up and Down On the Downtown Eastside (2011)

Chase the Dragon (2013)

Richie Dagger: Life & Times (2015)

Liquor & Whores (2016)

Biographies

Personality Crisis: Warm Beer and Wild Times (2008)

Argh Fuck Kill: The Story of the DayGlo Abortions (2010)

SNFU: What No One Else Wanted To Say (2012)

Under the Kilt: the Real McKenzies Exposed (2015)

Short StoriesShouts from the Gutter (2007)

Shrieks from the Alley (2012)

Also published by GFY Press

Destroy Canada by Stewart Black and Chris Walter (2005)

Prisoner of Evil by Simon Snotface (2005)

The Crooked Beat by Drew Gates (2007)