Punk paradox: a memoir

Introduction --

Professors' kids --

Divorce --

Musician ignition --

The deep origins of Bad Religion --

Prog religion and politics --

Transcontinental journey --

LA proved too much for the man --

A woman's place --

The morning after... --

Juvenile debauchery '80-'82 --

Looking for Bad Religion --

Genesis --

Not boyfriend material --

Poetry of punk and making the scene --

Into the unknown --

Academics and punk --

The manufacture of dissent --

Intellectual transitioning --

The path to suffer --

Moving --

Upping the game --

Europe --

From DIY to collaborative enterprise --

The big sellout --

Withdrawal --

The two cultures --

Selling out --

Music business formal legitimacy --

Adjustments and strains --

The crumbling --

Stranger than fiction --

Domestic life, artistic strife --

The phone call --

Brian the solution --

Divorce aversion --

That New York thing--the gray race --

Ithaca--no substance --

Rebuilding --

The new America --

Blink --

Englightenment --

Paradox and legacy --

Epilogue.