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BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Max Décharné was born in England, and can still speak English when his business demands it. During the past eighteen years he has flung six books and numerous records at the public – firstly as a member of Gallon Drunk, then since 1995 as the singer with The Flaming Stars – spreading peace, goodwill and partial deafness among the youth of the world. He treasures his copies of Sexomatic Pilot and Dig That Crazy Grave, and lives in hope that the world will pay closer attention to the theories of the anonymous British newspaper writer in 1919 who claimed to have discovered the origins of jazz, and put it all down to 'grotesque and indecent movements invented by drunken cowboys in the Argentine'
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Revised, Updated and Expanded Edition

Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the sixties actually dates back before WW2, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue and why snore when you can call some hogs? You're not drunk - you're just plumb full of stagger-juice and your skin isn't pasty, it's just cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That's a shot of java, nix on the moo juice.

Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From the Fridge, Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'If you enjoy watching noir films, listening to blues or jazz, reading pulp novels or poring over certain song lyrics, this "dictionary of hipster slang", a guide to hep as it was spoken through the first half of the last century, will prove indispensable.'
- Tom Boncza-Tomasewski, The Independent Online [read the full review]

'Now there's a new way of talking. Or rather, there is an old way of talking ripe for revival. Jive has returned. it's all thanks to Max Décharné's recently published Straight From the Fridge, Dad - a Dictionary of Hipster Slang, the lexicon for the hep cats of London's most swinging trotteries.'
- The Times

'If you are the kind of hep cat who harbours a burning urge to gas the slobs, then the righteous Max is the man. He shoots the works to fascinating and often hilarious effect.'
- Esquire

''Vomit on the table' and speak like a 1950s hipster'
- The Guardian [read the full review]

''so lovingly prepared that it feels like you have been given a private invitation into a lost world of cool...' - 3a.m. Magazine interview'
- Cathi Unsworth, 3a.m. Magazine [read the full review]

'uses rock'n'roll songs and exploitation flicks to teach you how to jive talk like a pro'
- NME [read the full review]

'perfect for the wannabe hipster and will slip neatly into the inside lining of any zoot suit'
- Chris Wiegand, Richmond Review [read the full review]

'There's no question that in the pages of Straight from the Fridge, Dad, everyday speech is put through some hilarious and convoluted permutations. But you don't have to take that on faith. Just cop a squat, cast your lamps on the book's leaves and dig its mellow kicks.'
- Rick Reger, Chicago Tribune

'engrossing and reminds us of so many things that once dominated the psyche of the last century'
- Nick Obourn, trueslant.com [read the full review]

'a ten-fold increase on the previous release, photos, book covers, musicians and hip characters of their day, they're all here and more'
- Retro to Go [read the full review]

'expanded with lots of new entries and lurid illustrations'
- Mojo [read the full review]

'Got enough bread to burn a wet mule? Stowing a bundle? Earning an easy scratch? Why not invest a little of it in Max Décharné's Straight From the Fridge, Dad, an illustrated dictionary of hipster slang?'
- Lauren Laverne, Grazia [read the full review]

'A useful reference book, and a whole heap of fun for browsing through with your fellow cats and groovers'
- Lenny Helsing, Shindig [read the full review]

'You'll surely be interested in having a new way to irritate your friends with obnoxious and obscure ways of saying 'to have sex' or to 'get drunk' (give 'burn rubber' and 'burning with a low blue flame' a whirl). Décharné has done a lot of homework here, but reading his book doesn't feel like school.'
- Katie Haegle, Philadelphia Weekly News

'No wonder hipsters felt misunderstood: they said 'agitate the gravel' instead of 'depart' and 'puff down the stroll' for 'drive down the street'. Their euphemisms for sex included ashes, cabbages and at least two kinds of pastry. The title phrase? A hipster way of saying cool.'
- Joe Blundo, Columbus Ohio Dispatch

'An afternoon spent poring through a vocabulary-building guide for your inner hipster is time well spent. In Straight From The Fridge, Dad, Décharné has compiled the most righteous slang from film noir, blues, country, jazz and pulp fiction; with annotations and examples galore, it's guaranteed to turn a rube into a real wild child.'
- Entertainment Weekly