Table of Contents
Prologue 1
1 Childhood of a Fiend 3
2 The Fragile Kingdom 25
3 Seduced, Fucked 43
4 If You Start Again, It Will Be as Though You'd Never Stopped 56
5 Meatloaf 68
6 Tiny Daggers 77
7 Fired, Rehired, and a Thousand Forms of Fear 82
8 Nice Wardrobe 96
9 Yeah, This Is the Cops! 102
10 House of Pain 107
11 Drinking Bloody Water 113
12 Strung Out and Exhausted 119
13 Enjoying the Idiot 124
14 Not Bad, Young Fella 132
15 Take Me to the River 141
16 Jeffrey Lee Pierce 148
17 Did You Call for the Night Porter? 155
18 It's Genius, Don't You Hear It? 158
19 Spanking the Monkey 163
20 Parasite Child 166
21 Days Gone Dark 171
22 Wilderness of Horrors 175
23 Go Fuck a Donkey 179
24 Back to the Needle 181
25 Night Out with Jerry 184
26 Seasons of Madness 187
27 Miss Australia 1971 192
28 Payback, the Bitch 200
29 The Lottery 205
30 Lucky 210
31 Is This Love? 217
32 Family Reunion 220
33 I Smoked Weed-HIV-Positive 231
34 Gold for Garbage 239
35 One Heavy Tear 244
36 Wu Tang to Waylon 248
37 Secret Death Games 259
38 See You in Miami, Mate! 263
39 Absence and Hardship 275
40 Ice-Cold European Funhouse 283
41 Cotton Fever 311
42 Last Rungs 321
43 Psychic Storms, Epiphany, and Rebirth 327
Epilogue: The Wolf in Seal's Clothing 331
Acknowledgments 333