Today in Badassery: Issue #1

Been a bit quiet here as of late, but I haven't stopped writing. This is a new feature that will hopefully become regular, as I endeavour to present our loyal readership with the most badass things from popular culture, or the wider world (I'm told that it exists, but I may have been mislead). Our first "Today in Badassery" feature is dedicated to the following image;

In addition to reforming Crazy Horse, Neil Young appears to have written an autobiography, which is set to be pretty fucking badass because he's Neil fucking Young. Entitled Waging Heavy Peace, as those of you who are remotely literate can surely tell from the above image, it looks like a veritable cornucopia of badassery, as one would expect from Neil Young. Although Jimmy McDonough pretty comprehensively covered the great man's life in 2001's highly-recommended Shakey, it will no doubt be brilliant and fantastic and wonderful to hear the story told by Neil himself. Bob Dylan proved himself to be excellent with prose when he released Chronicles Volume 1 in 2004, and Neil's the closest thing to another Dylan. Big it up!

Other badass elements: He's wearing a cool hat, like he's about to smoke your ass down with a Tommy Gun, and inside it is a little note that reads "Hippie Dream". Hippie Dream, for those of you not in the know in the world of Neil Young, is a song off 1986's much-reviled-but-totally-cool-if-you-worship-the-ground-Neil-walks-upon synth-pop effort Landing On Water ("is this Duran Duran?" - D. Menham). A propulsive but obviously synthy rock jam, it's a cynical take on the manner in which, while Neil kept turnin' over new pages, his friends David Crosby and Stephen Stills lost their substantial talents by coking themselves to absolute shit. This shows that there is no way in hell the greatest rock star of all time will be looking at the movement he was such a crucial part of thru rose-tinted glasses.

Needless to say, Waging Heavy Peace will be fucking badass.