A repost from the Campaign Trail last fall about Brother Don Bajema. I’ll have some exciting news to announce about him and Going for the Throat in the next week or so.
It was through no fault of novelist, screenwriter, actor and spoken-word performer Don Bajema that it took me this long to find him. But now I’ve got him in the arsenal and there is no finer an ally to have in your corner as we enter these early-dark days of Autumn in America.
I came across Boy In The Air sometime around its release through 2.13.61 (Henry Rollins’ publishing company). That would be around 1996 for me and the beginning of a hardheaded&balls out decade of my post-adolescence. I don’t think I was ready for Bajema then. I wanted nothing to do with rock&roll and I wanted to forget all about America and where I come from. I might have superficially judged the former world-class athlete and football player but more than likely I was intoxicated with my own young&dumb ideas about immortality and romance and rebellion.
To reconnect with the creator of…
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Going for the Throat 
[…] through the polluted black waters of the New Century. I suppose there’s Ian MacKaye. And Brother Don. Which is to say the only faith I have in these dark times is in the hearts and minds of great […]