reading Dee Dee Ramone's book. not exactly a master of literary style. but it is interesting thinking through the connections, specifically: his mum living through hitler and WWII in Berlin; his mum and dad being violent alcoholics fighting with one another; growing up in shitholes in bombed out post-WWII bermancy; and then going from place to place in the east village in nyc searching for heroin, which also would have looked bombed out even if it wasn't. the inter-generational drugs thing and the echoes of WWII.
there's also an interesting thing of him being part of what in retrospect looks like a weird temporary cultural quirk, the 70s to 90s valorization of people with bad drug problems, pretty bad behaviour all round, antisocial dickheads basically, that i feel is now well and truly over.
