Low-life
A low-life or lowlife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community. Examples of people who are often called "lowlifes" are thieves, drug dealers, hustlers, freeloaders, scammers, gangsters, gangster girls, drug users, alcoholics, thugs, underage mothers, prostitutes and pimps.
Often, the term is used as an indication of disapproval of antisocial or destructive behaviors, usually bearing a connotation of contempt and derision. This usage of the word dates to 1911.
Repudiation
Upwardly mobile members of an ethnic group, committed to schooling, education and employment prospects, will often repudiate as lowlifes those who opt instead (willingly or unwillingly) for street or gang life.
Attraction
The lure of the low-life for those in established social strata has been a perennial feature of western history: it can be traced from the Neronian aristocrat described by Juvenal as only at home in stables and taverns - “you'll find him near a gangster, cheek by jowl, mingling with lascars, thieves and convicts on the run” - through the Elizabethan interest in cony-catching, up to William Burroughs' obsession with the hobo, bum, or urban outlaw, and through to the anti-heroes of Cyberpunk.
Lowlife (comics)
Lowlife is a semi-autobiographical comic book series written and drawn by Ed Brubaker, published by Slave Labor Graphics and later Caliber Comics. Collected editions were put out by Aeon Press and Black Eye Books.
Synopsis
The Comics Journal described the book as following the "frustration and cynicism of disenchanted slacker kids finding excitement in their uneventful lives."
Development
Lowlife was Brubaker's first professional work. The work is semi-autobiographical, based upon the lives of the author and his friends but "with the names changed."
Influences on later work
Brubaker cited his work here as an influence on later works: "I'm exploring the same themes in my Batman comics and my Catwoman comics that I was probably exploring in Lowlife: family relationships, personal relationships, people not being able to escape their past. . . .That's the stuff that interests me, and that's the stuff I write about."
Critical reaction
Lowlife was described by The Stranger as "Part fiction, part autobiography, the narratives hover between sincerity and parody, with moments of transcendence that lift it out of the realm of the ordinary comic book."
Theory of a Deadman discography
This is the discography of the Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman. So far, they have released five albums and have had twenty-eight singles released.
Theory of a Deadman is a Canadian rock band from Delta, British Columbia signed to Roadrunner Records. The band also includes traits of other music styles, such as country, metal and more acoustic elements. The band's lead singer, Tyler Connolly, gave Nickelback's Chad Kroeger a demo tape of their music while at an after-show party. He liked it, so he gave the band a record deal under his label, 604 Records and Roadrunner Records.
Studio albums
Singles
Promotional Single
Other charted songs
Music videos
References
Podcasts:
Lowlife
ALBUMS
- San Antorium released: 2006
- Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 1985-95 released: 2006
- Permanent Sleep released: 2006
- Diminuendo released: 2006
- Godhead released: 2006
- Gush released: 1995
- From a Scream to a Whisper released: 1990
- The Black Sessions and Demos released:
Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 1985-95
Released 2006- Sometime, Something
- Again and Again
- Coward's Way
- Permanent Sleep
- The Betting & Gaming Act 1964
- Hollow Gut
- Ragged Rise to Tumbledown
- From Side to Side
- Eternity Road (7" version)
- Swing
- Ramafied (Underground version)
- Where I Lay, I'll Lie
- I Don't Talk to Me
- I the Cheated
- My Mother's Fatherly Father
- Suddenly Violently Random
- Give Up Giving Up
- Truth in Needles
- Swell
Godhead
Released 2006- In Thankful Hands
- Where I Lay, I'll Lie
- Marjory's Dream
- I Don't Talk to Me
- Drowning Leaves
- Bittersweet
- River of Woe
- I the Cheated
- Missing the Kick
- Forever Filthy
- Neverending Shroud
- The Beggar's Burning Bush (demo)
- Moved to Tears (demo)
- Acid Tongue (demo)
- River of Woe (demo)
- Where I Lay, I'll Lie (demo)
Lowlife
ALBUMS
- The Quick and the Dark / Expressive Technology released: 1997
Lowlife
ALBUMS
- How to Stay Young & Healthy in a Modern World released: 2006
Low-Life
ALBUMS
- Fabric 39: Robert Hood released: 2008
Fabric 39: Robert Hood
Released 2008- Silicone Fingers
- Element 9
- Who Taught You Math
- X-Factor
- Strobe Light
- Taboo
- Fever (Rephrased)
- Bust the Vibes (Real disco mix)
- Sandune
- Element 3
- Mind Detergent (Robert Hood remix)
- Skin Deep
- School
- Element 23
- Mr. Funk
- Informant
- One Side
- All It Takes
- Mass
- Agent Wood (Adam Beyer remix)
- Legalize!
- Element 7
- Side Effect
- Drop the Filter
- New Energy
- Agent Wood (original mix)
- Still Here (Los Hermanos remix)
- Pulp Funktion 2
- The Greatest Dance
- Exclamation
- And Then We Planned Our Escape
- Element 12
Lowlife
ALBUMS
- Logic & Lust released: 1982
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by Bouncing Souls
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by Heatmiser
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by Poisonblack
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by Scarred
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by Front Line Assembly
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by Jesus and Mary Chain
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by Millencolin
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by Jesus & Mary Chain
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by Theory Of A Deadman
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by Konkhra
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by Napalm Death
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by Scanners
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by Ryker's
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by Taproot
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by Jude Cole
Lowlife
by: Bouncing Soulslast week your pockets where fat spending on this and buying that the week is over and i'm not so flush i'd save some money if it wasn't a lush you didn't plan to fail you just failed to plan i'm livin' tha lowlife again Last week it was pints of guiness now i'm drinking quarts of piss end of the month you've got no money kill my landlord ain't it funny? you didn't plan to fail you just failed to plan i'm livin' tha lowlife again so this ain't your finest hour i found some cereal but the milk is sour things look bad but this isn't the end someday i'll live large again
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