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As an atheist with a background in fundamentalism, Bucky Sinister
was skeptical of 12-step groups when the time came for him to get
sober. He was afraid of losing his artistic abilities and had big
problems with the higher power concept. In spite of his
hesitations, he stuck with the programme and it rewarded him
greatly. In "Get Up", he shares the knowledge he gained on his
journey, from being afraid of AA philosophies to embracing them,
motivating others to join him in their own efforts to get clean.
Sinister, a spoken word artist, poet, and performer, well-known on
the West Coast for his grabbing, truthful, funny performances, puts
out his own story, no frills, no excuses, and no holds barred.He
offers a tough-love approach to recovery for all those, like him,
who are turned off by traditional 'recovery' books. Sinister got
sober in AA and has stayed sober in AA, and now he leads the very
group he joined on his path to recovery. In Get Up, he shares the
stories and the steps that come from the 'self-identified scum bags
who just might save your life'. He talks straight to readers about
how to make it work if they can't buy into the programme right
away. For example, 'Higher Power' can be a whole lot of things -
Thor and metaphor among them. He helps readers to accept the group
in spite of their differences, rather than walking away. "Get Up"
is the book that Sinister would have bought for himself, with the
advice he wanted to hear when he first ventured into recovery.
There are no old drug addicts. That's what everyone says, at least.
So how did Chuck get to his forty-third birthday and find himself
still neck-deep in this scene? He knows he's the creepy old guy
with the drugs or the guy who's too old to be at the party doing
everyone else's drugs, but if it ain't broke ...Well, he manages to
make it to work at the dwarf whale distributor every day. He may
hate that his dearly seedy San Francisco has become overrun with
Starbucks, startups, and Lululemon moms, but he makes do every
month for the rent-controlled apartment he shares with roommates he
never sees. It's not perfect, but it's livable. In the end, though,
every addict has that one special vice that can tip them from
relatively functional to completely unhinged. For Chuck, it's a new
drug that doesn't even have a name yet; it's just a smokable,
everlasting gobstopper of mellow high. But when chunks of time
begin to disappear and rearrange themselves , he wonders if this
really is just another life-ruining drug or if it's something
straight out of a Philip K. Dick universe. Word on the street is
that this
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