Chaz Bufe, See Sharp Press Founder

Chaz Bufe & friends live at Cascabel
(Chaz at right playing red Stratocaster)

Chaz Bufe's Publications

Books

Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle, by Rafael Uzcátegui (2011, editor and translator)
The Bassist's Bible: How to Play Every Bass Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco (2009, with primary author Tim Boomer and fellow secondary author Mick Berry)
Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader (2005, co-editor with Mitch Verter, and primary translator)
Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement, by Frank Fernández (2001, editor and translator)
Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA or 12-Step Treatment (2000, co-author with Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky)
Exercises for Individual and Group Development: Building Blocks for Intimacy, Awareness, and Community (1998, co-author with Dale DeNunzio)
The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of The Devil's Dictionary and The American Heretic's Dictionary (1995, 2nd ed. 2004; includes 200 definitions by Ambrose Bierce)
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? (1991, 2nd ed. 1998)
The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations (1989, expanded ed. 1992, compiler/editor)
An Understandable Guide to Music Theory: The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz & Blues Musicians (1984, 3rd ed. 1994)

Pamphlets

God's Hit List: Abominations and Death Penalties in the Bible (2006)
You Call This Freedom? (2004)
Anarchism: What It Is and What It Isn't (2004)
Design Your Own Utopia (2002, with Libby Hubbard)
20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity (2000)
A Future Worth Living (2000)
The Heretic's Guide to the Bible (1989)
Astrology: Fraud or Superstition? (1987)
Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism, by Luigi Fabbri (1987, translator)
Listen Anarchist! (1985, expanded ed. 1998)

Periodicals

Chaz's writings have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines since the early 1970s, including Utne Reader, The Match!, Processed World, Freedom, Counterpoise, Communities, New Times Weekly (now Phoenix New Times), and Eye. At present he normally writes for periodicals only upon request.

Current Music Projects

Chaz's other primary activity is music. His band, The Pinche Blues Band, released a five-track EP of original songs in 2007. Chaz is the primary songwriter, writing the music for all of the songs and about half of the lyrics. The EP songs are available here as free mp3 downloads:

Postal (C. Bufe music & lyrics)
Pinche Blues (C. Bufe music, C. Bufe & A. Acuña lyrics)
Incognito Lounge (C. Bufe music. B. Hullfish lyrics)
Slow Motion Suicide (C. Bufe music & lyrics)
Breakdown in Lockdown (C. Bufe music & A. Acuña lyrics)

Chaz will shortly be recording a number of additional original tracks featuring friends/players from over the years, and will either release a full CD or a second EP in early 2012.

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