The Streets of Baltimore

The Shocking Addiction Memoir of Brandon Novak

Joe Frantz, Brandon Novak

• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9798212358651
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Brandon Novak, an actor known for the films Jackass and Viva La Bam, among others, was a teenage skateboarder, but his lust for heroin led to a junkie's destiny on the streets of Baltimore.

Arrests, rehabs, and drug-tortured love triangles consumed Novak's life, until his childhood friend and Jackass alumnus Bam Margera guided him to MTV fame. But Novak's stardom led him down a self-destructive path that forced him to sculpt his future.

This suspenseful memoir is interspersed with action, humor, and inspiration.

Table of contents

• About Brandon Novak
• Brandon Novak Filmography
• Introduction
• chapter one A Notebook Full Of Drugs In The 12th Grade
• chapter two Alexia And Me
• chapter three Principal Feller, The Man Who Hates Students Like Me
• chapter four A Marriage At Loch Raven Reservoir
• chapter five Dope Or Eat?
• chapter six Two Bus Tokens And Two Sandwiches
• chapter seven Alexia’s Clientele
• chapter eight Slim’s Crack House
• chapter nine The Tale Of Slow-Motion-Danny, A Junkie Campfire Story
• chapter ten “Our New Bed” And “Our New Toilet”
• chapter eleven A Junkie Love Triangle
• chapter twelve The Crack-Smoking Lesbian Who Breastfeeds Her Baby
• chapter thirteen Nurse Ruth
• chapter fourteen The Window Of Heaven And Hell
• chapter fifteen The AIDS Needle I Shot Up With
• chapter sixteen Ray Dixon
• chapter seventeen Congratulations On Another Day Clean
• chapter eighteen The Nightmare Of Addiction
• chapter nineteen Community Service
• chapter twenty A Christmas Eve Motel Party
• chapter twenty-one A Christmas Carol
• chapter twenty-two Happy New Year
• chapter twenty-three Luke The Greek
• chapter twenty-four My Favorite Restaurant Scams
• chapter twenty-five Lynn, The Junkie Across The Street
• chapter twenty-six Baltimore Crab Cake Sandwiches From Indonesia
• chapter twenty-seven A Lover’s Promise
• chapter twenty-eight Enter Dante
• chapter twenty-nine Babysitting An Addict
• chapter thirty Unfixable
• chapter thirty-one My Daily Journey To The Dope Shop
• chapter thirty-two A Trash Bag Full Of Quarters
• chapter thirty-three A Naked Black Barbie Doll And A Fork
• chapter thirty-fourThe Human Blowfish
• chapter thirty-five An Unbearable State Of Anxiety
• chapter thirty-six Maternal Instincts
• chapter thirty-seven Help From An Old Friend
• chapter thirty-eight Rediscovering My Humanity On A Greyhound
• chapter thirty-nine How I Became A Grape Pop-Sickle
• chapter forty A Slave-Wage Job In A Town I Hate
• chapter forty-one An Enormous Bottle Of Pills That Fits Perfectly Up My Ass
• chapter forty-two Good Advice From The Public Defender
• chapter forty-three I, The Jury
• chapter forty-four Elk Burgers
• chapter forty-five A Redneck Nicknamed Blinky
• chapter forty-six Shooting Dope With A Stranger On East Colfax
• chapter forty-seven A Chocolate Milkshake In The Baltimore Airport
• chapter forty-eight How To Administer Street Justice
• chapter forty-nine A Drive-By On A Schwinn
• chapter fifty Castle Bam
• chapter fifty-one The Outsider
• chapter fifty-two The Invisible Man
• chapter fifty-three The Kid Who Did Heroin And Pissed Away His Career
• chapter fifty-four The Castaway
• chapter fifty-five The Halfway House Above The Bar
• chapter fifty-six Want Some?
• chapter fifty-seven Discomfort Is Relative
• chapter fifty-eight What To Do If You Have Warrants And The Cops Catch You On An Airplane
• chapter fifty-nine How I Found Out That I Was On MTV’s Cribs
• chapter sixty My Chaperone Who Ruined 2005
• chapter sixty-one The Dumbest Competition In History
• chapter sixty-two Pickup Shots
• chapter sixty-three Show Business Negotiations
• chapter sixty-four The Gay Cowboy
• chapter sixty-five All Is Right With The World
• chapter sixty-six Two Starving Vultures
• chapter sixty-seven Billy Idol’s Sobriety Token
• chapter sixty-eight Cold Turkey
• chapter sixty-nine A Junkie’s Homecoming
• chapter seventy Step Nine: Amends At Patterson Park
• Afterwords
• Photo Section
• About The Author