Die young with me by rob rufus6/10/2023 ![]() Rob was asked to adapt the book for Netflix with VMA-winning director Emil Nava. ![]() The book was a critical and commercial success. ![]() In 2016, Rob immortalized their coming-of-age struggles in his memoir, Die Young With Me (Simon & Schuster). Three albums, four EPs, hundreds of shows, and a decade of international acclaim, TV slots, and punk-rock success followed. The Twins moved to Nashville and formed Blacklist Royals. But after years of treatment and surgeries, Rob learned to play drums again. The years that followed were spent in cancer wards and operating rooms. Rob was diagnosed with Stage Four cancer. By the time they were seventeen, they’d garnered national attention and slots on the Warped Tour. Their punk dualequency sent shockwaves through Appalachia and beyond. ![]() Nat and his twin brother, Rob, started a punk band later that year. How else can you explain a West Virginia hillbilly going goth-punk at the bad luck age of thirteen? How else could his second-hand cassette collection be comprised of nothing but his father’s Elvis and Patsy Cline tapes, and his cousin’s bootlegs of The Misfits and The Cramps? Spiritus Mundi – it’s how Nat Rufus formed The Bad Signs. The source of all inspiration, where art exists before artists are granted the spark to bring it into the world. ![]()
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