The Bad Decisions Playlist is a wildly funny story of a sixteen-year-old stoner, slacker, kid Austin, who cannot seem to make even one smart decision. All he wants to do is get high while writing and playing music. He uses self-deprecating humor to joke his way out of situation after situation, until he gets into so much trouble that he’s about to be shipped off to military prep school. Fortunately for him, its at this moment that his long-lost dad Shane, who Austin thought was dead (according to Mom), shows up on his door step.

Shane is, in fact, a rock-star who seems to have passed on to Austin his music talent, and also his bad habits of drugs, dropping out, and screwing up.

Austin is pulled into his father’s world of show business, and has the readers laughing as they follow along as Austin plays through his list of bad decisions.