Download or read book I Wanna Be Sedated written by Faith Conlon and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays brings a sense of humor and perspective to some of the deepest worries of parents raising teenagers.
Download or read book Punk Rock Blitzkrieg written by Marky Ramone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischief of the Ramones, told by the man who created the beat behind their iconic music and lived to tell about it. When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in the house. Already a young veteran of the prototype American metal band Dust, Bell took residence in artistic, seedy Lower Manhattan, where he played drums in bands that would shape rock music for decades to come, including Wayne County, who pioneered transsexual rock, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, who directly inspired the entire early British punk scene. If punk had royalty, in 1978 Marc became part of it when he was knighted “Marky Ramone” by Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee of the iconoclastic Ramones. The band of tough misfits were a natural fit for Marky, who dressed punk before there was punk, and who brought his “blitzkrieg” style of drumming as well as the studio and stage experience the band needed to solidify its lineup. Together, they changed the world. But Marky Ramone changed, too. The epic wear and tear of a dysfunctional group (and the Ramones were a step beyond dysfunction) endlessly crisscrossing the country and the world in an Econoline—practically a psychiatric ward on wheels—drove Marky from partying to alcoholism. When his life started to look more out of control then Dee Dee’s, he knew he had a problem. Marky left music in the mid-eighties to enter recovery and eventually returned to help the Ramones finally receive their due as one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time. Covering in unflinching detail the cult film Rock ’N’ Roll High School to “I Wanna Be Sedated” to Marky’s own struggles, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg is an authentic and always honest look at the people who reinvented rock music, and not a moment too soon.
Download or read book On The Road With The Ramones written by MonteA Melnick and published by Bobcat Books. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramones' music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band. Monte A. Melnick served as The Ramones tour manager from their early New York club days in the '70s to their farewell gigs in 1996. He was the fifth Ramone and was there through the arrests, the ODs the fights, the break-ups, the make-ups, the girlfriends, the hotels and the binges. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as "babysitter to psychiatrist, booking agent to travel agent, paymaster to van driver."
Download or read book I Slept with Joey Ramone written by Mickey Leigh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful story of punk-rock inspiration and a great rock bio” (Rolling Stone), now in paperback. When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Unforgettable front man Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, and the band influenced the counterculture for decades to come. With honesty, humor, and grace, Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh, shares a fascinating, intimate look at the turbulent life of one of America’s greatest—and unlikeliest—music icons. While the music lives on for new generations to discover, I Slept with Joey Ramone is the enduring portrait of a man who struggled to find his voice and of the brother who loved him.
Download or read book The Book of Love written by Cynthia Markovitch and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Love is a twisted fairytale about a young girl growing up in America searching for the truth in a world of falsehoods only to discover her real identity.
Download or read book Pop Sonnets Shakespearean Spins on Your Favourite Songs written by Erik Didriksen and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of the very best collections of pop songs written in the style of William Shakespeare that I’ve read so far this year!’ ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic ‘Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can’t get enough’ TIME ‘Amazing’ Buzzfeed
Download or read book Why the Ramones Matter written by Donna Gaines and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who’s somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at home, at school, on the streets, and from themselves. This sense of estrangement and marginality permeates everything the Ramones still offer us as artists, and as people. Why the Ramones Matter compellingly makes the case that the Ramones gave us everything; they saved rock and roll, modeled DIY ethics, and addressed our deepest collective traumas, from the personal to the historical.
Download or read book Inventory written by A.V. Club and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each week, the writers of The A.V. Club issue a slightly slanted pop-culture list filled with challenging opinions (Is David Bowie's "Young Americans" nearly ruined by saxophone?) and fascinating facts. Exploring twenty-four great films too painful to watch twice, fourteen tragic movie-masturbation scenes, eighteen songs about crappy cities, and much more, Inventory combines a massive helping of new lists created especially for the book with a few favorites first seen at AVClub.com and in the pages of The A.V. Club’s sister publication, The Onion. But wait! There's more: John Hodgman offers a set of minutely detailed (and probably fictional) character actors. Patton Oswalt waxes ecstatic about the "quiet film revolutions" that changed cinema in small but exciting ways. Amy Sedaris lists fifty things that make her laugh. "Weird Al" Yankovic examines the noises of Mad magazine's Don Martin. Plus lists from Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Ben Garant, Tom Lennon, Andrew W.K., Tim and Eric, Daniel Handler, and Zach Galifianakis—and an epic foreword from essayist Chuck Klosterman.
Download or read book Bartlett s Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 5269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.
Download or read book Beautiful Piece written by Joseph G. Peterson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a deadly Chicago heat wave that's claiming hundreds of lives, Robert, who's stuck in his apartment alone, fears he's going to be the next victim. In the apartment above him lives a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran who talks obsessively about the corpses of his war experience while alternately listening to Die Meistersinger and Madama Butterfly. One day, Robert ventures forth into the searing heat to gas up his car. Immediately he encounters enigmatic Lucy who is trying to escape her brutal fiancé, Matthew Gliss. On a whim, Lucy invites Robert to her apartment where she shows him her mysterious tattoo and tells him of her dangerous life with Matthew Gliss. She warns Robert that if Matthew ever catches them together he should run, not walk, because Matthew won't think twice of killing him. So begins the risky, short-lived relationship that leads to a chilling climax. Each of Robert's increasingly hallucinatory recollections of what happened during the heat wave leads him to profoundly question his own culpability.
Download or read book Chelsea Horror Hotel written by DeeDee Ramone and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The punk rocker, his wife, and their dog move into a haunted Manhattan hotel in this “darkly witty, macabre” novel (Scanner Zine). “The screaming voice of a punk Lovecraft.” —Joe Dante, from the Foreword Dee Dee Ramone doesn’t quite know what he’s getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. The room he’s staying in might be the very room where his old friend Sid stabbed Nancy. Dee Dee spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can’t stand his neighbors and though he shies away from violence, he wishes everyone were six feet under. Dee Dee gets involved with the transvestite lover of one of his gay fellow addicts. When Barbara finds out, things get out of hand. All the while Dee Dee is tormented by the living and dead demons that plague the hotel, along with the ghosts of his old dead punk rock friends Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders, and Stiv Bators. And that’s when the Devil himself decides to join the party . . . “Dee Dee Ramone was the essence of rock ‘n’ roll, infantile and cute and crazy, and driven. He was also a supreme songwriter. He’s immortal.” —Richard Hell, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp “I love Dee Dee Ramone. What a sense of humor! His acute ironic views made his lyrics for the Ramones characteristic of the band’s huge success around the world, from then right through to today.” —Debbie Harry
Download or read book Vampire 1989 written by Brett A. Contreras and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TELL YOUR FRIENDS! PARENT-FREE PARTYING IN MASSAPEQUA! It is August of 1989, and Mike Aufiero has just graduated high school. The annual summer escape to the Adirondacks is not the thrill he had hoped it would be, and he soon arranges to return to Long Island. There, he and his sister have run of the family’s house, and the freedom to live it up in his last summer before college! Unfortunately, a seemingly-harmless errand has brought a dark presence back to Massapequa, and Mike is not the only one with plans for the summer. It is not long before Mike and his friends find themselves embroiled in a vampire’s plot to found a new coven on Long Island, and it will suffer no interference. Finding little or no support from parents or the police, the teenagers are now forced to confront the vampire and his rapidly-growing group of followers, which now even include several of their own friends. Can they prevail? Will anyone survive? Will Freshman College Orientation have been in vain?
Download or read book Join Together written by Marley Brant and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ninety artists contribute their unique memories and perspectives on the music festival and its impact on rock music and society in this volume that takes readers behind the scenes of live music's most high profile and historic rock concerts.
Download or read book Mondegreens written by J. A. Wines and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mondegreens is a side-splittingly funny collection of wonderful and absurd mishearings, that is certain to appeal to English language aficionados everywhere.
Download or read book Raymond and Me written by Dan Reynolds and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This courageous and lyrical memoir chronicles the challenges of growing up gay in the seventies and eighties in Toronto, and how the enchanting discovery of first love can change the shape of a person’s life. Homophobia had robbed Dan of any hope of finding a man to fall in love with...until he met Raymond. It was love at first sight. Though their relationship was not without its challenges from the outside world, time and time again, love prevailed. Dan spent years going to great lengths to conceal every part of that relationship, living in the closet, and holding close the memories of his first relationship. But over time, he realized that he wanted to share their story. The heartfelt love they shared is a beacon of hope and reminder to everyone that love can win out over hatred.
Download or read book Sloth written by Robin Wasserman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the seven is dead, and everyone's reeling: Adam's done. With love, with school...with everything. Done. Beth's doing her best to act "normal," but even Reed recognizes devastation, since all he does is fantasize about Kaia. Miranda's lost too. Did she ever really forgive Harper? Only Kane is actually doing something: uncovering how the crash happened -- and why. But there's no do-over with death. There's only moving on -- to the most unlikely places....
Download or read book Bound To Burn A grumpy sunshine age gap rockstar romance written by Paula Dombrowiak and published by Dark Angel Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A steamy, age gap, rockstar romance with a bit of a slow burn, a strong sassy heroine, a grumpy alpha hero, low angst, and a happily ever after. Love has a way of blazing through you like poison, leaving you breathless but still wanting more. On the way down it burns like whiskey, coats your throat like a love song, and enters your belly with the force of a hurricane. I told myself never again. I thought I had put those ghosts behind me, but some secrets don’t stay buried forever. Fate has a way of forcing you to face them, and Sasha was the curveball I never saw coming. I didn’t want to fall for her. In fact, I was determined not to, but she danced her way into my heart with her pink glittered Converse, and the sweet taste of peppermint. She’s way too young, and chasing something I can’t give her, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting her. If I give into how I feel, will we last the summer, or are we bound to burn? Bound To Burn is the 4th book in the Blood & Bone series but can be read as a standalone, although the books should be read in order, for the best reader experience. Cash and Sasha’s story is perfect for readers who love a sexy, age gap, emotional, rock star romance, second chance, strong sassy heroine, a grumpy ex-musician/record store owner, a touch of humor, low angst, and a whole lot of steam. Content Warning: This book does have mention of drug use and overdose, so please take care while reading.
