Download or read book Endless Endless written by Adam Clair and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, revelatory exploration of the genesis and impact of the fabled Elephant 6 collective and the baffling exodus of its larger-than-life luminary, Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a classic so influential as to be almost synonymous with the ongoing vinyl revival. But despite its outsized impact, a question looms even larger: why did frontman Jeff Mangum, just as the record propelled him to the brink of music superstardom, choose instead to disappear entirely? The mystery has perplexed listeners for decades—until now. In barely two years, Neutral Milk Hotel rose from house show obscurity in Athens, Georgia, to widespread hype and critical acclaim, selling out rock clubs across the country and gracing the tops of numerous year-end best-of lists. But just as his band was reaching the escape velocity necessary to ascend from indie rock success to mainstream superstar, Mangum hit the eject button. After the 1998 release of Aeroplane and a worldwide tour to support it, Mangum stopped playing shows, releasing new music, or even doing interviews. He never explained why, not even to his friends or colleagues, but thanks to both the strength of Aeroplane and his vexing decision to walk away from rock stardom, Neutral Milk Hotel’s impact only grew from there. In Endless Endless, Adam Clair finds the answer to indie rock’s biggest mystery, which turns out to be much more complicated and fascinating than the myths or popular speculation would have you believe. To understand Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel and Aeroplane requires a deep dive into the unconventional inner workings of the mercurial collective from which they emerged, the legendary Elephant 6 Recording Company. Endless Endless details the rise and fall of this radical music scene, the lives and relationships of the artists involved and the colossal influence that still radiates from it, centered around the collective’s accidental figurehead, one of the most idolized and misunderstood artists in the world, presenting Mangum and his collaborators in vividly human detail and shining a light into the secret world of these extraordinary and aggressively bizarre artists. Endless Endless offers unprecedented access to this notoriously mysterious collective, featuring more than 100 new interviews and dozens of forgotten old ones, along with never-before-seen photos, answering questions that have persisted for decades while also provoking new ones. In this deeply researched account, Endless Endless examines not just how the Elephant 6 came to be so much more than the sum of its parts, but how community can foster art—and how art can build community.

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Download or read book Plains of Promise written by Mykaela Saunders and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the Mission, they are immediately separated and Ivy's life changes irrevocably. Years later, Mary, a young woman who is working for a city-based Aboriginal Coalition, visits the old Mission and learns of her mother's and grandmother's suffering there. Mary's return reignites community anxieties, leading the Council of Elders to again turn to their spirit world.This stunning novel, from the only writer to win both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize, showcases Alexis Wright's distinctive and far-reaching talents.

Download or read book Plains of Promise written by Alexis Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harlequin Presents January 2021 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Dani Collins and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: WHAT THE GREEK’S WIFE NEEDS By USA TODAY bestselling author Dani Collins Tanja’s whirlwind marriage to billionaire Leon Petrakis has been over since he returned to Greece five years ago… Yet, to keep the baby she’s adopting, Tanja has a last request: They stay wed…in name only! CHOSEN FOR HIS DESERT THRONE By USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews Sheikh Tarek’s kingdom needs a queen. And discovering a beautiful prisoner in his palace only puts the nation closer to the brink of collapse. Until he realizes Dr Anya Turner might just be the key he’s looking for… THE SECRETS SHE MUST TELL (A Lost Sons of Argentina novel) By Lucy King Finn Calvert is reeling from the shocking revelation that he has a son with lawyer Georgie Wallace! He’s determined to step up as a father but as their chemistry reignites, he learns there are more secrets to be unveiled… HOW TO UNDO THE PROUD BILLIONAIRE (A South Africa’s Scandalous Billionaires novel) By Joss Wood Hosting South Africa’s wedding of the year is Radd Tempest-Vane’s ticket to restoring his family’s empire. As long as he finds a new florist, fast! Brinley Riddell is the perfect candidate…but an immediate, dangerous distraction! For more stories filled with passion and drama, look for Harlequin Presents January 2021 Box Set — 2 of 2

Download or read book Ransacking Paris written by Patti Miller and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Patti Miller arrives in Paris to write for a year, the world glows "as if the light that comes after the sun has gone down has spilled gold on everything." But wasn't that just romantic illusion? Miller grew up on Wiradjuri land in country Australia where her heart and soul belonged. Mother of grown-up boys with lives of their own, what did she think she would find in Paris that she couldn't find at home? She turns to French writers, Montaigne, Rousseau, de Beauvoir, and other memoirists, each one intent on knowing the self through gazing into the looking glass of the great world. They accompany her as she wanders the streets of Paris, they even have coffee together, and they talk about love, suffering, desire, motherhood, truth-telling, memory, the writing journey, and how to know who we are in the family and in the cultures that shape us. This story, of a year spent writing and reading in Paris, explores truth and illusion, self-knowledge and identity—and evokes the beauty, the contradictions and the daily life of contemporary Paris.

Download or read book The 33 Strategies Of War written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in Robert Greene's bestselling series is now available in a pocket sized concise edition. Following 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction, here is a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war to help you wage triumphant battles everyday. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is a guide to the subtle social game of everyday life. Based on profound and timeless lessons, it is abundantly illustrated with examples of the genius and folly of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher and Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as diplomats, captains of industry and Samurai swordsmen.

Download or read book Learn to Play Harmonica written by Sandy Weltman and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now is your chance to learn to play the harmonica with this all-in-one kit! Learn to play Harmonica comes with lessons, instructional CD, and your own harmonica. There's something about a harmonica that brings a smile to anyone's face. This is your chance to play harmonica with local musicians, solo on stage, or by yourself for the love of music. Learn to Play Harmonica gives you everything you need to learn to play this fantastic instrument, and learn quickly. This all-inclusive instructional guide come with a 200-page instructional booklet and a 10-hold, diatonic harmonica. Each chapter features clear instruction to playing songs and licks for you to enjoy working on. This stylish design of the book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners. Having fun is the best way to learn, and this book is designed to make the process fun as it is engaging!

Download or read book Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When terrible things happen in life and there’s little we can do to change them, the only option seems to be either anger or despair. This is the reality for prison inmates. They have no power over their circumstances. Many have long sentences, some have been wrongly accused and some even await execution. Their environment is often overcrowded, ugly, violent and full of noise, “like being in a rock concert all day,” as one man reported. There is nothing to look forward to and often no one to turn to. For the past twenty-five years, Liberation Prison Project has been a lifeline for prisoners, first in the United States and also in Australia, Italy, Mongolia, New Zealand and other countries, who turned to LPP, asking for Buddhist books and spiritual advice in an effort to find meaning in life when everything else has been lost. This book is a compilation of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the spiritual director of LPP, in response to letters from more than one hundred prisoners, mainly in the USA, edited into a coherent narrative. Rinpoche’s advice is that, actually, their prison “is nothing in comparison with their inner prison—the prison of anger, the prison of attachment, the prison of ignorance.” That prison, Rinpoche says, they can definitely change. And why should they? Because, simply put, happiness and suffering come from the mind, not the external world. The extent of the heartfelt compassion and love that Rinpoche offers the men who write to him is incredible. He empowers them to never give up on the development of their potential and their ability to help others. The advice in the book is not just for prisoners. It is for all of us.

Download or read book Broken Contracts written by Hazel Domain and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power opens all doors. Some should stay closed. Adam Slate sees something other humans can’t: Connections, all around him. People, places, relationships, possessions, all as clear as letters on a page. But seeing the web makes it too easy to pull the strands, and even his riskier machinations—an illegal slave trade for one, and a gathering of dark magicians, for another—are growing boring. That is, until he runs across a slave with a connection he can’t see. Everybody’s looking for something, and Micah can craft a persona to suit any taste. Or so he thought until his newest owner. He tries one tactic after another to please Slate, to no avail. It’s as if Slate can see straight through Micah’s many masks and doesn’t like what lies—or doesn’t lie—beneath. In relentless pursuit of Micah’s mysterious connection, Slate’s magic opens a gateway to a place that seems like nowhere. The damage mounts, but the door sings a siren song that Slate can’t resist. Micah’s connected to something in the darkness, and Slate’s determined to find out what—even if it kills them both. A standalone The Powers That Be prequel. **See this title's page on RiptidePublishing.com for content warnings.**

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Download or read book The Aether written by T.M. Cromer and published by Fae Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Thorne Witches and The Unlucky Charms series... From a young age, Damian Dethridge possessed the unrivaled ability to manipulate and redistribute magic. For centuries, he’s been responsible for maintaining the balance among the witch community, and now, his child’s extraordinary abilities have lured an old enemy from hiding. Following her father’s footsteps, Sabrina Dethridge is proving to be a formidable force when it comes to witchcraft and has drawn the unwanted attention of an Arcane Devourer. Morcant Thywell, a powerful, chaos-thriving warlock, has set his sights on the young oracle, and by consuming her power, he aims to achieve his ultimate desire—immortality. Unable to defeat Morcant alone, Damian enlists a rag-tag group of Sentinels to help him neutralize the threat. He’ll stop at nothing to protect his daughter because if Morcant wins, Damian’s world will be plunged into eternal darkness, and everyone he’s ever loved will perish.

Download or read book The Notorious Ugly Kid Schmid written by Hank Lai and published by Hank Lai. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child craves acceptance and love, both from their parents and their peers. However, life is rarely simple. As time goes on, Schmid's constant need for validation and acceptance leads him on a profound and often tumultuous journey filled with fragile dreams and harsh realities.This journey of self-discovery and acceptance makes Schmid’s story a poignant reflection on the human condition This is the story of Schmid, the "ugly kid" whose internal struggles shape his journey of discovery where he reluctantly uncovers the intricate and interconnected nature of life.

Download or read book Mastering High Speed Photography written by Ramakant Sharda and published by Ramakant Sharda. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine having everything you wanted to know about high-speed photography in one place. The photography industry is in a constant state of change. Innovation, ingenuity, and the indoctrination of people of all ages into new digital, social media platforms has turned the industry on its head and provided new and interesting challenges for photographers. If you want to get a step ahead, you need to do something unique, something creative. One option is to learn high-speed photography that could take your career to a whole new level. Mastering High-Speed Photography is the quintessential guide to understanding all the nuances of high-speed photography and executing them so well, you’ll propel your career and your art form to new heights. In this book, you are going to learn about different kinds of high-speed photography, what equipment you need, how to create setup, camera and other equipment settings with complete workflow. Forget mediocrity. Give up the notion of “someday”. Take charge of your career, move forward, and embrace this facet of the business, sharpen your skills, or add something new to your repertoire. Pick up your copy today!

Download or read book Metal Fish Falling Snow written by Cath Moore and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an Own Voices YA debut that packs a punch.