I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child & Other Stories of Rock'n'roll Excess

I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child & Other Stories of Rock'n'roll Excess
Author: Andrew Darlington
Publisher: Headpress
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781900486170

Unexpurgated interviews with legendary rock muscicians and bands including Peter Green, Grace Slick, Kraftwerk, The Kinks, Robert Plant and Siouxie Sioux, plus the full text of Gene Clark's last interview. Complete with discographies and illustrated profusely throughout.

I'll Have What She's Having

I'll Have What She's Having
Author: Daniel M. Kimmel
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1615780327

In considering the greatest of these films over time, Mr. Kimmel explains why When Harry Met Sally (1989) was called the greatest movie Woody Allen never made. Or how off-screen relationships helped My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard were divorced but remained friends) but interfered with Sabrina (where Audrey Hepburn was carrying on an off-screen affair with co-star William Holden, though her character was supposed to be falling in love with her other co-star, Humphrey Bogart). From Trouble in Paradise (1932) to There's Something About Mary (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and Love, Actually (2003), Mr. Kimmel uncovers the idealized and often uproarious images of true love that have grown to become part of our understanding of romance. In I'll Have What She's Having he helps us meet the actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers who accomplished this trick and shows us how they pooled their talents and did it.

Corpus Chrome, Inc.

Corpus Chrome, Inc.
Author: S. Craig Zahler
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a "mannequin," that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted. Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects a variety of notable minds, pulling the deceased back from oblivion into a world of animated sculpture, foam rubber cars, dissolving waste and strange terrorism. Nobody knows how Corpus Chrome, Inc. determines which individuals should be given a second life, yet myriad people are affected. Among them are Lisanne Breutschen, the composer who invented sequentialism with her twin sister, and Champ Sappline, a garbage man who is entangled in a war between the third, fourth and fifth floors of a New York City apartment building. In the Spring of 2058, Corpus Chrome, Inc. announces that they will revive Derek W.R. Dulande--a serial rapist and murderer who was executed thirty years ago for his crimes. The public is horrified by the decision, and before long, the company's right to control the lone revolving door between life and death will be violently challenged...

What You Wish for

What You Wish for
Author: Bill Pieper
Publisher: Pacific Slope Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2011
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0974021539

Who does your life belong to anyway? You, your family, the government, or God? Miles, his girlfriend, Colleen, and his brother, Mel, confront all these questions by walking a slippery line between personal ethics and the law. But events really ramp up when the police find Mel's body and a suicide note under dubious circumstances, with Miles and two of Mel's friends treated as suspects. The resulting cloud brings in Mel's embittered ex-wife and their two sons, and when his will confirms that Gina, Mel's girlfriend, Miles' son Jason, and Miles himself are the only heirs, his ex goes ballistic and pressures the DA for a murder indictment. Miles, meanwhile, remains haunted by his wife's death from cancer five years earlier.

A New Life Journal

A New Life Journal
Author: Jane Cafarella
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1490703365

Full of warm, witty and wise stories about parenting, A New Life Journal began as a weekly column by Australian journalist Jane Cafarella about her daughter's first year and ended up a life's work. First published in The Age newspaper from 1993 -1997, the column struck a chord with readers, many of whom wrote in response: "Your family life so often mirrors my own." It is that made the column so universally relevant and which led to it being picked up by Quality Time magazine from 1997 to 2002. Excerpts were also broadcast on the ABC Radio National program Life Matters over the years and further instalments were published on Jane's Older and Wider blog. Now, for the first time, the columns have been collated into a single edition for a new generation of readers to enjoy. Written over more than 20 years, A New Life Journal is both a parenting book and a memoir, covering everything from first words and potty training to choosing schools and finally letting go. A must-read for all new parents, step parents and blended families A New Life Journal is a funny, eloquent and compassionate record of one family's parenting journey and the universal issues that face parents across generations.

SPIN

SPIN
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2007-10
Genre:
ISBN:

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

SPIN

SPIN
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2005-06
Genre:
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From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

The Art of Reception

The Art of Reception
Author: Jacobus Bracker
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1527567044

This book deals with processes of reception in visual arts. Images (in the broadest sense) from different cultures and times are examined. The volume focuses on two key interpretations of reception. On the one hand, reception is understood as a concept of repetition and revision spanning different cultures and time periods. On the other hand, reception is also seen as the process of perceiving images. Both ways of understanding can be described by the metaphor of migration of images: in the first case, images migrate from one medium to another; in the second case, they migrate from the artefact into the human body. The contributions to this volume cover a variety of approaches coming from different disciplines such as Ancient Oriental philology, English and American studies, classical studies, classical archaeology, communication studies, cultural studies, art history, aesthetics, literature, media studies, philosophy, journalism, Romance studies, sociology, Near Eastern archaeology, prehistory, and classical studies.

With Amusement for All

With Amusement for All
Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2006-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813123976

With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

Femail

Femail
Author: Shana Moore
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0595377483

"I dare you to find even one page of this wonderful book that doesn't make you laugh. Linda and Shana are hysterical squared! And I mean that in a good way their musings made me smile, snort, and shout, 'Exactly right!'"-Debra Garfinkle, author of Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl (Putnam, 2005) Sex may take place in The City, but there's plenty of sass in the suburbs. While Linda Sharp and Shana Moore might cop to being housewives, these gals are far from desperate. Rather than finding their thrills with a pool boy, Sharp and Moore delight in taking the head-splitting struggles all women experience, and making you laugh until your sides have busted their seams. Linda and Shana tell it like you've experienced it only this time around it's funny. Their flat out honest portrayals of PMS and unearned sweat; puppies and grown women who piddle; sagging breasts and husbands who often act like boobs, will leave you smiling, and feeling less alone in your leaky rowboat. "Femail got me laughing out loud! It's a celebration of friendship that's at once irreverent, feisty and heartfelt."-Alison van Diggelen, founder & editor of Silicon Mom "Moore and Sharp unite tongue and cheek for a hilarious, witty, sometimes frumpy, sometimes sexy romp through the daily challenges and international nuances of motherhood in the twenty-first century."-Kymberli Brady, author of The Sleepy Little Star and Give Them Wings and Let Them Fly