I Want To Take You Higher: The Life And Times Of Sly & The Family Stone by Jeff Kaliss I blame Behind The Music. I think that the once-great VH1 show (Garbage, Everclear, and Nick Lachey got their own shows… really?) has ruined my ability to properly read any rock bios. The Behind The Music [...]
Archive for March, 2009
March 22, 2009
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Incorporeal People Edition
By Some Dude in NonfictionThe 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan & Jeremy Salter Wedding Crashers is the one of the worst comedies I have ever seen. And I say this not because the movie itself is uncomfortably unfunny or anything like that (it does have some great scenes) but because the movie [...]
March 15, 2009
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En Passant Edition
By Some Dude in NonfictionGame Of Kings by Michael Weinreb “There are eighty-five billion ways to play the first four moves of a chess game, and it has been said that there are more variations in a single chess game than there are atoms in the universe.” –pages 67 & 68. The above quote represents the dichotomy that is [...]
March 8, 2009
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Seven Essays Edition
By Some Dude in NonfictionA Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace More than anything else, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again–the collection of seven essays and articles that David Foster Wallace wrote during 1990-1995–makes one wonder how much editing goes on when a writer submits a piece to a magazine. For instance, [...]
