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Author: Mike Shields Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 163
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You get only one shot to make it big, right? For Mike Shields, that just wasn't true. Seeking adventure, this rock star wannabe and club performer followed the music wherever it led him. In his teens, he scribbled down his first song and teamed up with some amateur musicians to create a garage band, and from there, he took his life on the road, moving from one band and performance to the next. He has performed over many musical decades, changing band names and members along the way, while looking up to inspirations such as the Beatles and Jethro Tull.With his honest, humorous, and down-to-earth style, Shields offers a compelling account of landing gigs, finding love, and watching life take many unexpected turns, from meeting and playing with music legends to living through historic events such as the assassination of JFK. He invites you to share in the most profound moments of his career and personal life, illustrating how music has been the unifying passion that has pushed him forward and helped him recover from tragedy and heartbreak.
Author: Mike Shields Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 163
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You get only one shot to make it big, right? For Mike Shields, that just wasn't true. Seeking adventure, this rock star wannabe and club performer followed the music wherever it led him. In his teens, he scribbled down his first song and teamed up with some amateur musicians to create a garage band, and from there, he took his life on the road, moving from one band and performance to the next. He has performed over many musical decades, changing band names and members along the way, while looking up to inspirations such as the Beatles and Jethro Tull.With his honest, humorous, and down-to-earth style, Shields offers a compelling account of landing gigs, finding love, and watching life take many unexpected turns, from meeting and playing with music legends to living through historic events such as the assassination of JFK. He invites you to share in the most profound moments of his career and personal life, illustrating how music has been the unifying passion that has pushed him forward and helped him recover from tragedy and heartbreak.
Author: Irving Lewis Allen Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195357760 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.
Author: Heather Graham Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1488030685 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 501
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A TEMPEST OF PASSION Private investigator Dane Whitelaw is being framed for murder. When Dane finds a photo under his door of his dead ex-girlfriend Sheila Warren he knows he’s been set up. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer currently terrorizing the Miami area, and someone wants Dane to take the fall. When Kelsey Cunningham’s best friend goes missing, she confronts the one person she thinks will have information—Dane, Sheila’s former lover and a man from Kelsey’s own past. Kelsey grudgingly partners up with Dane to follow Sheila’s tracks into a dangerous world of sex, violence and drugs. But the tentative trust between them shatters when Sheila’s body is discovered—strangled by Dane’s tie. Now Kelsey doesn’t dare trust anyone…especially not the man she has always loved. FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! A Man Worth Remembering by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen FBI agent Gabe Sanchez hasn’t seen Leigh O’Brien since she vanished from his life two years ago. Now Leigh is the witness in a major case, and Gabe has orders to keep her safe—but will he be able to protect his heart?
Author: Dr. Angela Fetzner Publisher: Babelcube Inc. ISBN: 1071528750 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 77
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Lymphatic cleansing This has become the stepchild of all detoxification therapy. Cleansing of the liver or colon is high on the agenda, but detoxification of the lymphatic system is often neglected. Regular detoxification of the lymphatic system is nonetheless crucial for physical and mental health. The lymphatic system This is the body’s purification plant, ridding it of whatever is harmful or useless like pathogens, metabolic waste, toxins and cell debris. It is crucial for immunity and the body’s detoxification. Sustaining the flow The lymphatic system must be regularly cleansed and detoxified to keep on flowing naturally. If continually overloaded with waste, it stagnates. The system can no longer get rid of all problematic materials, so these gradually poison the whole body and often cause chronic ailments. Lymphatic cleansing This book outlines all natural therapies and treatments which have proven to be effective in basic lymphatic detoxification and cleansing. These everyday ways to look after yourself are motivating and efficient. They include approaches like medicinal plant therapy, homeopathy, Schuessler salts, specific cleansing of the lymph, water applications, stress reduction, changes of diet, moderate exercise and so on. With the help of these choice means of detoxification, you will soon feel livelier, stronger and merrier. As a doctor of pharmacology, the author has been advising and informing clients for more than two decades, being committed to their health and well being. Your pharmacist, Angela Fetzner
Author: Alan Druckman Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1643509071 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 171
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What novel presents a realistic, comprehensive, laugh-until-you-almost-pee look at an urban elementary school in a middle-class neighborhood in New York City through the eyes of a retiring principal? The answer is Reading, Writing, and Murder. Here are some of the subjects in the school curriculum: How to Murder a Teacher in School How to Conduct an Adulterous Affair How to Deal with Disruptive Pupils How to Deal with Complaining Parents and Teachers How to Dissuade a Pupil Threatening to Commit Suicide How to Save a Parent Having a Heart Attack How to be Classified as a Pedophile How to Celebrate a Principal's Retirement How to Reminisce on the Good, the Bad, the Ugly How to Solve a School Murder Only someone with thirty-five-and-a-half years as teacher, assistant principal, and principal in New York City elementary schools could tell it like it is.
Author: Mary Jane Maffini Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459714172 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 297
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As if it weren’t bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demise of her old lover, the poet, Benedict Kelly. It’s exactly the sort of thing people notice in St. Aubaine, Quebec, a picturesque bilingual tourist town of two thousand. Now the police start getting nasty, the media vans stay parked on her lawn and the neighbours’ tongues keep wagging in both official languages. Worse, someone’s bumping off the other suspects. Can Fiona outwit a murderer in the mood for some serious mischief?
Author: Sean Manning Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 0786734442 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 322
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In The Show I'll Never Forget, writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers' lives at the time as they do about the venues where the shows occurred or the artists onstage. Ishmael Reed on Miles Davis Luc Sante on Public Image Ltd. Heidi Julavits on Rush Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer on Metric Diana Ossana on Led Zeppelin Maggie Estep on Einsturzende Neubauten Dani Shapiro on Bruce Springsteen Gary Giddins on Titans of the Tenor! Nick Flynn on Mink DeVille Susan Straight on The Funk Festival Rick Moody on the The Lounge Lizards Jennifer Egan on Patti Smith Harvey Pekar on Joe Maneri Thurston Moore on Glen Branca, Rudolph Grey, and Wharton Tiers Chuck Klosterman on Prince Sigrid Nunez on Woodstock Jerry Stahl on David Bowie Charles R. Cross on Nirvana Marc Nesbitt on The Beastie Boys And many more . . . No matter where your musical taste falls, these often funny, occasionally sad, always thought-provoking essays-all written especially for The Show I'll Never Forget-are sure to connect with anyone who loves, or has ever loved, live music.
Author: John Lurie Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0399592989 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 481
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The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie “A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York Times In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he developed his artistic soul over the course of the decade and came into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, including Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and, especially, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on the floor of Lurie’s East Third Street apartment. It may feel like Disney World now, but in The History of Bones, the East Village, through Lurie’s clear-eyed reminiscence, comes to teeming, gritty life. The book is full of grime and frank humor—Lurie holds nothing back in this journey to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today. History may repeat itself, but the way downtown New York happened in the 1980s will never happen again. Luckily, through this beautiful memoir, we all have a front-row seat.
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