Famous For Fifteen People

Author : John William Daniel Robinson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789047288

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Famous for Fifteen People by John William Daniel Robinson Pdf

The life and songs of singer-songwriter Momus during his time at Creation records and beyond. Momus - the stage name of musician Nicholas Currie - is one of the most prolific and talented indie songwriters of the last forty years. His work is controversial, influential and highly regarded. From aspiring indie pop star of the 1980s to Japanese chart success in the 1990s through many experimental works to the present day, he has been a constant in the search for intelligent, thinking person's pop. Jarvis Cocker asked him to produce his band Pulp, the NME memorably awarded his album "Hippopotamomus" 0/10, Creation Records dropped him when he proved too dangerous for them, and his more controversial work led to astounding legal tussles. His personal life has involved scandal and heartbreak and he lost an eye following an infection, resulting in his distinctive eye-patch. His songs including "The Hairstyle of the Devil", "The Guitar Lesson" and "I Want You but I Don't Need You" are acclaimed and have been covered by artists including Amanda Palmer and Steven Wilson.

Author : Max Cryer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781628731545

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Common Phrases by Max Cryer Pdf

In day-to-day speech we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is. Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term “bad hair day,” or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of “canned laughter” for television, or that “cold turkey” as a term for quitting something immediately was popularized by the novel and movie (starring Frank Sinatra), The Man with the Golden Arm? Here you’ll learn the origins of “credibility gap,” “my lips are sealed,” “the opera’s not over until the fat lady sings,” “supermarket,” “supermodel,” “there’s no accounting for taste,” “thick as thieves,” and hundreds more. For anyone who loves language, this new book will “take the cake.”

Author : Cooper Lawrence
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781599217161

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Cult of Celebrity by Cooper Lawrence Pdf

Author : Justin Kuritzkes
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250309037

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Famous People by Justin Kuritzkes Pdf

This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they’re so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I’m beginning to think that it’s only when you live a life like mine—it’s only when you’re in a position where you don’t even really own yourself, when you can’t even really say that you’re a citizen of any particular country—that you realize that we’re all just tiny pieces of cosmic dust floating through the void until we disappear forever and we’re never heard from again. So begins the life story of our uber famous twenty-two year old narrator. A teen idol since he was twelve, when a video of him singing went viral, his star has only risen since. Now, haunted by the suicide of his manager-father, unsettled by the very different paths he and his teenage love (and girl pop-star counterpart) “Mandy” have taken, and increasingly aware that he has signed on to something he has little control over, he begins to parse the divide that separates him from the “normal people” of the world. Sneakily philosophical, earnest and funny, Justin Kuritzkes's Famous People is a rollicking, unforgettable look at the clash between fame and the human condition.

Author : Irving Risch
Publisher : Irving Risch
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Great Stories Of Famous And Not So Famous People by Irving Risch Pdf

The following is the list of 39 Stories: Almost But Lost A Priest Asked His Bishop Amy Carmichael The Hand of God Burke The Burglar Daniel Webster's Greatest Thought David Livingstone Livingstone's Body-Guard Dying Testimony Ed Fuller's Testimony George Washington Carver The History of the Peanut Gipsy Smith He Lived Life in the Fast Lane How Spurgeon Found Christ How the King of England Escaped Ice From Heaven Jesus, I my Cross Have Taken John Foxe, The Penman for the MARTYRS John Harper and the Titanic John G. Paton Lester Leo Roloff Lions On The Road Mary Slessor Meat for the Master Noah Webster and His Dictionary Rose of Sharon Set Free Seven Instead of Ten Tell Mother I'll Be There! The True Story, The Lonely Cabin The Story of Tyndale The Triumph of Polycarp Too Bad They Neglected Joe Transformed Transformed by a Tract Twenty Years of Service Lost What A Way To Go Wife Visits Husband 15 Minutes a Month

Author : Rose Marshack
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252054013

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Play Like a Man by Rose Marshack Pdf

As a member of Poster Children, Rose Marshack took part in entwined revolutions. Marshack and other women seized a much-elevated profile in music during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital technologies transformed the recording and marketing of music. Touring in a van, meeting your idols, juggling a programming job with music, keeping control and credibility, the perils of an independent record label (and the greater perils of a major)—Marshack chronicles the band’s day-to-day life and punctuates her account with excerpts from her tour reports and hard-learned lessons on how to rock, program, and teach while female. She also details the ways Poster Children applied punk’s DIY ethos to digital tech as a way to connect with fans via then-new media like pkids listservs, internet radio, and enhanced CDs. An inside look at a scene and a career, Play Like a Man is the evocative and humorous tale of one woman’s life in the trenches and online.

Author : Jean Burgess,Alice Marwick,Thomas Poell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473995796

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Media by Jean Burgess,Alice Marwick,Thomas Poell Pdf

The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships. This international Handbook addresses the most significant research themes, methodological approaches and debates in the study of social media. It contains substantial chapters written especially for this book by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives, covering everything from computational social science to sexual self-expression. Part 1: Histories And Pre-Histories Part 2: Approaches And Methods Part 3: Platforms, Technologies And Business Models Part 4: Cultures And Practices Part 5: Social And Economic Domains

Author : Frank Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351949576

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Consciousness by Frank Jackson Pdf

Brings together some of the most important research publications on the philosophical problem of consciousness. It includes a detailed introduction that surveys the leading issues in the current debate.

Author : Zephyr Teachout,Thomas Streeter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317255871

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Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope by Zephyr Teachout,Thomas Streeter Pdf

Howard Dean's campaign for president changed the way in which campaigns are run today. With an unlikely collection of highly talented and motivated staffers drawn from a variety of backgrounds, the Dean campaign transformed the way in which money was raised and supporters galvanized by using the Internet. Surprisingly, many of the campaign staff members were neither computer whizzes nor practiced political operatives, even though that is how some of them are identified today. This book allows key individuals in the campaign the chance to tell their stories with an eye to documenting the Internet campaign revolution and providing lessons to future campaigns. Howard Dean's inspirational statement of what it took for his campaign to get as far as it did-"mousepads, shoe leather, and hope"-holds great wisdom for anyone campaigning today, especially the 2008 presidential candidates.

Author : Steven Felix-Jager
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498231794

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With God on Our Side by Steven Felix-Jager Pdf

Rock and roll is more than just music. Rock is a culture and an ideology, which carries its own ethos. It is forcefully countercultural and exists as a bane in the sight of dominant Western culture. As rock engages and critiques culture, it invariably encounters issues of meaning that are existential and theological. A transformational theology of rock begins with those existential and theological issues raised by and within rock music. With God On Our Side attempts to respond to these queries in a way that is faithful to the work of the kingdom of God on earth by mining our long theological tradition and seeing what cohesive responses can be made to the issues raised by rock music. At its best, rock acknowledges there is something wrong with the world, raises awareness of marginalized voices, and offers an alternative mode of existence within our present reality. By teasing out the theological issues found in rock music, this book synthesizes the findings to create a distinctive cultural theology that is sensitive to the plight of the marginalized in the West. In this way, the book offers a way forward towards a transformational theology of rock and roll.

Author : John William Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Zero Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789047277

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Famous for Fifteen People by John William Daniel Robinson Pdf

The life and songs of singer-songwriter Momus during his time at Creation records and beyond. Momus - the stage name of musician Nicholas Currie - is one of the most prolific and talented indie songwriters of the last forty years. His work is controversial, influential and highly regarded. From aspiring indie pop star of the 1980s to Japanese chart success in the 1990s through many experimental works to the present day, he has been a constant in the search for intelligent, thinking person's pop. Jarvis Cocker asked him to produce his band Pulp, the NME memorably awarded his album "Hippopotamomus" 0/10, Creation Records dropped him when he proved too dangerous for them, and his more controversial work led to astounding legal tussles. His personal life has involved scandal and heartbreak and he lost an eye following an infection, resulting in his distinctive eye-patch. His songs including "The Hairstyle of the Devil", "The Guitar Lesson" and "I Want You but I Don't Need You" are acclaimed and have been covered by artists including Amanda Palmer and Steven Wilson.

Author : The Project on Vegas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375234

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Strip Cultures by The Project on Vegas Pdf

On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America’s most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—is refashioned as an element of decor.

Author : Ultra Violet
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497680760

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Famous for 15 Minutes by Ultra Violet Pdf

One of Andy Warhol’s superstars recalls the birth of an art movement—and the death of an icon In this audacious tell-all memoir, Ultra Violet, born Isabelle Collin Dufresne, relives her years with Andy Warhol at the Factory and all of the madness that accompanied the sometimes-violent delivery of pop art. Starting with her botched seduction of the “shy, near-blind, bald, gay albino” from Pittsburgh, Ultra Violet installs herself in Warhol’s world, becoming his muse for years to come. But she does more than just inspire; she also watches, listens, and remembers, revealing herself to be an ideal tour guide to the “assembly line for art, sex, drugs, and film” that is the Factory. Famous for 15 Minutes drips with juicy details about celebrities and cultural figures in vignettes filled with surreptitious cocaine spoons, shameless sex, and insights into perhaps the most recognizable but least intimately known artist in the world. Beyond the legendary artist himself are the throngs of Factory “regulars”—Billy Name, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Polk—and the more transient celebrities who make appearances—Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon. Delightfully bizarre and always entertaining, filled with colorful scenes and larger-than-life personalities, this dishy page-turner is shot through with the author’s vivid imagery and piercing observations of a cultural idol and his eclectic, voyeuristic, altogether riveting world.

Author : Martin Wall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781445677095

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The Magical History of Britain by Martin Wall Pdf

The first book to consider British history from a magical perspective, and how these arcane magical themes developed over time.

Author : Andy Warhol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691235035

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Warhol-isms by Andy Warhol Pdf

A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artist One of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he did. Indeed, he is so quotable that things he never said are endlessly and plausibly attributed to him, including, fittingly, the most celebrated fake Warhol saying—“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Warhol-isms separates legend from fact to present a unique and comprehensive collection of authentic quotations from the Pop artist. Gathered from interviews and other primary sources, these deadpan, droll, ironic, and sincere gems—in which a superficial embrace of superficiality often disguises provocative, unconventional ideas—provide compelling insights into the life and work of an artist who has left an indelible mark on art and popular culture. Select quotations from the book: I think an artist is anybody who does something well.I went to [a psychiatrist] once, and he never called me back.They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.New things are always better than old things.I’m still a commercial artist. I was always a commercial artist.