Ghosts And Ballyhoo

Author : Thomas Wictor
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0764343386

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Ghosts and Ballyhoo by Thomas Wictor Pdf

Ghosts and Ballyhoo: Memoirs of a Failed L.A. Music Journalist chronicles Thomas Wictor's ten years in the Los Angeles music industry and his quest to free himself from the past. Ostensibly a memoir, Ghosts also asks – and possibly answers – provocative questions about fate, destiny, and life after death. The book is structured as a collection of anthologies rather than a continuous narrative; the seven anthologies detailing Wictor's failed career are separated by six interludes with the Collateral Ghost, one of the most brilliant, yet unsuccessful, musicians who ever played – former Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes. Thomas Wictor's experiences include multiple failures across multiple spectra and an endless series of coincidences that always returned him to the notion that there is a Plan. Losing nearly everything he loved gave the author clarity, enabling him to see patterns of guidance and sustenance visible everywhere once he was no longer blinded by rage and negativity. This clarity exorcised Thomas Wictor and brought him peace of mind, which allowed him to transform the anger over what he lost into gratitude for what he once had. Written with profane humor and no self-pity, Ghosts and Ballyhoo includes previously unpublished articles, excerpts from interview transcripts personal correspondence, and photos.

Author : Mark Thomas McGee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786411147

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Beyond Ballyhoo by Mark Thomas McGee Pdf

William Castle, for instance, was a master promoter. In one scheme involving The Tingler, Vincent Price warns in the movie that "the only way to stop the monster is to scream. That's the signal to the projectionist to throw the switch. Under ten or twelve seats were some electric motors, war surplus things that Castle got a bargain on. The motors vibrated the seat, in the hope of scaring a scream out of someone. Just in case it didn't Castle planted someone in the audience to get the screams rolling." This book is about flamboyant promotion, the con artist side of the movie world--everything the ballyhoo boys did to separate the customer from the price of a movie ticket--Emergo, HypnoVista, 3-D, Wide Screen, Cinemagic, Duo-Vision, Dynamation, Smell-O-Vision, plenty more. Supporting the text are 107 photos and illustrations, some never-before-published, and a filmography.

Author : Jacqueline Horsfall
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781402776243

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Joke & Riddle Ballyhoo by Jacqueline Horsfall Pdf

Beastie bloopers, fiddle-de-riddles, creepy critters, tongue twisters, and so much more! Filled with hundreds of jokes of every type, this hilarious compilation is sure to tickle the funny bone and have kids screaming with laughter for hours on end. What do you call a lazy kangaroo? A pouch potato. What should you wear when you go to the beach with a monster? Sunscream. What did the skeleton say to the doctor? "This will cost me an arm and a leg!" Give this riddle a try: I have many teeth but cant chew. What am I? (A comb.) How fast do happy bikers ride? Ten smiles per hour--and there are even more smiles than that in here.

Author : M. Luckhurst,E. Morin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137345073

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Theatre and Ghosts by M. Luckhurst,E. Morin Pdf

Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer.

Author : Sara Pesce,Paolo Noto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317512684

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The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media by Sara Pesce,Paolo Noto Pdf

In the age of "complex Tv", of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance of a fictional world and other mediatized discourse over a long arc of time. The life of media products can change direction depending on the variability of paratextual materials and activities such as online commentaries and forums, promos and trailers, disposable merchandise and gadgets, grassroots video production, archives, and gaming. This book examines the tension between permanence and obsolescence in the production and experience of media byproducts analysing the affections and meanings they convey and uncovering the machineries of their persistence or disposal. Paratexts, which have long been considered only ancillary to a central text, interfere instead with textual politics by influencing the viewers’ fidelity (or infidelity) to a product and affecting a fictional world’s "life expectancy". Scholars in the fields of film studies, media studies, memory and cultural studies are here called to observe these byproducts' temporalities (their short form and/or long temporal extention, their nostalgic politics or future projections) and assess their increasing influence on our use of the past and present, on our temporal experience, and, consequently, on our social and political self-positioning through the media.

Author : Mike Hockney
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The War of the Ghosts and Machines by Mike Hockney Pdf

Are you a ghost or a machine? You don't need to be a superstitious believer to support the side of the ghosts. Machine people reduce everything to lifeless, mindless, purposeless atoms of matter: the ultimate little machines. For "ghost" people, reality reduces to dimensionless, mathematical singularities, which are none other than the hyperrational monadic souls posited by Pythagoras and Leibniz. Ghost people subscribe to atoms (minds) with atomic number zero, i.e. minds/souls are made of massless, dimensionless photons. Machine people start with hydrogen atoms, with atomic number one. All "ghost" entities are associated with zero and infinity. All machine people deny the existence of zero and infinity. Mathematically, these are the two numbers where the ghosts and the machines collide head on. This book is all about demonstrating that there are indeed ghosts in the machines.

Author : Allan Pacheco
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780865344105

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Ghosts-murder-mayhem, a Chronicle of Santa Fe by Allan Pacheco Pdf

If you like to have fun, this tabloid-like investigation of some of Santa Fe, New Mexico's most extraordinary events is for you. Here are "beyond belief" stories of the present and the days of yore that picture many compelling, serious and humorous events that have woven themselves into Santa Fe's colorful history. Many myths and facts are explored, and many bubbles are burst: Billy The Kid, Russian spies, hauntings, UFOs, the Santa Fe Trail, to name a few. This eccentric Santa Fe guide is full of sensationalism, revulsion, truths, lies and pleasant distractions. Written in a "Noir" fashion, the book mixes humor with hard-boiled memorable moments that could only happen in Santa Fe, The City Different. ALLAN PACHECO is a native Santa Fean who has a B.A. degree and has attended Law School. He has many patents (auto tool) and for years was primarily involved in international manufacturing and trade. Allan's love for Santa Fe knows no bounds. Perhaps it's in his DNA since his ancestors were Spanish Conquistadors who helped found the city.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811216799

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Mickelsson's Ghosts by Anonim Pdf

The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.

Author : Deborah L. Downer
Publisher : august house
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0874831156

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Classic American Ghost Stories by Deborah L. Downer Pdf

Contains 51 supposedly true, classic American ghost stories from newspapers, journals, and magazines.

Author : Stephen Tate
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527547452

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A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 by Stephen Tate Pdf

At the heart of this text strides James Catton, less than five feet tall but a giant in the field of sporting journalism. It is the story of his career, from boy reporter in 1870s Lancashire to editor of the influential Manchester-based weekly Athletic News and then grand old man of Fleet Street sports writing in the 1920s and ’30s. The book also presents the story of others, too—the first journalists to turn action into news as raw, carnivalesque, violent pastimes were replaced by codified and commercialised games. Detailing the history of their trade, the book searches for the roots of sports journalism, pushing, for the first time, the newspaper reporter to the foreground in the shared history of the press and sport. Editorial recruitment, training, writing styles, pay, status, rivalry and camaraderie, technology, celebrity, the press box, the player-reporter and drinking culture are all examined, as are the values men like Catton claimed sport, at its best, represented.

Author : Thomas Wictor
Publisher : Thomas\Wictor
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Dreams
ISBN : 0615851819

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Hallucinabulia by Thomas Wictor Pdf

Hallucinabulia: the Dream Diary of an Unintended Solitarian is a document of disaster and recovery. The third volume in the Ghosts Trilogy, it joins Ghosts and Ballyhoo: Memoirs of a Failed L.A. Music Journalist and Chasing the Last Whale, a fictional black comedy about love and suicide in contemporary, wartime America. Like its two companion titles, Hallucinabulia explores the theme of overcoming a deeply traumatic past by transforming anger over loss into gratitude for what once was. Plagued by chronic nightmares until an incurable illness finally allowed him to achieve happiness, Wictor published this very private record in order to bear witness, banish, and entertain. The healing power of laughter is again demonstrated and affirmed. Wictor's near-perfect recall allowed him to capture some of the most off-kilter, frightening, strange, and funny imagery that a twisted imagination could ever devise. The diary-divided into twelve chapters organized by subject matter-provides context to the memoir and the novel by presenting the nocturnal battles the author fought with his demons, as well as the salvation that his angels conferred. Straight from Wictor's subconscious, the dialog, bizarre scenery, and outlandish situations are preserved in the form of intricately detailed short stories. The characters introduced in Ghosts and Ballyhoo and romanticized in Chasing the Last Whale are finally set free in Hallucinabulia, being no longer bound by law, nature, or even reality. The result is a book that travels an arc from incomprehensibly brutal to indestructibly optimistic, as intense evil gives way to infinite beauty and good.

Author : Carrie Chang
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798369404218

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Erstwhile Bubble-Tea by Carrie Chang Pdf

“Erstwhile Bubble Tea” is 100 percent pure moonshine, a literary topis of strange beliefs and occasional bliss, a humanitarian account of how the sunshine tribe triumphed over darkness and the little cities of the Bay Area celebrated their second shadow; while drinking tea becomes an erstwhile pleasure for the taking, the cool cat Asians of suburban California put to rights their value to conquer the vicissitudes of plainspoken time and outrageous happenstance; whether they are putting on airs, or exhibiting the sur le tat neuroses of a resurrected childhood on a summer’s day, these characters lead a charmed existence, putting on a show not unlike “Juneteenth,” and making a statement for their ethnic pageantry, and cosmic FOB existence on the planet.

Author : Thomas Wictor
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879109564

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In Cold Sweat by Thomas Wictor Pdf

"The book contains a full discography for each of the artists, and every interview - illustrated with striking, often candid photographs - includes an introduction and a postscript that together serve to recognize the artist's accomplishments and define his place in the current pop scene."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433019414600

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Showmen's Motion Picture Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Way
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426882033

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The English Bride by Margaret Way Pdf

A life of luxury on an English country estate or the hazards of the Australian Outback? For Lady Francesca de Lyle there is no doubt. She's in love with rugged Grant Cameron and knows the Outback holds everything she's come to need and desire. Grant is emotionally torn. He wants Francesca, but the pampered rich girl could dash back to the safety of her privileged world at any time. Should he take the risk and ask Francesca to become his English bride?