Sky Punk

Author : Mario Savovski,Gemar Delfino
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1500558206

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Sky Punk by Mario Savovski,Gemar Delfino Pdf

An adventurous tale set in the fantastical steampunk world of Skydawn, Sky PUNK follows the life and adventures of Darion Danstrum, a blacksmith who wants to one day leave home and explore the world.He gets just that when he is wrongfully sentenced to hang for defending a drunkard. However, that drunkard just so happens to be a captain who offers to save Darion's life and take him aboard his ship – The Galileo.With a crew of misfits including an axe-crazy mage and a giant bookworm, Darion quickly has to adapt to his new way of life and as he soon learns – living on a flying ship is far more dangerous than he thought possible.And on the Galileo – adventure is only a floating island away.

Author : Karen Kelly,Evelyn McDonnell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814747272

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Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky by Karen Kelly,Evelyn McDonnell Pdf

Music industry insiders on the nature of fame Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's celebration of its power, the music world is self-obsessed. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the image of the tortured rock star, MTV, the politics of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the joy of line-dancing, and more. The contributors are James Bernard, Anthony DeCurtis, Katherine Dieckmann, Chuck Eddy, Paul Gilroy, Daniel Glass, Lawrence Grossberg, Jessica Hagedorn, Kathleen Hanna, James Hannaham, Dave Hickey, Jon Langford, Greil Marcus, Angela McRobbie, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), Barbara O'Dair, Ann Powers, Toshi Reagon, Simon Reynolds, Robert Santelli, Jon Savage, Danyel Smith, Arlene Stein, Deena Weinstein, and Ellen Willis.

Author : Jeff Ferrell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 140396033X

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Tearing Down the Streets by Jeff Ferrell Pdf

From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, graffiti artists, young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless clash with police on city streets in an attempt take back urban spaces from the developers and "disneyfiers". Drawing on more than a decade of first-hand research, this lively account goes inside the worlds of street musicians, homeless punks, militant bicycle activists, high-risk "BASE jump" parachutists, skateboarders, outlaw radio operators, and hip hop graffiti artists, to explore the day-to-day skirmishes in the struggle over public life and public space.

Author : Royal S. Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520085442

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Overtones and Undertones by Royal S. Brown Pdf

Film music, how it is used and how it is created.

Author : Jimmy Darrell Roe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781524668785

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Educational Belly Slapper by Jimmy Darrell Roe Pdf

There are numerous educators that would admit they need more knowledge in their specific area or product. Sometimes, there are opportunities for educators to gain knowledge, but just not in their area of expertise. There is also a strong belief that two different curriculums are present in all educational institutions. The two that exist for educators are a planned curriculum and an unplanned curriculum. These stories are a part of the unplanned curriculum in the life of an educator. The stories in this book are true, as told by the author and the contributors listed in the back of the book. All names and locations used in each story are fictitious. As you read this book of true educational experiences, I hope you will see and agree that the unplanned curriculum is needed for a balance of the educational life. We could not enjoy a high quality of school life without the laughter of educators and students. Schools are a serious experience for all involved in the educational process. The childhood years are an experience that we all can relate to and have in common. People need humor and laughter to balance the serious experience of education. Children often leave us with opportunities to laugh and enjoy life at its fullest potential. Some of the most successful television shows have centered on what children say and do. I am in hopes that this collection of true human experiences will add to your memories and cause much laughter and delight from the reading of this material.

Author : Cavan Scott
Publisher : Abaddon Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786180803

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Alternative Facts by Cavan Scott Pdf

Author : David O'Dell
Publisher : David O'Dell
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781257880034

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Inseparable, the Memoirs of an American and the Story of Chinese Punk Rock by David O'Dell Pdf

David O'Dell was one of the earliest supporters of the Chinese punk rock scene that started taking shape in 1995 in Beijing. The book is a rich and uniquely personal collection of stories, over one hundred previously unreleased photos and translated song lyrics from the earliest Chinese punk bands and the dizzying development of the scene - it is unlike anything you have ever read, or ever will read, about China.

Author : Charlie Comins
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781800316461

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Blue Remembered Sky by Charlie Comins Pdf

Susan Smith's affair with Lionel Perelman began when they met at the Springfield Military Hospital in South Africa during the Second World War. After the war ended, they got married and Lionel completed his training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. The Perelmans sailed back to Africa in 1952 to start a new life in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. Their daughter Charlotte was born in 1955.Charlie Comins tells the story of her childhood, growing up in the grounds of one of the largest mental hospitals in southern Africa. Though things she sees, hears and struggles to understand are presented as 'regular ways of treating crazy people', Charlie has doubts about her father's work. Blue Remembered Sky is a case study of power, prejudice and subterfuge on a personal as well as a national and international level."e;This is a profoundly thought-provoking book about truth-seeking, healing and freedom."e; Lucy Johnstonehttps://www.ccomins-blueskybook.com

Author : Hayley Camille
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780134423685

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The Ultimate Player's Guide to Skylanders SuperChargers (Unofficial Guide) by Hayley Camille Pdf

This is the perfect full-color, hands-on, easy tutorial for Skylanders SuperChargers - the newest game in Activision's amazingly popular series! Packed with boldly-labeled in-game pictures, it's designed for every player - including young players who find other Skylanders books too complicated. It's also perfect for parents who want to understand the Skylanders universe and game figures, and help their kids succeed with the game. You'll find easy, complete help for every part of Skylanders SuperChargers: setup, navigation, rules, characters, vehicles, gameplay, hints, tricks, challenges, quests, and more. Playful and informal, The Ultimate Guide to Skylanders SuperChargers covers all that's new and exciting in SuperChargers, including its 20 new figures and 20 new land-, sea- and sky-based vehicles. Along the way, you'll uncover hundreds of Skylanders secrets: hidden Soul Gems, treasure chests, collectibles, extra stars, player power, upgrades, and more!

Author : C. L. Rawlins
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466882416

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Sky's Witness by C. L. Rawlins Pdf

Thoreau joked that he was a "self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms," never dreaming that such a need might exist. But such is the author's work and that of his various helpers, from ski bums to shortstops. They travel the alpine wilderness at all seasons by touring skis , snowshoes, pack llamas, float-tubes, and a tiny but dependable rat. The remove mountain beauty, "where thoughts stretch for miles and days," would be enough, but C.L. Rawlins is after something more. He's a backcountry hydrologist, collecting rain, snow, and the water of high lakes to measure air pollution. Alongside Rawlins we discover the natural history of the central Rockies, the flowering of plants, and the ways of mountain animals. We learn how the Shoshoni lived in this harsh country before the arrival of settlers. We see also the effect of twentieth-century living on a wilderness that feels pristine but bears the chemical trace of distant smokestacks and freeways. With a style that roams between natural observation and personal essay, Rawlins's Sky's Witness gives access not only to the wilderness but to the ways in which we know ourselves.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781497604117

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Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison Pdf

“An enjoyable, irascible collection” of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author (Library Journal). Everyone’s a critic, especially in the digital age—but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five years’ worth of essays and film criticism. It’s pure, raw, unapologetic opinion. Star Wars? “Luke Skywalker is a nerd and Darth Vader sucks runny eggs.” Big Trouble in Little China? “A cheerfully blathering live-action cartoon that will give you release from the real pressures of your basically dreary lives.” Despite working within the industry himself, Ellison never learned how to lie. So punches go unpulled, the impersonal becomes personal, and sometimes even the critics get critiqued, as he shares his views on Pauline Kael or Siskel and Ebert. Ultimately, it’s a wild journey through the cinematic landscape, touching on everything from Fellini to the Friday the 13th franchise. As Leonard Maltin writes in his preface, “I don’t know how valuable it is to learn Harlan Ellison’s opinion of this film or that, but I do know that reading an Ellison essay is gong to be provocative, infuriating, hilarious, or often a combination of the above. It is never time wasted. . . . Let me assure you, Harlan Ellison is never dull.”

Author : David Laderman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292721708

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Punk Slash! Musicals by David Laderman Pdf

Punk Slash! Musicals is the first book to deal extensively with punk narrative films, specifically British and American punk rock musicals produced from roughly 1978 to 1986. Films such as Jubilee, Breaking Glass, Times Square, Smithereens, Starstruck, and Sid and Nancy represent a convergence between independent, subversive cinema and formulaic classical Hollywood and pop musical genres. Guiding this project is the concept of "slip-sync." Riffing on the commonplace lip-sync phenomenon, "slip-sync" refers to moments in the films when the punk performer "slips" out of sync with the performance spectacle, and sometimes the sound track itself, engendering a provocative moment of tension. This tension frequently serves to illustrate other thematic and narrative conflicts, central among these being the punk negotiation between authenticity and inauthenticity. Laderman emphasizes the strong female lead performer at the center of most of these films, as well as each film's engagement with gender and race issues. Additionally, he situates his analyses in relation to the broader cultural and political context of the neo-conservatism and new electronic audio-visual technologies of the 1980s, showing how punk's revolution against the mainstream actually depends upon a certain ironic embrace of pop culture.

Author : Leonard P. Tiedt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796088601

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Lost and Found by Leonard P. Tiedt Pdf

Lost and found is based on the words of John Newton’s hymn, Amazing Grace - I once was lost, but now I'm found; was blind but now I see. This is the story of Sky Nash - born into a horribly dysfunctional family. At age 9, he killed a friend of his father's, who was hired by his father to kill him. Later Sky became a Marine sniper, then later a contract killer in Miami. When his boss gave him a contract to kill a woman and her teenage daughters, he refused. In retaliation, his boss sent a friend to kill him. He was wounded in the attack, but killed both his friend and the boss. Now friendless and bleeding - sky was truly lost. In desperation, he reached out to only the second female who had been nice to him in his life. He found she was living in Atlanta. In pain and bleeding, he drove there to seek her help. The road to Atlanta was truly the road to Redemption for this lost soul. In Atlanta, he found Forgiveness for his sins, a new sense of purpose in his life, and the loving family he had never known before. He felt called by God to serve as a street Evangelist - working among those who were too often ignored or forgotten by modern society. The substance of this story is that you cannot get so far from God, that he cannot reach out and pull you into his loving arms.

Author : Yetta Howard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252050572

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Ugly Differences by Yetta Howard Pdf

What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a label for practices within underground culture. In Ugly Differences, Yetta Howard uses underground contexts to theorize queer difference by locating ugliness at the intersection of the physical, experiential, and textual. From that nexus, Howard contends that ugliness—as a mode of pejorative identification—is fundamental to the cultural formations of queer female sexuality. Slava Tsukerman's postpunk film Liquid Sky, Sapphire's poetry, Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Butch comix, New Queer Cinema such as High Art—these and other non-canonical works contribute to an audacious critique. Howard reveals how the things we see, read as, or experience as ugly productively account for non-dominant sexual identities and creative practices. Ugly Differences offers eye-opening ways to approach queerness and its myriad underground representations.

Author : Marc Spitz,Brendan Mullen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780609807743

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We Got the Neutron Bomb by Marc Spitz,Brendan Mullen Pdf

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and musicians who were there. “California was wide-open sex—no condoms, no birth control, no morality, no guilt.” —Kim Fowley “The Runaways were rebels, all of us were. And a lot of people looked up to us. It helped a lot of kids who had very mediocre, uneventful, unhappy lives. It gave them something to hold on to.” —Cherie Currie “The objective was to create something for our own personal satisfaction, because everything in our youthful and limited opinion sucked, and we knew better.” —John Doe “The Masque was like Heaven and Hell all rolled into one. It was a bomb shelter, a basement. It was so amazing, such a dive ... but it was our dive.” —Hellin Killer “At least fifty punks were living at the Canterbury. You’d walk into the courtyard and there’d be a dozen different punk songs all playing at the same time. It was an incredible environment.” —Belinda Carlisle Assembled from exhaustive interviews, We Got the Neutron Bomb tells the authentically gritty stories of bands like the Runaways, the Germs, X, the Screamers, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks—their rise, their fall, and their undeniable influence on the rock ’n’ roll of today.