Greatest Hits of The Blog That Ate Brooklyn: Inside the Mind of a Musician

Greatest Hits of The Blog That Ate Brooklyn: Inside the Mind of a Musician Review

Wonder what joys and terrors lie inside the mind of a musician? Jump right in with Sue Terry and experience the bizarre ruminations of a professional sax player. Dirty dog club owners, screw-loose bureaucrats and other arrogant cats are all on parade as you ride shotgun on her gigs and watch what goes on behind the scenes in show biz. Sweet Sue elegantly dishes the dirt and harmonizes her way through it all, with her trademark jazzy flair. Whether you're a player or a toe-tapper, you'll groove on these insights from the "Superwoman of Jazz." "You bring to the world your dedication and knowledge to share with all those willing to explore...attached to that is your love of life and its mysteries, whose energy surrounds you like a zillion watt bulb." --musician/producer David CasT "Overwhelmingly hip!"--composer/bassist Derwyn Holder

Xangans: Stories From the World's Greatest Blogging Community

Xangans: Stories From the World's Greatest Blogging Community Review

Xangans are unique; they are the only blogging community who have named themselves after their on-line playground, Xanga.com, The World's Greatest Blogging Community. It is their jungle, their pulpit and endless party, Xanga. Knowing each other well onscreen, yet rarely meeting in real life, they form an Empire on which the Sun never Sets, straddling the world from Detroit to Liverpool, from Toronto to Singapore. Entertaining, quarrelsome, compassionate, bitchy, they have used Xanga to express their talents, their beliefs, their confusions, their pain, their joy, until it has become an essential and enduring part of their lives. I first joined Xanga in 2006. I too flirted with other blogging systems, and saw them swell to vast size, only to dwindled into irrelevance; Xanga has remained the only one in which the written word has ruled and flourished. In this collection of thirty-three blogs, stories and poems by Xangans writing today, some published writers, some - as yet - unknown, we hear the voices of on-line authors struggling to make sense of this world. From the raw cynicism of Lindensmith's "Another Night on the Town" to the life-affirming cheer of Lyne Hamel's "Blessings," we pass through eroticism, through the joys and terrors of love, through the conflicts of religion and the confusions of society, through satire, humor, horror and sentiment.