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Why rock star ? Most likely because his exploits have become the stuff of legend, his relentless, daring feet (insert wink) in the wild decade after decade, in search of endangered Hawaiian and Pacific Islands plants . (www.npr.org....sts_1.html)
PS: Sid Vicious: Rock'n'Roll Star would make an EXCELLENT gift for that bratty 14-year-old nephew of yours who thinks Rancid and Green Day and Blink 182 are punk rock -show him the guy who walked it like he talked it, and paid the highest price for it (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
PS: Sid Vicious: Rock'n'Roll Star would make an EXCELLENT gift for that bratty 14-year-old nephew of yours who thinks Rancid and Green Day and Blink 182 are punk rock -show him the guy who walked it like he talked it, and paid the highest price for i (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
In fact, is was on the NTBG staff that I met my first so-called rock star botanist, Ken Wood , a self-effacing plantsman who, despite himself, does justice to the romantic term . a term taught to me by future botanical rocker Clay Trauernicht , a field botanist tragically too cute for his own goo (www.npr.org....202_1.html)
Ready to rock? Cool. How 'bout starting with an overview of the endangered plant crisis in Hawaii . Two good articles that feature Wood are Hanging by a Thread from Discover Magazine, and Paradise Lost ? from Plant Talk. (www.npr.org....sts_1.html)
How much more can be said about Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistols, and 70s punk in general? Well, it helps if you've got stories nobody's heard before, and Sid Vicious: Rock'n'Roll Star (God, I hope there's some irony intended in that subtitle) has them. I won't reveal them here, but I will say I've been a punk fan for a long time (I'm not telling!) and I learned a lot here-lots of little details really make Sid come alive in a new way. Sure, he was nasty and brutish, and his life was short, but he's still entertaining. There are also fantastic pictures , again, many which I was unfamiliar with. There's a funny one of him in the hospital after the break-up of the Pistols, and lots of good ones before he ever joined the ban (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
This book covers his whole life-his childhood with his drug-friendly mother, his teen years as an art student (but then, name me one British rock star that DIDN'T go to art school!)-and the hellish descent his life took after January 14, 1978. It's all here-great writing (the bibliography includes England's Dreaming and 12 Days on the Road ), hilarious and chilling anecdotes, unparalleled photos, and good research. However, it did leave out a really cool fact-that Sid got his trademark padlock necklace from Chrissie Hynde. But it does reveal that the one Gary Oldman wore in Sid Nancy was, in fact, that very one (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
If Jonathan Coulton were to write a song about his own success as a rock star , there would be little mention of the booze, drugs, one-night stands and lonely road laments that typically play out the power chord mix of mythic guitar heroes and music idols (potw.news.yahoo.com....-rock-star)
In the fall of 2005, Coulton told his wife he was quitting his software job to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a rock star . He could have barely picked a more inauspicious moment. At 36, he was bearing down on middle age â and his wife had just given birth to their first child, a daughter (potw.news.yahoo.com....-rock-star)
No one embodied the Sex Pistols raw, anarchic excesses like bassist Sid Vicious. Told from an insider57;s perspective, Sid Vicious: Rock 'n' Roll Star covers the brief life of punk57;s original poster boy including everything from Vicious57;s lowly beginning as the only child of a drug-addicted parent to his obsession with violence and the notorious death of girlfriend Nancy Spungen. New material and numerous photographs capture the extremes of this charismatic rebel who crashed and burned at 21 (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
It occurs to me that reading Ken Wood is no substitute for hearing him. So much is in his delivery. As he talks about hand-pollinating plants to get them to set seed - we're talking very rare plants now, often the last of their species , clinging to rock cliffs 3,000 feet high - his slow, seductive way of explaining things makes the act itself sound like soft porn. So if you haven't already, give a listen to the audio clip up to (www.npr.org....sts_1.html)
Finally, a book about Sid that covers his entire life, not just his short time in the limelight . This is an excellent addition to any Sex Pistols/punk rock fan's library that's packed with a lot of cool b&w pictures (a lot of which I've never seen). After finishing this book I was struck again how much Sid & Nancy seemed to be the original Kurt & Courtney. It's a shame that that one didn't turn out the way this one did (or that both guys lived). Just remember Sid did it his way. R.I.P. Sid. (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
Finally, a book about Sid that covers his entire life, not just his short time in the limelight . This is an excellent addition to any Sex Pistols/punk rock fan's library that's packed with a lot of cool b&w pictures (a lot of which I've never seen). After finishing this book I was struck again how much Sid & Nancy seemed to be the original Kurt & Courtney. It's a shame that that one didn't turn out the way this one did (or that both guys lived). Just remember Sid did it his way. R.I.P. Sid (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth. Instead of playing the usual rock star games of metal stars of the early '80s, the band looked and talked like they were from the street. Metallica expanded the limits of thrash, using speed and volume not for their own. [+] Read Mor (www.mp3.com....ssic+rock/)
When a reporter asked 30 Rock star /creator/exec producer Tina Fey pictured whether she was confident last fall that hers was the NBC show-within-a-show would survive to see a second season, unlike Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , Fey didn't hesitate in her response. (weblogs.variety.com....r/30_rock/)
As other reviewers have said, Butt's book is a heady stream of intriguing, gritty details from the seamy world of period punkdom - a treasure trove of rumors, opinions, eyewitness accounts, unconfirmed reports found in no other available sources. Where else can you find a link between Rockets Redglare, recently deceased East Village underground actor/minor sleaze icon, and Nancy Spungen's death? .And learn that Nancy's young body was so deteriorated that, in death, it began to decompose in a remarkably short six hours! (www.amazon.com....46-0045247)
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