Janne Parviainen - Shoegazing. Can you live from your art? Is there a time to give up on your dreams and face reality? Can you start hearing Charles Bukowski talking to you from reading too much of his work? What to do when you meet a loose guard dog in an abandoned Soviet prison? What are the clouds made of? These are just a few of the questions Helsinki based artist Janne Parviainen has to deal with during a year on the rollercoaster of life where the lows hit hard and the butterflies bring messages of better times. Janne Parviainen is a Finnish light artist, painter and a National Geographic published urban exploration photographer.
Janne Parviainen ? Post Man -Sex, drugs, rock n' roll and postal rage. Post Man is a different kind of Superhero story. Hank is struggling in a postman's job with no future, suffers from panic attacks and spends his free time drinking beer with his friends who are getting lost in the world of drugs. When there's no love in the world, art has lost it's meaning and friends are disappearing into a vortex, is there a way out of it anymore? Post Man is a 128 pages long graphic novel of finding yourself, finding love and losing friends in a society that's pushing everyone to their limits in search of maximum profit for the small minority. Post Man is a modern day graphic novel in the spirit of Charles Bukowski's Post Office and the drug adventures of Hunter S. Thompson. The author of Post Man, Janne Parviainen has been working four years as a postman before his career in art.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early development in the 1960s up to the present day.
It's not Summer Break yet! FCBD fans will be treated with a special one-shot standalone Deadly Class story. Readers of the ongoing comic series by Rick Remender and Wes Craig, viewers excited about SYFY channel's adaptation from Executive Producers the Russo Brothers (directors of Avengers: Infinity War), and new readers alike, will enjoy entering the world of King's Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn't always metaphorical. Rating: Mature
Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn’t stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly every market imaginable: Japan, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Mexico, Poland, Burma, Singapore, and Turkey, among countless others. Performing punk rock in many of these places wasn’t just rebellious, it was legitimately dangerous, thanks to regimes far more oppressive and brutal than what existed in the West. Brave Punk World immerses readers in these foreign scenes, describing the lifestyles and art of passionate, hard-charging groups who remain secret to the punk majority but who are just as crucial as the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. James Greene, Jr. explores Brazilian bands like Ulster who angrily protested and openly mocked their region's cruel dictatorship, Germans such as Slime who see many of their songs still banned to this day, the Algerian-by-way-of-France performers Carte de Séjour who had an alleged hand in inspiring the landmark Clash hit "Rock The Casbah," and a galaxy of other punk groups from more exotic locales. Punk diehards and travel enthusiasts with a taste for chaos will enjoy the country-by-country cultural explorations and wild stories offered within these pages.
From girl-next-door to disco diva – the untold story of the antipodean pop princess. Kylie Minogue is an icon to millions. Now enjoying a current disco revival at the top of the British charts, Kylie has morphed from Bubblegum Pop Queen to Indie Kid, from Vixen to Belle of the Disco Ball. And each time, she sets new standards of style and flair. This intimate biography, written by a PR agent to many stars, explores the real woman behind the many guises. Drawing on interviews and personal contact with key players in the story, Kylie Naked delves into the real Kylie – her success as a soap star, her assault on the UK charts, the secret tensions behind her on/off relationship with Jason Donovan, and exclusive insights into Kylie’s relationship with Michael Hutchence. This is an in-depth and informative portrait of one of pop’s most private stars.
Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for digital leisure.
K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of Korea understand these references. K-pop emerged in the 1990s with immediate global aspirations, combining musical elements from Korean and foreign cultures, particularly rhythm and blues genres of black American popular music. Korean solo artists and groups borrow from and cite instrumentation and vocals of R&B genres, especially hip-hop. They also enhance the R&B tradition by utilizing Korean musical strategies. These musical citational practices are deemed authentic by global fans who function as part of K-pop’s music press and promotional apparatus. K-pop artists also cite elements of African American performance in Korean music videos. These disrupt stereotyped representations of Asian and African American performers. Through this process K-pop has arguably become a branch of a global R&B tradition. Anderson argues that Korean pop groups participate in that tradition through cultural work that enacts a global form of crossover and by maintaining forms of authenticity that cannot be faked, and furthermore propel the R&B tradition beyond the black-white binary.
It's 1987, and homeless teenager Marcus Lopez Arguello has no reason to keep living. Until one fateful evening, when he is approached by a mysterious girl who invites him to join Kings Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts -- a brutal, clandestine high school, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art, killing is a craft, and the dagger in your back is no metaphor.
