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Alan Goldsher
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Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
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2010
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Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read
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2006
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Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
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2002
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The Record Haus
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2003
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My Favorite Fangs: The Story of the Von Trapp Family Vampires
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2012
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The True Naomi Story
by Alayne Silver, A. M. Goldsher 3.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Reality Check
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Give Death a Chance
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2012
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Jam
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2002
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My Favorite Fangs
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" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? AG: Eat, sleep, write, sports, love, peace & hair grease SS: What is your motto or maxim? AG: To steal a phrase from Viv Savage: "Have a good time, all the time." General Questions SS:..." ...More
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? AG: Eat, sleep, write, sports, love, peace & hair grease SS: What is your motto or maxim? AG: To steal a phrase from Viv Savage: "Have a good time, all the time." General Questions SS:..." ...More
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REALITY CHECK: A Novel (Literature & Fiction)
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She's a singer, a songwriter, a pianist, a rock goddess, and a sex kitten. She's Jenn Bradford, and her career is in disarray.
Jenn's third album, Reality Check, was dismissed by critic/super cute indie rock boy Zach Bingham as "fence straddling" and "not nearly as strong as her near-classic, Guess Who Came at Dinner." The audiences at Jenn's shows are at once shrinking and bored. And she can't bring herself to fire her troublesome but talented drummer – who happens to be ex-boyfriend, Kevin McAllister.
Now Zach may not dig Jenn's record, but he sure digs Jenn, and he breaks one of journalism's cardinal rules: Don't sleep with somebody you've written about. The results of Jenn and Zach's hook-up (or hook-ups) are disastrous, and almost bring Jenn's already out of control world to a crashing halt. But with the help of her B.F.F. Naomi Braver, her punky manager Masuhara Jones, stuffy dot-com billionaire Porter Ellis, goofball bassist T.J. Stewart, the ghost of Billie Holiday, and her zillion-selling smash hit "Addition by Subtraction" – you know, that song where she's fully naked in the video – Jenn will make those seemingly impossible decisions: Do I want to be a bubble gum pop star, or an obscure but mature jazz chanteuse? Do I want to be with a boy, or with a man? Do I want to keep being a girl, or start being a woman?
The sexy, passionate, hilarious sequel to The True Naomi Story, Reality Check takes you right into the soul of the ugly music industry – and right into the heart of a beautiful soul.
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What do a famous music band, The Beatles and zombies have to do with each other…a lot when Paul is Undead! Yep, you read this right. The Beatles may have come from England and but they were they were not of this world.
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A funny and fun read. This book is fantastic for any Beatles fan that can enjoy a look at the Fab Four through a lens of off-color humor. Goldsher chronicles the career of the Beatles using actual events, but in this case the Beatles are taking ov...
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“I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.”
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
“George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.”
― Alan Goldsher
― Alan Goldsher
“George Harrison: Paul transformed me in my bedroom, and it was awkward, to say the least. It was like being on a blind date, complete with stilted conversation and elliptical innuendo. He said, "So." Then I said, "So." Then he said, "So." Then I said, "So." That went on for, I dunno, five minutes or something.”
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
― Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
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