false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186904049m/1687351.jpg 1687351 1 How do you land a sweet six-figure marketing gig at the hallowed record label known for having signed everyone from Led Zeppelin to Stone Temple Pilots? You start with a resume like Dan Kennedy's:<br><br> &#8226; Dressed up as a member of Kiss every Halloween<br> &#8226; Memorized Led Zeppelin IV at age ten<br> &#8226; Fronted a lip-sync band in junior high<br> &#8226; Worked as a college DJ while he was a college drop-out<br><br> In his outrageous memoir, McSweeney's contributor Kennedy chronicles his misadventures at a major record label. Whether he's directing a gangsta rapper's commercial or battling his punk roots to create an ad campaign celebrating the love songs of Phil Collins, Kennedy's in way over his head. And from the looks of those sitting around the boardroom, he's not alone.<br> <br> Egomaniacs, wackos, incompetents, and executive assistants who know more than their seven-figure bosses round out this power-ballad to office life and rock and roll. 1684139 12 2 2008 Rock On: An Office Power Ballad total:512|5:66|4:157|3:199|2:74|1:16| 512 1719 837 177 2 4 false false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 26 23:29:28 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 07:47:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Apr 10 20:58:04 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 22:02:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 23 06:56:21 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 11:33:28 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 06:56:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 15:17:51 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 15:19:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 22:05:23 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 22:10:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 18:21:33 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 18:45:58 -0800 2008
The author presents himself as this awkward screw-up who stumbled into a full-time job through a litt...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Dec 26 22:39:39 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 07 21:20:34 -0800 2008 by Dan Kennedy

Does life in corporate America baffle you? Do you catch yourself theorizing regularly about how executives make 7 digits a YEAR? What is it they DO? Rock On doesn't explain any of this satisfactorily, but it does allow its reader a reprieve from the seriousness...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 05 17:55:44 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 12:18:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 11:10:49 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 11:12:01 -0700 2008 mcsweeneys.net that Kennedy is first and foremost an absurdist. Secondly, a sort of Morrissey-meets-Sedaris type who spins miserablism into keen observation and laughs for the shoe-gazer set. This is bliss for some and a little bit like being drugged the...more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 15:10:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 15:21:21 -0800 2009
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About the Book: Rock On is the honest experience of Dan Kennedy while he worked for a major label in the late '90s, just as the music industry was officially and totally starting to fall apart. Kennedy literally falls into a job that many dream of, and goes along for th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 08:46:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 07:55:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 14:49:06 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 10:41:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jul 04 18:40:50 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 18:44:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 07:12:41 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 17:24:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:56:06 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:56:06 -0800 2009 Given his association with the McSweeney's set (authors like Dave Eggers and Sarah Vowell), it's no surprise that critics found Dan Kennedy's book to exhibit the self-conscious-yet-genuine wit to which that journal aspires. Many reviewers go gaga for this sort of thing; others think it's a tone whos...

more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 14:45:12 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:54:58 -0800 2009 Thanks for making me laugh out loud at work. Those are the best times in my little beige cubicle. I have a built in affection for Rock On and actually reading this book has only helped that grow. (My former coworker and I, at our former job, made a power ballad about booksell...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 16:58:41 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 17:00:32 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 27 19:11:03 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 19:23:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 09 12:08:09 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 15:51:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1687351