Upon waking up at 6:43 a.m. this morning my first thought was not ‘fuck my alarm won’t go off for another forty-five minutes’ it was ‘goody, now I can finish Love is a Mix Tape.’ Renée loved The Replacements and Alex Chilton and the Meat Puppets. So did I. (page 3) It’s a fundamental...
"...so now I have to move either forward or back - it's up to me. Not changing isn't an option. And even though I've changed in so many ways - I'm a different person with a different life - the past is still with me every minute." - Rob Sheffield, Love Is A Mix Tape Rob Sheffield has always been a...
Hi, Now that we've spent time defining creativity, it's time to focus our identity as artists/writers to understand how our ideas originate. Jen S. brought a great quote into class: "To create is to potentially embarrass oneself in front of others. It is about the courage to be oneself and to be...
Because I am 99% Booknerd and 1% music-geek-wannabe, I have designated June rock and roll month. What gives me such authority? The fact that my birthday is on the sixth day of the sixth month and this year I’ll be thirty-six. Did I make that up right now? Hell yes. It’s been a long time since...
The tales of love and loss by Sheffield’s tormented troubadour, Richard Hawley, will always find a way into Rob Peacock’s play list… Humdrum urban life has always made good song writing fodder. You use it one of two ways; detail the squalor and seediness of backwater Britain to paint a gritty...
Books I Read in 2007: 1. Until I Find You, John Irving 2. Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield 3. Dangerous Angels, Francesca Lia Block 4. Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino 5. Get in the Van, Henry Rollins 6. How to Kill a Rock Star, Tiffanie DeBartolo 7. City of Falling Angels, John Berendt 8. Prep,...
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