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Blurry And Disconnected: Tales of Sink-or-swim Nihilism
by: Dave Riley

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781411626973
ISBN: 1411626974
Label: Lulu Press
Manufacturer: Lulu Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: May 04, 2005
Publisher: Lulu Press
Sales Rank: 4969172
Studio: Lulu Press

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Product Description:
Wildly provocative, darkly humorous, and entertaining tales full of fancy talk and big words. A one-armed ice cream man, clueless underground celebrities, an avant-garde sax player--each characterized with no regard for politically correct notions or a personal agenda.The first short story, 'Make Mine a Chocolate Eclair' elaborates on the account of a one-armed Good Humor man related years ago to Dave by a fellow sixteen-year-old dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant in a strip mall. Novella 'Chinese Finger Puzzle' chronicles the antics of journalist Philo Smith as bandwagon-jumping toadies and a self-serving media manipulate him as a pawn to propagate a disturbing trend in music. Then short story 'Bizarre and Majestic' documents an episode at the subsidiary recording studio of a larger recording studio in Detroit, where Dave worked as an assistant engineer for George Clinton's stable of Parliament-Funkadelic bands.

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- Nice, Twisted Work
Dave Riley's "Blurry and Disconnected" is a collection of two short stories and one novella that are written in an extremely funny, satirical, alternative style. Of the three, the novella, "Chinese Finger Puzzle," is the most engaging. The novella follows the adventures of Philo Smith, a sharp-tongued (or rather, sharp-penned) columnist for a small music magazine. The work mostly deals with Philo's contempt for small-time bands trying to make it big. His contempt for these pretenders is rivaled only by the absolute scorn for he feels for mainstream music. The strong point of "Blurry and Disconnected" is Riley's pointed criticisms of many of modern culture's most irritating traits. Through the character Philo Smith, Riley takes us on an epic journey through small clubs and dingy lofts in college towns, and paints an accurate, if unflattering, portrait of the denizens who dwell there.

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This book was written by David Riley, formerly a bassist in a band called "Big black," in the early to mid 1980's. Upon reading this book, keep in mind that Big black wasn't your typical happy go lucky band about snowflakes and brownies. Expect this book to be dark and comedic at the same time.

Essentially, the book deals with music "scenes" and how groundless trends can form because of it. It points out the fact that people will do almost anything to be popular and take credit for things that they may or may not have even done. In the book you meet self-serving spineless characters who eventually significantly alter a young man's life as well as interesting characters that may have more real value in the end. The catch phrases David Riley uses in his book when the main character, Philo Smith, interacts with everyone is witty and hilarious.

David Riley writes this book with elements of cruel ... Read More

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