Month: July 2008

Review: I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone

Posted July 6, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 8 Comments

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie KuehnertReview by: Lauren Emily Black was born to rock. Ever since she was little, she’d play records with her dad and even recieved her dad’s old guitar as a birthday gift. For awhile though, Emily’s reasons become slightly skewed. She wants to be tough, like she thinks […]

Guest Blog: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Posted July 3, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 8 Comments

Guest Blog: Catherine Ryan Hyde I’m hesitant to write a blog that will give away how incredibly old I am. But, anyway, here goes. When I was fifteen, the queen of the music world was Janis Joplin. I adored her. So did my best friend Jerry Siminski. We loved her so much so that we […]

Interview: Dana Fuchs

Posted July 2, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 6 Comments

Dana Fuchs Interview by: LaurenDana’s Website You might know Dana from the movie Across the Universe, where she portrayed the role of singer/landlady Sadie, but she has her own music beyond Beatles covers! 1.When did you first get into singing? Can you remember the first music you fell in love with? I didn’t just get […]

Song of the Day: Social Distortion

Posted July 2, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 2 Comments

The Song of the Day for Tuesday is “Don’t Take Me For Granted” by Social Distortion. I picked this song for a few reasons…one, Social Distortion is one of the bands mentioned in I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone; two, this particular song is even mentioned; three, the beginning has Mike talking about losing a […]

HUGE Giveaway Blog Reviewers

Posted July 2, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 4 Comments

So…Breanna from B is for Books was wondering if the book reviewers donating a gift card could still enter. I figured we should sit it out, since we’re a part of it…but then I thought: why can’t they enter? They still have as much of a shot as anyone else, they get a gift card […]

Guest Blog: Kelly Parra

Posted July 1, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 14 Comments

Like books music tells a story. It’s powerful. Sad. Vibrant. Angry. Wild. Like books, music makes us feel. And I’m thrilled Stephanie Kuehnert wrote a novel to show us just how much music lives and breathes for her main character, Emily Black. I grew up in the ‘80s where Madonna and Michael Jackson had me […]

Genre of the Month: Vampires

Posted July 1, 2008 by shooting in Uncategorized / 2 Comments

Okay, please excuse me for disrupting Stephanie Kuehnert week, but I needed to go and post this! It is July 1 and starting today throughout the rest of the month, we are going to be focusing A LOT on Vampires. Most of the stuff will be on this blog: Genre of the Month Chelsea, formerly […]