Chris Payne
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The professors at the American University of the Southern Balkans, AUSB, have become lazy, complacent and resistant to change, so when a new reforming departmental chair is appointed with a brief to shake them up, they mount a witch hunt to have him fired. At the same time the US president is trying to push forward a plan to replace all NATO airbases with stations of unmanned drones capable of carrying nuclear weapons. He decides to sell the plan...
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Balikwas is a Tagalog word, virtually untranslatable into English. It signifies a startling change, such as an awakening. It can also mean 'going over to the other side'. Chris Payne writes about making a change, a change of moving his life to the other side of the world when he and wife Loydz emigrated to The Philippines. The book is an account of what needed to be done at each end of the project, as they came to call it, but it also includes amusing...
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An energetic and explosive oral history examining the mainstream emo explosion from 1999-2008 and how it reversed expectations of what was possible in popular music, featuring exclusive interviews with the bands, managers, journalists, photographers, and awe-struck fans that defined the genre and a "scene" that would one day sweep across the entire country.
If “Meet Me in the Bathroom” traced New York City's underground Indie scene, “Where Are...
Author
Language
English
Description
An energetic and explosive oral history examining the mainstream emo explosion from 1999-2008 and how it reversed expectations of what was possible in popular music, featuring exclusive interviews with the bands, managers, journalists, photographers, and awe-struck fans that defined the genre and a “scene” that would one day sweep across the entire country.
If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's underground Indie scene, Where Are Your...