{"id":14145,"date":"2010-05-02T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:28","slug":"various-anthologies-side-a-the-music-lovers-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14145","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies – Side A: The Music Lover’s Graphic Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Side A: The Music Lovers Graphic Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Full disclosure time: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a music lover. I mention this because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the subtitle for this book and, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a music lover, chances are you can disregard my opinions about this entirely. I am a music liker, but it had very little influence on me as a kid and even now I mostly listen to talk radio of some sort. That being said, I did love this book. It has 33 stories in it by a wide variety of folks. I am much too lazy to go through them all one by one, but I will mention highlights. Rebecca Chapnik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Last Act, about her trying to be punk in high school and still not managing to fit in with the punks, was wonderful and captured the rage of being unable to connect. Matthew Young\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Articles of Faith, about trying to find the exact song that was on when he started writing for the first time as a child, is something anybody can relate to who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had part of a mystery song stuck in their head. Sarah Shay and Corey Marie Parkhill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Day We Got Kicked Out of the Feminist Treehouse wonderfully details some of the absurdities of modern feminism and trying hopelessly to fit in, or at least not be called out by the band. There are many many great stories in here, ranging from how music affects art and how to draw along with the beat (something I was completely unfamiliar with) to the music that influenced them throughout their lives all the way to being willing to break up with somebody if they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like jazz. Genuine music lovers will probably get a bit more out of this than I did, granted, but good storytelling is good storytelling regardless of the subject, or the fact that the reviewer may be less than passionate about said subject. Absolutely a wonderful anthology, and cheap too! $10 Oh, and here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a website<\/a> if you wanted to check this out yourself.<\/p>\n

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Website Side A: The Music Lovers Graphic Novel Full disclosure time: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a music lover. I mention this because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the subtitle for this book and, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a music lover, chances are you can disregard my opinions about this entirely. I am a music liker, but it had very little influence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2996,4043,4042,4044,4040,4041],"class_list":["post-14145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-corey-marie-parkhill","tag-matthew-young","tag-rebecca-chapnik","tag-sarah-shay","tag-side-a","tag-the-music-lovers-graphic-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16425,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions\/16425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}