Did you know that there was a companion novella to Mike Hickey’s 2021 short film That Halloween??? Neither did we! Until we met the director quite unexpectedly earlier in the year at Salem Horror Fest and he told us all about it! Being a completist, and because we loved the short which you can read about here, we just had to get our hands on a copy. And like most books in our possession we didn’t get to it in a timely manner… until now!
[Read more…]Pulp Rawk: MASS: Essays On Memory, Language, & The State Of Massachusetts By Buick Audra
Were you properly immersed in the new concept album called MASS from Friendship Commanders? Did you find yourself completely captivated and intrigued by “Dissonance”, the spoken-word closing track on that record? Well, the story doesn’t end there!
[Read more…]Pulp Rawk: Club 42 By Joanna Angel
Much like the classic Ghostbusters quandary towards the conclusion of the film regarding answering to the affirmative when a higher power asks if you’re a god: When a choose-your-own erotic fantasy novel comes across your digital desk asking for a review…the answer is always “YES!”
[Read more…]Pulp Rawk: So Much For The 30 Year Plan: Therapy? The Authorised Biography By Simon Young
A tale of drugs, in-fighting, insecurities, and in-depth stories on the songs and albums you love and more, Simon Young’s authorised biography of Therapy?, So Much For The 30 Year Plan, is an essential read for not only fans of the band but also for music aficionados who love a good yarn.
[Read more…]Pulp Rawk: Unfuckwithable: A Guide to Inspired Badassery By Lindsay Manfredi
I’m an avid reader but try to stay away from self-help books because they’re just not my thing. I do love autobiographies, though, so if you kind of merge the two then you have piqued my interest. Add that the author is from one of my all-time favorite bands and it’s pretty much a given that I’ma devour whatever is in those hallowed pages.
[Read more…]Pulp Rawk: Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More By Adrian Harte
The press release for Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More is quick to point out that, although the book isn’t an “official” biography of the band, it is endorsed by them going so far as to tout a quote from co-founder and bassist Bill Gould regarding the book and its’ author, Adrian Harte: “It’s a quality piece. The man has done his research, and it shows. It provided me with more than a few revelations… and I’m in the band.” [Read more…]
Spoiler Alert: There Were No Good Old Days [Meet Me In The Bathroom Book Review]
Meet Me In the Bathroom reminds me of the old saying: “You don’t eat until you’re full, you eat until you hate yourself.”
In this case, you party until you kind of hate yourself.
(Buckle in, buttercups, you’re in my car now.)