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Blackbeard

6.6 (9 Ratings) Rate It

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The most feared and famous name among names during the Golden Age of Piracy, Blackbeard, is on the...

Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated LiE by Mudhoney in Music

Feb 13, 2018

LiE by Mudhoney

2018 | Alternative, Indie, Rock

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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The grunge survivors leap back into the moshpit of time on a live album culled from their 2016 tour of Europe.

As anyone—or at least anyone over the age of 30—will tell you, the world is moving way too fast. Five weeks ago might as well be five years ago in today’s news cycle. Our social feeds are loaded with “want to feel old?” listicles of stuff that really isn’t that old. The avalanche of music now available at our fingertips—with our virtual listening piles growing exponentially by the second—can feel overwhelming. But then you remember that Mudhoney are still around, doing what Mudhoney have always done: laying down a fuzz-punk sludge that’s murky and quicksand-thick enough to stop time itself. And suddenly it’s as if order in the universe has been restored. Because in a world where everything is constantly changing, Mudhoney’s decision to endure and staunch refusal to evolve feel less like a case of comfort-zoned arrested development than a valorous act of defiance.

By Stuart Berman
Original Score - 6.9
Read The Full Review Here - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mudhoney-lie/

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Erika (17788 KP) rated Shuggie Bain in Books

Jan 30, 2021

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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I don't typically read bildungsromans, I find them tedious, and I can't really relate to them. I decided to give this one a try, after it won the Booker Prize.

I don't think I ever need to read another coming of age story ever again, this one was so good. Now, this is a 'novel', but I think it's pretty obvious that it may be pretty close to the author's life.

This was the second book I read in 2020 that was named after the child 'Shuggie', but, in truth, it was about his alcoholic mother. It was mostly focused on her, which really made me think.

This book stuck with me because as I read it, it made me wonder if some of this was what my own father went through. He was the youngest, left by all his siblings, to care for his alcoholic mother after his father cheated on her and left her (exact story line of the novel). I have to thank Douglas Stuart for this novel, it really helped me understand my father's family dynamic and situation.

Damn, it was so good.