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W.A.S.P. Singer Blackie Lawless says New Music is “On the Back Burner”

https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/05/27/w-a-s-p-singer-blackie-lawless-says-new-music-is-on-the-back-burner/

NEW RELEASE!
Yashka by Maria Bochkareva

A Russian peasant leaves exile in Siberia to fight for her country in World War I. #autobiography #nonfiction

Find it here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maria-bochkareva/yashka

blog! “Book Review: Learning to Think by Tracy King”
★★★★★

What does it mean to write an autobiography?

For most people, their autobiography is a series of well-worn stories that they've told themselves. I remember reading Peter Mandelson's autobiography and being staggered at how he won every argument he ever had and was proved completely right by history.…

Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/book-review-learning-to-think-by-tracy-king/
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Book Review: Learning to Think by Tracy King

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/book-review-learning-to-think-by-tracy-king/

What does it mean to write an autobiography?

For most people, their autobiography is a series of well-worn stories that they've told themselves. I remember reading Peter Mandelson's autobiography and being staggered at how he won every argument he ever had and was proved completely right by history. I'm sure you've read a dozen autobiographies where the subject has gleefully recounted something which sounds true, but with no fact checking.

Tracy King's autobiography is different. There is a story that she has told herself about her father's death. The event is a pivotal point in the life of her and her family. Their world is shattered by the tragedy and the events surround it become mythologised. Rather than just retelling the story, she asks the important question - is this true?

That's what Learning To Think is about.

Do you have the courage to revisit a distressing moment from your past and interrogate it? We all have totemic stories about our history but very few of us go back to check whether our memories are accurate. I hesitate to describe the revelations as a "plot-twist", because this is real life, but it is astounding.

The writing is beautiful and portentous. It also spends a fair amount of time seeking to understand why people (like the author) get drawn to religion, mysticism, and conspiracy theories:

Solving problems you’ve invented is a good facsimile of empowerment when you’ve never had the real thing.

It would be tempting to lump this in with the "misery memoir" genre - but I think it is something else. It isn't about revelling in the pain and inviting the reader to share it, instead it is a hopeful look at how the truth sets us free. It is bleakly hilarious at times with its blunt assessment of some shocking events.

I sometimes worry that science and "new rationalism" is a cult. It can attract people who are desperate for answers and want to surrender to a system which will teach them the secret truths of the world. But, as this book points out, rationality gives us the power to say "but I could be wrong".

Science should teach us to be humble. Not humble in front of a god; humble in front of our own fallibilities and vulnerabilities.

This is a thought-provoking and wonderful book.

#924 D.M. Thomas - A Child of Love and War: Verse Memoir. The Cornovia Press, Sheffield, 2021, 1st edition. #DMThomas #TheCornoviaPress #Poetry #Autobiography #BookOfTheDay

finished reading My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm
by Sam Vincent.

After an unsettled life of freelance writing, the author takes on the family farm. A memoir of his father and the land, an ode to regenerative agriculture, and an example of how to connect with Traditional Owners. The author is only two degrees of separation from me, so I found it easy to imagine myself in his shoes, going down a route that appeals but was not available.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Autobiography #Farming #RegenAg

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

Fahrenheit-182 () #Autobiography #Emo #Music #Nonfiction #Punkrock

A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.
This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best...

https://www.coryd.dev/books/9781408724552

In The Way of the #Hermit, Ken Smith offers a profoundly #human portrait of #solitude—not the performative kind, but the hard-earned, bone-deep kind that comes from living off-grid in the #Scottish #Highlands for over 40 years. #BookReview #Books #introvert #introversion #nature #Scotland #Biography #Autobiography #Philosophy

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/19/book-review-the-way-of-the-hermit-by-ken-smith/

After Elton John had great success contributing songs for Disney's #TheLionKing, Disney asked Phil Collins to contribute songs for Disney's #Tarzan. He was happy to say yes. His work on this film took four years: he wrote and sang its songs. Because this is an international film, he sang in Italian, Spanish, Castilian Spanish, French, and German for the versions played to different audiences, and Phil Collins won the Oscar for #BestOriginalSong. He was delighted.
#music #movies #autobiography

This week I am reading #NotDeadYetTheMemoir by Phil Collins. That book is the source of the information in my previous message and in my next message. #music #autobiography

Good morning! Wishing you all an amazing day filled with sunshine, love, laughter, high energy and positivity! Other than the usual chores, I’ll do more laundry since it’s a never-ending job. Started listening to Cher this morning. It is her autobiography and is read by Cher herself. Love autobiographies read by the author.

Be kind to yourself and those around you, hug tight those you love most and smile, you make this world a beautiful place when you do! #GoodMorning #Positivity #Audiobooks #Autobiography

Boosted, now reposting. This is important. That f'ing #LINO has absolutely no intention of improvig life for the 'proles' (which is how he sees anyone outside the elite class). As soon as he's had his #autobiography written he'll be off like the rat he is. (soon to be published, 'My rise to the top of the greasy pole whilst coining it big style')
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/17/starmer-plans-to-deprive-1-million-kids-of-free-school-meals/

Maybe Elephants (2024) [16 min] by Torill Kove | #Canada / #Norway

https://www.nfb.ca/film/maybe-elephants/

finished reading The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Essays on the author's experience of schizophrenia (along with bipolar, PTSD & chronic Lyme!) in the US. Fascinating & unsettling view into psychiatric hospitals, mental health 'support' in Ivy League colleges, and what the hell a psychotic break feels like. Blimey.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Essays #Autobiography #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

Thanks to the #MutualAid community on TikTok, my partner, our two cats, and I are able to leave the extended stay hotel we’ve been struggling to stay sheltered in, and now have an #RV to call home.
I’ve started a playlist with RV-based content as a positive turn-around to hopefully come back from this #depression and share our experiences:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP822Ht6b/

As a #disabled #queer #artist who makes #AltRock music, art, and does other projects to earn a living, I’d sincerely appreciate any support; especially through streaming my music, getting merch or custom art from me, and supporting ( @magicalgrrrl ) my partner’s music and merch.
I currently have a children’s #storybook that I wrote and illustrated, on hold for (self)publication. It is a family-friendly book about my experiences with #homelessness stemming from childhood #abuse from the perspective of a cat.
I’m also slowly but surely working on an #autobiography about my experiences being #ActuallyAutistic with #CPTSD in hopes of reaching other people with similar stories. #Trauma and #HealingTrauma is also the main point of my music.
If you decide to check out the music, get some art, or some merch, thank you!!
You can find it all here:

https://hyperfollow.com/LukeOrion

Tags:
#transgender #CPTSDSurvivor #CommissionsOpen #patreon #lgbtqia #MutualAidSavesLives #IndieArtist #IndieMusic #TransMusic #QueerMusic #TransArtist #QueerArtist #DisabledArtist #nonbinary #NonbinaryArtist #NonbinaryMusic #CatsOfMastodon

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn, 2002

By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity.

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NENEH CHERRY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY weaves a fascinating tapestry from her distinctive life: her joys (love, family, friends, art, nature) and her sorrows (losses, deep grief, addiction). Like a heart-to-heart with your coolest friend. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-threads-neneh-cherry/1144788315?ean=9781982161040

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I read Albert Facey’s autobiographical A Fortunate Life as a kid. I don’t remember much about it apart from a hard childhood in remote Western Australia and then enlisting for The Great War. I saw that the 1986 made for television mini-series is on Tubi at the moment, so I’m giving it a watch.

Novým príspevkom na "Bandurkoch" je blast-from-the-past #recenzia autobiografie jedného z kráľov #exploitationcinema - Davida F. Friedmana:

https://bandurkinagaucu.eu/youth-in-babylon-david-friedman-a-spoved-krala-trashoveho-filmu/