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Crimebusters & Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Shout Factory
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 21764
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 30192
UPC: 826663019223
EAN: 0826663019223
ASIN: B0000TG9WY
Release Date: November 11, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Squirrel Cop - A Police Officer Somewhere On The East Coast | | • | Loser - fiction by Aimee Bender, read by Matt Malloy | | • | Flight Vs. Invisibility - John Hodgman | | • | Watching The Detective - Ira Glass | | • | The Greatest Phone Message Of All Time - Jonathan Goldstein |
Disc 2
| • | Jesus Shaves - David Sedaris | | • | Say It To Me In Guy Language - Ira Glass | | • | When The Wall Came Tumbling Down - A Teenager And His Dad | | • | Everyone Speaks Elton John - Starlee Kine | | • | Music Lessons - Sarah Vowell |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
If storytelling and oral history often seem like endangered species in a culture dominated by disposable infotainment, NPR host Ira Glass could be seen as something of a preservationist, his low-key passion for the magic moments that inform everyday life the driving force behind his successful This American Life radio series. This second series anthology culls its 10 stories onto two discs loosely centered around notions of "Crimebusters" and "Crossed Wires." And while professional writers like Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris (whose bemused take on nationality-diverse French class attempting to explain their various impressions of Easter is characterized by mounting, masterfully constructed hilarity) participate, they are hard-pressed to better the tales of everyday people that are the collection's de facto focal points: a rookie cop's efforts at corralling a household-invading squirrel turning into chaotic slapstick worthy of Sellers or Benigni; a Beverly Hills teen and his father making war, then peace over a spiraling drug problem; Starlee Kline and Mekons founder Jon Langford forming a band of strangers solely through classified ads. Less enamored of their own voices and ideas, those tales of "everyday people" are the collection's true treasures. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
Crimebusters and Crossed Wires is a collection of ten stories, with true tales of (sometimes hapless) crimefighters and investigators of all sorts on one CD, and real-life adventures in miscommunication on the other. From a bungling, squirrel-chasing cop who burns, bloodies, and tears apart a new house in pursuit of the rogue rodent, to a father who resorts to tapping his drug-using teen's phone, Crimebusters and Crossed Wires offers comical and poignant insight. Among the storytellers featured are best-selling writers David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Some of the best This American Life ever May 7, 2007
Contains Squirrel Cop which is the stuff of urban legends.
Hilarious! Wonderful! January 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have listened to this over and over. It's so funny. I absolutely love it!
PS
Don't take this to the gym with you because you won't be able to do any exercise from laughing so hard.
Truly the best of TAM! December 19, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a regular and avid listener of This American Life (TAM) and have loved Squirrel Cop since I first heard it on the radio. Then when they paired that amazing, anonymous confession of rookie cop bravado with the equally hilarious essay of language barriers by David Sedaris...I knew I had to have this CD set.
Since receiving them, I have listened to all the stories several times (and a few range into dozens of times). Each and every story is worth listening to more than once. The son and father who work out a drug problem by simple "spying on your kid", the lessons learned by being a band geek, and the newest, greatest party/dinner question of all time - it's a collection of stories that are diverse yet centric to life as a 21st century human.
The stories never get old, as I find more in them each time I listen, like petals opening in a blooming flower. I play them while I travel, at work in my office, at home while cleaning and for anyone who has never heard of TAM.
It has now become a topic of office discussion and I've had to buy more copies to give as gifts. In fact, at a recent gift exchange, it was the most sought after present there.
You have to get these CDs! If you're life if full of stress, involves a long commute or you just need a diversion from your everyday life - then here's the CD set you need!
For people who enjoy storytelling. . . September 25, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"This American Life" is fantastic, eclectic, unusual, and often funny. The art of storytelling is dying in America. This collection of stories breathes new life into it. Some of the stories are laugh out-loud funny ("The Little Mermaid") and some are thought-provoking, but all are worthwhile.
This American Life Rocks! December 20, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This second volume of "the best" of "This American Life" is another gem! Each of these stories is amazing in its own right, and each is a perfect example of what a phenomenal show TAL really is.
Most of these stories are on the humorous side, which is really just one side of the show; however, it's still a well-rounded collection. If you are trying to turn someone on to the show, this is an excellent CD to introduce them to it.
The only thing that I didn't like about the CD was the time between Vols. 1 & 2. Come on, TAL...give us more of the best!
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