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 enlarge | Author: Dean Wareham
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 21575
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594201552
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9781594201554
ASIN: 1594201552
Publication Date: March 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: remainder mark
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 Romance of Rock March 17, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a great, ripping read--even for those not familiar with the author's indie rock bands. Wareham is smart and funny. Still, he offers himself up as our most entertainingly unreliable narrator since Ishiguro's English butler in The Remains of the Day. We learn as much about his life in his well drawn scenes of band life as we do in the gaping holes in his self awareness. After 200+ pages of band infighting, small crowds, no money, crashing on floors, bad hotel rooms and self doubt, Wareham wonders why an interviewer asks him "How do you keep going?" Maybe he rails against that question because he has no ready answer, and thats the point: His beautiful music is the reason he keeps going, and the music speaks for itself. Wareham's book, too, stands on its own as a great picture of a man and his art.
 Everything his music is, in literary form March 17, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Black Postcards is funny, sad, frustrating, honest and wholly worthwhile. Dean fills in missing pieces for the curious to what were the seeds of destruction for Galaxie 500 and what made Luna collectively decide to call it a day.
FINALLY! We get to hear from the founder NOT the rhythm section ... March 15, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
...drumming out their one sided fantasy of abandonment.. As a two decade fan of Dean's music, this is everything I was hoping for. It's a wonder that he was even able to put up with those two for as long as he did. Witty and smart, Dean pulls no punches, not even on himself. "Black Postcards" is filled with hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking stories of the people and situations he encountered over the last twenty years, many of which shaped his music. I loved the way he strings the narrative across the globe using the cities and backwaters he's re-visited countless times with three different bands. It's a great device for showing his personal and musical growth over time. What a real triumph for him! I can't wait twenty more years for the sequel.
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