Writers' Block Party: Audio Magazine Issue One
Editorial Reviews
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Writers' Block Party is a magazine on CD, a collection of small, audible gems. Unlike a print magazine, most often read once and recycled, you'll want to keep this debut issue, maybe even put it on "repeat." United States poet laureate Billy Collins's irreverent verse on memory, "Forgetfulness," performed in front of a warm crowd, kicks off the 51-minute disc. What follows is a bowl of sweet Lucky Charms: songs, monologues, stories, various clever musings, a play, and a lovely little greeting card. Each is bite-sized, entertaining, and original. Performers include humorist Patricia Marx; the witty, heavy pop duo the Good; writer Cynthia Kaplan (New York Times, McSweeney's); and comedienne-songwriter Christine Lavin. Pop in this CD and the gaggle of sharp, silly, artsy friends you always wished you had will parade into your home or car, eager to entertain. The McSweeney's-esque liner notes and hidden blooper tracks are icing on the cake. --Amy Horn
Product Description
If you were to take a CD and marinate it overnight in a magazine and a radio show, and then add a dash of those cool mix tapes you made in college, you'd have WRITERS' BLOCK PARTY: AN AUDIO MAGAZINE.
A totally new entertainment genre, it's the "magazine you can enjoy while driving." This Premier Issue flaunts 18 top writers, humorists, poets, playwrights, musicians and bands from coast to coast. WRITERS' BLOCK PARTY was also featured in USA Today and on NPR's "All Things Considered.
Contributors on the 19 tracks range from U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to singer Christine Lavin to alternative Canadian rockers Sandmouth. Also: humorist Patricia Marx, musician Ralph Covert, Greg Allen of the Neo Futurist Theater Company, and singer/songwriter Jonny Polonsky.
Writers' Block Party: Audio Magazine Issue One
Writers' Block Party: Audio Magazine Issue One,Various Artists,Waterdog Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,If you were to take a CD and marinate it overnight in a magazine, NPR, and one those cool mix tapes you made in college, you've have this new entertainment genre, "the magazine you can enjoy while driving".,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
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Writers' Block Party: Audio Magazine Issue One
Various Artists Manufacturer: Waterdog Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000060OHQ Release Date: 2002-02-19 |
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Album Description
If you were to take a CD and marinate it overnight in a magazine and a radio show, and then add a dash of those cool mix tapes you made in college, you'd have WRITERS' BLOCK PARTY: AN AUDIO MAGAZINE.A totally new entertainment genre, it's the "magazine you can enjoy while driving." This Premier Issue flaunts 18 top writers, humorists, poets, playwrights, musicians and bands from coast to coast. WRITERS' BLOCK PARTY was also featured in USA Today and on NPR's "All Things Considered.
Contributors on the 19 tracks range from U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to singer Christine Lavin to alternative Canadian rockers Sandmouth. Also: humorist Patricia Marx, musician Ralph Covert, Greg Allen of the Neo Futurist Theater Company, and singer/songwriter Jonny Polonsky.
Customer Reviews:
Like Buying a new car.......2002-05-17
Audio Food For The Ear The Brain (and a big Time Saver Too)!.......2002-05-17
The producers have collected and put in one convenient place what I could have never discovered on my own even after spending hours listening to several different kinds of radio station formats and reading piles of newspapers, periodicals and literary magazines...and then ignoring all the stuff I wasn't interested in.
I have listened to it at home, in my car, on a plane, at the gym and at work. It's a wonderful audio magazine full of surprises and delights and I can't wait for future releases!
Eclectic Entertainment.......2002-04-26
original, inovative, enjoyable........2002-04-26
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