Vote ‘All Over But the Shouting’ for Readers Choice Award
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (9)
The Minnesota Book Awards are coming up and you can help Jim Walsh’s All Over But the Shouting win the Readers’ Choice Award by voting here. Vote early and vote often, and show the literary world that 39 ‘Mats’ fans are a force to be reckoned with.
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Did you know Chris Mars has an art book coming out? Because I didn’t
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (2)
Because I am a giant book nerd, I was doing some random browsing on Amazon.com today when I stumbled across an art book my Chris Mars. Holy Hannah, how cool is that?
After some investigation, I discovered the book was being put out by Last Gasp a cool little press that publishes underground comics. So that’s like double-plus cool points.
Also, if you pre-order the book at Amazon you’ll save 5% off the $26.40 price, which is a freaking steal for a nice artbook.
Tags: art, Chris Mars, Last Gasp, Tolerance
Reveille interviews Lindeen who is reading tomorrow (12/14) at 7th Street Entry
By Jodi | Filed under Books, Related News | Comments (3)
Blasty posted this info about the 7th Street Entry appearance in the comments yesterday, but when I saw this interesting Lindeen interview at Reveille I thought I’d give it front page attention. I’m dorky like that.
Friday, December 14 • Doors 8PM
9PM – 12AM
7th Street Entry
Minneapolis, MN 55455
“Laurie reads from PETAL PUSHER while Retrofit, the world’s most dangerous cover band, featuring the incomparable talents of John Eller and Randy Casey, will attempt to nail the soundtrack to the book… so bring your ’70’s crocheted beer can hat, your new wave elf boots, your a.m. radio heart, and your too cool for words indie rock soul and join the fun”!
If I’m not mistaken, this is the band that played Laurie’s graduation party, and PW joined them on stage.
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Win a signed copy of All Over But the Shouting from Paul Westerberg.net
By Jodi | Filed under Books, Thx the mgmt | Comments (19)
So last week I went to go see Jim Walsh read at the Barnes & Noble in the Galleria. I always say it’s the on at the Galleria, because I like to say Galleria and when I write I actually say all the stuff I’m writing in my head.
While I was there, I got my book signed, and then because I am a kind and gentle queen of the underground, I got another one signed for one lucky reader!
Woo to the hoo.
As you can see it’s an actual copy of All Over But the Shouting and not just a piece of paper that I had him sign in an attempt to fool all you.
The inscription is “Hey You, Remember singing iwilldare.com like we were headed for the promise land? Cheers, Jim Walsh.” It’s a riff on a Mad Ripple lyric from the song Homebodies (Don’t be careful with your love).
So what do you have to do to get this hot little number sent your way? Just leave a comment here telling us why you want the book or why you deserve the book or why you visit paulwestberg.net or why birds suddenly appear every time you are near.
Then we’ll put all the commenters names in a hat and draw one lucky winner.
Tags: 'Mats, all over but the shouting, Books, jim walsh, paul westerberg, the replacements
Paul Westerberg.net: Now with more All Over But the Shouting!
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (1)
Okay, in honor of the All Over But the Shouting book launch party at First Avenue on Wednesday, November 28th, at 7 p.m. I’ve gotten together all the latest hooha about the book, because I am good like that.
Also, as a warm up to the First Ave. shindig, Walsh will be at that Barnes & Noble in the Galleria in Edina, MN on Tuesday, November 27th and at the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis on Wednesday, November 28th at 5 p.m.
Dan Wilson (who just released the quietly beautiful album “Free Life“) formerly of Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic (and producer of my one of my all-time faves Mike Doughty) writes about reading All Over But the Shouting on tour and “it was kind of exhausting reading the words of so many friends, fans, and colleagues, all confirming my suspicion that the Replacements consciously avoided the success that we all wished for them.”
Vita.mn, the Strib’s alt weekly, gives the book and The Replacements a lot of ink (er or pixels I guess) with an interview with Walsh and some excerpts from the book.
At Reveille, Walsh himself writes about a Hootenanny and a lead up to the big launch party Wednesday (November 28th) at First Ave: The reason “If Only You Were Lonely” is such a universal song is because there’s no “if.” Everybody’s lonely. The Replacements made loneliness feel fun, like a sacrament.
John Davidson at The Big Takeover talks about how he, himself had considered doing and oral history and though he find some frustration with Walsh’s book is overall pleased with the end result.
The Austin Statesmen in Texas gives the book a great write up: But it made for some good stories, many of the best of them preserved in Walsh’s book. This is what people do when they’re no longer young enough to rock and roll all night and party every day. And it beats confronting the at-times discomfiting realities of being, belatedly, a grown-up: Bob Stinson is dead now, having worn out his body a dozen years ago. Tommy is on Axl Rose’s payroll and Westerberg is making quiet records in his basement. We’re bastards of old. Where’s the song about that?
P.S. You can listen to Walsh on the Don Shelby show, here and he’ll be on KFAN 1130 AM Tuesday at 2 p.m. with Chad Hartman and Brian Oake. I am not sure if you can listen on the web site, because the web site BLOWS.
Tags: 'Mats, all over but the shouting, Books, Dan Wilson, jim walsh, paul westerberg, the replacements
All Over But the Shouting — an inital reaction roundup
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (16)
Over at Idolator, Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos writes about how he was ultimately unsatisfied by All Over But the Shouting but also slams the midwest and the Twin Cities in particular for a “kind of self-defeating ironic triumphalism.” [Jodi's note: Pbbbttt!]
Sarah Askari reviews the book for City Pages and includes this interesting, and now that I think about it, true aside, “Those in search of Westerberg’s humanity might want to turn to Petal Pusher, the recently published memoir by his second wife, Laurie Lindeen. True, she captures an older, sober version—but in more personal detail.”
Eric R. Danton of the Hartford Courant is none-too-thrilled with All Over But the Shouting because he longs for a narrative structure to the book. A few weeks ago, I, Jodi, Queen of the Underground, gave Walsh props for managing to construct a narrative structure through quotes. What say you?
Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times does a roundup of recent rock and roll books and gives a shout out to both All Over But the Shouting and Petal Pusher.
Pitchfork gives a nice rundown of upcoming Jim Walsh events in support of All Over But the Shouting.
Wings for Wheels talks a bit about an upcoming podcast he’s going to do with Jim Walsh and about the song “Achin’ to Be.”
P.S. Don’t forget that Walsh will be on 89.3 The Current’s Local Show at 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 18. Not in the listening area? Check out the Live Stream.
Tags: 'Mats, all over but the shouting, jim walsh, the replacements
Jim Walsh on 89.3 The Current’s The Local Show (tomorrow, I think)
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (0)
UPDATE: So yeah, I am tuning into The Local Show right now, and Walsh won’t be on until November 18. That is all.
First of all The StarTribune has the “I Will Dare” excerpt from All Over But the Shouting. The Strib also says that Walsh is going to (or has been, I am unclear) on 89.3 The Current’s “The Local Show” “today”. Which would mean that he was gonna be on November 9th (yesterday).
However, the Local Show is on Sundays at 5 p.m. So something is fishy. If I were you, I’d hook up with the live stream tomorrow (Sunday, November 11).
Also, Chris Riemenschneider has a write up about the book.
Tags: all over but the shouting, jim walsh, StarTribune
All Over But the Shouting: The Players
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (1)
One of the things I told myself I’d do one I finished All Over But the Shouting is visit all the web sites listed in the players’ section of the book. Have I done that? Hell no. I haven’t even written about the book really, besides to give Jim Walsh some mad props on the crafting of an actual narrative (and that’s just some sort of nerdy writers kind of props).
Anyway I finished the book last week and I’m still sort of living with the story inside of me. Eventually, I’ll find the words to say what I thought of the actual content of the book.
In the meantime, we can all go visit some of the Players on the world wide web:
Ryan Cameron former owner of Let it Be Records
Jodi, queen of the underground, all around supergenius, writer and founder of iwilldare.com (okay, I added a bit there)
Daniel Corrigan dean of Minneapolis music photography
Grant Hart, a Husker Du and a guest lecturer at the rock and roll class I took a few summers ago at the MPLS Public Library
Grant Johnson Minneapolis songwriter and musician
Laurie Lindeen, writer, mother, and wife
Andrea Myers, writer, editor, and co-founder of Reveille Magazine
Steve Perry, former editor of City Pages and new editor of the just-launched (so it’s not in the book but I am putting it here anyway) Daily Mole
Jack Rabid, Publisher of The Big Take-Over
Bill Tuomala, writer and creator of Exiled on Main Street
Ana Voog, musician and the person behind Ana Cam
Willie Wisely, musician, singer, songwriter
If I were a really enterprising sort (and if I didn’t have to go to work in a little bit), I’d sit down with the whole list and Google and find them all. But, well, I’ll save that for some day when I’m search of productive procrastination.
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Page 30
By Jodi | Filed under Books | Comments (34)
Hello my most beloved Westerberds. Looky what came to me today. God, it’s days like this that I love being an Amazon Prime member. I haven’t started it yet. I hope to start and finish it sometime this weekend. However, I can’t read it right now because that would force me to stop looking at page 30:
That’s me! That’s me!
Can you believe it? I can’t. I still want to pee my pants with delight. So if a sucker like me can get it, I’m curious to know if any of y’all are in.
What page are you?
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All Over But the Shouting – Some Guts
By ElegantMule | Filed under Books | Comments (3)
I don’t know about y’all but I am hearing rumblings that the Jim Walsh book is already out in the stores. Funner though is the series of .jpgs on the publisher site – I had no idea it was a local publisher. Yes, it does matter. Anyway, seeing these makes me really want to get my hands on this book.
http://www.voyageurpress.com/Store/ProductDetails_38999.ncm
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