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  The Secession Talks -...

  Lawrence Abu Hamdan, John...

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  The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface between artistic work and art education.

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  Radio Commercials for Classic...

  A Full Radio Cast

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  This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from classic movies of the 1970s:  Love Story (1970), Straw Dogs (1971), The French Connection (1971), The Concert for Bangladesh (1972), Super Fly (1972), Sisters (1973), That Man Bolt (1973), Walking Tall (1973), The Exorcist (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974), Chinatown (1974), Mandingo (1975), Linda Lovelace for President (1975), Rocky (1976), Gator (1976), Lipstick (1976), Creature From Black Lake (1976), High Anxiety (1977).

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  Neutral Milk Hotel's In the...

  Kim Cooper

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  Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan’s quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane’s release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth. Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors. Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s indie underground: a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute. The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision.

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  How to Host a Viking Funeral -...

  Kyle Scheele

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  An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship.  
  This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope. 
  Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this milestone. Instead of a birthday bash, he decided to hold a funeral to memorialize the decade of his life that was ending. Building a 16-foot Viking ship out of cardboard, he invited friends to help him set it on fire—a symbolic farewell to his 20s and all the grief, regret, and mistakes that accompanied those years.  
  When video of his Viking funeral went viral, it encouraged many others to let go of past hurts as well. Moved by the response he received, Kyle planned a second funeral (this time with a 30-foot cardboard Viking ship) and asked people to share the things they carried—the bad choices, disappointments, heartaches, and negative thinking that they wanted to lay to rest. He received more than 20,000 responses from around the world—stories both heartbreaking and hilarious, painful and inspiring.  
  In this entertaining and wise book, Kyle reflects on what he discovered about freeing ourselves from the pain of the past, interweaving anecdotes from those who participated with the story of his own journey of renewal. “This story involves multiple Viking funerals, thousands of square feet of cardboard, and enough hot glue to supply your mother-in-law's craft night for the rest of time,” he writes. “But it also involves regret, self-doubt, insecurity, and ultimately, redemption. So buckle up. It's about to get bumpy.” 
  How to Host a Viking Funeral is the story of letting go of the people we used to be, but no longer want to be. It’s about renewal; where there was once regret there is now blank space—an opportunity for a fresh start.

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  Kentucky Barracuda - The...

  Joe Goodbody

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  THE MAN WHO CONNED AN ERA. 
  Before the digital age, there was Parker Hardin French. He didn’t just break the rules; he rewrote them across three continents. 
  They called him an incorrigible scoundrel and a chronic megalomaniac. His resume was a whirlwind of contradictions: 
  🚢 Built the first ocean-going ship on the Upper Mississippi. 
  ⚔️ Led a paramilitary invasion of Mexico. 
  🏛️ Served as a District Attorney while plotting his next swindle. 
  ⚖️ Jailed as a political prisoner and hailed as a war hero. 
  He was a "barracuda" in a suit, a man who left a trail of betrayed allies and bewildered enemies from California to Nicaragua. 
  Discover the mind-numbing true story of history's most persistent survivor.

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  Prelude to Change Hong Kong of...

  Tony Goldsmith

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  In the 1950s, when few people had the means or opportunity to travel the world, the Cold War was at its height. On one side stood the Western powers; on the other, an uneasy alliance between Russia and Communist China. Young National Servicemen manned a large wireless listening post on Hong Kong Island, in defiance of the massive communist neighbor to the north. This posting offered these young men an otherwise unattainable chance to journey to the other side of the globe and experience a way of life that had persisted, with little change, since Hong Kong was forcibly colonized by Great Britain in 1841. The most significant change was a massive increase in population, spurred by the upheaval of the Chinese civil war that ended with the communist victory over the Nationalists in 1949. As depicted here, Hong Kong was both beautiful and, for many, impoverished, but always fascinating during this pivotal time in history.

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