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This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It
Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be. Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell in love (fascination? obsession?) with the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyone-especially Carvan herself-by surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self. In This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence…and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age. She takes us into the quirky underbelly of extreme fandom, from message-boards and meet-ups to real connections forged with other Cumberbatch devotees. But more importantly, she asks: what happens if we subvert the narrative that we have to leave these kinds of obsessions behind as we age, and simply decide to follow our interests like we used to-unabashedly, audaciously, shamelessly? After all, Carvan realizes, there's true, untapped power in finding your "thing" (even if that thing happens to be an alien-faced, British-born Marvel superhero) and loving it like your life depends on it.- Shop: buecher
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The Sheikh's Inherited Bride: Evermore, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
“You are King,” she said, sitting into Addan’s chair now, collapsing into it, taking in a shaking breath.“Yes,” he crossed his arms over his chest, “I will inherit Addan’s throne, and all that entails.”She swallowed, his promotion one she knew he didn’t wish for, one she knew he didn’t take any joy in.“Your highness,” she said, deferentially, standing uneasily. She couldn’t work out how she wanted to be. “I’d like to be alone now.”He didn’t answer, his eyes holding hers for a moment before she spun and moved to the door. But before she could open it, his voice arrested her.“You are part of that, Sophie.”She turned to face him. “Part of what?”“When he died, I inherited all that was his. Including you.” He said the words with a hint of disgust. With coldness and disdain.A frisson of alarm jolted her spine. “I don’t...understand.” Tears streamed down her cheeks and she dashed at them; more came to take their place.“This palace, the title, the country, his duties. All of it. And also, your betrothal to Addan, on his death, passed to me.”An unexpected death propels Malik to the top of the line of succession. He inherits everything: The birthright to rule the prosperous Arabian kingdom, the wealth of their family, the power of their blood...and the late Sheikh's bride-to-be!Innocent Sophie had agreed to the marriage because she adored her intended groom. He was safe, kind, gentle...but his brother Malik is the exact opposite! Raw virility and power, masculine strength, and with a cool disdain for her, she should want to run a mile from this marriage! She should want to turn her back on her promise, her duties, and the kingdom she's fallen completely in love with.But though she doesn't like Malik, one look from the man she must now marry fills her body with a heat she can't deny - particularly when an heir is urgently required!Book five in The Evermore Series is a romance about lo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216381/bk_acx0_216381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we don’t seem to have any time in which to live it. Instead we remain poised and frozen, overwhelmed by an always-on, live-streamed reality that our human bodies and minds can never truly inhabit. And our failure to do so has had wide-ranging effects on every aspect of our lives. People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, compile knowledge, and connect with anyone, at any time. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future’s arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this “now” is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock. Rushkoff weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture. He explains how the rise of zombie apocalypse fiction signals our intense desire for an ending; how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street form two sides of the same post-narrative coin; how corporate investing in the future has been replaced by futile efforts to game the stock market in real time; why social networks make people anxious and email can feel like an assault. He examines how the tragedy of 9/11 disconnected an entire generation from a sense of history, and delves into why conspiracy theories actually comfort us. As both individuals and communities, we have a choice. We can struggle through the onslaught of information and play an eternal game o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013475/bk_adbl_013475_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Under the Big Top
Kieran's 15 track effort, wraps us in riddles and tells it like it is. Under the Big Top is an imaginative pastiche of songs. It offers something both for listeners of alternative rock and the indie-elite. The musicality on her new album is worth it's weight in gold, as it is predominantly accompanied by world class musicians such as Ricky Lawson (Steeley Dan), Ian Walker, Danny Frankel, Aaron Sterling, and keyboardist, Patrick Warren, who has contributed to the works of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fiona Apple, Springsteen, Aimee Mann, and Neil Diamond. While many of her tracks fall left of pop, upon a closer listen, this is not music for the simple. Each track assumes it's own sonic landscape. What ties the songs on Under the Big Top together is Leigh's poignant honesty. "There were a lot of years of strife and walking the tightrope. In hindsight, that's where much of my music sprang from, so a cursed blessing in a way. I don't think anyone expected me to actually do it, but, here I am' On Under the Big Top, Kieran's vocal style ranges from smoky to shape-shifting folk melodies with surreal harmonies. The often off-kilter architecture of harmonies and choruses makes this album extremely intriguing. Kieran's songs are wrought with longing, create vivid images of commitment-phobes, and recreate somewhat bizarre auditory snippets she captured during sleep. Kieran Leigh is the third out of four children, and sister of movie Director, Peter Segal (Get Smart, 50 First Dates). Born in Manhattan, NY as Kieran Leigh Segal, her first generation American father, of Russian roots, found his way working in show business during the heyday at MGM, and her English born mother, of Irish decent, was a Top Ten fashion model. She recalls, 'My earliest memory was of Cecelia (Simon and Garfunkel) on the stereo as we drove through NYC. It is such a unique song, harmonies that pop in and out of nowhere building on each other, and a truly unique array of percussion. I loved it. That's when I recall wanting to be able to make music." They soon, moved to Southern Califronia where her sister used to play Elton John and Pink Floyd"...which then lead me to Zeppelin. As I grew up, I had discovered that they borrowed from the blues, so, I soused out Robert Johnson. His vocal phrasing and guitar playing sucked me in. He told a tale that got everyone's attention with as little as a three-chord progression. He wasn't polished nor pretty, but played and sang with unbelievable soul - what a guitarist. The Doors brought me to Morrison who brought me to Nietzsche, existentialism and the thought of eternal recurrence. I became more attracted to complex music, jazz and classical. Then, Phish, because they are irreverent, Dave Matthews, MMW, Radiohead, in terms of bands on the periphery of mainstream rock. My dad frequently had something like a Rhapsody In Blue blaring, or Ella with her incredible vocal abilities cooing us with Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, or, Louis singing A Foggy Day, and naturally Chet with The Thrill is gone. My dad really helped shape my musical interest." After the end of a relationship in 2004, Kieran began Under the Big Top. "I started dreaming music, vivid full-length songs. More out of curiosity I started working them out because they were so fantastic in my head - I mean, when they come in, they are broadcast via a pristine, pure, heaven-like stereo system.' About three weeks later, I had twenty songs. I gave them to a friend of mine, Jeff Gerst, and he, unbeknownst to me, brought them to a producer friend of his, Andrew Shapiro. Andrew called me and said, 'I want to make and album with you.' That was a life turning moment for me. We made the The Ep. Then, the ball was rolling. The songs kept coming to me, so I kept making them.' Andrew Shapiro and his wife had a baby, and Jeff moved to New York, leaving it up to Kieran if she wanted to continue. What she discovered, was the more she wrote, the more the music streamed in. 'Oh, it would be sort of nice if I didn't have music and lyrics somewhat relentlessly running through my head, but I do. The only peace I find is making these little songs. So, it wasn't a case of, 'And today I want to be a star so I will reinvent myself and write an album.' That was not the goal, it was simply capture the sounds I heard, and write them to bring peace to my head and heart." "How I write varies. Really, I just have a knack for melodies, and lyrics incessantly run through my head." In 2007, she decided to find another producer, but found herself playing the waiting game. "I think for a lot of producers in L.A., if you, the artist, are not seventeen with a voice like an American Idol contestant and cash cow potential, they aren't interested. It was about that time that I came across more people trying to dissuade me than give encouragement. Everyone has their own ideas of what one should do, how they should behave, and how things should be. But, I feel those are unnecessary constraints. If I wasn't supposed to make music, why were the angels whispering songs to me in my sleep? That was my core belief. Giving up due to ney sayers was not an option." In the interim, she began to develop some of her songs with drummer, Bobby Breton. Soon, she was recommended to Producer, Andrew Bush. "We developed 14 of my tracks, bringing in some of L.A.'s leading session's musicians to record foundational instrumentation. I was slightly naïve about costs and protocol, and suddenly found myself the executive producer and sole financier of my project. Then, I didn't really care for the direction many of the songs were heading in, so I dropped about half of them. Of the ones I kept, only a few remained in the form that we recorded them in. I simply couldn't let go of where I wanted them to go. Nonetheless, Andrew Bush is incredibly knowledgeable, talented and a really nice guy. I enjoyed working with him." She chose to move on, rethinking the direction of her songs. "I recorded the quirky Mad as a Hatter parts of the chorus, wrote some other instrumental lines, set up my studio with the right equipment and recorded most all the vocals for the album." Then, Kieran met Dennis Moody, who recorded a few free form versions of her songs, "Catch Me, and Tear Me Down. I will probably release them at some point. Ian Walker, Danny Frankel and Aaron Embry and I did a live recording of those two, and then The Future Inside, which made it to the album." Soon, she landed at the doorstep of Patrick Warren. "He is the most talented and unassuming person I've ever met. He added to the songs, without trying to change them to a certain form or style. He just encouraged me to keep it fun. I remember wanting a snare part at the Top of Tear Me Down, so I drummed the pattern on my lap. Well, we didn't have any drums set up, but we did have his kitchen with wooden spoons. It was pretty funny. It's exactly that freedom of experimentation that you need when creating." This album is intimate, personal, and the kaleidoscopic images that come to mind make it eccentrically offbeat yet completely consuming, drudging the bottom of internal emotions, only to lift us back up to a point of inspiration (as evidenced in songs such as Rise Up). "Okay, yeah, so I've had a few rough patches in life. But, I try everyday to be a good person and to improve, to help others, and to connect with this great universe. If things go south, I try to remind myself and others that north is just a shift-of-the-gaze away." By - Maria Allen Nottingham, UK.- Shop: odax
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The Ringmaster (aka Finale)
Two young women working the night shift at a secluded gas station unwittingly become the stars of a terrifying show streamed live on the dark web. Held captive by a sadistic ringmaster and his cohorts, their survival instincts are stretched to the limit as they are forced to participate in a torture game with an unseen audience deciding their fate. Based on the award winning novel by Steen Langstrup, The Ringmaster explores our curiosity and complicity with voyeurism and violence in the age of the internet.- Shop: odax
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Exotica
Deluxe Limited Edition of PDM's 2021 'Exotica' album features 2 x Purple Vinyl, 2 x Printed Inner Sleeves in Embossed Gatefold Sleeve with A2 Poster! Includes the full 'Exotica' album plus 3 bonus tracks: 'In The Dark' with Sophie and the Giants, 'Rise' featuring Tasita D'Mour, and 'Twisted Mind' featuring Agnes.His sophomore album 'Exotica' pays homage to the 80s and the plethora of artists that inspired him to create and set him on the path of becoming the internationally acclaimed producer he is today. The album boasts all the elements of his heartfelt favorites throughout the decade - the synth pop from the UK, Italo disco styles of Moroder, Milan & Munich, the funk of Prince, the R&B electro soul of Luther Vandross & Jam & Lewis, to influences from George Michael, and Quincy Jones. So ingrained in his musical identity, Purple Disco Machine's artist name is a deliberate collage of the colour of his 80's funk hero Prince and the uplifting fun dance beat of Gloria Estefan's Miami Sound Machine.The album encompasses all the grooves, signature guitar licks, and funky basslines that are synonymous with a Purple Disco Machine record, whilst having moments of light and shade inviting you further into his universe. Having already released a handful of singles from the LP, including the Sophie and the Giants collab 'Hypnotized', 'Fireworks' feat. Moss Kena & The Knocks, 'Playbox', and more recently 'Dopamine' feat. Eyelar, Purple Disco Machine has quickly gained a mammoth international following eager to hear more. 'Hypnotized' became an anthem the world over, having been streamed over 275 million times across platforms, whilst going triple Platinum in Italy, Poland and Switzerland, with the carefree stylings of 'Fireworks' quickly following suit with over 80 million streams to date, whilst dominating airwaves across Europe hitting #5 on the overall chart, and #1 across Italy and Germany. Further skyrocketing up the Shazam Charts, the single went to #1 in Germany, and #3 across Italy, Denmark, and Austria to become another certified hit for Purple Disco Machine.The album opens with 'Can't Get Enough' featuring Australian songstress Sahara Beck, and for all his fans across Europe, is the perfect follow on from 'Hypnotized'- hitting all the same feels as the breakout single. Teaming up with long term collaborator Lorenz Rhodes once again for the release of 'At The Disko', the duo have created an instant and lively dance floor heater, incorporating the vocoder as they did previously on 'Music In You', and breaking into some seriously heaving piano chords and claps to keep that energy all the way through. 'Don't Stop' is a return to his more traditional club leaning records, likewise, title single 'Exotica feat. Mind Enterprises', and the 'Body Funk Part 2' vibes of 'Playbox' which has been represented in video as a truly incredible cosmic journey. Also sitting on that club tip is 'Loneliness', his track with cult underground Italian producer Francesca Lombardo, which oozes a patient charisma throughout. Taking time to slow things down on 'I Remember', Tino has collaborated with Elderbrook, who has become one of the most iconic singers in the electronic space in recent years - his transcendent vocals shining through, with soaring synths, and harmonic vocal effects, creating a heavenly slice of melancholy disco. Following through with another mellow jam is the album closer 'Wanna Feel Like A Lover feat Ed Mac', which is a true amalgamation of 80s flair even boasting the decade's trademark sax solo! Moving further outside his contemporary disco template, Tino has teamed up with Ukrainian / English duo Bloom Twins on 'Opposite of Crazy' coloring their unique blend of alt dark synth pop, with quirky and boisterous squalls of Prince-esque guitar throughout. Energy, soul, and pure fierceness shines through from the very first note of the anthemic 'Hands To The Sky' featuring the outstanding vocal talents of Fiorious and House Gospel Choir, and last but not least is the collaboration with Brooklyn disco hipsters Pink Flamingo Rhythm Revue, the uber funky 'Money Money' incorporates the slickest of all vocal lines reminiscent of the sassiest best of Big Apple boogie.Now boasting over 1 billion streams across his catalogue to date, and over 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Purple Disco Machine continues to live up to the hype of #2 Beatport Artist of All Time. With a succession of notable remixes for Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, Foals, Calvin Harris, Fatboy Slim, Sir Elton John, Royal Blood, Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, Duke Dumont, and Diplo & SIDEPIECE, coupled with his continuous stream of original hit singles over the past four years, Purple Disco Machine's influence on the global dance music scene will be felt for generations to come.Tracklisting:A1. Can't Get Enough (feat. Sahara Beck)A2. At The Disko (feat. Lorenz Rhode)A3. Fireworks (feat. Moss Kena & The Knocks)A4. Don't StopA5. Dopamine (feat. Eyelar)B1. I Remember (feat. Elderbrook)B2. Opposite of Crazy (feat. Bloom Twins)B3. Hypnotized (feat. Sophie and the Giants)B4. Loneliness (feat. Francesca Lombardo)C1. Hands to the Sky (Feat. Fiorious & House Gospel Choir)C2. Money Money (feat Pink Flamingo Rhythm Revue)C3. PlayboxC4. Exotica (feat. Mind Enterprises)D1. Wanna Feel Like A Lover (feat. Ed Mac)D2. Twisted Mind (feat. Agnes) *BONUS TRACK*D3. Rise (feat. Tasita D'Mour) *BONUS TRACK*D4. In The Dark (feat. Sophie and the Giants) *BONUS TRACK*- Shop: odax
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