Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
Gary Yourofsky's entire inspirational speech on animal rights and veganism held at Georgia Tech in summer of 2010. Listen to this amazing ...
Long term food storage part 1
A short 3 part film on how to store food in buckets for long term food storage. Food storage for peak oil, to zombies, to reddawn to SHTF to ...
Novel talk with Clyde Edgerton
"In 1963, I joined a rock 'n' roll band," Edgerton recalled. "We used to listen to ‘Live at the Apollo' by James Brown, and the lead singer, Dennis Hobby, wanted to BE James Brown."
He recycled those memories for his 10th novel, "The Night Train," about a gaggle of teen-aged white boys in a small central North Carolina town who devote themselves to trying to play near-perfect covers of the singles from the James Brown LP.
"I also had a black buddy named Larry Lime," Edgerton added. "We used to play basketball against each other. We couldn't be really close because of the times, so I wanted to write Larry Lime in.
"I was reading this really good biography of Thelonious Monk (the jazz pianist), who was born in North Carolina by the way. Anyway, I decided to have Larry Lime trying to play like Monk, while the white boys were trying to be James Brown."
"The Night Train" came out this summer from Little, Brown to highly positive reviews. Author Jill McCorkle wrote "?‘The Night Train' is classic Edgerton," while The Independent Weekly in Durham called the book "his best in years" – high praise for the author of such popular favorites as "Raney" and "Walking Across Egypt.
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Novel talk with Clyde Edgerton In fact, in the 1950s and '60s, WTVD-TV in Durham, ran "Saturday Night Country-Style," a popular local show whose host, Jim Thornton, really did taste dog food on camera. And Clyde Edgerton was there. "In 1959, in the ninth grade, I was in this ... |
