"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Gordon Hauptfleisch - Page 29
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 347
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 347
Gordon Hauptfleisch is a Blogcritics Books Editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. For many years he worked in and managed bookstores and record stores. Email him and he'll stop talking in the third-person.
He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. Other than that he doesn't like talking about himself.
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Vinyl Tap: Brute Force - I, Brute Force - Confections Of Love
Eric Von Zipper sings Jimmy Webb. Kind of, and sort of.
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GreenLit: Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
The explosive page-turner that exposes the irrefutable health risks posed by Vermont cheddar cheese!
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Book Review: Seeing by Jose Saramago
The Nobel Prize-winner's heavy-handed follow-up to the sure touch of Blindness.
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Vinyl Tap: Thin White Rope - Moonhead
Coiled rattlesnakes on the two-lane blacktop: sinuous, sibilating guitar lines and death-rattle vocals resonate with insidious menace - and a lysergic surge.
Transport yourself "A Million Miles Away": "I started drifting to a different place / I realized I was falling off the face of the world..."
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Vinyl Tap: Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Infectious and frenetic, a different kind of tension.
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CD Review: Ray Davies - Other People's Lives
Ray Davies looks at the world through his window and tells a few stories. Poignant, impassioned tales, some of drunkenness and cruelty.
"She was all of those calm nights, tall eucalyptus trees, and desert stars...and I had come with no purpose save to be a mere writer."
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Book Review: Sudden Times by Dermot Healy
Healy tells a tale of edgy immediacy and controlled tension, of a man who “began losing the thing that tells me who I am.”
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CD Review: Unjustly Overlooked Albums Blood and Chocolate - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"A pissed-off divorcé's version of This Year's Model" by the real Napoleon Dynamite. Sometimes he almost feels just like a human being. Then again...
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