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Yoko : a biography / by Sheff, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world's most famous unknown artist. "Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does." She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain -- an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing -- hidden in the Beatles' formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono's life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage. Yoko's life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John's murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko's nine decades -- one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono's reputation but elevates it to iconic status"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Ono, Yōko.; Artists; Asian Americans; Japanese American artists; Japanese American musicians; Women artists; Women musicians;
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Queen of the sun [videorecording] : what are the bees telling us? / by Hauk, Günther.; Pollan, Michael.; Shiva, Vandana.; Siegel, Taggart.; Music Box Films.;
Director of photography, Taggart Siegel ; sound design by Ryan Mauk ; animation by Noah Dorsey, Michelle Hwang, Chris Rodgers, Alyssa Timon, Emma Tripp ; edited by Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel ; original score, Jami Sieber.Commentary, Gunther Hauk, Kirk Webster, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan, Yvon Achard, Ian Davies, Eric Olson, Randy Johnson, Roy Arbon, Raj Patel, Michael Thiele, Johannes Wirz, Massimo Carpinteri, Vandana Shiva, May Berenbaum, Gunter Friedmann, Scott Black, Hugh Wilson, Jeffrey Smith, Horst Kornberger, David Heaf, Philip Schilds, Jennifer Kornberger, Colin Fleay, Ruth Hamlyn, Warren Thompson, Ivan Hyslop, Jacqueline Freeman, Zan Yassin, Jacquie Berger, Deborah Romano, David Yassky, Kerry Grefig, Ron Breland.Viewers will journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive. Weaved is an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists, and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.E.DVD ; NTSC, all regions; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; 5.1 surround, stereo.Winner IDA, Pare Lorentz Award Honorable Mention ; Winner Director's Choice, Rhode Island International Film Festival ; Winner, Planet in Focus ; Winner, Red Rock ; Official Selection IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ; Winner, Syracuse ; Winner Audience Award, Maui ; Winner, Nashville ; Winner Best Documentary, Youth Jury Rhode Island ; Winner Audience Award, Indiememphis
Subjects: Bee culture; Bee culture.; Beekeepers.; Colony collapse disorder of honeybees.; Documentary films.; Honeybee; Honeybee.;
© c2012., Music Box Films,
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Revival [sound recording] / by King, Stephen,1947-; Morse, David.;
Read by David Morse."In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy strikes, and this charismatic preacher curses God, and is banished from the shocked town. Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from age 13, he plays in bands across the country, running from his own family tragedies, losing one job after another when his addictions get the better of him. Decades later, sober and living a decent life, he and Reverend Charles Jacobs meet again in a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and the many terrifying meanings of Revival are revealed. King imbues this spectacularly rich and dark novel with everything he knows about music, addiction, and religious fanaticism, and every nightmare we ever had about death. This is a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Horror tales.; Suspense fiction.; Audiobooks.; Clergy; Death; Drug addicts; Good and evil; Life change events; Religious fanaticism; Rock musicians;
© p2014., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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This thing called life : Prince's odyssey, on and off the record / by Karlen, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock's greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote "3 Chains o' Gold," Prince's "rock video opera," as well as the star's last testament, which may be buried with Prince's will underneath Prince's vast and private compound, Paisley Park. According to Prince's former fiancée Susannah Melvoin, Karlen was "the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like." Karlen quit writing about Prince a quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he never quit Prince, and the two remained friends for the last thirty-one years of the superstar's life. Well before they met as writer and subject, Prince and Karlen knew each other as two of the gang of kids who biked around Minneapolis's mostly-segregated Northside. (They played basketball at the Dairy Queen next door to Karlen's grandparents, two blocks from the budding musician.) He asserts that Prince can't be understood without first understanding '70s Minneapolis, and that even Prince's best friends knew only 15 percent of him: that was all he was willing and able to give, no matter how much he cared for them. Going back to Prince Rogers Nelson's roots, especially his contradictory, often tortured, and sometimes violent relationship with his father, This Thing Called Life profoundly changes what we know about Prince, and explains him as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office, who frequented libraries and jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward), who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible, talk about movies and music and life, and watch as he tries not to curse, instead dishing a healthy dose of "mamma jammas.""--
Subjects: Biographies.; Prince.; Rock musicians;
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Heartland. [videorecording] / by Brooke, Lauren.Heartland.Videorecording.; Conkie, Heather.; Dimarco, Steve.; Grewal, Tina.; Johnston, Shaun.; Marshall, Amber.; Morgan, Michele.; Power, Keith.; Dynamo Films.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Seven24 Films.;
Director of photography, Craig Wrobleski ; music, Keith Power.Amber Marshall, Michele Morgan, Shaun Johnston, Graham Wardle, Nathaniel Arcand, Chris Potter.Season nine of Heartland finds the Bartlett-Fleming clan navigating the new normal as each family member starts an exciting chapter, leaving past hurt and hardships behind. With the idyllic Alberta foothills as their backdrop, this tightknit family knows that any challenge can be met and every struggle can be overcome as long as they have each other.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Coming-of-age television programs.; Teen television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Brooke, Lauren.; Families; Horse whisperers; Horses; Ranches;
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Louder Than You Think. by I. Rosenberg, Jed,film director.; Nastanovich, Bob,actor.; Young, Gary,actor.; Ibold, Mark,actor.; Kannberg, Scott,actor.; Malkmus, Stephen,actor.; Factory 25 (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Bob Nastanovich, Gary Young, Mark Ibold, Scott Kannberg, Stephen MalkmusOriginally produced by Factory 25 in 2023.An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original (and highly unlikely) drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics (on-stage handstands, gifting vegetables to fans) and haphazard production methods (accidentally helping launch the lo-fi aesthetic) were both a driving force of the band's early rise and the cause of his eventual crash landing. Leaving a wake of joy and/or destruction at every turn, Gary teeters the thin line between free-form self-expression and chaotic self-destruction. Thirty years on with scoliosis, blood clots, and a shriveled liver, Gary continued drumming with no regrets.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Music.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Biography.; Performing arts.;
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Louder Than You Think. by I. Rosenberg, Jed,film director.; Nastanovich, Bob,actor.; Young, Gary,actor.; Ibold, Mark,actor.; Kannberg, Scott,actor.; Malkmus, Stephen,actor.; Factory 25 (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Bob Nastanovich, Gary Young, Mark Ibold, Scott Kannberg, Stephen MalkmusOriginally produced by Factory 25 in 2023.An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original (and highly unlikely) drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics (on-stage handstands, gifting vegetables to fans) and haphazard production methods (accidentally helping launch the lo-fi aesthetic) were both a driving force of the band's early rise and the cause of his eventual crash landing. Leaving a wake of joy and/or destruction at every turn, Gary teeters the thin line between free-form self-expression and chaotic self-destruction. Thirty years on with scoliosis, blood clots, and a shriveled liver, Gary continued drumming with no regrets.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Music.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Biography.; Performing arts.;
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The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean. by Compton, Juleen,film director.; St. John, Marco,actor.; Gentry, Robert,actor.; Waterson, Sam,actor.; Henesy, Sharon,actor.; Flicker Alley (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Marco St. John, Robert Gentry, Sam Waterson, Sharon HenesyOriginally produced by Flicker Alley in 1966.The story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon Henesy), who struggles between the responsibility of seeing the future and the attentions of a rock-n-roll band set on exploiting her powers for profit. Centered around an enigmatic dome structure delivered to the magical pastoral Ozark countryside, THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN explores a battle of wills, both spiritual and material.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion Pictures.; Musicals.;
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Maybe once, maybe twice : a novel / by Greenberg, Alison Rose,author.;
"You know that old saying, "if we are still single when we're 35, we should get married?" Well, Maggie Vine made that vow with two different people, at two very different stages of her life. And they both showed up. Maggie Vine's life is going extra-medium. At 35 she's pursuing her dreams of being a singer and being a mother-though neither are successfully panning out. So when Garett Scholl-stifled hedge fund manager by day but electrifying aspiring rock singer by night -- comes to her 35th birthday party with the intention to kiss Maggie senseless, it feels like one piece might click into place. Except he's engaged to someone else, and Maggie knows she won't fit into the cookie-cutter life he's building for himself. Enter Asher Reyes. Her first boyfriend from summer camp, turned into heartthrob actor, he's lived a successful yet private life ever since he got famous. When a career-changing opportunity is presented to Maggie after her reconnection with Asher, it feels like everything-music, love, family -- will fall into place. But her past won't let her move on without a fight"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Self-realization in women; Single men; Single mothers; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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Woman walks ahead [videorecording] / by White, Susanna,film director.; Knight, Steven,1959-screenwriter.; Camp, Bill,actor.; Chastain, Jessica,1977-actor.; Greyeyes, Michael,actor.; Hinds, Ciarán,1953-actor.; Krause, Louisa,1986-actor.; Rockwell, Sam,actor.; Southerland, Boots,actor.; Spencer, Chaske,actor.; Tangen, Rulan,actor.; A24 (Firm),presenter.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.;
Music, George Fenton ; edtiors, Lucia Zucchetti, Steven Rosenblum ; director of photography, Mike Eley.Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, Louisa Krause, Chaske Spencer, Sam Rockwell, Boots Southerland, Ciaran Hinds, Bill Camp, Rulan Tangen.Catherine Weldon is a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull. Her arrival at Standing Rock is met with open hostility by a US Army officer, who has stationed troops around the Lakota reservation to undermine Native American claims to the land. As Catherine and Sitting Bull grow closer, their friendship and his life are threatened by the government, and Catherine must stand up to fight for what is most important.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Western films.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Weldon, Catherine; Sitting Bull, 1831-1890; Lakota Indians;
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