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Maybe Don't Drown Everything You've Ever Wanted In a Mop Bucket That Isn't Yours
Five essays about music and its fallout. From working a shitty job while listening to songs about working a shitty job to playing in a small town KISS tribute band to trying to let a rock and roll actuality be better than a rock and roll fantasy.
"Maybe Don't Drown is the sharpest writing on rock 'n' roll and shattered dreams that I can think of. Thing though is, Ryan Werner also picks up the shattered dreams and glues them back together into something transcendent. This is the story of a boy and a mop bucket, set to "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy on a forever loop of bliss. It's a vivisection of music, literature, and blue collar blood, sweat, and tears, and it's utterly enthralling. At the intersection of punk rock and real life, you'll find Ryan Werner, a killer writer who also knows how to shred geeetars behind his back."
- Bud Smith, author of F250
"Maybe Don't Drown is the sharpest writing on rock 'n' roll and shattered dreams that I can think of. Thing though is, Ryan Werner also picks up the shattered dreams and glues them back together into something transcendent. This is the story of a boy and a mop bucket, set to "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy on a forever loop of bliss. It's a vivisection of music, literature, and blue collar blood, sweat, and tears, and it's utterly enthralling. At the intersection of punk rock and real life, you'll find Ryan Werner, a killer writer who also knows how to shred geeetars behind his back."
- Bud Smith, author of F250
24 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2016
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November 16, 2016
I love the way these essays bring everything in a life, both on the individual and universal level, into play while talking about the music. Purely music focused essays are fine too, but not as interesting for me personally. Music is connected to a life, and tying that all back together while talking about the music, and actually having that go somewhere not only coherent but interesting and meaningful, is a cool thing. Werner does that in these essays in spades. I think I could go along with almost any topic he chose to hit, but I certainly dug this.
August 21, 2016
It's a sign of a good writer that makes me care about subjects I have a very limited interest (in with the notable exception of Prince). Ryan Werner does this beautifully. Weaving autobiography with music criticism, he successfully pulls off two difficult genres. The essay on being in a Kiss tribute band is easily worth the price for this volume.
September 7, 2016
I like this book a lot, it made me think of the lyrics and bands that have influenced my own life. Music is important- other people's words are important-whether in song form or book form- they connect us to each other- to ourselves.
August 1, 2016
Clean up on aisle GENIUS!!!!!!
(Pity me.)
(Pity me.)
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