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A first person romp through the subculture of night life on the New Jersey club circuit with one of its premier bands, Dog Voices, "Deep Tank Jersey" resonates with humor and sentiment. It is an inside look at life in the fast lane with hard working musicians and the twisted people who surround them nightly. Many other top NJ bands, their roadies, groupies, management and agents are dissected through jc's magnifying glass. Owners, bouncers and employees of popular night spots tell wild and sometimes moving stories of success and failure in a dog eat dog business that changes on the fly. It is also a story of loneliness and passion in a world where the thrill-a-minute philosophy can blur lines and create a bizarre reality.
A first person romp through the subculture of night life on the New Jersey club circuit with one of its premier bands, Dog Voices, "Deep Tank Jersey" resonates with humor and sentiment. It is an inside look at life in the fast lane with hard working musicians and the twisted people who surround them nightly. Many other top NJ bands, their roadies, groupies, management, and agents are dissected through jc's magnifying glass. Owners, bouncers, and employees of popular night spots tell wild and sometimes moving stories of success and failure in a dog eat dog business that changes on the fly. | |  | | Fear No Art
A collection of James Campion's columns, essays, letters, e-mails, and in-dept magazine and newspaper pieces from the late-nineties; "Fear No Art" swerves, ducks, and lays heavy punches with every page. No one is spared from the damaged arenas of politics and celebrity. In the tradition of his heroes and inspiration; Lenny Bruce, H.L. Mencken, Hunter Thompson, George Carlin, and other contemporary satirists, jc uses wit and cruel visions to strip the hypocrisy of our world bare. Yet, this is more a collection of entertaining revelry than a dirge of preaching. "Fear No Art" burns the eyes and touches the heart, and at times, does it simultaneously.
"Fear No Art" is the perfect epitaph for the American Century; chronicling the fallout of the O.J. Simpson trial, race bating, civil rights protest, tabloid journalism, children killers, pop culture, terrorism, censorship, and a president crumbling, only to be born again. A fast and wild read, hilariously funny, and bitterly true; "Fear No Art" is high octane journalism at it’s very best. James Campion has created an instant underground classic and the perfect follow-up to the passionate intensity of his first effort, the fringe classic, "Deep Tank Jersey."
No ardent reader of the A | |  | | Trailing Jesus
Dreams. Nightmares. Religion. Revolution. Divinity. Evil. Temptation.
Hope. Murder. Mysticism. Faith. Oppression. Memories. Visions.
Passion. History. Lies. Truth. Forgiveness.
What happens when a man follows his ghosts into the cauldron of the mystic?
In the spring of 1996, James Campion, author of the underground sensation, "Deep Tank Jersey" (1996) and the explosive follow-up, "Fear No Art" (2000) immersed himself in the mad pursuit of truth beyond the mists of legend. Intrigued by the teachings of philosophical and spiritual leaders over the centuries and fueled by a questioning of his Catholic background lead Campion to a natural exploration of the visage of Jesus Christ from revolutionary vagabond to religious icon.
Carving out images from his own past and passionately delving into gospel lore prompted his tireless journey to the Holy Land. Across the desert, in the footsteps of the mysterious, inside the mind and out of the heart, the results of Campion’s trek are found in the introspective and controversial pages of "Trailing Jesus".
Six years in the making, "Trailing Jesus" is more than a true story of self-discovery and Biblical revelations. It is literally a lifetime dissected in a single trip, while also being an emotional investigation of one of the most enigmatic social and political pioneers in the pantheon of human experience. "Trailing Jesus" is a stirring view of Jesus of Nazareth, the peasant messiah whose spiritual revolution still breathes today beneath centuries of dogma and religion.
The Greatest Story Ever Told is understood quite differently through the eyes of an author in search of spirit and wonder in a violently cold world. Campion’s discovery of a latter 20th century Israel struggling to find its own center is the backdrop to this wildly introspective tale of a faith questioned and then renewed.
"Trailing Jesus" is a major work for the 21st century. It topples icons, punctures dogma and resuscitates the memory of a movement so influential it has spanned two millennium of speculation and debate, superstition and worship, war and bigotry, power and compassion.
"Trailing Jesus" is not the voice of a scholar or a theologian or even a religious apologist, just the brutal honesty of a man in search of a revolutionary mystic from a time seemingly so far away, yet so very close to the marrow of human kind.
James Campion's third book, "Trailing Jesus - A Holy Journal" is a must read for the faithful, the doubtful, and the just plain curious.
The reflection from the blue cloud-peppered sky speaks volumes about the gospel writers on the day my legs carry me up the stone steps of this tall mountain stretch. They tell of the Son of Man riding through the double-arched Golden Gate on a donkey, heralded as the Messiah, straight from the heart of their own tortured history. Today I see only the horizon tumble into earth with every step above the curve of this hill, grass and mortar, stone and dirt spreading out like a regal carpet. Beyond the glare of the streaming rays of sun, which bathe my sweating forehead, are the tips of cathedrals | |  | | Y
In Y, James explores the extremes in today's soundbite/image conscious society where guilt and shame have no place. Writing himself into the story, we follow the painfully bored freelance journalist on his quest for ultimate fame and fortune at the prospect of breaking the story on an underground society known as Y.
Thus begins the ultimate urban myth which unfolds in the pages of Y; a satirical romp through the labyrinth of New York City chasing a mishchievous band of dreamers into the mystical mountains upon the Hudson.
Follow along as the mostly bored and wholly gullible freelance journalist James Campion discover the exploits of Y, as they lay bare the age of celebrity, media manipulation and imaginative hubris.
It is a hilariously ridiculous, fantastical, uproarious ride along paths never before traveled, hearing words never before spoken and ideas never dared revealed |
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The Rhythm of Nature
by Todd Cheney
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 The continuing story of the Guardians of the Soulstone.
Evil is afoot in the land.
The Guardians of the Soulstone are charged to find an ancient artifact that has been stolen from the Hall in Evertyll.
The Black Order is |
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