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En 2008 los tres miembros de Ben Folds Five se reunieron en el escenario para interpretar su tercer y último disco The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner , que fue lanzado en 1999. A partir de ahí, el cantante y pianista Ben Folds ha seguido en la brecha sin la compañía de su banda original, lanzando su cuarto álbum solista Way to Normal en 2008 y otro álbum llamado Lonely Avenue , en colaboración con el autor de la novela High Fidelity , Nick Hornby. Aunque, hasta donde sabemos, Ben Fold Five se [...]

I know I'm wrong about this book, because everyone else in the world, including writers I love, think it's fantastic, but it Wasn't For Me. It's brilliantly written, I can see that much, and it made me think, too. But mostly I thought about why I don't know anyone like the people Fox writes about. Why are all my friends so dim and unreflective? Where did I go wrong? Toward the end of the book, Otto and Sophie, the central couple, go to stay in their holiday home. Sophie opens the door to the house, and is immediately [...]

While collaborating with Bob Saget is clearly the pinnacle for any musician's resume, Ben Folds has had a long, fruitful career up to that glorious moment. Whether it was with Ben Folds Five or on his own, Folds has a rich back catalog, one which he'll make great use of when he releases his career retrospective The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective this October. The three-CD release will see a different focus for each disc. The first, The Best Imitation of Myself , features everything from the Ben Folds [...]

Ben Folds releases a new video of his song "Working Day," which is the first cut off his collab with Nick Hornby. The video was comprised of 2,000 audience members in seven cities singing the song a capella style. Basically, Folds figured out a way to make a 14,000 person choir. Nifty. Tweet

Nick Hornby's latest novel, Juliet, Naked returns to the amusing and painfully relatable music-obsessed, neurotic relationship theme of High Fidelity . You will like Juliet, Naked if you: 1) like music, 2) have ever been in a relationship and 3) can read. You will love Juliet, Naked if you: 1) have ever been unsatisfied with your life, relationship, career, neighborhood and/or country, 2) have ever been so obsessed with an album that you're convinced you understand and connection to it more than anyone else in the world (including the artist), 3) [...]

¿Ser fan ayuda a vivir o te arruina la existencia? - Hay mucho esnobismo alrededor del concepto fan. Si Duncan fuera universitario y amara a Keats con la misma obsesión, la gente no se lo tomaría mal. Sin embargo, estaría igual de loco ¡pero empleado por el gobierno! Si la obsesión tiene una credibilidad intelectual, pasa. Esos universitarios hacen un buen trabajo de "mensajeros" para la literatura, pero no querrías, sin embargo, vivir con ellos o quedarte en un ascensor en su compañía porque son igual de monomaníacos que Duncan. [...]

Robert Altman's Nashville is one of my favorite films - or, at least, I think it is. I haven't seen it in a while, and the last time I did, I noticed the longueurs more than I ever had before. Maybe the best thing to do with favorite films and books is to leave them be: to achieve such an exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be re-created. Sometimes we want to revisit them in order to check whether [...]

Ben Folds released my favorite standalone track of 2010 in 'Levi Johnston's Blues', from the Nick Hornby collaboration album, Lonely Avenue . That chorus ['I'm a fucking redneck, I live to hang out with boys...."] and that NASTY echoing drumbeat just eat down to the core of me. And the subject matter, at first listen, may sound like an attack on Mr. Johnston, but on reflection, we realize that Levi isn't the true subject of this song. Levi's just being Levi, Ms. Palin.

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Those who dismissed word of Nick Hornby's first foray into music as little more than a vanity project are in for a disappointment. Lonely Avenue , the English novelist's first collaboration with American songwriter Ben Folds, is an unequivocal triumph. Intelligently written, its 11 tracks manage to move and amuse in equal doses with their tales of illness, lust, love, faith and political scandals, making for one of the singer-songwriter records of the year and an album, which is never short of engaging. The discipline of the project was such — Hornby would look after the album's [...]

Those who dismissed word of Nick Hornby's first foray into music as little more than a vanity project are in for a disappointment. Lonely Avenue , the English novelist's first collaboration with American songwriter Ben Folds, is an unequivocal triumph. Intelligently written, its 11 tracks manage to move and amuse in equal doses with their tales of illness, lust, love, faith and political scandals, making for one of the singer-songwriter records of the year and an album, which is never short of engaging. The discipline of the project was such — Hornby would look after the album's [...]

From Bob Dylan rapping with Kurtis Blow , to Ozzy Osbourn and Miss Piggy covering Steppenwolf , and last year's WTF winner Grizzly Bear and Michael McDonald , seemingly incongruous musicians have always shacked up with one another for some reason or another. Sometimes it's been for a quick cash grab, or a peace offering, or in memorium, and often it can be cringe-worthy. With the bad ones, either you can smell the falsehood, or you just left wondering "why?" or worse, "who cares?" But something seems to be in the air in 2010, and [...]

We made it out to hear one of our personal literary heroes, Nick Hornby , on Monday night and were pleased to see our pals from Decatur CD and I'm A Bear, Etc. among the full house in attendance. While we were captivated by Mr. Hornby's reading, his comments on music (he mentioned the great Paul Westerberg ) and his thoughts on writing, we weren't diligent enough to take notes to capture the evening for you. However, another pal, Murray Browne over at The Book Shopper was. Check out [...]

Ben Folds performs "Saskia Hamilton" off his album with Nick Hornby, Lonely Avenue , out now. We always love a good Ben Folds performance and this one is just amazing! courtesy of audioperv.com Ben Folds/Nick Hornby - Saskia Hamilton

As if having the one and only Pee Wee Herman on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon wasn't enough to get you to tune in to the show last night, yesterday's installment of the show also featured a musical performance from Ben Folds . If you don't already know, Folds recently teamed up with acclaimed English novelist Nick Hornby (who was on hand to introduce the performance) for Lonely Avenue , an album which features music and vocals from Folds and lyrics from the 53-year-old author of [...]

After a long hiatus, the Ballroom Book Bash is back! A Cappella Books and the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge are again joining forces to bring you one of the coolest events in town. This is where we "discovered" Bernadette Seacrest when she started an evening that featured Atlanta's own Karen Abbott (also an alum of our little northeastern college) reading from her New York Times bestseller, Sin in the Second City . [...]

We've been hyping up the new Ben Folds album for a little while now. The twist for Lonely Avenue is that the lyrics were written by Nick Hornby . Now it's time for the hype to pay off! We're giving away a prize pack to one lucky winner! The prize includes: 1 CD - Lonely Avenue 1 book - Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby 3-pack of Field Notes notebooks It's simple to win. Just send an email to contest@theendofirony.net [...]

You may remember that it wasn't very long when we showed off a video from the new Ben Folds album. Well, it seems that another song from the record, "Saskia Hamilton," is getting the visual treatment. While this one isn't as cute as the last one, there is still a certain adorableness to it.

Here's a list of September 2010 B&N and Borders events that I found interesting for one reason or another: B&N Sep 2010 Events (NYC) 10/04 Joyce Carol Oates (Lincoln Tri) 10/04 Justin Spring (82nd & Bway) 10/05 Bruce Davidson (86th & Lex) 10/05 Michael Cunningham (USQ) 10/06 Alton Brown w/ John Hodgman (USQ) 10/06 Myla Goldberg (86th & Lex) 10/07 Neil Gaiman, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden (USQ) 10/11 A.S. Byatt w/ David Ebershoff (USQ) 10/11 Jerry Robinson (Tribeca) 10/12 Condoleezza Rice w/ Jane Pauley [...]