Bøger af Mike O'Brien

Mike O'Brien has been a pop star since the late seventies (on and off). Over the past forty years he has written and recorded literally dozens of chart dodging hit records. From his early beginnings in the Z-Men, a punk band largely ignored outside of East Yorkshire, through his time in the Velvetones (whose role in music history was acting as a feeder band for the Housemartins and the Beautiful South), to his current lack of success with Pocketful O'Nowt, an "eclectic rock" band largely ignored outside of South Yorkshire, he has enjoyed a long career packed full of the highs and lows of the "non league" end of the music industry. In this amazing almanac, you can read his most memorable lyrics and a few tales and stories of his undistinguished avocation.

GOOD SAILBOAT DESIGNS - 32 Daysailers, Camp-Cruisers, & Weekenders FINE STUDY PLANS FROM TOP DESIGNERS: - Sail Plans - Complete Hull Lines - Arrangement Drawings - Construction Sections - Full Particulars - Designers' Contacts - Insightful Commentary

How would you feel walking out of a totally normal life into something closer to a Robert Ludlum thriller? Everything changes. Suddenly. Real becomes unreal. Normal, abnormal. True becomes false. Fact becomes fiction... You don't know where to turn or, more importantly, to whom.Well, that's what happened to me... I stumbled, the proverbial innocent abroad, from what was supposed to be a straightforward business deal into a lunatic world populated by characters unlike any others I'd ever met. Violent, unpredictable, devious, malevolent, treacherous and, ultimately, evanescent. And, because of this it was almost impossible to comprehend what exactly was actually happening to me - and around me. The worst of all was the waiting...for people...for phone calls...for outcomes...for instructions. Waiting, always, for tomorrow...For tomorrow, and the meeting with President Marcos in Malacanang Palace, a meeting which never eventuated. Waiting until days became weeks, and the weeks became months. Then, in quick succession, my so-called colleague defected to some attempted take-over merchants, and I was placed under House Arrest by President Marcos.... It's near-impossible to convey just how psychologically pulverising, physically debilitating, and how terrifying that waiting was for an ordinary bloke...The sense of isolation, of exposure, of powerlessness and of insignificance was enormously brutalising...My days were a dreadful, gut-cramping cocktail of anger, frustration, helplessness, at-times-uncontrollable terror, bewilderment and gross confusion, lost in a Rubix-cubed maze.

Out to prove his friends catastrophic view of America wrong, the author researched generations of American finance and culture. The book builds a strong case that shows why America is already over. Four hallmarks identify the end of the red white and blue including some that are already in place. In a first of its kind, the author moves beyond the end of America, to show how sex, guns and money separate Americans into eight new nations. The new nations scramble for their share of America's assets, including everything from the gold in Ft. Knox to nuclear bombs. The eight new nations, have new laws, ranging from biblical to futuristic. Like it or not, things are going to change. Are you ready for your new nation, or will you make a choice and move?