Fair Shake Review: The Catch Up: Fall Edition

BM5's September & October 2019 Favorites

Favorite Interview

Niki - Zach Sang Show

Zach Sang has become one of my favorite interviewers lately. He truly makes his guests comfortable and is able to get really genuine answers from them. Then Dan, his co-host, sometimes makes the most hilarious interactions with the guests as well. In this case, I got to hear more about Niki than I have in any other interview, though I haven't seen many. This happens soon after the Head in the Clouds festival and seeing how she views her career and the impact it has on Asian culture throughout the world is fascinating. I'd give it a watch if that interests you like it does myself.

Fair Shake Reaction: butterFLY - Ailee

butterFLY - Ailee

(Genre: KPop)

Fair Shake Review: B.A.A.A. - Wax

B.A.A.A. - Wax

(Genre: Singer-Songwriter/Alternative Hip Hop)

Become the Sheeple at these links:

Rare Specimen (Live Performance)
Better When You're High (Audio)
Push On (Audio)
No Chaser Interview (Podcast w/ Timothy DeLaGhetto)
Wax Raps Over an EOM Beat (Live Performance)

Fair Shake Reaction: Feel Special - Twice

Feel Special - Twice

(Genre: K-Pop)

Fair Shake Review: Acoustic Monday Album - Wax

Acoustic Monday Album - Wax

(Genre: Singer-Songwriter/Alternative Rap)

Digital links to Acoustic Mondays:

Turtle (Live)

Handbasket (Live)

Coffee (Music Video)

Good Feeling (Live)

Squirrels (Live)

Fair Shake Review: This Summer - Alessia Cara

This Summer - Alessia Cara

(Genre: Pop/Singer-Songwriter)

Check This Summer's Links:

Okay Okay (Lyric Video)

Rooting for You (Music Video)

Making This Summer (The EP) (Behind the Scenes)

Track by Track "What's on Your Mind" (Breakdown)

Zach Sang Interview (About This Summer)

Fair Shake Review: Zachary Lewis - Futuristic

Zachary Lewis - Futuristic

(Genre: Hip Hop/Rap)

Zach in Action:

Weekend (Music Video)

Main Homie (Music Video)

Times Like This (Music Video)

Used To (Music Video)

Better By Myself (Music Video)

Book Review: World War Z

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks | Published: 2006
I read this back when I was on maternity leave and I loved it and I'm a bit ashamed to say...it's my favorite book. Of all the books in the world, Buonaventura, your favorite is about zombies? You don't even like zombies.

But you guys, this books is just so fucking smart! It's like Brooks went and thought of every conceivable way society would be affected by a rise of the undead. How would it affect a refugee crisis? How would if affect suburbanites? What would happen in communist countries? Capitalist countries? Poor countries? How would an army have to change policies to defeat zombies? It was so thought out!

This book is set up as a collection of interviews done after the zombie apocalypse, describing the rise and fall of the zombies all over the world from forty different people all over the world. What a huge undertaking for a writer and yet he was able to convey forty-one unique characters with first person voices.

This book was so good that it ruined Stephen King for me. When I had finished this, I started Under the Dome and I just couldn't get into it because the writing was so juvenile in comparison.

So, I decided to revisit this when I found out there was a full cast for the audio book. You know how sometimes when you revisit something, it's not nearly as good but you built it up in your head? Not so for this. There were some "hokey" parts that I had forgotten about, like parts of Europe reverting back to the middle ages carrying long swords and living in castle communities. I mean, that's totally plausible, but it still seemed silly.

This book is even better as an audio book as it's used to its full potential as a collection of interviews. The cast is amazing and I'm sure I cried when I read it originally, but I definitely cried at the segment told by Sharon, a young woman with the mind of a child who describes escaping from a mass suicide.

This book is so damn good!

October 2019 Updates