author: John Summers

name: Steev

average rating: 4.40

book published: 2012

rating: 5

read at: 2012/12/19

date added: 2012/12/20

shelves: politics, fun

review:
I've been reading the Baffler since the early 90s. It's quite simply one of the consistently very best periodicals for those with a tendency toward critical thinking and an intellectual but irreverent analysis of late capitalism, politics, consumerism, and the media. It's like Harper's times one hundred. It's wonderful.

That said, every time I read an issue, it angers and saddens me with almost every page, just like Harper's does but 100 times worse. There is of course the geeky enjoyment of seeing written in eloquent form the sentiments I feel every day about our screwed up system and society, but also there is a profound bitterness and despair which sometimes threaten to overwhelm me.

author: Don Steinberg

name: Steev

average rating: 3.73

book published: 2012

rating: 5

read at: 2012/12/07

date added: 2012/12/09

shelves: own-it, filmmaking

review:
This is pretty much as good a book as I could reasonably expect in the realm of step-by-step guides on how to do a Kickstarter campaign. Covers all the bases, explains things clearly and completely, and is very useful. I already knew quite a bit on the subject, from reading numerous blog posts by various people who had highly successful Kickstarter campaigns, and just from observing projects I've backed over the last couple of years. But I'd recommend this to people like me as well as people who've never really looked into it but want to learn how to crowdfund.

author: Dave Eggers

name: Steev

average rating: 3.62

book published: 2000

rating: 5

read at: 2012/11/19

date added: 2012/11/19

shelves: fun, spirit-self, own-it

review:

author: Michel Gondry
name: Steev
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2012/10/18
date added: 2012/10/18
shelves: wishlist, filmmaking, fun
review:
As a filmmaker and someone who has participated in several collaborative "fast movie" projects in which amateurs get together and democratically craft a film really quickly, this book was a great confirmation of some basic dreams and desires and experiences that I've had. Michel Gondry is a genius, dreamer, and auteur, as we all know from his videos and films, but surprise-surprise, he's also an anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, utopian collectivist, and he's come up with a great, simple system for putting these ideals into a system of making little films that friends and neighbors can participate in. As he keeps repeating in the book, this is not a book about how to make films. Rather it's a book about how to bring back an aspect of community life that has largely disappeared with the advent of mass-mediated consumerism. I hope to one day witness and take part in the protocol that he lays out here, and if I do, hopefully I can restrain my professionalist and authoritarian urges, and just be part of a group, making something together and without preconceived plans, and without corporate sponsors.

author: Douglas Coupland

name: Steev

average rating: 3.67

book published: 2006

rating: 5

read at: 2012/10/02

date added: 2012/10/02

shelves: own-it, fun, novels

review:

author: Eugene K. Garber

name: Steev

average rating: 1.00

book published: 2010

rating: 5

read at: 2012/09/14

date added: 2012/09/27

shelves: novels, fun

author: David Agranoff

name: Steev

average rating: 3.71

book published: 2010

rating: 2

read at:

date added: 2012/08/29

shelves: after-the-fall, food, fun, own-it, novels, politics

author: Anne Carlisle

name: Steev

average rating: 3.64

book published: 1987

rating: 4

read at: 1990/01/01

date added: 2012/08/26

shelves: fun, novels, own-it, to-re-read

author: Sam Lipsyte

name: Steev

average rating: 3.64

book published:

rating: 5

read at: 2012/08/24

date added: 2012/08/24

shelves: novels, own-it, fun

author: Seth Grahame-Smith

name: Steev

average rating: 3.88

book published: 2010

rating: 4

read at: 2012/08/12

date added: 2012/08/13

shelves: fun, novels