Review: It is so excellent
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
This story is perfect as both introduction and elegy to Mishka Shubaly's Kindle Singles. If you've read his stories before, you probably wondered how exactly a man ends up shipwrecked, stalked, ruined, and resurrected. If you haven't read him yet, you will after you read this.Rock n roll is his gateway drug and his hair shirt, and this mini-memoir on the edges of stardom and insanity has the edge-of-the-seat quality of a disaster movie, but also the ability to quietly haunt. Not everyone has a dream that demands quite as much puke and finger-bleeding, but everyone has a well of potential that both corrodes and exalts them, and Mishka taps into that uncomfortable feeling with his usual passion and pain.It's also a valuable snapshot of New York at a certain time, from a certain point of view--an exclusive glimpse into the doubts and triumphs of many familiar names in music, and also from some self-made skid-rows. I'm not even kidding when I say this is a historical document, like Walt Whitman wandering Washington post Civil War, or Patti Smith getting a particular haircut that changed her life.Buy the book. Read the book. Feel the pain. Ponder investing in Toyota minivans, because man, those battle-wagons can take abuse.