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text: fan questions. Gaiman lives near Menomonie, Wisconsin, United States and has lived there since 1992. Gaiman moved there to be close to the family of his then-wife, Mary McGrath, with whom he has three children: Michael, Holly, and Madeleine. , Gaiman also resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2014, he took up a five-year appointment as professor in the arts at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Gaiman is married to songwriter and performer Amanda Palmer, with whom he has an open marriage. The couple publicly announced that they were dating in June 2009, and announced their engagement on Twitter on

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text: would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is." Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series "The Sandman" and novels "Stardust", "American Gods", "Coraline", and "The Graveyard Book". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery

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text: writing "American Gods", his publishers set up a promotional website featuring a weblog in which Gaiman described the day-to-day process of revising, publishing, and promoting the novel. After the novel was published, the website evolved into a more general Official Neil Gaiman Website. Gaiman generally posts to the blog describing the day-to-day process of being Neil Gaiman and writing, revising, publishing, or promoting whatever the current project is. He also posts reader emails and answers questions, which gives him unusually direct and immediate interaction with fans. One of his answers on why he writes the blog is "because writing is,

title: Neil Gaiman

text: Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series "The Sandman" and novels "Stardust", "American Gods", "Coraline", and "The Graveyard Book". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, "The Graveyard Book" (2008). In 2013, "The Ocean at the End of

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text: "Stardust". Amos also mentions Gaiman in her songs, "Tear in Your Hand" ("If you need me, me and Neil'll be hangin' out with the dream king. Neil says hi by the way"), "Space Dog" ("Where's Neil when you need him?"), "Horses" ("But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?"), "Carbon" ("Get me Neil on the line, no I can't hold. Have him read, 'Snow, Glass, Apples' where nothing is what it seems"), "Sweet Dreams" ("You're forgetting to fly, darling, when you sleep"), and "Not Dying Today" ("Neil is thrilled he can claim he's mammalian, 'but the bad

title: Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously

text: Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the English fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. "Dream Dangerously" follows Gaiman on his 2013 signing tour, and also delves into his creative process and personal background. It includes interviews with friends artists, editors and other industry professionals. "Dream Dangerously" is co-produced by Sequart and Respect Films. The film grew out of preview collaborations "Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods" and "Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts". The team felt that Gaiman would be a perfect subject for a next

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text: of his extensive tour, he reflects on his youth, early creative success and the struggles of balancing creativity and life. The film was acquired for distribution by Vimeo, and released in July 2016. It is currently available on Vimeo on Demand and Starz. A Blu-Ray edition was released in September of 2018 by Brink Vision. Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the English fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. "Dream Dangerously" follows Gaiman on his 2013 signing tour, and also delves into his

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text: pastiche he had written. The writer sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back, along with literary advice. Gaiman has said Roger Zelazny was the author who influenced him the most, with this influence particularly seen in Gaiman's literary style and the topics he writes about. Other authors Gaiman says "furnished the inside of my mind and set me to writing" include Moorcock, Ellison, Samuel R. Delany, Angela Carter, Lafferty and Le Guin. Neil Gaiman has also taken inspiration from the folk tales tradition, citing Otta F Swire's book on the legends of the Isle of Skye as his inspiration

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text: the last three seasons, contributing the season five episode "Day of the Dead". Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker's novel "The Fermata" for director Robert Zemeckis, although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made "The Polar Express" and the Gaiman-Roger Avary written "Beowulf" film. Neil Gaiman was featured in the "History Channel" documentary "Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked". Several of Gaiman's original works have been optioned or greenlighted for film adaptation, most notably "Stardust", which premiered in August 2007 and stars Charlie Cox, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Claire Danes, directed

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text: Hampshire, where Neil was born in 1960, the Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town; one of Gaiman's sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, "Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family. It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid. I'd say, 'I'm a Jewish Scientologist. Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his

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text: Jesse Eisenberg, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Kit Harington, and Stanley Tucci, appear in the video "What They Took With Them", from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR, to help raise awareness of the issue of global refugees. Gaiman is a supporter and board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. One of Gaiman's most commented-upon friendships is with the musician Tori Amos, a "Sandman" fan who became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to "Neil and the Dream King" on her 1991 demo tape. He included her in turn as a character (a talking tree) in his novel

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text: it had been on "The New York Times" Bestseller children's list for fifteen weeks. In 2013, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. The novel follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier. Themes include the search for self-identity and the "disconnect between childhood and adulthood". In September 2016, Neil Gaiman announced that he had been working for some years on retellings of Norse mythology. "Norse Mythology" was released in February 2017. Gaiman wrote the

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text: project. At the time, Gaiman was preparing for his final signing tour, which became one of the central subjects of the documentary. Meaney and Rennert followed Gaiman on his tour in the US and through all of England. This footage became the spine of the film. This material was supplemented with interviews with Gaiman's collaborators, like DC editor Karen Berger, author Terry Pratchett, as well as his friends and fans like Bill Hader, Michael Sheen, Geoffrey Notkin, and Lenny Henry. The film follows Neil on his final book signing tour, across the US and UK. While dealing with the challenges

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text: news,' he said, 'girl you're a dandelion'"). He also wrote stories for the tour book of "Boys for Pele" and "Scarlet's Walk", a letter for the tour book of "American Doll Posse", and the stories behind each girl in her album "Strange Little Girls". Amos penned the introduction for his novel "Death: the High Cost of Living", and posed for the cover. She also wrote a song called "Sister Named Desire" based on his "Sandman" character, which was included on his anthology, "Where's Neil When You Need Him?". Gaiman is godfather to Tori Amos's daughter Tash, and wrote a poem

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text: introduced him to literary awards, specifically the 1956 Carnegie Medal won by the concluding volume. When Gaiman won the 2010 Medal himself, the press reported him recalling, "it had to be the most important literary award there ever was" and observing, "if you can make yourself aged seven happy, you're really doing well – it's like writing a letter to yourself aged seven." Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was another childhood favourite, and "a favourite forever. Alice was default reading to the point where I knew it by heart." He also enjoyed Batman comics as a child. Gaiman was

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text: family's religion. About his personal views, Gaiman has stated, "I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe. I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe. I don't know, I think there's probably a 50/50 chance. It doesn't really matter to me." Gaiman was able to read at the age of four. He said, "I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on

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text: led to similar results for the other two characters, Angela and Medieval Spawn. This legal battle was brought by Gaiman and the specifically formed Marvels and Miracles, LLC, which Gaiman created to help sort out the legal rights surrounding Marvelman. Gaiman wrote "Marvel 1602 "in 2003 to help fund this project. All of Marvel Comics' profits for the original issues of the series went to Marvels and Miracles. In 2009, Marvel Comics purchased Marvelman. Gaiman returned to court over three more Spawn characters, Dark Ages Spawn, Domina and Tiffany, that are claimed to be "derivative of the three he co-created

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text: artists as character creators). As McFarlane used the characters without Gaiman's permission or royalty payments, Gaiman believed his copyrighted work was being infringed upon, which violated their original, oral, agreement. McFarlane initially agreed that Gaiman had not signed away any rights to the characters, and negotiated with Gaiman to effectively 'swap' McFarlane's interest in the character Marvelman (McFarlane believes he purchased interest in the character when Eclipse Comics was liquidated; Gaiman is interested in being able to continue his aborted run of that title) but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's

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text: like death, a lonely business." The original "American Gods" blog was extracted for publication in the NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany, "Adventures in the Dream Trade". To celebrate the seventh anniversary of the blog, the novel "American Gods" was provided free of charge online for a month. Gaiman is an active user of the social networking site Twitter with over 2.7 million followers , using the username "@neilhimself". In 2013, Gaiman was named by IGN as one of "The Best Tweeters in Comics", describing his posts as "sublime." Gaiman also runs a Tumblr account on which he primarily answers

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text: Rick Veitch. An editorial decision by DC to censor Veitch's final storyline caused both Gaiman and Delano to withdraw from the title. Gaiman produced two stories for DC's "Secret Origins" series in 1989. A Poison Ivy tale drawn by Mark Buckingham and a Riddler story illustrated by Bernie Mireault and Matt Wagner. A story which Gaiman originally wrote for "Action Comics Weekly" in 1989 was shelved due to editorial concerns but it was finally published in 2000 as "". In 1990, Gaiman wrote "The Books of Magic", a four-part mini-series that provided a tour of the mythological and magical parts

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text: Pratchett on the comic novel "Good Omens", about the impending apocalypse. After forming a friendship with comic-book writer Alan Moore, Gaiman started writing comic-books, picking up "Miracleman" after Moore finished his run on the series. Gaiman and artist Mark Buckingham collaborated on several issues of the series before its publisher, Eclipse Comics, collapsed, leaving the series unfinished. His first published comic strips were four short "Future Shocks" for "2000 AD" in 1986–87. He wrote three graphic novels with his favourite collaborator and long-time friend Dave McKean: "Violent Cases", "Signal to Noise", and "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr.

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text: form, Gaiman himself quipped: "I've never been able to figure out whether "Sandman" is a gothic." Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators. However, Smith's viewpoint is in the minority: to many, if there is a problem with Gaiman scholarship and intertextuality it is that "... his literary merit and vast popularity have propelled him into the nascent comics canon so quickly that there is not yet a basis of critical scholarship about his work." David Rudd takes

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text: called "Blueberry Girl" for Tori and Tash. The poem has been turned into a book by the illustrator Charles Vess. Gaiman read the poem aloud to an audience at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco on 5 October 2008 during his book reading tour for "The Graveyard Book". It was published in March 2009 with the title "Blueberry Girl". In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by Todd McFarlane to write a single issue of "Spawn", a popular title at the newly created Image Comics company. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller,

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text: with his wife, musician Amanda Palmer. In some of these performances he has also sung songs, in "a novelist's version of singing", despite having "no kind of singing voice". In 2015, Gaiman delivered a 100-minute lecture for the Long Now Foundation entitled "How Stories Last" about the nature of storytelling and how stories persist in human culture. In April 2018 Gaiman made a guest appearance on the television show "The Big Bang Theory", and his tweet about the show's fictional comic book store becomes the central theme of the episode "The Comet Polarization". In February 2001, when Gaiman had completed

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text: House of Nothing" but which was eventually transmitted as "The Doctor's Wife". The episode won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). Gaiman made his return to "Doctor Who" with an episode titled "Nightmare in Silver", broadcast on 11 May 2013. In 2011, it was announced that Gaiman would be writing the script to a new film version of "Journey to the West". Gaiman appeared as himself on "The Simpsons" episode "The Book Job" broadcast on 20 November 2011. In 2015, Starz greenlighted a series adaptation of Gaiman's novel "American Gods". Bryan Fuller and Michael Green write

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text: its formation in the 1980s. Gaiman had three children, a son and two daughters: Neil Gaiman, the well-known fantasy author, Claire Edwards, head of Scientology Missions International, and Lizzy Calcioli. Gaiman took part in the inaugural London Marathon, in 1981, and came joint last. Gaiman, aged 75, had a heart attack during a business meeting and was dead by the time he reached hospital. A memorial service, attended by hundreds, was held for him at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, and, on 12 March 2009, his Jewish funeral service was held in Brighton. David Gaiman David Bernard Gaiman (1933 –

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text: to both of them, Pratchett did a larger portion of writing and editing if for no other reason than Gaiman's scheduled involvement with "Sandman". The 1996 novelisation of Gaiman's teleplay for the BBC mini-series "Neverwhere" was his first solo novel. The novel was released in tandem with the television series though it presents some notable differences from the television series. Gaiman has since revised the novel twice, the first time for an American audience unfamiliar with the London Underground, the second time because he felt unsatisfied with the original. In 1999, first printings of his fantasy novel "Stardust" were released.

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text: creations entirely. The presiding judge, however, ruled against their agreement being work for hire, based in large part on the legal requirement that "copyright assignments must be in writing." The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court ruling in February 2004 granting joint ownership of the characters to Gaiman and McFarlane. On the specific issue of Cogliostro, presiding Judge John C. Shabaz proclaimed, "The expressive work that is the comic-book character Count Nicholas Cogliostro was the joint work of Gaiman and McFarlane—their contributions strike us as quite equal—and both are entitled to ownership of the copyright". Similar analysis

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text: and Dave Sim each write a single issue. In issue No. 9 of the series, Gaiman introduced the characters Angela, Cogliostro, and Medieval Spawn. Prior to this issue, Spawn was an assassin who worked for the government and came back as a reluctant agent of Hell but had no direction. In Angela, a cruel and malicious angel, Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn's existence, as well as providing a moral opposite. Cogliostro was introduced as a mentor character for exposition and instruction, providing guidance. Medieval Spawn introduced a history and precedent that not all Spawns were self-serving or evil,

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text: by Matthew Vaughn. A stop-motion version of "Coraline" was released on 6 February 2009, with Henry Selick directing and Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher in the leading voice-actor roles. In 2007, Gaiman it was announced that after ten years in development, the feature film of "" would finally begin production with a screenplay by Gaiman that he would direct for Warner Independent. Don Murphy and Susan Montford are the producers, and Guillermo del Toro is the film's executive producer. By 2010 it had been reported that it was no longer in production. Seeing Ear Theatre performed two of Gaiman's audio

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text: limited series drawn by John Romita Jr. which was published from August 2006 to March 2007. In 2009, Gaiman wrote a two-part Batman story for DC Comics to follow "Batman R.I.P." titled "" a play-off of the classic Superman story "" by Alan Moore. He contributed a twelve-part Metamorpho serial drawn by Mike Allred for "Wednesday Comics", a weekly newspaper-style series. Gaiman and Paul Cornell co-wrote "Action Comics" #894 (Dec. 2010) which featured an appearance by Death. In October 2013, DC Comics released "" with art by J. H. Williams III. Gaiman's Angela character was introduced into the Marvel Universe

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text: DC's top selling titles, eclipsing even "Batman" and "Superman". Comics historian Les Daniels called Gaiman's work "astonishing" and noted that "The Sandman" was "a mixture of fantasy, horror, and ironic humor such as comic books had never seen before". DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed that ""The Sandman" became the first extraordinary success as a series of graphic novel collections, reaching out and converting new readers to the medium, particularly young women on college campuses, and making Gaiman himself into an iconic cultural figure." Gaiman and Jamie Delano were to become co-writers of the "Swamp Thing" series following

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text: Punch". Impressed with his work, DC Comics hired him in February 1987, and he wrote the limited series "Black Orchid". Karen Berger, who later became head of DC Comics's Vertigo, read "Black Orchid" and offered Gaiman a job: to re-write an old character, The Sandman, but to put his own spin on him. "The Sandman" tells the tale of the ageless, anthropomorphic personification of Dream that is known by many names, including Morpheus. The series began in January 1989 and concluded in March 1996. In the eighth issue of "The Sandman", Gaiman and artist Mike Dringenberg introduced Death, the older

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text: and vigorous approach to comics had such an impact on Gaiman that he would later write "that was the final straw, what was left of my resistance crumbled. I proceeded to make regular and frequent visits to London's Forbidden Planet shop to buy comics". In 1984, he wrote his first book, a biography of the band Duran Duran, as well as "Ghastly Beyond Belief", a book of quotations, with Kim Newman. Even though Gaiman thought he had done a terrible job, the book's first edition sold out very quickly. When he went to relinquish his rights to the book, he

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text: for The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains. In the early 1980s, Gaiman pursued journalism, conducting interviews and writing book reviews, as a means to learn about the world and to make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. He wrote and reviewed extensively for the British Fantasy Society. His first professional short story publication was "Featherquest", a fantasy story, in "Imagine Magazine" in May 1984. When waiting for a train at London's Victoria Station in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of "Swamp Thing" written by Alan Moore, and carefully read it. Moore's fresh

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text: the Lane" was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. Gaiman's family is of Polish Jewish and other Eastern European Jewish origins; his great-grandfather emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium, to the UK before 1914 and his grandfather eventually settled in the south of England in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores. His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores; his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. He has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy. After living for a period in the nearby town of Portchester,

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text: and showrun the series. A six-part radio play of "Neverwhere" was broadcast in March 2013, adapted by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. Featured stars include James McAvoy as Richard, Natalie Dormer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Bernard Cribbens and Johnny Vegas. In September 2014, Gaiman and Terry Pratchett joined forces with BBC Radio 4 to make the first ever dramatisation of their co-penned novel "Good Omens", which was broadcast in December in five half-hour episodes and culminated in an hour-long final apocalyptic showdown. Gaiman frequently performs public readings from his stories and poetry, and has toured

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text: same continuity: "Lady Justice", "Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man", and "Teknophage", and tie-ins. Although Gaiman's name appeared prominently as creator of the characters, he was not involved in writing any of the above-mentioned books. Gaiman wrote a semi-autobiographical story about a boy's fascination with Michael Moorcock's anti-hero Elric of Melniboné for Ed Kramer's anthology "Tales of the White Wolf." In 1996, Gaiman and Ed Kramer co-edited "". Nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, and others. Asked why he likes comics more than other

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text: a more generous view in his study of the novel "Coraline", where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on Sigmund Freud's notion of the Uncanny, or the "Unheimlich". Though Gaiman's work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", Gaiman says that he started reading "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" but refused to finish it: "I think I got about half way through "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and found myself thinking if this is true – I don't want to know. I really

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text: and read them. He would later win the school English prize and the school reading prize, enabling him to finally acquire the third volume. For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. He later recalled that "I admired his use of parenthetical statements to the reader, where he would just talk to you ... I'd think, 'Oh, my gosh, that is so cool! I want to do that! When I become an author, I want to be able to do things in parentheses.' I liked the power of putting things in brackets." "Narnia" also

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text: in "American Gods" to the story of "Beowulf". The 2005 novel "Anansi Boys" deals with Anansi ('Mr. Nancy'), tracing the relationship of his two sons, one semi-divine and the other an unassuming Englishman, as they explore their common heritage. It debuted at number one on "The New York Times" Best Seller list. In late 2008, Gaiman released a new children's book, "The Graveyard Book". It follows the adventures of a boy named Bod after his family is murdered and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book". ,

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text: forms of storytelling, Gaiman said: "One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on "Sandman", I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I'm writing novels I'm painfully aware that I'm working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You

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text: Where's Neil When You Need Him? Where's Neil When You Need Him? is a tribute album based on the works of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. The album was released on Dancing Ferret Discs on July 18, 2006. The CD has cover art by Dave McKean and extensive new liner notes from Neil Gaiman. The album's title was taken from the song "Space Dog", by Tori Amos. Amos became a long-time friend and collaborator of Neil Gaiman after she made a reference to him in the 1991 song "Tear in Your Hand". (She had also made references to Gaiman and his

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text: Tempest". The comic also draws from numerous mythologies and historical periods. Analyzing Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book", bibliographer and librarian Richard Bleiler detects patterns of and allusions to the Gothic novel, from Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" to Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House". He concludes that Gaiman is "utilizing works, characters, themes, and settings that generations of scholars have identified and classified as Gothic, ... [yet] subverts them and develops the novel by focusing on the positive aspects of maturation, concentrating on the values of learning, friendship, and sacrifice." Regarding another work's assumed connection and allusions to this

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text: with McFarlane." The judge ruled that Gaiman was right in his claims and gave McFarlane until the start of September 2010 to settle matters. Gaiman's work is known for a high degree of allusiveness. Meredith Collins, for instance, has commented upon the degree to which his novel "Stardust" depends on allusions to Victorian fairy tales and culture. Particularly in "The Sandman", literary figures and characters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from within "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The

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text: giving additional character development to Malebolgia, the demon that creates Hellspawn. As intended, all three characters were used repeatedly throughout the next decade by Todd McFarlane within the wider Spawn universe. In papers filed by Gaiman in early 2002, however, he claimed that the characters were jointly owned by their scripter (himself) and artist (McFarlane), not merely by McFarlane in his role as the creator of the series. Disagreement over who owned the rights to a character was the primary motivation for McFarlane and other artists to form Image Comics (although that argument related more towards disagreements between writers and

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text: 1 January 2010. On 16 November 2010, Amanda Palmer hosted a non-legally binding flash mob wedding for Gaiman's birthday in New Orleans. They were legally married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon. On marrying Palmer, he took her middle name, MacKinnon, as one of his names. On 18 March 2015, they announced through their Facebook and Twitter accounts that Palmer was pregnant with their first child. Their son Anthony was born 16 September 2015. In 2016, Gaiman, as well as Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Capaldi, Douglas Booth,

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text: theatre plays, "Snow, Glass, Apples", Gaiman's retelling of Snow White and "Murder Mysteries", a story of heaven before the Fall in which the first crime is committed. Both audio plays were published in the collection "Smoke and Mirrors" in 1998. Gaiman's 2009 Newbery Medal winning book "The Graveyard Book" will be made into a movie, with Ron Howard as the director. Gaiman wrote an episode of the long-running BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who", broadcast in 2011 during Matt Smith's second series as the Doctor. Shooting began in August 2010 for this episode, the original title of which was "The

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text: 1996 BBC dark fantasy television series "Neverwhere". He cowrote the screenplay for the movie "MirrorMask" with his old friend Dave McKean for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localised English language script to the anime movie "Princess Mononoke", based on a translation of the Japanese script. He cowrote the script for Robert Zemeckis's "Beowulf" with Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive for both writers. Gaiman has expressed interest in collaborating on a film adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He was the only person other than J. Michael Straczynski to write a "Babylon 5" script in

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text: in the last issue of the "Age of Ultron" miniseries in 2013. Gaiman is overseeing "The Sandman Universe", a line of comic books published by Vertigo. The four new ongoing series —"House of Whispers", "Lucifer", "The Books of Magic", and "The Dreaming" are written by new creative teams. The line launched on 8 August 2018. In a collaboration with author Terry Pratchett, best known for his series of "Discworld" novels, Gaiman's first novel "Good Omens" was published in 1990. In 2011 Pratchett said that while the entire novel was a collaborative effort and most of the ideas could be credited

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text: know, you can go back. We have things like "The Golden Ass". And you go, well, I don't know that I'm as good as that and that's two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like – I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun." Gaiman wrote two series for Marvel Comics. "Marvel 1602" was an eight-issue limited series published from November 2003 to June 2004 with art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove. "The Eternals" was a seven-issue

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text: discovered the publisher had gone bankrupt. After this, he was offered a job by "Penthouse". He refused the offer. He also wrote interviews and articles for many British magazines, including "Knave." During this he sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, including Gerry Musgrave, Richard Grey, and "a couple of house names". Gaiman has said he ended his journalism career in 1987 because British newspapers regularly publish untruths as fact. In the late 1980s, he wrote "" in what he calls a "classic English humour" style. Following this he wrote the opening of what would become his collaboration with fellow English author Terry

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text: that was owned by his father. The couple were married in 1985 after having their first child, Michael. As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. When he was 19–20 years old, he contacted his favourite science fiction writer, R. A. Lafferty, whom he discovered when he was nine, and asked for advice on becoming an author along with a Lafferty

title: Neil Gaiman

text: The novel has been released both as a standard novel and in an illustrated text edition. This novel was highly influenced by Victorian fairytales and culture. "American Gods" became one of Gaiman's best-selling and multi-award-winning novels upon its release in 2001. A special 10th Anniversary edition was released, with the "author's preferred text" 12,000 words longer than the original mass-market editions. Gaiman has not written a direct sequel to "American Gods" but he has revisited the characters. A glimpse at Shadow's travels in Europe is found in a short story which finds him in Scotland, applying the same concepts developed

title: Neil Gaiman

text: educated at several Church of England schools, including Fonthill School in East Grinstead, Ardingly College (1970–74), and Whitgift School in Croydon (1974–77). His father's position as a public relations official of the Church of Scientology was the cause of the seven-year-old Gaiman being blocked from entering a boys' school, forcing him to remain at the school that he had previously been attending. He lived in East Grinstead for many years, from 1965 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1987. He met his first wife, Mary McGrath, while she was studying Scientology and living in a house in East Grinstead

title: Where Did All the Love Go?

text: Where Did All the Love Go? "Where Did All the Love Go?" is a song by English rock band Kasabian and is the second official single from their third album "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum". It was released on 10 August 2009. Guitarist Sergio Pizzorno explained the song's meaning to "New Musical Express" stating that "It's sitting at home seeing another kid get stabbed, everyone is scared and going, 'What the fuck is going on?" The song also speaks about the Internet, with Pizzorno elaborating in an interview with "The Sun" that "Kids today grow up really quickly and there's

title: Grow Up (The Queers album)

text: should do "Slug". The Ramones never did record "Love Love Love" but we were more than happy to record "Slug". Having Joey say he wanted to do our song was a thrill I will never forget. A demo recording of "Slug", recorded by the Ramones, did eventually surface on the 1990 compilation album "All the Stuff (And More) Volume Two". For the "Grow Up" reissue, King, Rassler, and Shore wrote new liner notes reflecting on this period of the Queers' history and on the various recording sessions that comprised the album. Reviewing the 1994 edition of "Grow Up", Stewart Mason

title: Where Grass Won't Grow

text: Where Grass Won't Grow Where Grass Won't Grow is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1969 (see 1969 in country music) on the Musicor Records label. "Where Grass Won't Grow" came towards the end of Jones's association with Musicor. Jones dissatisfaction with the production on his own records and his new marriage to Tammy Wynette only increased his desire to leave Musicor and join her at Epic Records. Significant cuts on the album include "She's Mine" and "If Not For You", which both reached number six on the charts, and "Where Grass Won't Grow", a

title: Where the Columbines Grow

text: Where the Columbines Grow "Where the Columbines Grow" is one of the two official state songs of Colorado. It was written and composed by A.J. Fynn, and was adopted on May 8, 1915. In the early to mid-2000s, there was debate over replacing "Where the Columbines Grow" with John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" or Merle Haggard's rare song "Colorado". In 2007, the Colorado legislature named "Rocky Mountain High" as Colorado's second official state song, paired with "Where the Columbines Grow". In October 1978, Dave Beadles (then music director for 740 KSSS, Colorado Springs) petitioned governor Richard Lamm to temporarily change

title: When I Grow Up (Garbage song)

text: at Brisbane's Livid Festival and co-headline a tour with Alanis Morissette the following month. On October 9, Garbage appeared on "Hey Hey It's Saturday" to perform the single. "When I Grow Up" moved back up the charts to No. 25 by the end of the month, while the "Version 2.0" album surged up to #8. "When I Grow Up" eventually dropped off the ARIA chart when Garbage released follow-up single "You Look So Fine" on December 6. That single did not make the chart. "When I Grow Up" reappeared at No. 47 at the end of the month and charted

title: Smoke and Mirrors (Gaiman book)

text: to right): Smoke and Mirrors (Gaiman book) Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. Many of the stories in this book are reprints from other sources, such as magazines, anthologies, and collections (including ten stories and poems from Gaiman's earlier small press miscellany "Angels and Visitations"). The included stories and poems are different between some of the editions. The US, UK, and eBook editions have some differences in the stories they contain

title: Smoke and Mirrors (Gaiman book)

text: Smoke and Mirrors (Gaiman book) Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. Many of the stories in this book are reprints from other sources, such as magazines, anthologies, and collections (including ten stories and poems from Gaiman's earlier small press miscellany "Angels and Visitations"). The included stories and poems are different between some of the editions. The US, UK, and eBook editions have some differences in the stories they contain (see table

title: I Don't Want to Grow Up

text: notes. Band Production I Don't Want to Grow Up I Don't Want to Grow Up is the second album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1985 through New Alliance Records. It marked the end of a two-year hiatus for the band, during which singer Milo Aukerman had attended college and drummer Bill Stevenson had joined Black Flag. "I Don't Want to Grow Up" was the first of two albums the Descendents recorded with guitarist Ray Cooper, and their last with original bassist Tony Lombardo, who quit the group because he did not want to go on

title: I Don't Want to Grow Up

text: I Don't Want to Grow Up I Don't Want to Grow Up is the second album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1985 through New Alliance Records. It marked the end of a two-year hiatus for the band, during which singer Milo Aukerman had attended college and drummer Bill Stevenson had joined Black Flag. "I Don't Want to Grow Up" was the first of two albums the Descendents recorded with guitarist Ray Cooper, and their last with original bassist Tony Lombardo, who quit the group because he did not want to go on tour. Though recorded

title: Where the Columbines Grow

text: the state song to "Colorado", written by Dave Kirby, for Country Music Month. The petition was successful, and Kirby was flown to Colorado for the occasion. Where the Columbines Grow "Where the Columbines Grow" is one of the two official state songs of Colorado. It was written and composed by A.J. Fynn, and was adopted on May 8, 1915. In the early to mid-2000s, there was debate over replacing "Where the Columbines Grow" with John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" or Merle Haggard's rare song "Colorado". In 2007, the Colorado legislature named "Rocky Mountain High" as Colorado's second official state song,

title: Where Corn Don't Grow

text: in search of a life in the big city. The young male eventually has his guitar and wallet, and everything but his father's gold watch stolen. He robs food from a store because he has no money, but he is caught and arrested. The young male is eventually revealed to be Tritt when he returns to his father's home with the gold watch. "Where Corn Don't Grow" debuted at number 73 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 23, 1996. Where Corn Don't Grow "Where Corn Don't Grow" is a song written by

title: Grow Up, Dude

text: album a more mixed review, stating that the album might have the charm mainly due to its low-budget, do-it-yourself attitude. Schreurs believes that "if ("Grow Up, Dude") was polished with big production, it wouldn’t be nearly as endearing." Schreurs ended up giving the album three-and-a-half stars out of five. Grow Up, Dude Grow Up, Dude is the debut studio album by Floridian emo band, You Blew It! The album was released through Topshelf Records on April 24, 2012. Released through Topshelf, it was the band's second release on Topshelf, and their first LP through Topshelf. In June and July 2013,

title: Grow Up, Dude

text: Grow Up, Dude Grow Up, Dude is the debut studio album by Floridian emo band, You Blew It! The album was released through Topshelf Records on April 24, 2012. Released through Topshelf, it was the band's second release on Topshelf, and their first LP through Topshelf. In June and July 2013, the group went on a short US tour with Mixtapes, Modern Baseball and Light Years. "Grow Up, Dude" has received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Brandon Wall-Fudge of the Sanctuary Review gave a rave review of the album stating that the band "does do the quieter side with

title: Grow Up (video game)

text: Grow Up (video game) Grow Up is an open world adventure platform video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. The game, which is the sequel to 2015's "Grow Home", was released on 16 August 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. "Grow Up" builds upon the gameplay of its predecessor, "Grow Home", by once again putting players in control of a robot named B.U.D, who is able to climb on landscapes. While the game still features B.U.D's ability to direct the stalks of Starplants into energy sources to help them grow, the main goal of

title: Grow Up and Blow Away

text: re-released. All songs written, performed and recorded by Emily Haines and James Shaw. Grow Up and Blow Away Grow Up and Blow Away is the third studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Metric. The album was recorded in 2001, but delayed for years by their record label. As the years passed, the band's sound changed to the point where they no longer felt the album would be what the fans expected to hear, so Metric recorded a completely new album, "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?", and released that instead. Last Gang Records later purchased the rights

title: Grow Up and Blow Away

text: Grow Up and Blow Away Grow Up and Blow Away is the third studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Metric. The album was recorded in 2001, but delayed for years by their record label. As the years passed, the band's sound changed to the point where they no longer felt the album would be what the fans expected to hear, so Metric recorded a completely new album, "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?", and released that instead. Last Gang Records later purchased the rights to the album and released it on June 26, 2007. Compared with the

title: When I Grow Up (Garbage song)

text: for a final time in mid-January 2000, having clocked up a total of twenty-one weeks. "When I Grow Up" became Garbage's most successful single release in Australia at that point in their career. Following the success of Garbage's James Bond theme "The World Is Not Enough" in Germany (where it reached #38) and across Europe, BMG Ariola followed up by issuing "When I Grow Up" as the sixth German single from "Version 2.0" on March 6, 2000. The original "When I Grow Up" music video documented the frenzy of a "Version 2.0" tour concert. director Sophie Muller shot footage over

title: Grow Up (Paramore song)

text: ""Grow Up" is one of several highlights of their new self-titled album that "wears its love of New Wave culture like an extreme asymmetrical bob." Grow Up (Paramore song) "Grow Up" is a song by American rock band Paramore, and is the third track from their self-titled fourth studio album "Paramore". Despite not being released as a single, the song charted at #36 on the UK Rock chart. It garnered acclaim from music critics, who called the song one of the standout tracks on "Paramore", and praised its production and lyricism. "Grow Up" was written by the band's lead singer

title: Grow Up (Paramore song)

text: Grow Up (Paramore song) "Grow Up" is a song by American rock band Paramore, and is the third track from their self-titled fourth studio album "Paramore". Despite not being released as a single, the song charted at #36 on the UK Rock chart. It garnered acclaim from music critics, who called the song one of the standout tracks on "Paramore", and praised its production and lyricism. "Grow Up" was written by the band's lead singer Hayley Williams, and lead guitarist Taylor York. Production was handled by York and Justin Meldal-Johnsen. "Grow Up" includes a mid-tempo guitar, synthesizers and has a

title: Neil Jordan

text: Crying Game", which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Jordan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Its unexpected success led him back to American studio filmmaking, where he directed "Interview with the Vampire". He also directed the crime drama "The Brave One" starring Jodie Foster. Neil Gaiman announced during his "The Today Show" appearance on 27 January 2009, that Neil Jordan would be directing the film of his Newbery Medal-winning book "The Graveyard Book". Jordan also wrote and directed the Irish made film "Ondine" (2009), starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. He also directed "Byzantium",

title: When I Grow Up (Garbage song)

text: at No. 1 with a box office take of almost $42 million. After dropping for two weeks, "When I Grow Up" stabilized at No. 24 for a fortnight before leaving the Modern Rock chart at the start of August. "When I Grow Up" had spent a total of fifteen weeks on the alternative charts and fourteen on the dance charts (where it exited at the end of June). "When I Grow Up" was released by Festival Mushroom in New Zealand in mid-July on CD (featuring "Can't Seem to Make You Mine", "Tornado" and the Danny tenaglia remix) and cassette single

title: When I Grow Up (Garbage song)

text: the band in both United Kingdom and Spain where the single charted very strongly. In North America, after initially impacting the band's core alternative fanbase, "When I Grow Up" served as one of two songs released from the soundtrack to the comedy film "Big Daddy" (the other being Sheryl Crow's cover version of "Sweet Child O' Mine"). The song performed moderately well on the alternative and dance charts. "When I Grow Up" was remastered in 2007 for Garbage's greatest hits album "Absolute Garbage". "When I Grow Up" was written and recorded at Smart Studios during the 1997 sessions for "Version

title: Gaiman, Chubut

text: Gaiman, Chubut Gaiman is a town in the Chubut Province of Patagonia in Argentina. It has a population of 4,730 as per the . It is located in the River Chubut's lower valley (called in Welsh), about 15 km west of Trelew. Gaiman is a cultural and demographic centre of the main region of the Welsh settlement in Argentina, known in Welsh as . The town was founded in 1874 by David D. Roberts and acquired municipal rights in 1885. The Central Chubut Railway arrived in 1908 connecting Gaiman to Trelew. The Gaiman Train Tunnel was built in 1914 when

title: Grow Up (video game)

text: crystals hidden across the world. By completing challenges, which require B.U.D to go through multiple checkpoints within a time limit, the player can unlock optional B.U.D Suits, which each give B.U.D unique properties, such as a bee suit that attracts bugs or an aviator suit that increases gliding speed. "Grow Up" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Grow Up (video game) Grow Up is an open world adventure platform video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. The game, which is the sequel to 2015's "Grow Home", was released on 16 August

title: David Gaiman

text: Portsmouth Grammar School, though he did not excel academically. He subsequently joined the British Army where he rose to the rank of sergeant. He returned to Portsmouth on leaving the army to work for his father in the grocery stores, though he detested this job. He married Sheila on 1 March 1959. He eventually decided to go into business for himself, much to his father's displeasure, and the family moved away from their home in Portchester in 1962. When the Gaimans discovered Scientology they moved to East Grinstead, West Sussex in 1965. David Gaiman joined the staff of the Church

title: Grow Up (Svoy album)

text: Grow Up (Svoy album) Grow Up is the third self-produced solo album by Svoy. It was released in Japan on June 22, 2011, on Thistime Records. U.S./International release followed on June 28, 2011, on Sixteenth Republic Records. In July 2011, it was announced that the album's opening track "Never Grow Up" was picked up for power rotation by Japan's FM Ishikawa 80.5 MHz with the song debuting at #95 on the station's HOT 100 Chart and subsequently peaking at #63. In the same month, it was announced that another track from the album, "Right Here, Right Now", was picked up

title: I Want to Grow Up

text: neuroses and doesn't need your help." All songs written by Colleen Green. Information adapted from the album's liner notes. "I Want to Grow Up" charted on the U.S. Top Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of March 14, 2015, at position 22. I Want to Grow Up I Want to Grow Up is the third studio album by American indie pop musician Colleen Green, released on February 24, 2015 through Hardly Art. The album's title is a play on the Descendents' "I Don't Want to Grow Up". "I Want to Grow Up" was Green's first album professionally recorded in a

title: I Want to Grow Up

text: I Want to Grow Up I Want to Grow Up is the third studio album by American indie pop musician Colleen Green, released on February 24, 2015 through Hardly Art. The album's title is a play on the Descendents' "I Don't Want to Grow Up". "I Want to Grow Up" was Green's first album professionally recorded in a studio. The album features Jake Orrall of JEFF The Brotherhood on guitar and Diarrhea Planet's Casey Weissbuch on drums. Green spoke on recording the album in an interview with Stereogum: "I Want to Grow Up" received positive reviews. Pitchfork's Jes Skolnik praised

title: Grow Up (Svoy album)

text: is ""...Beautiful. Exhilarating."" and Niigata's 76.5 FM Kento gave the album ""...High praise."". Grow Up (Svoy album) Grow Up is the third self-produced solo album by Svoy. It was released in Japan on June 22, 2011, on Thistime Records. U.S./International release followed on June 28, 2011, on Sixteenth Republic Records. In July 2011, it was announced that the album's opening track "Never Grow Up" was picked up for power rotation by Japan's FM Ishikawa 80.5 MHz with the song debuting at #95 on the station's HOT 100 Chart and subsequently peaking at #63. In the same month, it was announced

title: Where Grass Won't Grow

text: song Jones would revisit as a duet with Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Trisha Yearwood as part of "The Bradley Barn Sessions" in 1994. The album would only reach number 15 on the country albums chart. Writing for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne criticizes the album for being lackluster, calling it "needlessly bland and the inevitable result of trying to tame the wild stallion" and laments that "the star seems to be receiving songs from only a handful of sources here, none of which do him much justice." Album – Billboard (North America) Where Grass Won't Grow Where Grass Won't Grow is

title: Where Corn Don't Grow

text: Where Corn Don't Grow "Where Corn Don't Grow" is a song written by Roger Murrah and Mark Alan Springer. It was first recorded by Waylon Jennings on his 1990 album "The Eagle", peaking at #67 on the country singles charts that year. Six years later, Travis Tritt covered it on his 1996 album "The Restless Kind". Also released as a single, his rendition was a Top Ten country hit in 1997, peaking at #6 on the same chart. The music video for Tritt's version was directed by Michael Merriman. The video features a young male who leaves his father's farm

title: David Gaiman

text: of Scientology at nearby Saint Hill Manor, eventually becoming the Church's chief UK media spokesman. He joined the Guardian's Office (GO), the Church's public relations bureau/intelligence agency. In 1969, Gaiman was involved in an attempt by the Church to take over the National Association for Mental Health (now Mind), a British mental health charity. Some 300 Scientologists joined the group and nominated Gaiman, among others, for high office. Gaiman was nominated for the Chairmanship. Eventually, the Scientologists were asked to resign but contested that request in court. Scientologists also held demonstrations for, according to Gaiman, "humane treatment and a bill

title: David Gaiman

text: David Gaiman David Bernard Gaiman (1933 – 7 March 2009) was head of the UK branch of Church of Scientology. He and his wife Sheila joined Scientology in the early 1960s and Gaiman served as public relations director and was commonly in the media during the British controversies over Scientology in the 1960s and 1970s. Gaiman's family is of Polish Jewish origins; after emigrating from the Netherlands in 1916, his father eventually settled in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth on the south coast of England and established a chain of grocery stores. Born in 1933, Gaiman was educated at The

title: Grow Up, Tony Phillips

text: and for what the "Daily Texan" saw as "genuine truths about how high school can dissolve the most intense friendships". "Vox" and "Twitch Film" both gave mostly positive reviews, with "Twitch Film" praising the movie's cinematography and film score. Grow Up, Tony Phillips Grow Up, Tony Phillips is a 2013 comedy film by American director Emily Hagins and her fourth feature film. It was first released on October 31, 2013 at the South by Southwest film festival and stars Tony Vespe as Tony Phillips, a young teenager's love for Halloween. Unlike her prior feature-length films, "Grow Up, Tony Phillips" does

title: Grow Up, Tony Phillips

text: Grow Up, Tony Phillips Grow Up, Tony Phillips is a 2013 comedy film by American director Emily Hagins and her fourth feature film. It was first released on October 31, 2013 at the South by Southwest film festival and stars Tony Vespe as Tony Phillips, a young teenager's love for Halloween. Unlike her prior feature-length films, "Grow Up, Tony Phillips" does not feature any supernatural elements seen in past films such as "Pathogen" or "My Sucky Teen Romance". Tony (Tony Vespe) is conflicted. He loves Halloween, but this year all of his high school friends have decided that Halloween is

title: When I Grow Up (Garbage song)

text: 2.0". Bass on "When I Grow Up" was performed by Daniel Shulman. Lyrically, Manson described "When I Grow Up" as being about "that delirious state of wishing and hoping and dreaming for things, not giving up. There's a great quote by Flaubert where he says, 'Sometimes the forces of the world hold us back for a while, but not for ever' ... ". Manson stated that despite the song dealing with growing up, it actually questions whether adulthood brings maturity − "Even though you're sussed and you're smart and you've worked it all out, you haven't even got the remotest

title: Where's Neil When You Need Him?

text: work in her songs "Horses", "Hotel", "Carbon", "Not Dying Today", and "Sister Named Desire".) "Sister Named Desire" is the only work on this album that had previously appeared elsewhere. (The song was originally released as a B-Side to Amos' track "Talula".) It was remastered specifically for this release at the same time that other Amos tracks were being cleaned up for her compilation "Tales of a Librarian". Where's Neil When You Need Him? Where's Neil When You Need Him? is a tribute album based on the works of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. The album was released on Dancing Ferret Discs

title: Where the Wild Roses Grow

text: Kylie made a surprise appearance during the Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds set at All Points East festival. Minogue performed the song on the following concert tours: Minogue appeared as a surprise guest at Coldplay's Enmore Theatre show in Sydney, Australia on 19 June 2014, where they performed the song as a duet. A guide track with The Bad Seeds guitarist, Blixa Bargeld, singing Kylie Minogue's vocal part was released on the compilation "B-Sides & Rarities". These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Where the Wild Roses Grow". Where the Wild Roses Grow "Where

title: When I Grow Up (Matilda)

text: number that captures kids aching for adulthood, blissfully ignorant of its pains and burdens.". Entertainment Weekly named it "the second-act show-stopper", and said the song "takes a simple, round-like melody and artfully sketches a pint-size perspective on the supposedly absolute freedoms of adulthood". Out named it "the barn-raiser song". "When I Grow Up" and "Naughty" were performed at the Royal Albert Hall in November 2012. When I Grow Up (Matilda) "When I Grow Up" is a song from the musical "Matilda". Its music and lyrics were written by Tim Minchin. "When I Grow Up" was the first song that Tim

title: Grow Up (Olly Murs song)

text: Murs filming the video with the crew made up of children. Grow Up (Olly Murs song) "Grow Up" is a song performed by English singer-songwriter Olly Murs. The song was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2016 as the second single from his fifth studio album "24 Hrs" (2016). The song has peaked at number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Olly Murs, Steve Robson, Camille Purcell, Wayne Hector. "Grow Up" debuted outside of the top-forty on the UK Singles Chart at number 52. In its second week it

title: Gaiman, Chubut

text: the railway extended to Las Plumas (). Many people in the region have maintained the use of Welsh alongside Spanish. The annual youth Eisteddfod, a Welsh cultural festival, is held here every September. The (Regional Historical Museum) in the former station house commemorates the history of the Welsh community in the region. There are a number of Welsh Protestant chapels, of which the largest is . The town's name originates in an indigenous Tehuelche place-name meaning "rocky point." Just to the south of Gaiman is the Bryn Gwyn Paleontological Park. Gaiman, Chubut Gaiman is a town in the Chubut Province

title: Where the Wild Roses Grow

text: United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and New Zealand. It also received a limited promotional release in the United States. The song was certified Gold in Germany in 1996 for 250,000 copies sold, despite never reaching the top ten in that country. It charted again at the bottom of the German Top 100 in 2008 because of digital downloads after it was used in a soap opera. "Where the Wild Roses Grow" was also certified Gold in Australia for selling 50,000 copies. Cave was inspired to write "Where the Wild Roses Grow" after listening to the traditional song, "Down in the Willow

title: Where the Wild Roses Grow

text: Where the Wild Roses Grow "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is a duet by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and pop singer Kylie Minogue. It is the fifth song and lead single from the band's ninth studio album, "Murder Ballads" (1996), released on Mute Records. It was written by the band's frontman Nick Cave and produced by Tony Cohen and Victor Van Vugt. The song received a positive reception from music critics and became the band's most successful single worldwide reaching No. 3 in Norway, the top five in Australia, and the top twenty in the

title: Where Grass Won't Grow (song)

text: and Trisha Yearwood for the "Bradley Barn Sessions". Where Grass Won't Grow (song) "Where Grass Won't Grow" is a song by American country music singer George Jones. It was written by Earl "Peanut" Montgomery, one of Jones' favorite songwriters, and tells the story of the hardships faced by a family living on a twelve-acre farm in south Tennessee. The song features a gentle mandolin and three modulations that build to a redemptive closing but, despite a moving vocal from Jones, the single, released on Musicor in 1970, stalled at #28 on the "Billboard" country singles chart. He would record it

title: Where Grass Won't Grow (song)

text: Where Grass Won't Grow (song) "Where Grass Won't Grow" is a song by American country music singer George Jones. It was written by Earl "Peanut" Montgomery, one of Jones' favorite songwriters, and tells the story of the hardships faced by a family living on a twelve-acre farm in south Tennessee. The song features a gentle mandolin and three modulations that build to a redemptive closing but, despite a moving vocal from Jones, the single, released on Musicor in 1970, stalled at #28 on the "Billboard" country singles chart. He would record it again in 1994 with Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton,