All Consuming


Items Jon Konrath consumed in…

April, 2006



  1. Monday 3
    B000bx8r10

    Finished consuming…
    Broken Flowers — 1235 people

    Worth consuming!


  2. Wednesday 5
    0452286638

    Finished consuming…
    Gary Benchley, Rock Star — 8 people

    Worth consuming!


  3. Sunday 9
    B000e8n8l6

    Finished consuming…
    Bukowski - Born Into This — 42 people



  4. Monday 10
    1550225480

    Finished consuming…
    Ghost Rider — 6 people

    Worth consuming!


  5. Tuesday 11
    B000e1zbhm

    Finished consuming…
    Operation — 4 people



  6. Sunday 16

    Finished consuming…
    Vault — 30 people

    Worth consuming!


  7. Wednesday 19
    B000ef5mrw

    Started consuming…
    Super Colossal — 5 people



Entries about these items

    A story about "Vault" — 3 years ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    Way back when, Coke test-marketed a drink called Surge, and I loved it. It was green, and didn’t taste like Mountain Dew, but it had lots of go to it, and as a writer who often spends the wee hours trying to stay awake in front of the typer, I appreciated that. In fact, it got to the point where I couldn’t write without the stuff, which is about the time I moved across the country and to a place where they didn’t make Surge. And then it vanished forever.

    Now, six or so years later, they put out this “new” drink Vault. Well, let me tell you this: Vault is Surge. It’s just a different label. Maybe the marketing is different; now they have to call it a “hybrid energy drink”, to catch people onto it. But it’s the same stuff. And it’s good, and I can find it at my local PathMark without paying ten bucks a can on eBay. So that’s good. Or maybe I shouldn’t say that, because the stuff could vanish just as fast as it appeared…

    B000e1zbhm

    eh — 3 years ago

    I liked the idea of the band getting back to their metal roots and doing a really musically straightforward album, but following the story of their last big concept album. But when I listened… I dunno. The production sounds really off. And there are some riffs that are spot-on awesome, but other parts that sound really stupid. I think this demonstrates that the writing of Chris DeGarmo was an important part of the band’s early success, and the production of Peter Collins was the other part. With both missing, this doesn’t have much repeat playability for me. I feel like a dick saying that, because I’ve been a fan of the band since Rage for Order, but I’ve heard demos recorded in peoples’ houses that sound better than this.

    B000e8n8l6

    Good, but safe — 3 years ago

    It’s an interesting film, but it’s a bit sloppy. It doesn’t touch all the bases, it doesn’t do all the research, and it doesn’t hit hard to get the most out of the people he did manage to bring in for interviews. It is good at digging up old footage, especially the video B/W stuff of Buk driving around East Hollywood to do his laundry in 1976 in his old Volks with a smashed in windshield, courtesy of crazy girlfriend Linda King. But there was just something missing for me. He just barely skimmed. It was a movie version of any of the many Bukowski biography books that have been published recently, that only tell part of the story. Seriously, you’d do much better reading the Howard Sounes biography. The only explanation, other than the director being relatively new to Bukowski, was that he closely worked with his widow to get started on everything, which meant he only had the “official” view on everything. Oh well. It’s entertaining, but it’s a rent-not-buy for me. (Well, pretty much everything is now, though.)


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