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Gary Benchly, Rock Star
Paul Ford
Gary Benchley, recent college grad and aspiring rock star, left his dead-end life in Albany to seek his fortune in that hotbed of hipsters?Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Plume
September 2005
256 pages ISBN: 0452286638 Trade Size
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Contemporary
"Before I moved to New York from Albany, I wrote out a
careful, step-by-step plan: 1) Rock out; 2) No more data
entry." Gary Benchley, recent college grad and aspiring rock star,
left his
dead-end life in Albany to seek his fortune in that hotbed
of
hipsters--Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Earnestly
optimistic and
completely confident in his fate, Gary writes of his trials
and
tribulations securing a roommate, a girlfriend, and even a
band--the
"world's most inclusive band"--complete with a gay synth
player, a hot
chick drummer, and a cool black bassist. Calling their not-
quite-musical sound "indie prog," they combine the most
pretentious
music of the 1970s with the most pretentious music of today.
But after
a dozen shows and even an album, the band begins to fall
apart, and
Gary finds himself increasingly disillusioned with his rock
star
fantasies. In Gary's world, though, the glass is always half
full.
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