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Squirrel Bait – Skag Heaven – New LPSquirrel Bait was a punk rock band formed in the early 1980s in Louisville, Kentucky by guitarist David Grubbs and bassist Clark Johnson. The group's first demo tape, released under the name Squirrelbait Youth, featured drummer Rich Schuler and saw Grubbs handle both guitar and vocals. This lineup self released a second tape in 1983. After Rich Schuler moved away, Britt Walford took over on drums and Peter Searcy joined as singer. In July 1984, this
Squirrel Bait was a punk rock band formed in the early 1980s in Louisville, Kentucky by guitarist David Grubbs and bassist Clark Johnson. The group's first demo tape, released under the name Squirrelbait Youth, featured drummer Rich Schuler and saw Grubbs handle both guitar and vocals. This lineup self-released a second tape in 1983. After Rich Schuler moved away, Britt Walford took over on drums and Peter Searcy joined as singer. In July 1984, this lineup recorded ten songs. Two songs from this studio session would appear on Squirrel Bait's self-titled EP for Homestead the following year. These recordings feature a more driving, melodic sound than the hardcore thrash of their early tapes. In May 1985, the band, now featuring Ben Daughtrey on drums and Brian McMahan on second guitar, returned to Sound on Sound to record six more songs. The band's debut self-titled EP, released in the fall of 1985, received much critical acclaim. The same lineup recorded the band's only LP, 1987's Skag Heaven. The group broke up after its release, owing to personal and musical differences within the band and Grubbs and Johnson's decision to leave Louisville for college.
"I was gonna say something about how Skag Heaven was unfairly maligned at the time as pseudo-Husker Dude Music but that would be a lie. Fact is, people LOST THEIR SHIT when they heard these Louisville teens* for the first time and with good reason. They were melodic / anthemic enough to engage those without a passing interest in pre-punk, post-punk or punk in the present moment. Those who ordinarily didn't give a hoot about anything remotely tuneful, sat up and, well, acknowledged the tunes... A cover of Phil Ochs' Tape From California informed for once and all that these were not garden-variety white trash youths.
*- this was another lie, by the way. We routinely fibbed about Squirrel Bait's respective ages in order to pique the curiosity of music journalists who leaned towards the chicken hawk side of things. A little trick we learned from Maurice Starr.
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★★★★★ 5
Fantastic
Format: Kindle
Time travel books are fun. You have to wrap your head around how they work out in the end. This time travel book sort of sneaks up on you, in that other things are going on while Ridge, the time traveler, is checking out 1999.
For those who were alive in 1999, we all worried about Y2K, when all the computers would stop working. Scientists worked hard to make sure that it wouldn’t, and at the time, only one bank had trouble after the new year began. Other than that, we were all fine, and life went on.
Micheal, is obsessed with Y2K, and when he learns that Ridge is from the future, it is all he wants to know about, and Ridge can’t tell him, as the event is too close. He can tell him how he got his name, and a little about how life is like in the future, but that is about it.
But Ridge is the first time traveler, and he has no idea if anything he says will change things, so he has to be very careful. He has no idea what he will find when she returns home, and so worries about everything he says.
I really enjoyed this book. I marked several passages that spoke to me. And even the title is such a good thing to bring up and explain, in that it means living in the present time. Not worrying about the future or the past.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024
★★★★★ 4
Fantasy
Format: Hardcover
Not my favorite genre however the book is written really well and my students who love fantasy loved this book
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Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Brilliant
Format: Hardcover
The First State of Being is a brilliant, highly readable middle grade book from the QUEEN of character-driven middle grade literature. This expansive sci-fi feels at once introspective and cinematic, leaping off the page like something made for a movie. This book will help young people and all readers reflect on our past and future as a human community, especially in terms of health advances, animal extinction, and the potential for technological development. It also highlights the love and fight in a mother and the need to view life through a positive lens by focusing most on the present, not our past or future.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Which Came First?
Format: Hardcover
Of course this won the Newberry award. From the first word, it reminded me of Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista. A plot so different and imaginative that you wonder how anyone could have thought of it and then carried it out. It's a story of a young boy who is trying to take care of the single mother who seems unable to take care of the family, through no fault of her own. It's a sci-fi fantasy. And it's a story of taking care of each other. At the totally satisfying end I found myself wondering about the chicken and the egg. Thinking I may have to read this one again to see if I can figure it out.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Perfect Choice
Format: Hardcover
Excellent YA / SCI-FI novel. Pretty well captures the spirit of a 12-year-old boy.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2025