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From previous MTV VJ Dave Holmes, the entertaining memoir of your perpetual outsider fumbling toward self-acceptance, with the music of the '80s, '90s, and today as his soundtrack. Dave Holmes has put in his life on the periphery, nasal pressed hopefully contrary to the glass, wanting just one single thing: to get inside. Growing up, he was the artsy boy in the sporty family. At his all-boys senior high school and Catholic university, he was the closeted homosexual kid bounded by crush-worthy right folks. And in his 20s, in the middle of a disastrous job in advertising, he inadvertently became an MTV VJ in a single day when he done second, naturally, in the Wanna Be a VJ contest, starting the entranceway to fame, bundle of money, and star - you know, almost. In Party of One, Holmes says the hilariously agonizing and painfully entertaining tales - in the vein of Rob Sheffield, Andy Cohen, and Paul Feig - of outsider desperate to enter, of your misfit constantly changing shape, of your music geek who finally discovers to simply accept himself. Organised around a mix of hits and deep cuts from the previous four generations - from Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" and En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" to LCD Soundsystem's "Sacrificing My Border" and Bleachers' "I Wanna Get Better" - and punctuated with interludes like "So You've Had Your Heart Destroyed in the 1990s: A Playlist" and "Notes on (Jesse) Camp", this e book is for anyone who's ever experienced just like a square peg, especially those who have found their devote the world around a strap, an recording, or a songs. From the laugh-out-loud funny, deeply nostalgic history about never installing in, never giving up, and enabling good music guide just how.
