Being a cleaver-wielding, firestarting badass barbecuer doesn’t exactly jive with shopping for cookbooks but if you’re going to have one BBQ cookbook, Wicked Good Barbecue is the one you want. It was written by two dudes who won the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue. Basically, that’s the Superbowl of grilling.
There have been other books about the legendary singer and showman, the late, great James Brown, the undisputed Godfather Of Soul; but this book, The One: The Life & Music Of James Brown, from award winning biographer RJ Smith isn’t some rose-tinted, cracker-ass hype piece that rewrites the dirty drama of Brown’s crazy life. The writer created this portrait of Brown’s rise to iconic heights by interviewing over 100 people who were close to the artist. It’s pretty funked up.
For most of us, the only hardcover book we’d buy on Tiger Woods might be a pictorial of the legions of scandalous women he enjoyed in his darkest days. But if you actually care about Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods the golfer, this book by his coach of six years, Hank Haney, will provide great insights into the life of a young superstar who was once called “the greatest athlete ever.”
You like to eat hot stuff? Cook with hot stuff? Check out Cooking With Napalm, a cookbook featuring 48 recipes from French, Thai, Indian, and Vietnamese cuisine that’ll show you how to properly prepare hella hot creations. Proper as in don’t melt your lips off unless you really want to.
If your digital music library is filled with old, outdated digital formats like .WAV or .AIFF files, download the new droplet for free from Apple called Mastered For iTunes that quickly converts all these formats into AAC files, the high resolution format that is quickly becoming the global standard. Your old files might not sound any better, but if you are a musician, take note and try it out on your digital masters. Apple also added a new section to iTunes called “Mastered for iTunes” that promises music the way “the artist and sound engineer intended.” Source
Pac-Man is right up there with Mickey Mouse when it comes to pop culture celebrity. An upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum beginning March 16th, 2012 called The Art Of Video Games explores how video games have impacted global culture over the last 40 years and celebrates the visual art of the gaming world. This book is the accompaniment to the groundbreaking historical show.
Yes, you can store all your important files, music, and media in the cloud. But certain things, like the best stupid movies of all time are better kept in hard copy. Monty Python & The Holy Grail comes out on Blu-ray on March 6, 2012. Get it. Then put it up there on the shelf with Airplane, Kentucky Fried Movie, Blazing Saddles, Up In Smoke, well, you get the idea.
Many fans of the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen will get a bulge in their Batsuits when they hear this. Some comic purists will turn away in disgust. DC Entertainment is going back in time to tell seven all-new prequel stories that fill in the blanks of the Watchmen characters in the years before the original story. Rorschach, Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl Ozymandias, Silk Spectre and the 1940s-era team The Minutemen will all be featured in the stories created by the genre’s greatest comic creators, which will be released one-per-week this summer.
Detective Theo Kojak was the star of one the 70s most progressive TV-cop series. If you were a fan of this big, bald, Greek, lollipop sucking, New York City cop played by Telly Savalas, you also know there were a bunch of Kojak movies. If you didn’t, now you do. This new collection includes all 8 Kojak flicks including 1973’s The Marcus-Nelson Murders, the film that launched the TV show.
If you’re among the curious who want to know what type of crazy shit has been happening in our shadowy Afghanistan war, this book by Army captain Sean Parnell will blow your mind. Back in 2006, at age 21, Parnell led his unit into the mountains of the Hindu Kush for what they thought was a routine patrol. It exploded into 16-months of deadly hell that Parnell and his 10th Mtn. Division unit—nicknamed the Outlaws—barely survived. This is their tale and it’s true, man, it’s war.
