experience

Stitch-It Dolly Sewing Kit
$14.99
Make your own Dolly! Simply cut and stuff the pre-printed canvas sheet. This Dolly is so sweet she even has her own matching handbag! This kit is suitable for beginners and teaches basic sewing skills. Dolly loves to go shopping and fill her bag up with really pretty things. With her bow in her hair and her fancy frock, she's ready for anything, but especially to shop!

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
$29.95
The One book needed for every one that wants to develop experiences in nature, and earn a reputation as well as money.
See the quick version too.

Experience
$17.98
This album should be glorious. Prodigy are herald for many reasons: The awesome Liam, Keith Flint, and Maxim, their never ending diverse ways of sound that would put hardcore techno, and the way they can make us dance. And they make us dance with breaks and drum and bass style.

There are so many spots of greatness on this album, but a lot of songs really aren't that compelling. This really has to do with the sample choices, and the beats sometimes just annoy. That's even worse for the beats, because a lot of the beats pretty much imply the same style. The main problem with that is some of the songs fail to captivate and bore you. That's because the samples sometimes used are rather forgettable. Jericho, for example. It does break away in songs, but that's why some of the songs are a hit or miss, depending on how I feel. I really only have to be in the mood for those kinds of beats, too much in the mood to care about the melodies on top. Hey, music should heigten your moods (depending on what moods you want elevated to a higher way).And to add insult to that, they are often really long and make me want to skip it.

But there is good, even awesome stuff. Out Of Space is sick. The beat kicks a load, especially with the melodies, really feels like space. And after that, they sample "I Chase the Devil". _____. Fire, this song is nuts. At 1:25, _____. And "I am the god of hellfire!". Your Love, with a cool piano sandwiched in the song, is great too. Wind It Up is another classic. This one stood out to me the first time I heard this, and it still does. Weather Experience has some good parts, the slower, laid back beat really does conjure up satellites at a weather station. Charly is great too. And everybody in The Place is a _______ classic for this group. Great sounds that sound like a pipe, these cool industrial like noise.

When I'm in the mood, it can flow quite well, though it's not one of my most common move. Kind of like a Ying-Yang thing going on. Maybe. Still, you should listen to it.

7/10

Experience: A Memoir
$14.00
How many opportunities is one likely to have to read a well-regarded literary author's memoirs about (among other things) his relationship with his well-regarded author father? (Has either Susan or Benjamin Cheever even come close to matching their father's achievemtents?) It was fascinating to read about this father-son relationship from the son's point of view. While Martin clearly admired Kingsley, he was not blind to his father's weaknesses (both as a writer and as a husband); and he was fully aware of their differences on political and gender issues.

But these memoirs cover Martin Amis's life up to the present, the present being several years after his father's death. While Kingsley is a key figure, he is not the only relationship that gets examined. (His portraits of his mother, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Philip Larkin, and Saul Bellow are especially vivid.) And although this is not a grim book, much of what Amis recounts is about profound losses--his own loss of innocence due to childhood sexual abuse, the loss incurred when his parents divorced, the death of a cousin at the hands of a serial killer, and the loss of friendships (especially Julian Barnes's) from the furor surrounding the publication of Amis's book, THE INFORMATION. Implied losses, delicately mentioned but never examined, are those of his relationships with the women in his life.

Toward the end of the book, Amis writes, "My life, it seems to me is ridiculously shapeless. I know what makes a good narrative, and lives don't have much of that--pattern and balance, form, completion, commensurateness...but the only shape that life dependably exhibits is that of tragedy." (p. 361) It is tragedy that Amis can accept but courageously, if futilely, seems to want to protect his own children from.