Misfit Summer Camp: 20 Years on the Road with the Vans Warped Tour contains 200 explosive pages chronicling the first 2 decades of the traveling circus that is the Vans Warped Tour. Designed by tour founder Kevin Lyman and longtime friend of Warped; Howie Abrams - this book is loaded with exclusive interviews with bands the likes of Bad Religion; Blink 182; No Doubt; Coheed and Cambria; Echosmith; Paramore; Bowling for Soup; Reel Big Fish; 3OH!3; Hawthorne Heights; Killswitch Engage; The Wonder Years; Falling in Reverse and many; many more. Plus dozens of never-before-seen photographs from Warped Tours rich history. A must-have book for anyone who has ever attended the Vans Warped Tour!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Intense; almost made my Disney-mind explode!By CustomerThis book -- a group of essays -- taught me things I didnt know about Disneyland and other Disney parks and allowed me to view the things I already knew in a new light. Delightful and smart; a must read for any Disney parks fan.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Cavalcade of CultureBy takingadayoffDisneyland and Culture is not limited to Disneyland. There are essays on Walt Disney World in Orlando and on Disneyland Paris; Hong Kong Disneyland; Tokyo Disneyland; and the city of Celebration; Florida. Essayists zero in on specific parts of the theme park; such as Tom Sawyers Island in Frontierland; Main Street USA; the Snow White ride in Fantasyland; and the Enchanted Tiki Room. Others discuss the relationship of Disneyland to Hollywood; television; architecture; and feng shui.Some of the essays are decades old and others just a few years old; but all of them are relevant to today. A few wander into the very academic (Baudrillard gets several mentions in one essay); but most of the pieces are accessible to those of us who are just interested in what is going on beneath the surface.Last time I visited Disneyland I felt uneasy about the whole Pirates of the Caribbean experience. Pirates arent cute or funny; they are dangerous and violent. Why is this a ride at Disneyland? And what about Tomorrowland? Its no longer the look to the future that I remembered as a child. Its definitely a retro future. The professors have their own views on these and other topics; all quite thoughtful.One essay; Vacation in Historyland; veered off into a discussion of the reality TV shows Frontier House and Colonial House; shows that were shown on public television and were marketed as educational shows complete with suggested lesson plans for use in classrooms. Of course they are purely entertainment and about as educational as the "nature" programs Disney used to produce (one notorious Disney film featured a staged mass suicide jump of lemmings which helped to fuel the misconception that droves of lemmings are always jumping to their deaths).Another essay described how the authors young son was inaugurated into celebrity culture during a stay at a Disney resort. Once the five-year-old understood the concept of autographs; the family spent the rest of the vacation trying to be in the right place at the right time to get character autographs; be photographed with Disney characters; getting inside information on where certain characters were likely to be at any given time. Its almost as if the kid was learning to stalk the celebrity costumed characters.This collection is very well edited. Normally in this type of anthology; Ill find about half the essays hold my attention all the way through; but I read nearly every one of the articles here; with great interest. And as is typical with good essays; I had as many questions when I finished as when I started; but they were all different questions.
