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Goodbye Blue Monday (other)
Goodbye blue Monday may refer to: *'' Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday'', 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut * ''Goodbye Blue Monday'' (album), 2007 album from Canadian singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher * Goodbye Blue Monday, misery punk band from Scotland See also * Blue Monday (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakfast Of Champions
''Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday'' is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. ''Breakfast of Champions'' deals with themes of free will, suicide, and race relations, among others. The novel is full of drawings by the author, substituting descriptive language with depictions requiring no translation. Plot ''Breakfast of Champions'' tells the story of the events that lead up to the meeting of Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover, the meeting itself, and the immediate aftermath. Trout is a struggling science fiction writer who, after their fateful meeting, becomes successful and wins a Nobel Prize; Hoover is a wealthy businessman who is going insane, sent over the brink by his en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodbye Blue Monday (album)
''Goodbye Blue Monday'' is the third album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher. It was released on March 11, 2007, by Aquarius Records in Canada and on August 28, 2007, in the United States. The album title is the alternative name for Kurt Vonnegut's novel ''Breakfast of Champions''. Critical reception ''Exclaim!'' wrote that "Fisher does have a pleasingly warm voice and a flair for melody, while the instrumentation and production work is solid." '' No Depression'' called Fisher "a better derivative than most, with a lucent voice and an almost too-easy facility with melody." ''The Washington Post'' wrote that the album "brim with his jaunty, literate acoustic pop-folk." Track listing All songs were written by Jeremy Fisher, except where noted. # "Scar that Never Heals" – 3:38 # "Jolene" – 3:08 # "Cigarette" (Fisher, Jay Joyce) – 3:04 # "American Girls" – 3:38 # "Goodbye Blue Monday" – 4:37 # "Lay Down (Ballad of Rigoberto Alpizar)" – 4:05 # "High School" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |