Reading: To Air is Human / AIREOKE after party August 14, 2006

To Air is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist is now available at your local book store!

Please join authors Bjorn Turoque and Dan Crane for an air guitar lesson, demonstration and reading from the book:


Monday, August 14th -- Reading at 7pm!
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069

**AIREOKE After Party at Key Club (The Plush Room-downstairs)**
NOTE - Admission is FREE with the secret password (obtained at the reading)

9039 Sunset Boulevard
8pm 
 

"A thirtysomething identity crisis can take many forms; Dan Crane's involved a jumpsuit, alcohol, and simulated six-string action to ''Rock You Like a Hurricane.'' He chronicles his obsessive three-year adventure on the competitive air-guitar circuit as the Nietzsche-quoting Björn Türoque in amusing detail in To Air Is Human — from breaking an air string to hitting on air groupies — while seeking meaning in a farcical art form (''It was...the manifestation of nothing, rendered visible''). Devil horns for this reductive takedown of L.A.: ''They got the fake t--s, the fake smiles, and they've even got fake air guitars.' "

--Entertainment Weekly, July 28 '06

"An absurd yet contemplative
chronicle that will charm anyone that believes in rocking hard with a
guitar—or with nothing at all." --Kirkus Reviews June 1, 2006

Links

Bjorn Turoque website

Blog - see recent entry on rocking out with Michael Moore

Aireoke

Ridiculous Video: Airobics

Amazon

"With hilarious detail, Türoque/Crane recounts what became a three-year, nearly full-time immersion into the cutthroat, usually drunken, but always serious world of air guitar competitors, who choreograph detailed 60-second routines of air-jumping, air-fretting, air–power-chording and air-soloing in order to be 'transposed from insignificance into supernatural supershredding superheroes.'"—Publisher's Weekly

 

Official Website: http://www.bjornturoque.com