Spaz Reviews: Wicked Enchantment - Anya Bast

My latest review of Wicked Enchantment by Anya Bast is up at Wicked Lil Pixie Reviews!

The Good? If you are a fan of Sidhe fantasy romance books involving the Seelie and Unseelie courts,Wicked Enchantment is a good option. We get elements of the Great Hunt, and sluagh, magical books, relics and language. There is a nice fantasy world created between the Light Seelie court and the Dark Unseelie Court. There are some nice secondary characters with great names, too.

The Bad... visit Wicked Lil Pixie to read the rest!

Latest Girl Talk's Mashup Album is Made of Win!

Gregg Michael Gillis, better known by his stage name Girl Talk is an American musician and DJ specializing in mashups and digital sampling. His latest album All Day was released last week and is available FREE! If you have never heard of Girl Talk now is the PERFECT time because this is his best album yet. This album will get you moving and take you back! It is 380 songs and you won't believe how brilliantly he mashes everything up and then flows it out. It's every song you can possibly imagine from Portishead to Ludacris to Depeche Mode to Ozzy to Naughty by Nature and Rob Zombie. And onnn and onnnn and onnnnn!

Here is a player that was created to show the names of the songs as the album plays - check it out!

Girl Talk: All Day - Player

You can download it for FREE at Illegal Art's site:

Girl Talk - All Day - Free Download

Here is more information about him courtesy of Wikipedia:

Gillis began making music while a student at Chartiers Valley High School in the Pittsburgh suburb ofBridgeville. After a few collaborative efforts he started the solo "Girl Talk" project and continued making music under the Girl Talk alias while studying biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University inCleveland, Ohio. He produces mashup-style remixes, in which he uses often a dozen or more unauthorized samples from different songs to create a new song. The New York Times Magazine has called his music "a lawsuit waiting to happen," a criticism that Gillis has attributed to mainstream media that want "to create controversy where it doesn't really exist," citing fair use as a legal backbone for his sampling practices.

He has given different explanations for the origin of his stage name, once saying that it alluded to a Jim Morrison poem and once saying that it alluded to an early Merzbow side project. Most recently, he attributed the name to a grunge band called TAD, based in Seattle.

In a 2009 interview with FMLY, Gillis stated:

The name Girl Talk is a reference to many things, products, magazines, books. It’s a pop culture phrase. The whole point of choosing the name early on was basically to just stir things up a little within the small scene I was operating from. I came from a more experimental background and there were some very overly serious, borderline academic type electronic musicians. I wanted to pick a name that they would be embarrassed to play with. You know Girl Talk sounded exactly the opposite of a man playing a laptop, so that’s what I chose.

In school, Gillis focused on tissue engineering. He later worked as an engineer, but quit in May 2007 to focus solely on music.

Gillis is featured heavily in the 2008 open source documentary RiP!: A Remix Manifesto.

For possible future projects, Gillis is considering creating individual songs rather than full-length albums with the songs tied together. Girl Talk released his fifth LP All Day on November the 15th, 2010 - free through the Illegal Art website.

Spaz Reviews: Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between - J.A. Saare

My review of Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between by J.A. Saare is up at Wicked Lil Pixie Reviews!

Since the Spring of this year, I have heard tons of buzz from pretty much all of my favorite fellow book bloggers about this hot new character named "Disco", in a new book by an author named J.A. Saare. I've seen Disco widgets on their blogs and I've seen chatter about Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between on Twitter and Goodreads. The book has been on my radar since, but my roadblock was it's only been available for purchase through Amazon.com. I hate Amazon. I won't go in to my rant on why, and please don't ask here because that is not the intent of this review. The point is: I kept putting off buying this book hoping it would become available elsewhere. When it became clear that getting it elsewhere was not going to happen, I sucked it up and ordered the paperback from a company I loathe. After all the build-up and waiting, I am so happy to say that my expectations were most definitely met. From the very first page, with the opening paragraph, I knew I was going to love this:

"Rhiannon's Law #27: When you're working in a gentleman's club and one of your dancers takes off those heels, alert the big guns, an ass kicking is on the menu."

Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between is the first book in J.A. Saare's Rhiannon's Law series. We meet Rhiannon working as a bartender in a gentleman's club. As she's trying to make drinks and keep the peace among the dancers and the clientele, a vampire by the name of Disco is relentlessly following her to meet with him after work. Turns out, she has very unique and special abilities that have come to the attention of the vampire population. Disco convinces Rhiannon to use her special abilities in providing help to solve the mystery of local vamps who have gone missing. The story takes off from there... From the very beginning I knew that Rhiannon was going to be one of my top favorite Urban Fantasy heroines. She cusses like a sailor, is brutally honest, and is not afraid to throw down if she feels she is being threatened. As Rhiannon says about another snarky character she has to work with... "A girl after my own smartass heart." That actually described exactly how I felt about Rhiannon herself.

........ To read the rest of my review please visit Wicked Lil Pixie Reviews!

WLP & Spaz Interview VICKI PETTERSSON

Natasha (Wicked Lil Pixie Reviews) and Me were lucky enough to score an interview with the awesome, amazing, talented Urban Fantasy author VICKI PETTERSSON!

Visit us over at WLP to see some BREAKING NEWS from Vicki Pettersson herself regarding the next book in the Zodiac series, NEON GRAVEYARD - The Sixth Sign of the Zodiac!

CLICK HERE!