I’ve never been a big Motley Crue fan, but with my interest in the subject matter, I couldn’t resist this book. Motley Crue was the basis for SendDown, crass, rude, dysfunctional. This book is extremely well written though. It’s an unblinking look at excess and ego.
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Alan has found the girl of his dreams. She’s going to help him get past his addiction and get his kids back. Too bad she’s been hired to play the part.
Angela Carpenter doesn’t want to take the part, but unsuccessful actresses with equally unsuccessful roommates could not afford to turn down six-figure jobs. The fact that Alan Kneis is so determined to stick to his rehab really appeals to her, but eventually he’s going to find out that she was playing a part. She needs to keep him straight and her heart off her sleeve to make this work at all.
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The guys in the band refer to the house they are staying in as Hotel California despite the fact that there are no drugs (because of Alan’s new found sobriety) or boys named Ben (though there are a lot of girls roaming around.) This also happens to have been the first album I ever owned. My brother gave it to me for my 8th birthday.
She’d kept going down a long dark hall and turned left so he followed. It was a bedroom and she was closing the windows and pulling the curtains.
“You had the windows open?”
“It’s the only way to get the humidity out of the room.”
“It’s freezing in here.”
She pulled her sweater over her head. “I thought you were going to warm me up.”
My school provided apartment in Chile was the first floor of a building right next to a park with a large pond. There were a couple of swans on the pond which was pretty, but it seemed like every other week the bomberos (firefighters) were there fishing somebody out of the water. The station was only about a block away too, on the way to the nearest pandaria (bakery.) You see why I liked it there so much. Strolling over to the pandaria for amazing pastries and having the opportunity coming and going to ogle Chilian firefighters. All kinds of yummy.
Unfortunately, it was that humid. I had to open the windows every morning to let the humidity out and since I didn’t have a clothes dryer, laundry took two days. Forty-five minutes to wash and forty-seven hours to dry. If I got it up first thing in the morning when the sun was shining through the windows.
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Once upon a time for a brief period, I was the librarian at a bilingual school in Conception, Chile. Other than the weather, I loved Chile. The people were so nice. The food was amazing. The landscape was beautiful.
Unfortunately, the guy who ran the place was a loon and his wife, who was the business manager, thought Pinochet was still in power and she was part of the dictatorial elite. After three months of having my pay shorted, being lied to and threatened, and having the money for the utilities at my apartment that I was required to give to them stolen instead of applied to my bills, I found out that I wasn’t even working legally because my employers hadn’t filed the paperwork. With the help of the parents of some of my students, I fled the country two steps ahead of Chilean Immigration. Good times, good times.
Anyway, in order to get to school I had to catch a bus from my employer-provided apartment to the mall and then walk about half a mile from there to school. After school, I reversed the process. A lot of dinners were eaten at the mall, which fortunately had three outstanding restaurants. Rich’s served burgers the size of dessert plates made with beef that was mooing yesterday. Domino served hotdogs that were like no hot dogs I’ve ever eaten before or since. It is also the place where I learned my first word in Spanish. “Sin.” I had to order my hot dog “sin mayo” or they would put the mayonnaise in with a trowel and I’d feel sick for hours later. The third restaurant was called Schop and served very simple fare that was utterly delicious. I occasionally think about going back to Conception to visit a few of the people I met through the school and who got me out of the country before I was deported, and to eat. Since I’ve kept touch with them through Facebook, it would mostly be to eat.
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The Eagles – Victim of Love
This song appeared on Hotel California which was the first album I ever owned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEDfJqQQj4
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So, in the middle of writing 6 books about one band one would not think that one would want to break away and write 4 more about another band. One would, but not me. SendDown appeared in the first Drawn To the Rhythm book Satellite Of Love. At the time they were walk ons who I never expected to see again. Silly me. While I was working in Korea I happened to take 3 separate vacations to the Philippines, which I loved, but whose major export is sex. Prostitutes everywhere. Even worse, all women so I wasn’t really interested. I was less interested when, laying on the beach one day drying off after a lovely swim in Subic Bay a gentleman obviously of European descent (as in, not local) walked up to me, gave me a surprised once over and muttered an apology before vamoosing. The idea of being mistaken for a prostitute didn’t resurface until I was working in chilly Chile where I had no internet and lots of writing time on my hands so I penned this story. It ran a bit hotter than my normal fare, but it worked for the story and enlightened me to the various other members of the band which in due time led to the other three books in the series.
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On one very memorable trip to the Philippines, my room was robbed and my then husband’s passport was stolen so we had to make a trip to the US Embassy for a replacement. No, we weren’t there when Arnel was and if we had been, we wouldn’t have been in the same area, but it did make me laugh when I saw this video and there was the US Embassy in Manila where I had been on one of the most stressful days of my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89_2UivtEhs
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Christa Maurice 