Buffalo, NY—This weekend marks the publication of local author P.A.Kane’s third book, The Last Playlist: A Sonic Epitaph. Several years in the making Kane expects the book of personal essays to be met with general indifference and mediocre sales. Despite the probable lack of interest the 1.5 millionth ranked Amazon author is very proud of the book and is calling it a transdimensional reading experience.  

According to Kane this book is unique in the realm of memoir writing in that it combines narrative essays with a music playlist. And not just any playlist, it’s the music playlist that is to be played at his rock and roll funeral party—hence, The Last Playlist. 

Kane explained, “Most people who write memoirs have had big, exciting life experiences or have achieved a level of success that interests people, but my life has been pretty much just like everyone else’s: lots of hard work, economic insecurity, long stretches of mastabatory torture and burbon. So I had to come up with the gimmick of linking my story to a playlist.”

Kane also acknowledged that maybe it wasn’t the best move from a marketing standpoint to release his book the same weekend as Barack Obama’s, A Promised Land. “I guess decisions like these are part of the reason why I’m the 1.5 millionth ranked Amazon author. Furthermore, though I don’t have anything going on nearly as exciting or intense as the planning and execution of Osama Bin Laden, I do tell the semi-tragic, semi-sweet story of how my first ever girlfriend dumped me when I was twelve-years old and how it led me to my musical Zen master, Todd Rundgren.” 

Though Kane’s expectations remain modest he does hope to push his author ranking into the 1.2 or 1.3 million range. And while he moves up the author ranks his bigger ambition is to influence maybe tens of people to know the genius of artists like Neko Case, Todd Snider and Paul Westerberg and to help people understand the upside of going bald in your early twenties—the money you save on haircuts is a small fortune

The Last Playlist: A Sonic Epitaph is available in both print and e-book formats on Amazon and on 11/22 0r 11/23 (fingers crossed) at Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe– 688 Abbott Road, Buffalo,NY 14220. You can find out more information about the book at www.pakane.net and you can listen to The Last Playlist at his YouTube channel.  

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Cleveland, Ohio—Like in the early 1990’s on the X-Files when deep state actors prevented the Buffalo Bills from ever winning the Super Bowl, a leaked email exchange between outgoing chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, Jann Wenner and incoming chairman John Sykes reveals singer, songwriter, producer, engineer and person who can play just about every musical instrument known to man, Todd Rundgren will never be inducted as a member of the Rock Hall.

In the emails, Wenner, agreed to hand off his position to Sykes only after he received assurances that self-proclaimed wizard, not the nauseating Charlie Sheehan kind of wizard, but a real wizard like Rundgren would never gain entrance into the hall.

John . . . You’ll have my support with a guarantee that you’ll do everything in your power to block that so called wizard, Todd Rundgren from ever getting in. I mean, who the hell throws his audience away time and time again to follow his muse? And, just what the fuck was a “keyboard computer” on his 1975 album, Initiation. I never got a straight answer on that.

Hello Jann . . . If  I were to get this position I would push to diversify the rock hall to include a bigger cross-section of artists, which you have done with acts like Abba and Donna Summer. I’ll shoot for artists like Whitney Huston and Lionel Ritchie and avoid those legacies like Rundgren and that flute-playing bastard, Ian Anderson. Rundgren would have to die of a drug overdose or in a spectacular car crash before he would ever get in under my watch.

Once the emails became public there was a flurry of direct messaging among Rundgren fans, who have been upset for years over the continued snub. At first, fans toyed with the idea of doing a big, overproduced 1970’s style act where Rundgren, known for his interest in mysticism, would transition out of this life after ingesting a bad dose of ayahuasca. Then, after three days the artist, who has heard chants of Todd is God throughout his career, would rise like a phoenix or some other historical figure and assume his place in the rock hall.

After coming down from the bong and vape hits, more realistic fans pointed out the logistical problems of trying to plant such a conspiracy and decided instead on a car crash. They would find an agreed upon crash and get it trending in the news and throughout social media prior to the announcement of 2021 rock hall inductees. Once the rumors of Rundgren’s crash—90 in a 30 while listening to the Song of the Viking—gains momentum Sykes will be forced to include him in the 2021 class. The so called, expert board and fan vote will be jettisoned like it is every year and Rundgren will take his place among the luminaries of rock. 

For his part, Rundgren, who has a big tour and a new record coming out this year, has consistently said: don’t want, don’t need, don’t care about Wenner, Sykes or the rock hall.

Instead, he will be doing what he always does:     

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