Devin Townsend left Steve Vai’s band in 1994 scarred and dejected by his experiences in the music industry. He had always been popular as a session and touring musician, but his own projects had never kicked off - constantly being rejected by label after label. He had collaborated with others and played music that they told him to play, but he had never been allowed to express himself musically till then. Then Century Media Records offered him a contract “to make some extreme albums.” And the rest
“And then I was running, as fast as I could. No one could stop me.” The last words of Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange Is the New Black, are that of a tear jerker for anyone that has read all two hundred and ninety-five pages. The well organized and well thought out memoir describes her thirteen-month sentence in the federal prison system for a ten-year-old drug charge. Kerman’s memoir is filled with lessons for not only the reader but lessons for herself, as she finds out more about herself than she