Dreams I'm Never Gonna See

<p>In 1994 the comedy film <em>Airheads </em>popularized the legend of lovable losers taking over a radio station to promote their cause. But thirteen years<em> earlier </em>five dudes<em> </em>from Deland Florida had done just that.<em> </em>On August 6 1981<em> </em>members of the Ida Lupino Liberation Organization took WDIZ Rock 100-Orlando hostage. The answers to the questions of who these Rock-n-Roll Commandos were how they did it and most importantly <em>why </em>they did it-have never seen the light of day. Until now.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Dreams I'm Never Gonna See</em> is the title piece in Brian Lee Knopp's take-no-prisoners full-contact collection of personal essays. Whether dealing with a 1920's era Flapper ghost shearing a sheep face-to-face with a live wolf praising his personal hero Philippe Petit defending a creative madman and his magical cat exploring underground Disney World circa 1979 or re-living the heydays of the central Florida music scene between 1975-1985 Knopp offers a hilarious and thoughtful first-hand account of a weird world that begs for his justification while promising personal redemption yet fails entertainingly on both accounts.</p><p><br></p><p>Knopp is the author of the acclaimed 2009 memoir Mayhem in Mayberry: Misadventures of a P.I. in Southern Appalachia which is now available in a revised 2nd edition. Charles Frazier wrote that Brian Lee Knopp's eye for character and behavior is so finely tuned he even catches that precise tingling instant baked into Southern Appalachian culture when polite wariness threatens to flash red violent. Elizabeth Gilbert claimed that Brian Lee Knopp is one of the most natural writers I've ever encountered. Jeff Biggers stated that Brian Lee Knopp is an American original a fearless standup comedian and a muckraking master of prose.</p>