How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (memoir) to sue him) and "Vanity Fair"'s own Graydon Carter. Young also describes awkward run-ins with American celebrities including Nathan Lane, Mel Gibson and Diana Ross. Throughout the book, Young describes being tormented by his friend "Alex de Silva" (speculated to be Sacha Gervasi), a former colleague of Young's who manages to succeed in America in every way that Young does not. The title of Young's book is a parody of the title of Dale Carnegie's 1937 perennial bestseller, "How to Win Friends and Influence People"; a parody by Irving Tressler titled "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" was also
Today Is the Day Today Is the Day Today Is the Day is an American avant-garde metal band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band's diverse sound combines influences from areas such as noise music, heavy metal, hardcore punk, and psychedelia. Many of the band's recordings make extensive use of dissonance and sampling and lyrical themes such as violence, altered states of consciousness, and mental disorders. The band was founded by Steve Austin and Brad Elrod in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1990s. The band released its debut EP, entitled "How to Win Friends and Influence People", in 1992. This self-financed release garnered the attention of