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yesterday the sun was finally shining and i had a day off so i sat outside all day long and read Joyce Carol Oates' "I'll Take You There".

there's a passage about alcoholism which reminded me of Buk and also of a couple of drinkers i know which i thought i would share with you guys:

"I saw that where he is, no one can follow. And there was a kind of peace, too, in this realisation. For there was no point in trying to follow my father - or my mother - to wherever they'd gone...
And thinking now, in Agnes Thayer's bedroom smelling of lavender and gin, what solace must be in drink, drunkenness, utter secrecy, solitude. I had never understood that alcoholism is a condition of the soul: a hiding place, a shelter beneath evergreen boughs heavy with snow. You crawled inside, and no one could follow"
 
gregory david roberts lives just down the road from me ,but ive heard hes not a very nice person books not bad a little long winded though

Have a drink malaparte.
 
finally finished 'the sheltering sky'
by paul bowles
his descriptive style pushes the limit
of being overly tedious
nevertheless a brilliant story


ive got to push
hunter s. thompson to the top of the list
for my next reading assignment
 
No Pussy Blues - Grinderman, Nick Caves latest outfit V funny ,"I sent her six snow white doves,i even did her dishes with rubber gloves" and still nick cant get no beaver, ah well, he is a married man now.
Cursed from Birth,the sorry ol tale of William s Burroughs Jr
 
I'm reading three books at the mo...

The Gambler-Dosteovksy

The Search- Geoff Dyer

At War- Flann O'Brien

FD is obviously a genius and this book shows why Britain shouldn't be opening super casinos. GD has an easy to read style and probably one of the best current English writers around and O'Brien is for when I need to put a smile on my face. 3 books for 3 moods :)

I just finished reading 'Fatal Eggs' by Bulgakov, if you haven't read it then do, its an intelligent science fiction satire on Stalinist Russia. Incidentally it was deemed so potent that it was heavily censored until the fall of the Soviet Union.
 
I just finished reading 'Fatal Eggs' by Bulgakov, if you haven't read it then do, its an intelligent science fiction satire on Stalinist Russia. Incidentally it was deemed so potent that it was heavily censored until the fall of the Soviet Union.

I have a book by Bulgakov called (in danish) The Master and Margarita. It's also a satire on the Soviet Union. About the devil suddenly turning up and causing havoc. The book was banned in the Soviet Union.
Do you know the book?
 
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I don't but having read 'fatal eggs' I'm very interested in reading some more. Is this book any good? I have to say 'fatal eggs' is very good for an afternoon read (its only about 100 pages long).
 
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Is it any good? - You bet. It's supposed to be his best book. A friend of mine is a book collector and he say's that it's his favourite book. It is filled with satire of the Soviet Union and was therefore banned. It's very funny. Your local library must have it (or can order it from a bigger library)'cause it's quite famous...
 
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ok Bukfan I shall venture forth to the library! I came upon 'fatal eggs' in my usual library manner, walking around in a daze randomly grabbing at books that catch my eye.
 
i've had master and the margarita sitting on my shelf for almost 6 years... i keep telling myself i'll get to it at some point.

last book i read was west of rome by fante; been reading tons of bukowski lately; before that, the children's hospital by chris adrian.

last cd i bought: mexican mystery tour by mexcian cheerleader. great rock n' roll stuff. seriously, if you like hard rock and have $8 to blow in the itunes store, i highly recommend it.
 
Gerold Frank's book on The Boston Strangler. A worn out paperback I wore out a bit more dragging it around at work. Before that Ernest Haycox' The Starlight Rider, a dusty cowboy thing. Now I'm onto a Max Brand thing. Pretty terrible so far but if you're going to write for money you better be able to churn it out.

At home George Bowering's A Magpie Life, literary biography I suppose. George would have a better word for it. He was Canada's poet laureate for a couple years. Came out of that Black Mountain (Olson, Duncan, etc.) school of the 50s/60s. Some interesting tidbits like knowing and visiting Detroit's John Sinclair before he promoted the White Panthers and the MC5.
 
Book: Confession by Tolstoy. Supposedly he reveals the secret of life :) Or at least the secret to his happiness, or contentment, or something... haven't started it yet.

CD: Can't remember. It's been a long time. But the CDs I've been listening to the most: Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road; Ewan MacColl - (Black and White collection) ... for those of you who haven't heard MacColl, get that CD... he's one of the most underappreciated singer-songwriters ever!!!
 
Babel-17, by Samuel L. Delaney
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Bladerunner, by Phillip K. Dick
--all of the above were set texts for a paper i'm doing on "Literature and New Media". i'm not usually a sci-fi fan but i actually enjoyed all three of these books.

also recently read Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. McCullers really was an amazing talent.
 
thanks to Bukfan I now have 'Master and Margarita', I also have four novels by John Fante packed into one fat book and 'The Outsider' by Camus.
Currently though I'm reading 'Budapest' by Chico Baroque which is proving quite an interesting read.

My ears are currently enjoying;

Lambchop is a woman - Lambchop

Marquee Moon - Television

Dave Power & the Gospel of Soul (can't remember the name of the album at mo and I'm at work)
 
I'm reading three books at the mo...
At War- Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman---Flann O'Brien
A very peculiar and original book. I work in a library and always recommend it to people who ask for suggested titles. Most people never finish it. I loved it.

Flann, like Buk, usually wrote while drinking but still managed to write well.

The Third Policeman was published posthumously. Flann sent it to one publisher who rejected it and that was that. He put it away and never again tried to get it published. He was apparently a shy man who didn't have much confidence when it came to facing numerous rejections.

But the book is highly original and took guts to write---given the fact that it playfully fucks with the reader on many levels. It was written before the days of television when people had more patience with unique works of art---and a willingness to be fucked with.
 
The Third Policeman---Flann O'Brien
A very peculiar and original book. I work in a library and always recommend it to people who ask for suggested titles. Most people never finish it. I loved it.

Flann, like Buk, usually wrote while drinking but still managed to write well.

The Third Policeman was published posthumously. Flann sent it to one publisher who rejected it and that was that. He put it away and never again tried to get it published. He was apparently a shy man who didn't have much confidence when it came to facing numerous rejections.

But the book is highly original and took guts to write---given the fact that it playfully fucks with the reader on many levels. It was written before the days of television when people had more patience with unique works of art---and a willingness to be fucked with.

Hello Brother, my uncle suggested reading old Flann as I'd just finished reading 'Pukoon' by Spike Milligan and he thought I may enjoy it. Annoyingly my local library didn't have 'third policeman' which is a shame because I'd been told that's the best book of his to read.
However 'At War' is a very funny and interesting collection of his column he wrote for an Irish paper during the war years including some amusing illistrations he did as well (like the mishapen carriage wheel designs to counteract the giant pot holes in the road)
Anyway when I've got enough pennies under my mattress I shall be looking to buy a copy of 'third policeman'. Thanks for your comments and I hope you have a funfilled weekend :)
 
Last book-> The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
(Fantasticly original writer, cool/wacko book so far (just past 100 pages))

CD->New Order Substance (think it's the 5th+ time I've bought it.... keep running into little speed bumps where I have to sell all all I own)

Super-looking-forward to buying Delillo's Falling Man next Tuesday.
Have heard it's his best yet......
 
I just got the deluxe DVD edition of Bob Dylan's Dont Look Back. Absolutely worth the money because it includes a second DVD with an extra hour of footage from his 1965 English tour plus a companion book with a complete transcript of the film. So, if you're a Dylan fan - go for it...
 
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Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares on Nonesuch at a Sally Ann for two bucks. Copyright says 1987. I remember the big deal made of this recording back then (jesus, 20 years!). The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir. Helluva moniker. It appeals to my ears.
 
Just got Frank Zappa- The Classic Interviews. Three different interviews, all from the seventies. 63 min. long. Zappa talks a lot about the technical aspects in his music. He also talks extensively about his song Jewish Princess and the conflict with the Jewish Defamation League who called the song anti-semitic, the making of Joe's Garage etc. etc.
 
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books, CDs

:confused:I was in Manhatten last week, went to the tenement museum & bought Luc Sante's Low Life, last Buk book, Love is a Dog From hELL.
CD's I got an old John Fahey rerelease and some Shin's 'early' stuff (I'm on LI and I don't have it with me)
 
Ah, Rolling Stone. I remember when that magazine was relevant. I must be old. ;)

Actually, I know I'm old. I keep seeing the trailer for the movie The US vs. John Lennon, and I can't wait to see that fucker. That's proof right there.

I have videotape of the first US television appearance by the Clash, on the old Saturday-Night-Live-wannabe show Fridays. They played four (!) songs from London Calling. Don't know if that's online anywhere, and I haven't pulled the tape out in years, but it was something.

I too remember the mag, in fact, when it was on newsprint and folded in half. The first issue I saw I beleive had Lennon on the cover. Strummer was the absolute dogs bollocks.
 
The Collectors' first LP (as a CD now). The "next big thing" according to an Open City story I came across looking at the microfilm from the late 1960s. Bill Henderson is still around writing songs and working with other songwriters. I understand that Howie Vickers is now a local city councillor.

Also got a Tom Russell Band collection from 1984-1994 called Raw Vision. Navajo Rug, co-written with Ian "Four Strong Winds" Tyson, that made it onto Tyson's Cowboyography CD 20 years ago, playing away right now.

And trying to read Horace McCoy's 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Now Gloria, she is one depressed and depressingly funny character: "It's peculiar to me that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me -- who want to die but haven't got the guts --"

A Nancy Spungeon for the Great Depression.
bp
 
I just bought New Moon by the late great Elliot Smith. It is wonderful. Everyone should buy a copy for themselves, and one for a friend. I did.
 
Most recent Purchases

Music:
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Sunn o))) and Boris - Altar
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle
Bauhaus - Bela Legosi's Dead (ep)
Low - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities
Stereo Lab - Cybele's Reverie

Books:
Real Ultimate Power - the Official Ninja Book
Alfred Jarry: The Man with the Axe - Nigel Lennon
Supermale - Alfred Jarry
Mohammed and Charlemagne - Henri Pirenne

DVD's:

The Residents - Icky Flix
Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales
The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1


Terrible habit of buying shiny things.
 
CD-> Nirvana, Best of the Box
Book-> Justin Evans, A Good and Happy Child

(Just finished Delillo's Falling Man..... WOW)
 
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cd's New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This.
a surprisingly good cd considering it is 30 years since their last studio release.
Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo from the ashes of the Libertines. well, basically, the Libertines without Pete Dougherty. he's not missed.
book The Judges - Elie Wiesel. a philosophical novel in the vein of Camus.


Although I would agree that the DPT's album is vastly better then Doherty's Babyshambles release to say he's not missed is blasphemy, The Libertines were the last great hope for the British music scene.


Last CD i brought was The Icarus Line's Penance Soireee, last book was a collection of Dylan Thomas poems to replace the other one I trashed
 
Most recent Purchases

Music:

Low - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities


Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales

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Good old low, recline in a chair with a good bottle of wine and listen to their quiet reverie. Try and listen to their cover of the smiths 'last night I dreamt somebody loved me', it made me shed a tear.

As for old Svanky, well I went to Prague and stood outside his home. He lives above a gallery which sells some awful paintings and sculptures. He didn't come out and say hello :( or even throw clay at us!
 
Frank Zappa: Imaginary Diseases. (official release no. 76 - 200?)

Canned Heat: Under the Dutch Skies 1970-74. (2 cd's - 2007)

B.B. King: His Definitive Greatest Hits (2 cd's - 1999)
 
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