Last CD you bought/ Book you read (2 Viewers)

I got a GREAT book the other day. I would highly recommend it to everyone. The binding smelled like plums and the pages smelled of a nice coffee.

I can't tell you if the writing is good, but the aromas, the aromas!

Bill
 
You don't know it, but you just walked into one of
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Thanks for the memory FL! I laughed as hard this time as I did back in October!:D Bill asking..."What I mean is which Bukowski smells the best to you?"...
 
I just picked up the newest Brett Easton Ellis novel Lunar Park. It's a semi-autobiographical novel. The wild over the top description of his fame in the 80's is great. This guy is not without talent, that's for sure. Although I know he's not everyone's cup of tea.
 
The last cd (2) I bought is 'Be Here To Love Me' by Townes Van Zandt.
It is the soundtrack of a documentary with the same title.
I bought it in a hurry, thinking that it was the dvd. No regrets, it is a beautiful recording. I will also get the documentary.http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bZAOeeOdrs8
The last book I bought is "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, which is a recollection of Ken Kesey's adventure with the Prankters. It is a first edition hd that I picked for $43., with a clean dust jacket. It is in very good condition. I wondered if it was a good deal. Anyhow, I am also enjoying reading this book as a well documented exploration of the 60's culture.
 
black swan, have you seen the doc yet? it's fucking awesome. i love the story of when he wrote "waiting around to die". everyone should check this great little film out...
 
no james, I have not seen the doc yet but it is on my list. Years ago,
I had seen him at the vancouver music folk fest, where I worked security.
A beautiful man with such charisma.The soundtrack is amazing . At the beginning of each cd he also speaks candidly of a lifestyle that he chose.
His names lightnin' hopkins as a main influence.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=NVF-0JKLnd4
 
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one of the better books on music I've read in a long while.

and I've read a lot of music books. ;)
 
The last cd (2) I bought is 'Be Here To Love Me' by Townes Van Zandt.
It is the soundtrack of a documentary with the same title.
I bought it in a hurry, thinking that it was the dvd. No regrets, it is a beautiful recording. I will also get the documentary.http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bZAOeeOdrs8
The last book I bought is "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, which is a recollection of Ken Kesey's adventure with the Prankters. It is a first edition hd that I picked for $43., with a clean dust jacket. It is in very good condition. I wondered if it was a good deal. Anyhow, I am also enjoying reading this book as a well documented exploration of the 60's culture.


Yes, Townes V S is great...Blaze Foley, too, another Austin chicken-picken wailer/storyteller. blazefoley.com
 
I am reading:

Post Office by Bukowski
Locked in the arms of a crazy life by Sounes
West of Rome by Fante
Mexico City Blues by Kerouac

Next in line:

The Sicilian by Puzo
Travels with Charley by Steinback
We Are Not in This Together by Carver
Nexus by Miller
 
i haven't read it, but isn't we are not in this together a collection of stories by william kittredge, not carver? i think carver took the photos and wrote the intro.

i'm reading the devil in the white city by erik larson. interesting novelization of the story of the 1893 world's fair in chicago.
 
I found Sonic Youth: B-sides and Rarities yesterday in the cut-out bin. Lucky day. I spend alot of time in my 2000 diesel F-350 with an excessively outfitted soundsystem (CD though); pummeling my eardrums as I negotiate the pikes and pathways.
 
I just bought, "Will Eisner - A Spirited Life", by Bob Andelman. So far, it's been an interesting read...
 
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i haven't read it, but isn't we are not in this together a collection of stories by william kittredge, not carver? i think carver took the photos and wrote the intro.

i'm reading the devil in the white city by erik larson. interesting novelization of the story of the 1893 world's fair in chicago.

Sorry, the one I've got is 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'. I posted the list from work and I thought mine was that after looking on amazon, turns out I was wrong. :o
 
I don't remember the last CD I bought.

Just finished THE TURNAROUND by George Pelecanos. Working on his THE NIGHT GARDENER. Hate that I don't have a lot of time to read right now due to work.

The wife and I just got a big Amazon gift certificate by cashing in a bunch of coins at a Coinstar [we do this a couple of times a year] so I have a ton of book purchases planned.
 
Not sure if I've commented here before, but here goes. Some of my musical tastes:

The first one has some bacon...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Olivia-Audio-Collection/Ian-Falconer/e/9780743579599

The second one has some mother-fucking edge, but could be considered dated, and also, a timeless classic, breaking new ground and skulls:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/5028483/a/Niggaz4life.htm

The third one is dated, but as one may say, is classic, in the classical sense:
http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?M=PHANTOM-SOUND-AND-VISION&ID=1837569&ref=GB

I like all three. For various reasons. And much more.

Pax,

grandpa homeless mind
 
The second one has some mother-fucking edge, but could be considered dated, and also, a timeless classic, breaking new ground and skulls: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/5028483/a/Niggaz4life.htm
Really? I always thought they were in decline when that came out. Ice Cube was gone, Dre was on the way out, and they were being surpassed by all the pseudo-thugs they spawned. Straight Outta Compton broke ground, but that came out three years before this. My impression at the time was that they were more or less irrelevant when Efil4zaggin came out.
 
I was living in Brooklyn when "Straight Outa C" came out. You could not escape that, nor the Public Enemy. Every vehicle shook by these beats...but that was the summer of 88...after that it became Heavy D or some other thing. I remember watching the grease at the center of my slice's pepperonis ripple as this music shook the earth.
 
Really? I always thought they were in decline when that came out. Ice Cube was gone, Dre was on the way out, and they were being surpassed by all the pseudo-thugs they spawned. Straight Outta Compton broke ground, but that came out three years before this. My impression at the time was that they were more or less irrelevant when Efil4zaggin came out.

As for Cube, (I know you know) he went mainstream; bad films, etc. Cashed in; not that I blame him. When Sinead O'Connor (sp?) called him America's greatest living poet (most important), or something like that, it wore me out. Not that she was right or wrong, just that I had my own opinion and really didn't care. Especially since it happened near the time when I was reading "Madrigals." Again and again and....

The good doctor, Dre, methinks, kept it together on that 4Life CD, and probably made it what it was: a suburban wonder-bread smash hit. The other CD, "Compton," not familiar with, so can't comment. Being interested in music, I often pick up a bunch of titles to listen to wtf is going on "” and I pick up oldies, too. Is it worth picking up "Compton?" (funny to call that an oldy, damn - :o)

Pax
 
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Well, Straight Outta Compton was as much a cultural seismic event as a record. At least in this neck of the woods. There had never been anything quite like it before. Whether it's worth listening to now, more than 20 years after the fact, I don't know. As for Ice Cube going mainstream, you might want to listen to the first three or four records he put out after leaving NWA before you make that claim. They were, at the time, quite far from the mainstream. And I'm pretty sure you still couldn't play them on the radio.

Ice Cube and Eazy-E created "gangsta rap," and Cube did not stray far from it for some time. For anyone who believed they were putting on a show, I remember an LA Weekly interview with them that was done shortly after Compton was released. The writer said something that implied that he was questioning their authenticity. Eazy-E went into the house and came out a few minutes later with a pillowcase full of guns. He said, "We usually have more on hand, but this is my mom's house." That was pretty funny.

You know, unless one of them was shooting at you. Things were a bit more jumpy in Los Angeles in those days.
 
I'm kind of working my way back through hip hop since it isn't going anywhere without me. I haven't made it all the way back to NWA yet (I'm stuck on Tupac, haven't started Biggie, and I've barely dug into Nas or Jay-Z). I'm lovin' Wu Tang, though.

I remember I first saw the Wu Tang brand when I was like 10 years old in an advanced reading class (lol). They had some serious marketing to make it to a whitebread, middle class cowboy-wannabe kid.
 
I just wanted to add that when NWA & Public Enemy started their stuff was as cutting edge as when it was the Sex Pistols and the Clash a decade earlier. Intense music, indeed.
 
Last book I read was Joyce's 'Dubliners'. Some great short stories there! I have only got into Joyce recently but I love his writing style.

I also have read 'A Portrait of the Artist....' which has some absolutley stunning lines in it. Admittedly there were a few chunks of the book where and I almost gave up, but it was worth sticking with it for the points where it seems like the words just flow out of his soul. Being 20 years old I can also relate a lot with some of the thoughts, in the same way I related with a lot of Fante's books dealing with that age. (Ask the dust, Road to LA, Wine of Youth)

The latter in particular remined me of Joyce, mainly due to the heavy themes of catholicsm, the struggles of growing up and trying to channel these artistic desires.

I have 'Ulysess' in the pipe line too. Bloody hell, it's a beast of a book! I know it has a lot a mixed ratings, I also know it's not the most conventional book written. I'll have to wait and see what I think.
 
I just wanted to add that when NWA & Public Enemy started their stuff was as cutting edge as when it was the Sex Pistols and the Clash a decade earlier. Intense music, indeed.
Not only intense, but different. I have heard 500 million songs in my life, so when something makes me stop and say, "What the fuck is that?!" I know they are on to something.
 
I have heard 500 million songs in my life,

Did the math on this one while at work (I have so much time :p).

If you were 50 years old (and I guess you're just a year short of that you young pup) you'd have had to listen to 10,000,000 songs per year to get to 500 million.

And there's only 525,600 minutes in a year (not a leap year though, add 1440 minutes for that).

So even if those 10 million songs were only a minute long, well, there just ain't enough time....

(Another name for mjp: "hyperbole mike".);)

And in keeping with the thread I bought Middle Cyclone by Neko Case. Got it at Starbucks. And the reason I was in Starbucks was that the guy I relieve on the road showed up 9 minutes late on 12 minute headway so I didn't get to grab a coffee on my first trip. Had to wait four hours for my next opportunity. And the reason I saw the cd was that they were playing Eleanor Rigby as done by Ray Charles and they were closing up so one of the cream/sugar stands had been cleaned up (the one by the door) so I stopped back by the cash register to see if the song was on a cd there. And then I noticed the Neko Case cd which was featured in today's newspaper with an "A" rating. And I like Neko, and tolerate the coffee when I have to.

And one minute, let alone nine (he was 12 and 13 minutes down two days running last week), is a long frigging time.
"hyperbole bp"
 
The Book of Cain by Alexander Trocchi was the last book I read.
I think the last CD I bought was The Peppermint Tree and the Seeds of Superconsciousness by Amorphous Androgynous.
 
If you were 50 years old (and I guess you're just a year short of that you young pup) you'd have had to listen to 10,000,000 songs per year to get to 500 million.

And there's only 525,600 minutes in a year (not a leap year though, add 1440 minutes for that).

So even if those 10 million songs were only a minute long, well, there just ain't enough time....
No, just counted again. It's 500 million.
 
i can't wait to get the new neko case album! a friend just gave me 'furnace room lullaby' so i've been thrashing that one at work.
 
Dont forget Limblifter, some of the new porn gang, from the mid nineties...great stuff. (and I think it was Superconductor even before that).
 
Fast listener.... And counter....
Ever see that movie The Matrix? How the bullets stop in front of the guy from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Well that's kind of how I listen to music. So it might not seem like enough time to you, but that's just because you still think there is a spoon.

Or you took the wrong color pill or something.
 
Haven't watched 500 million movies like you. Time still marches on at a rate of one minute for each minute. I haven't reached the hyperbolical state you obviously have.

And we spell it colour. It's a gift we kept from the colonial days. (And, like most gifts, we treasure it.)

And for Gerard, The New Pornographers are from Vancouver, BC. Sort of a "supergroup" made up of local players. This afternoon heard A.C. Newman's newest release. Newman, Dan "Destroyer" Bejar, Neko and others make up the band.
 
The last cd I bought was Dead Can Dance s/t with bonus Garden Of The Arcane Delights.
The last book I read was In der Gruft by Lovecraft, a collection of short stories with previously unpublished material.
 
Just finished Richard Price's Lush Life...
boy does he have NYC down.
Will make a great movie.

Next up is Anne Rice's Road to Cana

Too embarassed to admit last 'CD'
and even more embarassed that I love it.
 

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