Last CD you bought/ Book you read

zoom man

zoom man

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Just finished Richard (?) Perez's Losers' Club
(kind of like Big Lights, Big City..... NYC in the 90s)
Fun, fast book.

Think I got to find that Nick Flynn book Dylan mentioned,
Just for the title alone....

Though I just got Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise, could be the next book of the year/decade.
Thoug sounds kind of serious for where I am right now...
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
I?ve just read "The R. Crumb Handbook". A great book. Crumb tells the story of his life and there?s lots of his artwork. With the book comes a cd sampler with "R. crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders" (aprox. 1 hour). No wonder that Buk used him to illustrate some of his books!
 
Melissa Sue

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YAY! It's the greatest. I actually woke up this morning to that CD on my CD-alarm-clock. It gets heavy rotation on my playlists.

The book is great, especially the bits at the end about coming to terms with old age and death. Or trying to anyway.

And I think "Baby I'm a Fine Arteeste" is fantastic. I had that quote up on my website for a while.

Can we re-post? The last CD I bought was Odetta "At the Gate of Horn" (folk) and I can't stop playing it. Fan-tas-tic.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
melissa sue: Glad to hear you also liked the Crumb book and the cd too!
"fine artiste" is great! I also like "get a load of this" and "my girls pussy". - I was so thrilled with the cd that I bought 2 other Crumb cd?s from Amazon ( "singing in the bathtub" & "chasin?rainbows")!
In the book there?s an excerpt from Buk`s "Hollywood"
and one of Crumb`s drawings of him (the one from the cover of "The captain..."). It?s no big surprise to find Buk mentioned in the book since those two guys have a lot in common in their outlook on life! Both considered themselves misfits and outsiders. Just read the chapter called "The litany of hate" where he say?s that he hates religion, government, modern music, getting up in the morning, the mass media etc. Buk could have written that chapter!
That book sure is a good read!
 
zoom man

zoom man

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bluealbum said:
Book: gravitys rainbow, thomas pynchon
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Did you like it?
I think I got to around 80 pages and quit.
I tried reading V too (I think it was named)
And same problem.
The Crying of Lot 49 (?) I got through,
And it was ok....

Richard Powers falls in the same 'genre' as Pynchon,
And he wrote one of my all time favorites->
3 Farmers on the Way to a Dance.

I tried Pynchon when I was much younger, should probably look him up again.
 
hoochmonkey9

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Gravity's Rainbow is a struggle, although the first line is incredible...
Richard Powers is a great writer. Plowing the Dark blew me away, The Time of Our Singing is good also, although a departure for Powers.
 
zoom man

zoom man

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hoochmonkey9 said:
Richard Powers is a great writer. Plowing the Dark blew me away,.
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I'll have to buy that one,.... Farmers, I think, is the only one I've read.

I think it's time to start a new thread, Favorite Authors.........
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
Most recent CD: Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Book in progress: Barry Glassner - The Culture of Fear
 
number6horse

number6horse

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OK - I usually have a two-track mind for books - One to actually read and care about, and another to fall asleep to. No shame in that.

Books - "Ask The Dust" - John Fante
"Big Rock Candy Mountain"
- Wallace Stegner(the sleeper)

CD - last one I paid money for is Darlyne Cain.
 
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dermaface

WHY READ WHEN THERE IS TV? WHY LISTEN TO MORE CD' s AFTER YOU HAVE SEEN SHAKIRA?

I only read at the first grade level so the last book I read was "Everyone Poop's" by Taro Gomi-you know Elephants make big poopies, Mice make small poopies.I am working my way up to big peoples books.My girlfriend counts pages for me so I guarantee I will never read War and Peace by that Russian guy no matter how fast I learn to read. Poopies have always been fascinating to me ever since Mommie Dearest put me on the little boy's potty and screamed,"C'mon let it out. Squeeze harder you little bastard." Believe you me I wanted to take a poopie but I always thought it was dirty-dirty. I only took a shit when I was 34 when I read "All the Assholes in the World and Mine". Boy did I feel better. And people no longer said I was full of shit. They now said my poetry was shitty but I do not give a purple shit what readers think because my favorite pastime when I am not on the bidet squirting myself after a big one is studying shit, piss, vomit, mucous, etc. Big people call it Scatology-I call it "The Shits". Sigmund Freud said only those who study how a people dispose of waste know the people so I know all you faux intellectual mother fuckers who think your poetry is the shits.
The last and only CD I will listen to is Shakira's "Oral Fixation 2". Just like Bukowski changed my life forever when my brother sent me "Love is a Dog From Hell" with the inscription. "You are twisted, Hank is twisted, give him 20 pages", I was falling asleep watching the David Letterman show when I heard this beautiful voice sing "Don't Bother". I opened my eyes and my heart started racing. It was Shakira-Shakira-Shakira. I never saw a body move like that except when I watched an eel get zapped with electricity.OK .OK you snitch bastard.-also when I had electric shock therapy. I was hooked again. My CD is programmed to only play Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie". Screw Viagara-watch the video and blast off. Now I do not go out with women any more. No woman can beat Shakira. I stay home and masturbate. And the best part is this is the first time I have had sex with someone I love.
 
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Thomas

The last book I read was Diary of a Madman by Gogol and the last cd I bought was descended like vultures by rogue wave, strange link.
 
grahamcooke

grahamcooke

zoom man said:
Music "Everything Everything" Underworld
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Nice work, this album is fantastic and the DVD is even better. I've been a fan of underworld for a long time, and seen them live five times. No other live electronic act comes anywhere near...

Did anyone buy the new Streets album ("The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living")?
 
hoochmonkey9

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sonic youth - Murray Street (yes, I'm an aging hipster doofus...)
book - The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green. A long simmering rant on urban sprawl, reality tv (tho this book was written in 1957), popular culture and the human condition. A little 20th century missed masterpiece. Part John O'Hara, Thomas Wolfe, and Don Delilo in it's own way.
 
zoom man

zoom man

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What was the last released Delilo title?,
The one with the limo on the cover?....
Some of his stuff man, I really like,
And I have that (limo one I mean) one I know (probably with a remainder mark on it....).
That should be a new thread, BTW,....
What is the deal with these Pesky Remainder Marks?!?!?!
 
Brother Schenker

Brother Schenker

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Latest cd: Wake Up Call by Gary Hoey
Also: Morph the Cat by Donald Fagen

Books: Brother Sam (memoir by Bill Kinison about his brother Sam)
Also: Descartes in 90 Minutes
 
jose leitao

jose leitao

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Hey jose leitao, we're glad you're here and all, but you haven't said anything in over two weeks. Make a post. Tell us what (or who) you had for dinner. Make an ass of yourself somehow, you know how to do that. Jump back in the water, all the other freaks miss you.
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:D :D :D :D :D

Nice touch...

I've been reading Peter Hanning's The Frankenstein Omnibus, and listening to Sigur Ros...
 
hoochmonkey9

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jose leitao said:
:D :D :D :D :D

, and listening to Sigur Ros...
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I was just listening to their Tak and there's a big scratch on track 7 that just showed up...I'm pissed.
 
Olaf

Olaf

I bought a book of poetry by Charles Simic 'The Book of Gods and Devils' - I love his style even though it is not the most poetic, they are more so little prose-poems, little photographs, riddles of memory!

Despite a lot of criticism for being an 'academic' and writing 'awful' poems...I just can't get enough of his ability to capture 'moments' and to make the unexpected seem wholly mysterious and captivating.

If you want lyrical beauty - AVOID!
 
Forker

Forker

Book: Broken by Kelly Armstrong

Cd: well...I think it was the Phantom of the Opera sountrack, that or something by Diana Krall
 
hoochmonkey9

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dragging out this dusty thread...

Velvet Underground - bootleg Series Vol. 1 : the Quine Tapes 3 cd set
Johnny Cash - American V : A Hundred Highways
John Coltrane - Impressions
Ramones - Ramones (time to retire my lp, maybe frame it?)
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
I spent way too much $$$$ on music the past few days.

book...currently reading Native Son by Richard Wright. just finished Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.

alright, back to the cd player.
 
jose leitao

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Last CD - 3-CD audiobook of Clive Barker reading 'The Hellbound Heart'
Last Book: Cirerita's first Buk chapbook ;)
 
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