Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 11:27am
Fagles’ translation of the Aeneid, because I’m tutoring a kid who has to read it.
If Music Could Talk
Whatcha reading?
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Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:21pm
A poetry collection by Edna St Vincent Millay. I have a hard time finding poets I like.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 11:01amYou pursue voluntarily that most grad students would endure while sulking. That might be a compliment, but I'm not sure.Silent Majority wrote: ↑07 Feb 2019, 3:50pmAs a part of my ongoing completist sickness, I've already ordered similar books about John Major and Gordon Brown.
Lightweights.
Anyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.Tub book, starting today:
I've had this forever. Can't even recall how I acquired it. I gather it's similar in theme as Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces—high culture, popular culture, youth culture, and rebellion all in a stew pot—but presumably without Marcus' irritating hyperbole.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:48pm
this is basically right tho, yeah?Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:46pmAnyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:50pm
You could argue.Flex wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:48pmthis is basically right tho, yeah?Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:46pmAnyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:54pm
I’m the contrarian who says this about “Amphetamine Blue.”Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:50pmYou could argue.Flex wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:48pmthis is basically right tho, yeah?Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:46pmAnyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:55pm
I'd actually say it about Anal Cunt's cover of"Old Time Hardcore" but, you know, it's all in the ballpark.Wolter wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:54pmI’m the contrarian who says this about “Amphetamine Blue.”Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:50pmYou could argue.Flex wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:48pmthis is basically right tho, yeah?Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:46pmAnyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 12:56pm
Really, there’s a whole rich tapestry.Flex wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:55pmI'd actually say it about Anal Cunt's cover of"Old Time Hardcore" but, you know, it's all in the ballpark.Wolter wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:54pmI’m the contrarian who says this about “Amphetamine Blue.”Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:50pmYou could argue.Flex wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:48pmthis is basically right tho, yeah?Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:46pmAnyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 1:52pm
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 2:28pm
I’m so many alternating layers of irony and sincerity that I can’t even tell either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 1:52pmI can't tell whether or not you guys are validating Greil Marcus!
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 3:24pm
Postmodernity's terminal stage is as exhilarating as it is bewildering.Wolter wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 2:28pmI’m so many alternating layers of irony and sincerity that I can’t even tell either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 1:52pmI can't tell whether or not you guys are validating Greil Marcus!
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 3:54pm
I think I’m crossing into metamodern.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 3:24pmPostmodernity's terminal stage is as exhilarating as it is bewildering.Wolter wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 2:28pmI’m so many alternating layers of irony and sincerity that I can’t even tell either.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 1:52pmI can't tell whether or not you guys are validating Greil Marcus!
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 6:58pm
Just read Roger Daltrey and Kenney Jones' autobiographies that I got for Xmas. Both well written but what a pair of boring bastards. It was interesting to get the different points of view on Kenney's sacking from the Who (Roger's doing).
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 7:33pm
In my opinion the best books written about punk (UK) are the ones written by fans. You get an individual story written with a much more honest account and not someone that just babbles on and on about the sociopolitical and revolutionary aspects.Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 12:46pmDr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Feb 2019, 11:01amYou pursue voluntarily that most grad students would endure while sulking. That might be a compliment, but I'm not sure.Silent Majority wrote: ↑07 Feb 2019, 3:50pmAs a part of my ongoing completist sickness, I've already ordered similar books about John Major and Gordon Brown.
Lightweights.
Anyone fortunate enough to hear Automatic Lover by the Vibrators for the first time would have been instantly enraptured with the knowledge they were experiencing a historic moment as important as the agricultural revolution. Each second of the record had been perfectly calibrated to make any listener weep with the power and glory of what humans are capable of achieving.Tub book, starting today:
I've had this forever. Can't even recall how I acquired it. I gather it's similar in theme as Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces—high culture, popular culture, youth culture, and rebellion all in a stew pot—but presumably without Marcus' irritating hyperbole.
So many famous writers aproach the subject from this angle Savage/Heylin/Marcus et all and forget to mention how it was simply fun music and a time for young people to express themselves just like all great rock 'n' roll movements do. Every little town here in the UK had it's own punk band from the ones that got no further than playing the local church hall to the ones who made it to the Lyceum and beyond. All this rubbish about how punk changed the world gets on my nerves the changes that punk really made were only seen 10-15 years after the event when people brought up on that music and attitude were then those in a postion of power and had joined the establishment.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 7:41pm
6) The Art of War - Sun Tzu. Audiobook. Audible are using an extract from this in their TV adverts and it re-piqued my curiosity enough to illegally download it. Second read for this, a manual for business men who pride themselves on being bastards.