Whatcha reading?

[Silent Majority]

I listen to music, I read audiobooks.

I read music, I listen intently.

Do you have a sleeping bag in your tent?

[Marky Dread]

I listen to music, I read audiobooks.

I read music, I listen intently.

Do you have a sleeping bag in your tent?

No I store my books in a hammock.

[eumaas]

I fuck books, I chew music, I shit culture.

[Marky Dread]

I fuck books, I chew music, I shit culture.

Go easy mate as some culture is difficult to pass.

[Wolter]

I fuck books, I chew music, I shit culture.

Look who found Richey Edwards rejected lyrics notebook.

[eumaas]

I fuck books, I chew music, I shit culture.

Look who found Richey Edwards rejected lyrics notebook.

was thinking of Anti-Oedipus:

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.

[Wolter]

I fuck books, I chew music, I shit culture.

Look who found Richey Edwards rejected lyrics notebook.

was thinking of Anti-Oedipus:

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.

To be fair, that sounds like something he would insist be in the liner notes of The Holy Bible.

[Silent Majority]

84) The Shootist - Glendon Swarthout. 1975. Audiobook. A great Western about a famous gunfighter dying painfully of cancer, best known for being the last film that John Wayne made. Written in a spare, stylish fashion which I think might be typical of the genre based on the cowboy books I've read. Most of the book is just descriptions of a man in agony working through his laudanum, fending off townspeople who wish to profit off him (which you'd never get me reading without a stetson, as well done as it is) but the action scene at the end is one of the most exciting reads I think I've ever had.

[Silent Majority]

85) Blair - Anthony Seldon. 2004. Paperback. A long climb through the Prime Minister's life and career, up to 2007, focusing on key events and influential people. Blair believed in little but God and himself and conflated His and his will. He sought power for reasons that had nothing to do with bettering his country - in fact, he never thought about what he wanted to do until long after he had achieved his precious position and then became concerned with his legacy. Iraq is the only part of his premiership that anyone will remember, but his fear of ever irritating the right wing press meant that, Northern Ireland aside, there's essentially no good that was done. That's the verdict of this book too: that he squandered his time and political abilities.

[revbob]

Doc you're always talking about books n such for your course material, cant vouch for anything here just passing it on in the hopes you find something useful

https://electricliterature.com/7-essent ... oks-music/

[Dr. Medulla]

Doc you're always talking about books n such for your course material, cant vouch for anything here just passing it on in the hopes you find something useful

https://electricliterature.com/7-essent ... oks-music/

Thanks! I've thought about using Azerrad and Marcus (mainly because hers is, I think, the only effort to tackle RG) before, and I have read Blush's book. As much as I'd like to use memoirs and oral histories, it's harder to get students to read them beyond just stories to be entertained by, especially if they're not already well versed in the subject matter. I will check out Alice Bag's book, tho.

[Silent Majority]

86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.

[Dr. Medulla]

Finally finished Gewer's Kissinger book—highly recommended; successfully countered the caricature of Kissinger that so many of us operate under; I'm not converted to his perspective, but I respect it considerably more—and started a book recommended by my nephew.

Part of my annual effort to try to better understand quantum physics (knowing full well that my mind will just fold in on itself in the process).

[Silent Majority]

Finally finished Gewer's Kissinger book—highly recommended; successfully countered the caricature of Kissinger that so many of us operate under; I'm not converted to his perspective, but I respect it considerably more—and started a book recommended by my nephew.

Part of my annual effort to try to better understand quantum physics (knowing full well that my mind will just fold in on itself in the process).

Look forward to your verdict for that one.

[eumaas]

86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.

his run on Swamp Thing is great.