I'm reading this now. I'm glad you like the focus the author gives to how he misheard the lyrics, cos I find it pretty irrelevant.Kory wrote: ↑11 Jan 2019, 6:02pmDid you guys read the Gang of Four one? I thought the angle of focusing on mondegreens was a really interesting and unexpected one.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jan 2019, 4:51pmI'm starting to have borrower's remorse.Flex wrote: ↑11 Jan 2019, 4:24pmJust remember folks, don't dismiss the Fugazi entry just because Kory likes it. I also enjoyed and recommended it.Kory wrote: ↑11 Jan 2019, 1:56pmI would also recommend the Fugazi one, I highly enjoyed it and kept it in the collection.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Jan 2019, 9:53pmBack from campus and the library. Among the research-oriented crap, I also grabbed the Fugazi one (based on Flex's recommendation), the Banshees (based on Kory's recommendation), and the Raincoats (based on Jen's pick). The rest of you lost out on influencing me. Not that there's one on KISS' Animalize.
Whatcha reading?
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Tub book I'm starting today:
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Nice. Did they get it out to you?
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Yup, Book Depository out of the UK. Showed up last week, I think.
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I WANT.
Got a Rake? Sure!
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Here's where I got it: https://www.bookdepository.com/Dayglo-C ... 736&sr=1-2
The one great thing about BD is that there's no shipping charges.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Nice - thank you!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2019, 9:53amHere's where I got it: https://www.bookdepository.com/Dayglo-C ... 736&sr=1-2
The one great thing about BD is that there's no shipping charges.
ETA: Just ordered. And I had a PayPal credit from a win on Confetti the other night, so it was only $15. I can't WAIT.
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And they are quick.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2019, 9:53amHere's where I got it: https://www.bookdepository.com/Dayglo-C ... 736&sr=1-2
The one great thing about BD is that there's no shipping charges.
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That looks baddass, get it out of the tub before you ruin it.
also, you just helped me with a friends birthday present, good lookin out
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It's an oversized book, on the smaller end of coffee table book size. Semi-glossy pages with lots of photos and the like. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it's not being released in North America til September, so if you're ordering, go with that Book Depository link in the UK.
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It's taking me forever to get through the second Dracula book, I love it when they're on the ground, but every few chapters there's a WWI airplane fight and that kinda shit just loses me. I think that's why I never really cared for Snoopy.
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Finished the Poly book the other day and highly recommend, tho prepare to feel quite glum thru much of it, especially post-Spex. I had no idea the depths of her mental illness (severe manic depression on a rotation that's horrible to consider). That she was able to create such a wonderful and energizing legacy is all the more valued. It speaks highly of her daughter's character, growing up both in a Krishna compound and with a mother who could turn into a monster on a dime (how on earth could she develop that key trust with her mom in that situation?), that she cares so much about preserving that legacy.
A side effect has been to get me to return to her limited solo output. Still not much of a fan of Translucence, but the posthumous Generation Indigo is better than I recalled. "Virtual Boyfriend" in particular is superb.
Along the same lines, anyone have a digitized copy of her mid-80s ep Gods and Goddesses that they'd be willing to share with the class?
A side effect has been to get me to return to her limited solo output. Still not much of a fan of Translucence, but the posthumous Generation Indigo is better than I recalled. "Virtual Boyfriend" in particular is superb.
Along the same lines, anyone have a digitized copy of her mid-80s ep Gods and Goddesses that they'd be willing to share with the class?
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Bedtime book:
I'm only a chapter in, but it's pretty baseball dork junk food kind of stuff. Bunch of pitchers and hitters talk about various pitches. Fun anecdotal stuff, but that's it.
Audio book:
I'll actually be starting this in a couple days (I'm almost done Dos Passos' 1919). I've listened to this once before and read it once or twice. I adore the title —such unambiguous positivity. The novel is about someone born with the foreknowledge of the exact date of the earth's extinction, and what we chooses to do with his life given that understanding. Actually, what he does with it twice. Highly recommend it. It's life affirming without being sloppy sentimental about it.
Tub book:
A very brief history of Coney Island in the early decades of the 20th c. Reading it because I'm planning on doing a lecture on Coney Island, Disneyland, and that kind of constructed leisure for my popular culture course.
I'm only a chapter in, but it's pretty baseball dork junk food kind of stuff. Bunch of pitchers and hitters talk about various pitches. Fun anecdotal stuff, but that's it.
Audio book:
I'll actually be starting this in a couple days (I'm almost done Dos Passos' 1919). I've listened to this once before and read it once or twice. I adore the title —such unambiguous positivity. The novel is about someone born with the foreknowledge of the exact date of the earth's extinction, and what we chooses to do with his life given that understanding. Actually, what he does with it twice. Highly recommend it. It's life affirming without being sloppy sentimental about it.
Tub book:
A very brief history of Coney Island in the early decades of the 20th c. Reading it because I'm planning on doing a lecture on Coney Island, Disneyland, and that kind of constructed leisure for my popular culture course.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I didn't say I liked it.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2019, 2:25amI'm reading this now. I'm glad you like the focus the author gives to how he misheard the lyrics, cos I find it pretty irrelevant.Kory wrote: ↑11 Jan 2019, 6:02pmDid you guys read the Gang of Four one? I thought the angle of focusing on mondegreens was a really interesting and unexpected one.
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I know I read it, but can't recall my impressions. I know that Kevin Dettmar's book Rock is Dead is good. I've used the first chapter in my rock seminar a couple times.Kory wrote: ↑07 May 2019, 6:53pmI didn't say I liked it.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2019, 2:25amI'm reading this now. I'm glad you like the focus the author gives to how he misheard the lyrics, cos I find it pretty irrelevant.Kory wrote: ↑11 Jan 2019, 6:02pmDid you guys read the Gang of Four one? I thought the angle of focusing on mondegreens was a really interesting and unexpected one.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft