Your Top 5
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Oh shit, now I need to start reading more too…...
I'm sorry The Bible is out, I read it every night for years hoping it would tell me something or make me a better person it didn't (not a religious rant or stance). But Slaughterhouse-Five is a must....
Ha! I won't go on a Bible rant, but I would say that you should read it to learn more about who God is, not to be a better person. But, in learning who He is and what He likes, you might grow to love Him and desire to become the kind of person that He is. I appreciate that there are people on here of different faiths so I won't go beyond that.
Slaughterhouse-Five is phenomenal! I'm not even sure I fully understood it, but it was so brilliant in the ways that it broke all of the literary rules. The whole first chapter is told in the author's own voice, about how he wrote the very book we're reading, and his memories that came together to make the book. This quote kills me:
I had the Bell Telephone Company find him for me. They are wonderful that way. I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.
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Can get down with Kurt, Marquez, Stephenson, and especially William Fucking Gibson. I still have a cool Porter bag signed by him courtesy of @Snowy (thank you again my friend) and he is a big fan of Iron Heart and Acronym (just like me–couldn't be much more different brands but somehow we share a love for them)
The Sprawl trilogy is polarizing, as a lot of people struggle to follow it or perhaps just find it uninteresting. I'm not sure why. I love its dark noir style, and indeed that is IMO the best opening live I've read.
I am expecting to hear Cormac McCarthy at some point. Not among my very favorites but he's great and I know there are some fans here.
I really enjoy Terry Pratchett and Carl Hiaasen as well.
Still struggling on the album front, but I know WRONG by NOMEANSNO is on there somewhere.
Oh man, that bag sounds like an amazing keepsake!
When I first read Neuromancer, I was kinda struck with the depth that Gibson went into on the protagonist's jeans. Only later did I realize he's a huge fan of denim and mechanical watches and all sorts of things that take attention but deliver progress.
Have you read his interview on ebay/mechanical-watch obsession: https://www.wired.com/1999/01/ebay/ ?
I liked the Sprawl trilogy for the characters. Obviously, loved Neuromancer. I remember not caring for Mona Lisa Overdrive too much.
I picked up the William Gibson / Buzz Rickson jacket from Pattern Recognition; a Gibson book that I loved but, honestly, am not sure why
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Converge - Jane Doe
Oh shit. Sorry @riffblaster general , Jane Doe is obvs my #1….
HAAAAA! Don’t lie to me Giles. We all know it’s Taylor Swift.
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@riffblaster general I’m a newbie here, never realised I was rubbing shoulders with a musical hero!
Seriously though. Jane Doe was a formative experience for me, I was about 14 when it released and it blew me away. Seen you guys a few times over the years in London, always a wonderful experience. Anyways, big thanks and love!
And thanks for connecting the dots for me @Giles. I love the image of Paula, unaware of what’s about to happen, in the pit for Converge
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Tough choice, initial salvo
1. All Mod Cons - The Jam
2. Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
3. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
4. Ethiopian Knights - Donald Byrd
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Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):
1. TOOL - AEnima
2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
3. OutKast - ATLiens
4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527] -
Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):
1. TOOL - AEnima
2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
3. OutKast - ATLiens
4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allan Brothers
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Great list, @goosehd ; I am re-reading Kool-Aid now.
There was such a fundamental disjoint between the Pranksters and just about everything else that had come before, even if Cassady managed to bridge the gap between the Beats and the Hippies. All bets were off, anything was possible, and there were some genuine polymaths in and around the group (I am particularly gobsmacked by the brilliance, breadth, and depth of people like Bear Owlsley–what couldn't he do??), it was not just a bunch of drug-addled idiots (although of course there were also those).
A second of 5 albums to slot next to NOMEANSNO WRONG might be Joe's Garage by Zappa, and a lot of that on the strength of a young Vinnie Colaiuta's incredible drumming and drum sound. I would love a multitrack recording so I could just tune into the rhythm section on that thing.
I will also add Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat.
@Paul9221 I was trying to fine Snowy's sales post so you could see the bag, but I found ANOTHER Gibson Porter bag he sold–check out my response, you may get a kick out of it.
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Books:
1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
3. A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
5. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger -
Nils Frahm - Screws
Frank Ocean - Endless
The National - High Violet
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Dirty Projectors - Bitte OrcaKarl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle 1
Phillip Hoare - Leviathan, or the Whale
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will
Timothy Morton - Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman PeopleTehching Hsieh
Agnes Martin
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
Jerome Bel
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very very cool @goosehd … a wild time in history that won't come around again
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…I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch…
I read it for the first time this year, and it is definitely a gut punch…
Then I read “Post Office”, “Factotum”and “Women” right after…Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]
