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    • JoberwockyJ
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      Books would be tough  😃

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      • GilesG
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        It was easy for me.  Those are the only ones I can remember reading more than once…..

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        • mclaincauseyM
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          @Joberwocky:

          Current top 5 albums:

          Interpol - Antics
          Muse - Absolution
          Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
          Lord Huron - Strange Trails
          Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

          Some random humblebrags / cool stories bro intersecting with this:

          One of my friends used to go to school with the main Interpol guy. When they played Minneapolis, we hung out with them and went to an afterparty. It was fun!

          Another of my friends used to be the lighting manager for Lord Huron.

          I will need to think more on top 5 stuff… Too many holes in my brain I guess.

          Think it, be it.

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          • jerkulesJ
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            Albums:

            Fugazi - The Argument
            Swans - The Seer
            Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
            Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
            Converge - Jane Doe

            Honourable mentions:

            Deftones - White Pony
            Charles Mingus - Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
            …trail of dead - Source Tags & Codes
            Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
            Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want

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            • jerkulesJ
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              @LewisStonehouse TOOL! Right on, should’ve added Lateralus or Aenema to my list - such a great band

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              • GilesG
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                What I am loving about this thread is that Spotify is getting worn out here….... 😉 😉 😉

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • LewisStonehouseL
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                  @LewisStonehouse TOOL! Right on, should’ve added Lateralus or Aenema to my list - such a great band

                  For sure man, I could have had 4/5 of my top five be TOOL albums to be fair. Going to see them in May 22 😊

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                  • GilesG
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                    And I should have had some Red Hot's….

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    • Paul9221P
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                      Great thread!

                      Books!

                      • Bible:  shapes my life, probably the book I've re-read the most times

                      • The Stand - Stephen King:  such an epic novel!

                      • Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson:  has a whole chapter on how the protagonist eats Capt. Crunch cereal!

                      • Neuromancer - William Gibson:  has one of the best opening lines ever:  "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

                      • Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut: I found myself writing down quotes from this book like every 3 pages – just brilliant!

                      Blanket-line all the things!!!

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                      • GilesG
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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....

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • jerkulesJ
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                          Books:

                          Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
                          Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
                          Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
                          Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake
                          Christopher Priest - The Affirmation

                          Honourable mentions:

                          Han Kang - The Vegetarian
                          Iris Murdock - The Sea, The Sea
                          Richard House - The Kills
                          Lars Saabye Christensen - The Half Brother
                          Rupert Thomson - Katherine Carlyle

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                          • jerkulesJ
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                            Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

                            A personal fav!!

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                            • Paul9221P
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                              Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

                              OH MY GOODNESS, I totally forgot this book!  I've re-read it 3 times!  IT'S SO BRILLIANT!

                              Blanket-line all the things!!!

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                              • jerkulesJ
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                                @LewisStonehouse TOOL! Right on, should’ve added Lateralus or Aenema to my list - such a great band

                                For sure man, I could have had 4/5 of my top five be TOOL albums to be fair. Going to see them in May 22 😊

                                Awesome! I was looking the other day and tickets still available, need to convince the wife either to tag along or give me the night off.

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                                • mclaincauseyM
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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.

                                  Think it, be it.

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                                  • GilesG
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                                    Converge - Jane Doe

                                    Oh shit.  Sorry @riffblaster general , Jane Doe is obvs my #1…. 😉

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    • LewisStonehouseL
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                                      I really enjoy Terry Pratchett

                                      Me too, on my tenth discworld novel in a row  🙂

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                                      • JoberwockyJ
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                                        @mclaincausey that's pretty wild, man!

                                        I saw Muse play with Cold Wat Kids at the festival pier in Philadelphia when they went on tour to promote Black Holes and Revelations.  My wife and i managed to get right up front in a crowd of 6k+, which was awesome for CWK's stripped down opening set.  Then Muse hit the stage and I think the electric bill at Penn's Landing doubled…
                                        We didn't make it through their opener (Knights of Cydonia) before bowing out and moving back a bit, it was nuts  😃

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          The first gig I ever took @Madame Buttonfly to that was not necessarily on her previous musical experience radar, was Converge.  We were up the front of the Mosh-Pit, I did not have a camera on me, but the look of utter amazement and what-the-fuck-am-I-dong-here on her face, will be etched into my consciousness for ever….

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          • Paul9221P
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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.

                                            Blanket-line all the things!!!

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