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Just finishing Doug Stanhopes - Digging up Mother

Great book, almost reads like his standup but it's deeply personal. Really recommend it if you're a fan of his standup.

Starting "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey next. 

Happy to be reading for pleasure again. 

  On 7/31/2016 at 2:17 AM, Bechuga said:

Vineland to me is summed up thus: it's a three hundred page flashback with a sixty page conclusion. And the section where he compared the states of being alive and dead to that of binary codes, and 'what kind of programme was the government creating out of the ones and zeroes of all the dead' was a highlight for me. Definitely underrated and misunderstood.

 

Hope he publishes one more before he passes on!

ta for this, its been on the list of unrequited literature for far too long & has served as the nudge to finally pick it up, always curious about themes on the long-60's, anthropologically how cultural influences permeate/fade & identity

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:44 PM, StephenG said:

Just finishing Doug Stanhopes - Digging up Mother

 

Great book, almost reads like his standup but it's deeply personal. Really recommend it if you're a fan of his standup.

 

 

Starting "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey next.

 

Happy to be reading for pleasure again.

Another ta very much, curious to see how Doug writes having seen how his mind works through performances. After Jerry Sadowitz, 1 of the funniest gigs bar none.

Guided Imagery & Music (GIM) and Music Imagery Methods for Individual and Group Therapy by Denise Grocke. Highly recommended & a staggering array of therapeutic twists on the range of techniques & responses to trauma-focused music "medicine". Touches on drones, with the central thread being classical, but opens up so much potential for more recent electronica. Possible career change influencing/10

Music, Music Therapy and Trauma: International Perspectives by Julie Sutton.... see above. A tougher, drier read, with utterly shattering case studies, but hope breaks through in the most surprising manner some times. Be worth drafting a playlist of compositions used in these approaches to see how an electronic music community, with all manner of tastes, might interpret/offer alternatives to specific associated music recommendations & case studies. Daring challeging work indeed, although youtube @ hand def helps/10

Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations by Jim Ellis.... wicked in-depth interviews & interpretations from the man with into his methods of subverting historical constructs, bravery in the face of tragedy & lots on his own favourite experimental super-8mm shorts which are the real gold. Theres a compendium vid 'In the Shadow of the Sun' (complete with mint TG soundtrack) available that gives an edited feature of all these. Truly transcendental & inspiring to grip a super-8 & re-indulge creatively/10

Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music by Robin Sylvan. Had for months but been nibbling. Absorbing mix of sublime & clunky interdisciplinary research that teases out and works through the emotionality of music. Academically rigorous, but also funny, punchy & the Grateful Dead/House music companion chapters are outstanding. 8/10

The Book Of Lies (New Edition): The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult........guilty pleasure for an archaeologist but concise, Grant Morrison's discussion prob shine the most, lots of angles, funny, good at deconstructing arcane & contemporary bs & the Austin Osman Spare aspects are v illuminating. Slightly skewed by Genesis P-Orridge over-reaching in 1 of the initial chapters and the print is a bit small even for these eyes, but as an analysis of dramatized psychology/forces of nature/poetic metaphor traditions, its smashing/10

Finally getting around to Zero K by Don Delillo.

I finished Ulysses cause I'm a stereotypical angsty 20 year old male. Thoroughly enjoyed it overall but due to the way it's written, with the style changing each chapter, certain chapters have definitely remained in my mind more. Absolutely loved the Cyclops and Circe chapters especially, hilarious stuff. Kinda wish I knew more about English lit theory to understand more of the clever wordplays and puns he put in, but it was still easy to see how smart it is without any academic knowledge.

Now started Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. It's weird, like if I didn't know it was Pynchon I definitely wouldn't have been able to guess. That's a good thing I suppose.

It goes Full Pynchon in a pretty thematically effective way IMO.

I musta missed the memo/a bit of this thread, but I've also been re-reading that Gravity's Rainbow for a little while. About halfway in.

  On 8/7/2016 at 9:06 AM, baph said:

It goes Full Pynchon in a pretty thematically effective way IMO.

 

I musta missed the memo/a bit of this thread, but I've also been re-reading that Gravity's Rainbow for a little while. About halfway in.

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:44 PM, StephenG said:

 

Starting "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey next. 

 

Happy to be reading for pleasure again. 

loooove that book. 

finished LOTR ~ Fellowship of the ring. spent about ~10 minutes thinking of what to read next, thinking maybe a comic or something short to freshen up the senses a little ... but decided on .. ( believe it or not ) LOTR ~ The Two Towers. 

Really. good books. who'da thought ???

anyone got a good (nonfict) read on copyright in contemporary art/culture/music (remixing, sampling, massmedia, generative art, ...)?

  On 8/7/2016 at 9:06 AM, baph said:

I musta missed the memo/a bit of this thread, but I've also been re-reading that Gravity's Rainbow for a little while. About halfway in.

*hi5*

Cosey Fanni Tutti's "Art Sex & Music" has pre-orders going for early next year

having a TG/Carter-Tutti/CTI obsession just makes this all the more intriguing

the mailer has a few spoken word events round the capital listed for this autumn which look mint........ aaaaagggghhhh now the wait

Obviously not yet reading but this is coming 20th October. 

If you haven't already heard iPartridge the audio book, get it now. Trial Audible and DL that gold!

OMG !!!

the 7 hour audiobook version of i, partridge was SO GOOD. looking forward to a 7 hour version of this one hopefully :^) 

just read Schopenhauer - Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit

now: Turgenev - Home of the Gentry

  On 8/9/2016 at 9:01 AM, bitroast said:

OMG !!!

the 7 hour audiobook version of i, partridge was SO GOOD. looking forward to a 7 hour version of this one hopefully :^) 

What if it's 8 hours

While I wouldn't say the prose style is particularly memorable, his in-depth psychological assessments of characters is some of the best I have read. Consider me addicted. I remember loving his other book, The Razor's Edge, as well. 

^I have a large pile of his books sitting on my stairs. Haven't read any of them yet.

Will check to see if I have that one, title looks familiar. Good a place to start as any I guess.

  On 8/12/2016 at 11:43 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/9/2016 at 9:01 AM, bitroast said:

OMG !!!

the 7 hour audiobook version of i, partridge was SO GOOD. looking forward to a 7 hour version of this one hopefully :^)

What if it's 8 hours

i will be a happy dude.

This time I am going to finish The Lord of the Rings, I promise.

400+ pages into Gravity's Rainbow now and what a revelation it is the 2nd time around.

I guess because you're not going in blind and you fall into his spastic and lateral rhythms easier. Really fucking enjoying this.

I've ordered Mason & Dixon and Against The Day from abebooks.

is every watmmer reading or about to read pynchon at all times? lol

My third read of V. is on deck after this Delillo jawn.

has anybody read Stoner by John Williams? it's good, quality fiction about alienation etc.

that's a great book

yeah, one of the better books i've read in a while. been checking out short stories by Gary Lutz, "Stories in the Worst Way" -- he's a fuckin nut.. ridiculously-constructed sentences, weird, "pretentious" wordage, and funny ideas. It's ok

Started Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. So far, not too bad.

I can see where Guillermo Del Toro got the idea for The Strain from.