Sent you an email via ILX.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ask and ye shall receive.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
also sent.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
a short film about Kevin and John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66CI3vS-7c
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
a search for album title and your name also works. never heard of the band or read any lovecraft but your description of the music makes me want to find out more. apart from that, i thought that's a terrific proposal and if i were etc... let's say i hope that one day you'll be able to write the book.
― willem, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks Willem! I felt very passionate about it til I got rejected. Then I thought about ten new projects :)
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, you snooze you lose.
xp
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost I didn't know the album title, though.
???
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Just a joke because John wrote to me right after you.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
@Geeta (& New Yorkers): GOT IT! thanks for The Strand tip (how appropriate name-wise). it's stacked on a table near (beside/behind) the music section, not on shelves. already enjoying from the Q-ride home - more feedback soon!
― Paul, Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome, Paul! I stopped by St. Mark's Bookshop and they had some copies of my Eno book too, in the music section.
― geeta, Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
just chiming in way late to the party to say that john d's 'master of reality' is fucken awesome
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The Green World book's not out till January in the UK. Sadface.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like Amazon finally has it available for reals, for reals.
― We call them "meat hemorrhoids" (Alex in SF), Friday, 30 October 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's about time! As of this morning, Amazon.com officially has the Eno book in stock, with no shipping delays. That certainly took them long enough.
― geeta, Friday, 30 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, finally my pre-order is in progress.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 October 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome. Hope you like it.
Nick -- Amazon UK finally has the Eno 33 1/3 book in stock, as of today. So no waiting til January!
― geeta, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Geeta, are you going to do any readings and presentations at book stores for it?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd love to do some readings at bookstores, but right now I don't have anything on the agenda. If you have any ideas for venues, let me know!
― geeta, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm most of the way through the neutral milk hotel one after seeing all the love for it here. the interviews are interesting, but the writing is, uh, kind of terrible? :/
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
bought on the Amazon Kindle store, read a page or less. oops
― ksh, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i just got whiney's nation of millions of book in the mail this afternoon and i'm about 100 pages in--more impressive considering how much time ive spent going to my ipod to relisten to PE and other golden era rap. the whole things been great but so far the wattstax chapter has been particularly exceptional, i just reserved the dvd at the library here.
after i finish i'll try to post something more concrete, but right now i just wanted to lavish some praise
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Saturday, 22 May 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I've read several of these books and on the whole I've been disappointed. One or two (e.g. Bowie's Low) I've just had to stop reading, as they were such dull re-treads of oft-written ideas. But then I keep getting sucked into trying another (they're so short and inexpensive!). I enjoyed Darnielle's Master of Reality.
Anyway, I have Drew Daniel's volume on 20 Jazz Funk Greats and might give it a go -- I somehow doubt Drew will disappoint.
― Duke, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I suppose it's also my fault for buying a book about a much-written-about album such as Low.
― Duke, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
These books used to be about albums from the canon (Dusty In Memphis, Pet Sounds, Low) but now it seems they're going wilfully *anti* canon (The Dreaming rather than The Hounds Of Love, Boys for Pele as opposed to Little Earthquakes, Aquemini as opposed to The Love Below/ Speakerboxxx etc). Not that i'm complaining!
― piscesx, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked the one about Low.
― iago g., Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Aquemini is way more hip-hop canon than Speakerboxxx.
― Mexico, camp, horns, Zappa, Mr. Bungle (Matos W.K.), Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
who's writing the aquemini one
Michael Schmelling
― The Reverend, Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
there are definitely disappointing/subpar books in the series but generally i feel like they're mostly worth what little money and time they cost you and are usually at least fun if not great. how I would rank the ones I've read:
Led Zeppelin IV by Erik DavisAja by Don BreithauptUse Your Illusion I and II by Eric WeisbardThe Who Sell Out by John DouganIt Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Christopher R. WeingartenElectric Ladyland by John PerrySign O' The Times by Michaelangelo MatosArmed Forces by Franklin BrunoLet's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste by Carl WilsonExile On Main Street by Bill JanovitzDouble Nickels On The Dime by Michael T. FournierIn Utero by Gillian G. GaarIllmatic by Matthew GasteierLet It Be by Colin Meloy
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda want to read the colin meloy one out of the most morbid of curiosities
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not completely terrible and is at times engaging, but it's about as indulgent and autobiographical as you'd expect from a famous person who's not a professional writer
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd say of the three narrative ones i've read it's pretty far below the Master of Reality and Big Pink ones which i enjoyed a lot (MOR the most though)
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
im looking forward to reading nation of millions. fwiw the reckless in wicker park had like a dozen copies all as like featured-displays -- i bet its selling
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Sunday, 23 May 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:11 PM (1 hour ago)
and happens to be the lead singer of The Decemberists
― ksh, Sunday, 23 May 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Ten pages into the new book on Pavement's Wowee Zowee I thought for sure I was going to hate it for all the author's navel-gazing about his miserable post-college past, but then the book settled in. With such a ramshackle approach (author's life story, the annoyingly self-referential tale of the process of writing the book, lazy transcripts of interviews), it slowly became rather engaging to the point where I was surprised at how much I wound up learning about the album. In a way, it kind of mirrored my initial reaction to the album back in 1995. Which I suppose might have been the whole intention of this book.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 23 May 2010 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
uh yeah ksh that was implied
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Sunday, 23 May 2010 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
:-)
― ksh, Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the Skiz Fernando 36 Chambers book ever coming out?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone ever submitted a Roxy Music one for this series?
― iago g., Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I will propose Max Tundra's Mastered by Guy at the Exchange in the next 5 years.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Just started the Wowee Zowee one--I can't believe it, it's one of those memoir-type ones, and I am LOVING it. It might just be generational nostalgia though, page like 20 and he hasn't even heard the album yet
― iago g., Friday, 28 May 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
It might just be generational nostalgia though
Yeah, that has to be why I wound up giving it a chance too. I don't want to read a memoir in a 33 1/3 book, but damn, if I didn't find myself relating to it.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 28 May 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I just finished the Pavement one--very odd to feel that the memoir-y stuff at the beginning is the best part. no structure to this book. it jumps from the memoir into albeit interesting interviews, then it's over. And hids reading that Flux=Rad is about sex as opposed to holding on to punk like your mother's apron strings (styles come and go but I don't want to let you go-I have always assumed he was doing his Cobain primal scream here) is just bizarre. I liked the book overall because I'll read anything about a band I like, and hell, I couldn't do write one, but these books vary real widelyI guess file this unrequested review under "OK then..."
― iago g., Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"his reading", sorry
― iago g., Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Loved Weisbard's book. The only one that deeply disappointed me was Dusty in Memphis.
My favorites:
LowSign o' the TimesCourt and SparkUse Your Illusion I and II
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed on all four. i've yet to hear the record dusty in memphis so maybe i'll buy the book and record in tandem.
― iago g., Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link