What's a noise dude reading?

tom have a 15-page draft of a paper about americans agronomy system from a pseudo-heideggerian perspective, its really inaccurate and super-pretentious and if you call me when im drunk ill read it to you in an angry tone of voice

there's a bibliography in the back; check there?

oh right!
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/book-citations/1594200823/ref=sid_dp_av?ie=UTF8&citeType=citing#citing

max, i have a suggestion

* get drunk
* record yrself reading yr paper
* package as an "album" and bundle it with ned's discography

* ...
* profit!

or just make an mp3 and post it on leonardo

also: i didn't know amazon could do that!

tempted to buy this

The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio
"American agricultural production is destined to end, argues Steven Blank, but this should be no cause for alarm. In this work, he shows that the changes leading to the end of American agricultural production are part of a natural process that is making us all better off. "

joel salatin does seem like interesting guy, but i am one of those vegans so i haven't bothered w/his books. the unsettling of america by wendell berry is pretty classic (written in the 70s in response to the nixon administration's "get big or get ou tpolicies"), but hes not a scientist.

the prob w/a hard science book about american agriculture is the hard science folks are always on the wrong side of the argument.

i wrote a paper on the unsettling of america in about half and hour and got a b-!

i tried to find wendell berry at the used bookstore yesterday and got stuffed

the steven blank book seems like a bad bet despite the nerd boner of being a $115 university press hardback with no dustcover thing

"planet earth" has temporarily sated my need for actual books

yeah i posted that for sheer wtfness though i would like to leaf through it at a library (xpost)

its kind of a reductio ad absurdum of free market principles in agriculture

have you been watching the vsn with attenborough's narration?

yeah, is there another one?

compelling television: bat struggling against a horde of cockroaches, thrashing in an enormous pile of its own shit

sigorney weaver did the narration for the first american screening

dead certain: the presidency of geo w bush - robert draper (just finished, pretty good)
the path to power - robert a caro (taking forever to read but a damn bloody masterpiece - reads like a political horror novel)

wittgenstein's mistress but it's pretty boring. hoping 'science in action' by bruno latour is up next.

Lordy, hard science too HARD for me...

maybe I'll read the Caro LBJ trilogy for his centennial, if only I could get an F train seat on which to read it.

the collector by fowles
canery row by steinbeck

I know it's the antithesis of noise but I love B Kingsolver's essays. They work on me.

morbs, i don't try to carry around books that big anymore, and have a shorter book for the train and longer one for home. carrying around the power broker two years ago put me in physical therapy

lol that's why I'm reading 2 books right now, Tree of Smoke is like a dictionary

http://www.afscstore.org/store/images/0679738061.jpg

^^ "creatively researched" lol -- davis got blasted for making factual errors in this contentious classic

skool:

john stuart mill - on liberty
toward sustainable communities: transition and transformations in environmental policy - edited by daniel a. mazmanian and michael e. kraft
biliana cicin-sain, robert knecht - integrated coastal and ocean management: concepts and practices
timothy beatley, david j. brower, anna k. schwab - an introduction to coastal zone management
this article

for pleasure: still reading the counterculture green book about stewart brand/whole earth/etc i mentioned upthread. it's great, but the typos are making my head hurt.

just ordered the rest is noise.....thanks noise dudes!

omg jody that article is right up my alley, but i do not have educational privileges anymore :*(

give me your e-mail addy and i'll send you the pdf

White Noise, and also What is Life? by Schrodinger

you'll have to tell us what it is when you're finished

this week i read

laika (abadzis)
last night on earth (bolaño)
green man (amis)

and now i am reading
diamond age (stephenson)
kim (kipling)
new testament (old desert guys

Drew Daniels' 20 Jazz Funk Greats book

-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:05 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

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thanks sexyDancer!

you should write one too!

-- Drew Daniel, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:22 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

Great book, Drew! God's in the details and God is here. Always good to have the actual music discussed. Yeah, I could probably turn out a pretty heavy volume on Melvins' Bullhead, but who knows when I'd find the time...

picking up tim miller's book on late 60's communes today...my week of detoxing and working upstate threatens to be dangerous...perhaps i best stop and get a 33&1/3 book too

returning vian's heartsnatcher...i think hes just a touch to silly. maybe im just not french enough or the translation is pants...

xpost i'd like to read that... i'm fascinated by communes (successes and failures of).

ill let you know. ive read good and bad chatter. i need to find a copy of mungo's total loss farm..ill be closer to that area latertoday though next week, and can maybe find some other stuff. pity i caant drive or i could try and go and talk to some of the weirdos still around.

i want to read sheryl tipping's the february house too, but thats a different sort of commune

i am reading again

philip k dick 'the divine invasion'
umberto eco 'the name of the rose'

sherril tippin...that is.

I forgot to bring a book

so I finished pelecanos' "Soul Circus" which was about a body count and not much else besides at the end both of the author's signature characters team up to clandestinely and illegally burn down a route 1 gun shop in virginia in the interest of saving lives in the district which is kind of a manifesto for him, I guess

luckily though I am now on cliff stoll's THE CUCKOO'S EGG which is really extraordinarily well written and edited and as a person who already knows everything he's talking about I haven't skipped a sentence yet

I seriously recommend this book btw for anybody who ever wonders exactly what the fuck it is I do and how it gets done. nothing much has changed, really

besides the salaries, I guess

the timmiller communes book is pretty weak..just breifly covers the same story again and again without much insight...its all to brief and too obvious...im gonna rush through the rest of it now and get into some pinchbeck tonight

had a glance at the february house, but was pretty sleepy...i await what lies ahead with certain zeal...

just read yet another bob dylan article and i dunno why

i'm reading exley's a fan's notes because a librarian friend of mine said it made her think of me. it's making me kind of uncomfortable for the same reasons that steven tyler thinks this is spinal tap is terrifying instead of funny.

go giants