What's a noise dude reading?

i've been in a mostly nonfiction rut for a while too. just not interested in fiction. i'm becoming one of *those* people O_o
reading leonard zeskind - blood and politics
started flannery o'connor - the violent bear it away but wasn't concentrating :/

i was sufficiently not-concentrating on that to think flannery o'connor had written a novel called the violent bear

what's wrong with the dorkily-titled ILB 'what are you reading' threads anyway guys

i never want to post on them bc i feel embarrassed about (1) being too slow and (2) reading nonfiction

the book is called "the violent bear it away but wasn't concentrating"

i think i would possibly stand a chance against a violent bear if he wasn't concentrating

ppl on that board will talk about non-fiction just as happily tbh

i figured, i just never noticed it

i only finished 14 books this year!

u read that many in a week thomp

what's wrong with the dorkily-titled ILB 'what are you reading' threads anyway guys

oh nothing, I just have never posted on that board and don't use site new answers so this is the thread title I remember to search for when I'm thinkin' baout some books

that is nearly a plausible title for a flannerybook, sad it does not exist

christopher small - music society education
brian greene - the elegant universe
the anarchy of silence - john cage & experimental art - MACBA / curated by julia robinson

milton parker i have that fassbinder book you recommended upthread out of the library. i wonder if i'll get to it. awesome dayglo cover.

frederick exley - a fan's notes

Morris Dickstein - Dancing in the Dark

(cultural history of Depression-era America)

xpost oh definitely get to it, it's a quick fun read. like I said upthread though, it's mostly just the dirt

xpost want to read Dancing in the Dark. I took Morris' 60's class at UCSB, he taught Gates of Eden.

also reading: janet cardiff - the walk book

Richard II
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Stephen Spender - Worlds Within Worlds: A Memoir

i have only finished 5 books this week. and three of them were short and the other two were trashy

xpost oh definitely get to it, it's a quick fun read. like I said upthread though, it's mostly just the dirt

ur otm this is good, i like it!

i had to give up on Dancing in the Dark -- 30 pages in about a week. I don't always get a seat on the train, so i don't have much time to read books. :(

(also, weirdly, Dickstein doesn't deal w/ Walt Disney at all)

re-reading pieces of fahey's 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'

Zizek - Violence
Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929

graham lambkin - dumb answer to miracles

swedish police novels

Henning Mankell?

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? (I read that one actually, it was decent but kinda weird. Like two separate books ... a corporate techno-thriller with a Silence of the Lambs grisly detective story sandwiched in the middle.)

wahloo!!!

griselda pollock - vision and difference
william borroughs - the naked lunch
leo tolstoy - confessions

after that im gonna read me some st augustine i think?

xpost - yes these

so far: wahloo!!! >>>> Hanning Mankell?

but I like both

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Like two separate books ... a corporate techno-thriller with a Silence of the Lambs grisly detective story sandwiched in the middle.

totally. haven't read the sequel yet but plan to

martin beck is the best

but i like mankell too--check out the bbc movies of the wallander series they do a p good job of capturing the mood and are shot very pretty like

I'll probably read The Girl Who Played w/ Fire once it's in paperback

almost done: civilwarland in bad decline
next: beyond the dream syndicate: tony conrad & the arts after cage

James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover <--- xmas present, just started it

this was pretty awesome

some shocking plot twists along the way

tried to start reading MY DARK PLACES after but I overestimated my Ellroy stamina

I'll probably read The Girl Who Played w/ Fire once it's in paperback

picking up my reserved copy at the lib tomorrow. looking forward to it. just finished The Complete Stories of JG Ballard - total noise dude terrain

Salinger's Nine Stories {never have!)

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/images/2008/12/03/skipjamescaltwfmu.jpg

gilgamesh
some jenny lewis poems

The Complete Stories of JG Ballard
tried to read Crash. thought it sucked bad

Crash & Atrocity Exhibition are the furthest out. If you hate High Rise, then you can feel safe giving up, but I love Crash

Moderan - David R Bunch - http://www.amazon.com/Moderan-David-R-Bunch/dp/B000L3UKGA
Liveness - Philip Auslander - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415196906/pageturners0c
The New Age Music Guide - Patti Jean Birosik
Sailing The Wine Dark Sea: Why The Greeks Matter - Thomas Cahill
Outside of Time: Ideas About Music - Robert Ashley

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

i didn't think crash was 'out' at all. i thought it was boring. and seriously, if i had to read the words "chromium" or - i forget what the word was now, probably "labia", i thought i'd barf. they were used twice a page. i was pretty bummed. for so many amazing musicians claiming it to be a major influence and i couldn't even finish it. i dunno.

a lot of people prefer reading the interviews of Ballard talking about Crash to actually reading it, if you find it boring it's a good sign, probably. there are certainly times I wish I hadn't read all those Delany & Dennis Cooper books & Lautremont etc. but Crash I love. I think musicians like Crash not just because of the extreme pathology because it's got a very musical repetitive structure, but safe to say with that one people know by the second chapter whether it's their thing or not. his other books are more traditional / expositional SF

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:29 AM (5 hours ago)

i have this on hold at the library, not sure if i'll read it.
i also have crash but have not read it. i am prob reading too many books atm.

Michael Moorcock - City of the Beast
HP Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror

and about to start George Mandel's Crocodile Blood

people know by the second chapter whether it's their thing or not

I read it a while ago but for me it was more that I felt I "got" the thesis early on and the book just went on and on banging the same drum

what's a soon-to-be noise dad reading

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Outside of Time: Ideas About Music - Robert Ashley

^^^ WANT

reading a book i found at my friend kate's place called "A History of Secret Societies."

the masonic secret rules there, iirc.

the human stain

hated that book if i recall correctly