What's a noise dude reading?

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

it was a quick read and i didn't love it. not sure if i want to read any more roth.

also read:
inside the painters studio (great for painters)
hollywood monster (not surprisingly, a very quick read with little substance)

Ian, are you enjoying Saunders? Love that dude.

I'm only reading boring library school shit, and ILM :/

i did enjoy saunders. hoping to find cheap or borrow a copy of pastoralia.

hate roth btw.

people go apeshit for american pastoral and a few of his others and they have never done anything for me; made it 100 pages into am. pas. before giving up. finished the dying animal, felt like i was waiting for some type of resolution or revelation but nothing ever happened.

yeah pretty much the same w/ human stain. i guess i didn't really *hate* it but all the characters were super annoying and stuff kept not happening, and it was just weird and dirty old mannish.

he is a dirty old man! but yeah. i hated the human stain, loved american pastoral. been trying to catch up on the barry hannah i haven't read. oh i read the ask by sam lipsyte, that was awesome, and the steve martin book, born standing up. that was ok.

i really like some early roth but human stain felt empty & ridiculous

read lately:

c schine the three weissmanns of westport, gg kay under heaven, steven erkison dust of dreams. the copy of the ask that i ordered came in so i will be reading that next

hoping to find cheap or borrow a copy of pastoralia.

I'll check to see if I still have it but I think it either got sold to the Strand or at my last yard sale. I'll look though.

if I did sell it it wasn't because it's bad btw! it was pretty funny. just making space.

finished lush life
started hp lovecraft tales collection. stoked!!

stoked for the madness tbh

i've been wondering where you've been vic!

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.
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― harbl, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:10 AM (1 week ago)

meh i let the hold go and didn't read it. i got this instead bc housing segregation is like my favorite topic? i dunno why
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BaDRBdoSL._SS500_.jpg

lol hueg sorry

i really read too much nonfiction :(