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― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

Buddha's Little Finger, Victor Pelevin

theres a new pelevin out! i havent read it yet

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:01 (twenty years ago)

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― MAX BRODY, ULTIMATE ROADIE (ddb), Thursday, 9 March 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

i'm reading a fan's notes and shepperton babylon. right now i'm more into the former, but the latter is really good fun.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Julio Cortazar: Blow Up and Other Stories

been re-reading that recently...i need more...i have another collection of short stuff which is excellent

slowly trudging through the galleys for a book on the rise of the avant garde in new china

collection of scottish folk stories...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

tried starting the simon reynolds book on post-punk but it's crap especially considering what he thinks of as post-punk i think of as punk, but then i'm not english and don't have some one note definition based on the sex pistols. VIVA AMERICA!

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

haha, you are incorrigible.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

i keep wondering about buying that book as i dont know much about either punk or postpunk, i have the fall records and thats it, but then i never get round to it

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I've never read a Simon Reynolds book. I don't read much about music, really.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

the fall is a good example -- PUNK (and even directly inspired to form by the sex pistols playing in manchester to boot). example of weak ass brit def that has unfortunately also become weak ass american def. oh well -- VIVA OHIO!

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I used to live in Ohio!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

VIVA SPRINGFIELD! VIVA YELLOW SPRINGS!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

The only "punk" I like isn't punk.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

not a bad definition, adam -- unless you go Kogan Humbert Humbert.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what that means!

Honestly, I know nothing about music criticism.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

i know several people from yellow springs, ohio. none of them are dave chappelle, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Do you really? Have you been there? There's a really cute little movie theater on the main street there. Also a place where Sarah got her tattoo done haha!

It's a really nice little town. I could maybe live there in a little house with a porch swing.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm obsessed with porches - what a good idea!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

It feels Southern there kind of after the snow melts, with large graceful trees and dirt tracks.

HAHA'S PIZZA

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

my significant OTHER, Jane, went to Antioch.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Ohio seems to have a high number of good colleges. Or is it me?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

antioch is a bit like the island of misfit toys.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

i went to oberlin.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

deej went to wooster.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

one of my friends from HS, Er1n, went to antioch and promptly got molested by the dude who was selling her vicodin.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I know! with Karen O!

xxp

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

liz phair and john mcentire also went to oberlin and possibly dated, or so i hear.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

haha

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

pleasant plain's book has a character called wing biddlebaum. i can't read anything set in the UK. SORRY. i was 1/2 way through 'my search for patty hearst' before i had to return it to the library (late anyway). before that i finished a book called 'RX' which i liked a lot but would only be of interest to people who like novels about girls taking drugs. its practically a genre, you know. right now im reading 'readymade'. the magazine, not the book of the magazine. i need something new.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i can't read anything set in the UK

wtfingf, dude?!?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

at first i thought you meant pleasant plains WROTE a book!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

My wife wrote a book.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i can't read anything set in the UK
wtfingf, dude?!?
-- Adamrl (adamr...) (webmail), Today 11:19 AM. (nordicskilla) (later)

dreary, yeah?

SORRY

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Fair enough. I accept your sweeping generalization. We all make them!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Also your husband is a d00d, so you know, fair play to him.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

oh, i am also reading "Free Jazz" by Eckcherardttdstf Jost.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Was it a children's book, Adam? Not that I'm judging anything from it, just wondering.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Sarah's book? No, it is a "chick lit" novel. You are thinking that because she used to work in children's books!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

i came to friend's "beat generation" course once for a screening of some film, and the prof asked me if i was into the beats. i said "not so much" and he said "oh, are you more into, like, chick lit?"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

i am decidedly not into chick lit

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

chick lit is for MOMS.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

hahaha! so not true.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

there is a special category of chick lit for moms, called Mom Lit. The Red Tent, Lovely Bones, that one about the Bees, etc. i know this because of my mom's book club.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

i think my mom reads that stuff, maybe even my dad. i really can't tell what's chick lit and what's not anymore.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that is way more "On The Money".

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Adam, what was she doing in children's books?? Inquiring kids' lit publishing minds want to know!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm talking like contemporary women's fiction about relationships and shit. The stuff you see 20something gals in fancy boots reading on BART. Anyway, I think her book is good but I would say that. It's with two agents right now and I would pray for it if I were in any way religious.

xp
She worked for a "boutique" children's publisher in London, then she worked for horrible college textbook publisher, now she is assistant to big literary agent who does mostly non-fiction, some movie stuff.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

How was the boutique house to work for? I have thought of going that route...

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

shopaholic & sister?
the devil wears prada? xpost

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

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