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blarrgh, school books are so expensive, jody! but i guess that's school.

i just read a couple of weird books about visualization and healing. yeahhh.

and at this moment i am reading "technoculture and critical theory: in the service of the machine?" yeahhh.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

blarrgh, school books are so expensive, jody!

i bought 'em used! the four books came out to about $100 including standard shipping.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

yaay! that is sweet.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

it's the best when you can get paperback international edition from SINGAPORE for like $15 and then $15 FAST shipping for a $100 book. i don't think it's gonna work for lawyer school books :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's funny cuz i ordered those plannering school books two days ago w/ media mail shipping and two of them arrived this morning. i ordered the architecture book a week ago with expedited shipping (since the book was so cheap, i decided to splurge), and it still hasn't arrived. of course, that seller's in friggin' maryland...

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna be a city planner, jody? i always liked the sound of that. the only city planner i ever knew was kevin bacon's dad. he was a cool old dude.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, invisible cities is badass. I used to be a huge Cosmicomics fan but then i reread and it didn't hold up well at all.

i just finished John Cage:an Anthology and I'm about to reread Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (my favoritest book) for like the millionth time.
I'm also reading some really boooring Eno-woship book called "his music and the vertical color of sound"

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna be a city planner, jody?

yeah! housing and land planning/policy and stuff. i'm about to start my master's at USC, which has one of the most solid urban policy schools in the country.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Rising Up, Rising Down - William T Vollman
Herzog on Herzog

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

psychic soviet by "ian svevonius"
m.

― msp (mspa), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

good luck, jody! jeez, that's gotta be a lot of work. you must have to write one of those fancy dissertations, right? hoo boy, i admire people who can do stuff like that. i was no good at school :(

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

sorry. off-topic. i am still reading henry james.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

you must have to write one of those fancy dissertations, right?

no, i have to do a project-based comprehensive exam -- i do a presentation and then try to defend it from the wrath of the faculty meanies. powerpoint ahoy!

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

spent a few months rereading rimbaud

frank o'hara - collected poems
ovid - the metamorphoses:book I

tonight: mystery of woolverine woo-bait comic reprint

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 5 August 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

just about to finish re-reading:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852427507.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

although i have yet to see the movie. is it worth watching?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Sunday, 6 August 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Smith, The Ruins - trashy horror/thriller fun by the guy who wrote A Simple Plan, except not really fun (kinda long-winded with cheap dread devices and someone at his publishing house should have edited out the 'awhiles' three drafts ago).

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 6 August 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Odd, I recently read Invisible Cities as well. Wasn't a bad book, but I guess maybe my expectations were too high, after Cosmicomics. Had this convo with Remy already I guess. Reread Choke and Pulp as well, not sure what I'll dive into next.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 6 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Milton I've got the Johnson on PDF and ws just reading a few bits (the rev of Feldman's "Neither"). Just listening now to his disc on Pogus ('Kientzy plays..') and its quite good so far.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

i am gonna go buy the paper and read it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

hopefully there will be an article in the paper about doom metal noisehat t-shirts so i can start a thread about it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i am a culprit, aren't i? i promise i won't start a thread about anything i read in the NYT for one calendar year. unless it's really dumb.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

andrew: the piano teacher movie is kinda "meh" but there is a blowjob scene that is amazingly uncomfortable/hot.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

seconded, ian. though i didn't really find it hot, just unconfortable and slightly embarrassing, like i was watching somebody apply bandages to a self-inflicted wound.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 6 August 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/83/0393321983.jpg

http://www.steevak.com/my_media/covers/book/book32.jpg

http://www.teleport-city.com/gfx/reading/covers/cryptonomicon.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Gombrowicz- Ferdydurke

― bobqawesome (bobqawesome), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Just finished Philip K. Dick's "Solar Lottery" and Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" and the short stories of Breece D'J Pancake, still 100 pages to go on Emmanuel Levinas' "Totality and Infinity".

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

lately I've lacked the attention span for anything more taxing than Sudoku or the morning paper

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

my new books are:
Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene

tentative up next if I can handle the maths:
Ash & Gross - Fearless Symmetry

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I just started reading Richard Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

i finished mike davis's dead cities (it was ok) and now i just found this gem in the library:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1845451015.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V55001074_.jpg

it's rly good

i am into easy nonfiction lately

― nazi bikini (harbl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

finished freakonomics and now i'm reading bringing down the house

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mezrich's follow-up to Bringing Down The House is maybe better, I can't remember the title but it involves arbitrage of asian futures markets. pure evil.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

ugly americans, i got that one too. haven't read it yet.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I just started reading Richard Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale!

-- gbx (polarbea...), August 17th, 2006.

that's probably my favorite Dawkins. i wish he would write more like that most of the time.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679413383.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0752848771.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

and I got this one today

http://www.npr.org/programs/day/features/2005/dec/holiday_books/chekhov.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/026274015X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1057189350_.jpg

i just started so i dunno

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Must be my FutureSex/LoveSound.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.echonews.com/1110/images/rats_robert_sullivan.jpg

― dmr (Renard), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

that edition, actually...i reread it about every two yrs, but im getting to thinking it just makes me savagely unhappy every two years.

also:
susan sontag against interpretation
douglas rushkoff get back in the box
new york schools of music and visual art
bob dylan the essential interviews
paul goodman communitas
raymond queneau the blue flowers
oakley hall warlocks

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

douglas rushkoff get back in the box

i quite liked this, as the only 'business' book i've ever read that was actually insightful in any way

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah..im into it..but since its a business book, i get bored with it easily...its been on the desk for a week now..should get back to it and finish it...his last collumn in arthur was utter trash though. sure, he was mostly right, but i expect more smarter things...

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

"what the frog's eye tells the frog's brain" lettvin, mccullouch, maturana, pitts

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE A REQUEST FOR JBR:

PLZ TO RECOMMEND AN URBAN PLANNING BIBLIOGRAPHY, PLZ.

(email, if you like, to my login plus gmail)

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

zola - NANA

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

RJ Smith's "The Great Black Way" and Peter Guralnick's Sam Cooke biography.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 27 August 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

how's The Great Black Way? I'm waiting for it at my library.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.schwartzbooks.com/mas_assets/full/1594480184.jpg

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

focusing now on the queneau mentioned above...its become a hillarious little romp.

also an occasional wodehouse story and cortazar's hopscotch

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

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