"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Life Keith Richards.. got this as a birthday present a couple years ago and it got put in the stack of books to read.. just getting to it.. Wonderful account of his life..
Well, this is not exactly a book to read: Komma by Antonia Hirsch "After Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN"
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Komma (after Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun)
2010
16mm film installation, audio
dimensions variable
[cover image: installation view at Tramway, Glasgow, 2012]
The clip available here is the video version of a 16mm film normally presented in an installation context. In installation, the room is lit only by whatever light is emitted by the projector. Similarly, the sound originates from the projector's built-in speaker.
Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun) is a film based on Hollywood script writer Dalton Trumbo’s seminal anti-war novel. The project re-imagines Dalton Trumbo’s work through its syntactical idiosyncrasy.
Set around the time of World War I, the novel with its—then particularly inconvenient—anti-war message, was first published in 1939. The book came into true prominence during the Vietnam war era, after its author had re-emerged from McCarthyist blacklisting throughout the 1950s.
The central device of Trumbo’s novel is the body of the protagonist, a young American soldier who, incredibly, has lost his face and both arms and legs during combat. Unable to see, speak, hear, smell, or act, he is fully conscious, but seemingly completely without agency. As he struggles to come to terms with his personal tragedy, he strains to communicate with ‘the outside world.’
The entire book was written without commas, though all other punctuation conforms to established conventions. The term comma is derived from Greek komma, meaning 'something cut off.' The film marks the location where commas would appear according to the Chicago Style Manual.
Even appreciating all the brilliant work accomplished by Le Carre subsequently, there's a case to be made that this remains his best, & most important, book.
The film adaptation, with Richard Burton, does the book ample justice - & is a fine achievement on its own terms.
^ so many novels these days are so densely packed that the economy of the story telling and the gentle teasing out of the plot struck a chord.
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I'm reading up on Canadian immigration laws.
I'm tearing through Charles Stross's The Apocalypse Codex, the fifth Laundry Files book. The Laundry Files is a series of "Lovercraftian spy thrillers". Highly addictive if Stross' writing style works for you.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Just started the three volumes of Shelby Foote's A Civil War Narrative.
Bill
She'll be standing on the bar soon
With a fish head and a harpoon
and a fake beard plastered on her brow.
Keigo Higashino: The Devotion of Suspect X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devotion_of_Suspect_X
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The villain is Jadis, the Empress (and destroyer of) Charn. She just happens to be the White Witch also in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
She destroys Charn using special spells and speaking "The Deporable Word". She also believes she is above all laws and authority because she considers herself the "Queen of Queens". Does this sound like anyone you know?
Just started the latest Hap and Leonard novel, Honky Tonk Samurai, by Joe R. Lansdale. Great opening lines, "I don't think we ask for trouble, me and Leonard. It just finds us."
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
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I've stopped about halfway through (I love it), because of more urgent reading , but read four pages yesterday (though I will put it down again for a couple of weeks)
Tell me, does this go fantasy/satanist/evil with super-natural happenings?
I can't help but fearing it will go in that direction
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I'll be reading Robert Vaughn's autobiography A Fortunate Life upon its arrival.
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I am trying to finish the biography of Brahms by Jan Swafford before it's due back at the library.
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
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