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Date: 2004-02-03 09:18 pm (UTC)2. The Idea of Culture, by Terry Eagleton
3. Her Majesty, by the Decemberists
4. hermitbird
Hey, I can see that smile...
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Date: 2004-02-03 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-03 10:24 pm (UTC)2. reading is lame
3. music is lame
4. monkey1976
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Date: 2004-02-03 10:34 pm (UTC)2. A Hero of our Time by Lermantov
3. Nick Cave
4. Sealwhiskers
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Date: 2004-02-04 10:40 am (UTC)Can you do one more set?
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Date: 2004-02-04 11:18 am (UTC)Snowcrash...by some guy who's name i can't recall
Dead Can Dance-or-the Reverand Horton Heat...just to throw out two very different sounds.
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Date: 2004-02-04 01:09 pm (UTC)Here some recs:
1. Russian Ark (already seen? i'll try others)
2. t zero by Italo Calvino and The Father of the Predicaments by Heather McHugh
3. Lambchop -- Nixon or perhaps Is A Woman
4. journalwk
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Date: 2004-02-04 04:06 pm (UTC)ooh tha pain feel good
Date: 2004-02-04 04:19 pm (UTC)Is it bizarre that i don't quite make the connection between drug use & face-smashing and the novel? Perhaps i don't relate to the same drugs.
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Date: 2004-02-04 04:40 pm (UTC)That, is really quite reminiscent of some of the more interesting among the series of LSD induced tirades i went on back in 1997. I remember falling on my face at least once in mid pontification back then.
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Date: 2004-02-04 05:32 pm (UTC)There is no doubt in the mind of God that i need to do more LSD.
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Date: 2004-02-04 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 05:25 pm (UTC)The fatal objection for me is that Stephenson inelegantly executed an admittedly brilliant plan. The prose and the progression of the narrative are just sorta clumsy and unsubtle. That's not a charge against the slanginess and hahas--i mean that the microterrain of the narrative is rough; the effort behind it is not transparent. Iconic characters, shoot-em-up screenplay dialogue...
Could just be my stylistic taste--whatever that suggests--but once i'd started to take the plot for granted (it occurs to me that this may be the only reason it seemed inevitable afterwards--it was certainly reverberative) i couldn't forgive the writing that laid it out. I'll take a few plotholes from a brother if he can keep the buoyant force of language steadily applied.
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Date: 2004-02-05 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-04 05:58 am (UTC)2. The Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience, by Italo Svevo
3. "Jersey Girl" by Tom Waits (or Bruce Springsteen, or Tom Waits & Bruce Springsteen)
4. I'll have to work a little before I can answer this one.
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Date: 2004-02-04 10:41 am (UTC)I really like your new icon (as usual)
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Date: 2004-02-04 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 06:04 am (UTC)2. The Practical Princess and other Stories
3. The Trailer Park Troubadors
4. iralith
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Date: 2004-02-04 10:42 am (UTC)Your new icon is very pretty.
I like the name "trailer park troubadors."
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Date: 2004-02-04 12:01 pm (UTC)The band is also pretty funny... where else are you going to hear a poem in a ballad style about a mud pit wrestle-a-thon between Martha Stewart and Barbara Walters?
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Date: 2004-02-04 06:44 am (UTC)2. Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso
3. Kris Delmhorst, Five Stories. particularly Honeyed Out.
4. semiprecious
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Date: 2004-02-04 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 08:13 am (UTC)2. I would of saved them If I Could by Leonard Michaels or Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture by James B. Twitchell
3. Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters or Aterciopelados - Gozo Poderoso
4. superfuture
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Date: 2004-02-04 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 05:55 pm (UTC)Lil Flip - U See It
Lil John and the Eastside Boyz - Diamonds
-C.Wizard
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Date: 2004-02-04 07:14 pm (UTC)2. the house at pooh corner (for reading when you're sick and forlorn and can't get off the couch)
3. anything by charles mingus or bud powell
4. the male nuncstans? (when he comes along)
-mjm
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Date: 2004-02-04 07:39 pm (UTC)Anyway.
1. Cannibal the Musical
2. The Artificial Kid
3. Princess Superstar, Princess Superstar Is
4.
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Date: 2004-02-05 01:34 pm (UTC)2.Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fair.
3.Nochnye Snaipery(Night Snipers), Russia.
4.Me. :-)
I'm from Russia, I can reccomend you to read all works by Vladimir nabokov. Amazing! You can read an original version, I'm content with translation... Sadly.
Ekaterina.
pro-ezd@yandex.ru
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Date: 2004-02-06 04:30 am (UTC)book: Refugees into Citizens (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/087609194X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) some ideas are really good, if read critically
music: Brooklyn Funk Essentials (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Brooklyn_Funk_Essentials)
LJ-user:
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Date: 2004-02-07 08:50 pm (UTC)BookL The Partly Cloudy Patriot (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743243803/qid=1076215640//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2804530-1976714?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) by Sarah Vowell
Music: Art from Sacred Landscapes (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000007XU/qid=1076215746//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl15/104-2804530-1976714?v=glance&s=music&n=507846) by Inkuyo.
Abilard
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Date: 2004-02-09 10:24 am (UTC)2. Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
3. Tony Bennett and KD Lang: A Wonderful World
4. Me
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Date: 2004-02-10 05:49 pm (UTC)2. "All the Strange Hours" -- Loren Eiseley's autobiography. It's a very quick read and a great introduction to the way he looks at life.
3. After Dinner -- "Editions". If there is any music I can universally recommend to people regardless of their tastes, it is After Dinner. Their music is genuinely experimental, but with no loss of listenability, which is rare. Also rare is their ability to be both very playful and also very poignant. The only people who won't enjoy it are the ones who only appreciate lyrics, and never really appreciate music. Unless they speak Japanese, anyway.
4. lord_whimsy
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Date: 2004-02-13 09:41 am (UTC)2. Raymond Queneau's Witch Grass (1933).
3. Einsturzende Neubauten's "Ende Neu." (I played this over a terrible 1980's Pat Benetar soundtracked Metropolis. Dystopia never sounded so good. You can hear Neubauten's influence in Nick Cave's music, and vice versa. Blixa Bargeld is the Seeds' musical mastermind. What would life be without From Her to Eternity?)
4. ... I'm new to liver journal, so I'm afraid I can't recommend anyone at the moment.
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Date: 2004-03-08 08:04 pm (UTC)Book: Have you read "The Fan Man"? Coleridge? "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight"?
Music: No one but me likes Sparklehorse. I recommend them wholeheartedly.
rwsiegler@yahoo.com
I'm a friend of David's.
Cheers,
Richard