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What are you reading Chapter 4
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Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to say, ‘Thanks, Slobake!’ for coming up with a thread that’s lasted for 50 pages of some of the most interesting reading on the whole site!’...
Hear, hear!
The Department Q police procedurals by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Funny and creepy.
Love that Bruce Dickinson's autobiography... I really dig that Henry Miller's quote: "All growths is a leap in the dark,.." I took that leap
This'n is the latest and greatest version of 'spotless' so we thought we'd give it a go — the mission, this time, being to tidy up a favorite floppy Adam Gilchrist cricket hat that's getting just a little shabby. Shannon's got it covered, in a heartbeat. No sweat. I dips me lid 
(Un)mark my words. This is one magic tarnish taming tome — in just one outing, it's already paid for itself
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Then I turn the page and see Gerry Garcia's contribution — erroneously, still with us when this book went into print, in the year 2000
— he has only one, which goes,"Acid has changed consciousness entirely. The U.S. has changed in the last few years and it's because that whole first psychedelic thing meant: Here's this new consciousness, this new freedom, and it's here in yourself."
I believe I've just begun a new tradition: call it the Daily Quote Votive: one random quote per day, solely to spark synapses and keep the quacks at bay. … Chancing my arm now, one more time …
And I get Vladimir Nabokov, one bookend of the Ns … The eye's drawn to his last:
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
I could take all that on board — soft music though, within reason, I'm loathe to say, I'm plenty guilty of. But I'm sure he won't mind if I dissent just a little bit — gotta keep the old ears in the game, right?
In my defence, I'd bet he had little to no understanding of the various kinds of ungodly din we're all capable of in this day and age.
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Hey now, I enjoy that ungodly din!A recent gift: I opened it up, for the first time, today — Glorious book! — straight to a page of Gandhi quotes — pleasant surprise. And the very first one I read goes, "Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him." The next goes, "As in law so in war, the longest purse finally wins."
Then I turn the page and see Gerry Garcia's contribution — erroneously, still with us when this book went into print, in the year 2000
"Acid has changed consciousness entirely. The U.S. has changed in the last few years and it's because that whole first psychedelic thing meant: Here's this new consciousness, this new freedom, and it's here in yourself."
I believe I've just begun a new tradition: call it the Daily Quote Votive: one random quote per day, solely to spark synapses and keep the quacks at bay. … Chancing my arm now, one more time …
And I get Vladimir Nabokov, one bookend of the Ns … The eye's drawn to his last:
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
I could take all that on board — soft music though, within reason, I'm loathe to say, I'm plenty guilty of. But I'm sure he won't mind if I dissent just a little bit — gotta keep the old ears in the game, right?
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
About finding the recipe for a delectable perfume. From a young lady rookie perfume chemist in Seattle, to an olde perfume house in New Orleans, to a sheik famous high end perfume manufacture in Paris. There is something about the base note of this scent.
Also about a dethroned King of Roman times who escapes ceremonial execution, heads east to sit with the wise in the Himalayas, and through a mysterious band of cave dwellers learns techniques to escape aging along with his lover. Through time returns to live in old Paris before moving to the New World.
Oh ---- and beets.
Great read! Always find Robbins funny and deep.
About finding the recipe for a delectable perfume. From a young lady rookie perfume chemist in Seattle, to an olde perfume house in New Orleans, to a sheik famous high end perfume manufacture in Paris. There is something about the base note of this scent.
Also about a dethroned King of Roman times who escapes ceremonial execution, heads east to sit with the wise in the Himalayas, and through a mysterious band of cave dwellers learns techniques to escape aging along with his lover. Through time returns to live in old Paris before moving to the New World.
Oh ---- and beets.
Great read! Always find Robbins funny and deep.
I just picked this up yesterday:
Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue - The Kent State University Press
I've spent lots of time in that building for various events, even playing bass for a couple of shows and old friend produced.
Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue - The Kent State University Press
I've spent lots of time in that building for various events, even playing bass for a couple of shows and old friend produced.
Thanks a Lot, My Kibblewhite - Roger Daltrey
It's an OK read. The guy is no writer and not much of a storyteller. But it is interesting to hear some of the more famous incidents from his point of view. Full of "I told you so" and "shoulda done it my ways". As always in these kinds of musician bio tomes there is not enough info about the actual making of the music and the making of the records = writing, recording, equipment, etc. I do realize these books are not aimed at musicians, but the general public. Seems a good family man and didn't get too caught up in the heavy drugs.
Having said that, it's a fast, light read for a Who fan boy, which I totally am. My favorite band ever since "I Can See for Miles" blared out of my tinny Japanese transistor radio! "WHO IS THIS??" Yes. Became my #1 band and Ox was my hero as a kid - along with Jack Casady and Jack Bruce. And Daltrey is my all time favorite male vocalist.
I recommend, but don't expect any greatness. "Before I Get Old" is a much better documentary. My brother had a Who chord book I thought was written by Pete early 90s with him showing exactly the proper positions and a little narrative for each song, but I can't remember the name, didn't read it, and don't seem to be able to find it doing a quick search.
It's an OK read. The guy is no writer and not much of a storyteller. But it is interesting to hear some of the more famous incidents from his point of view. Full of "I told you so" and "shoulda done it my ways". As always in these kinds of musician bio tomes there is not enough info about the actual making of the music and the making of the records = writing, recording, equipment, etc. I do realize these books are not aimed at musicians, but the general public. Seems a good family man and didn't get too caught up in the heavy drugs.
Having said that, it's a fast, light read for a Who fan boy, which I totally am. My favorite band ever since "I Can See for Miles" blared out of my tinny Japanese transistor radio! "WHO IS THIS??" Yes. Became my #1 band and Ox was my hero as a kid - along with Jack Casady and Jack Bruce. And Daltrey is my all time favorite male vocalist.
I recommend, but don't expect any greatness. "Before I Get Old" is a much better documentary. My brother had a Who chord book I thought was written by Pete early 90s with him showing exactly the proper positions and a little narrative for each song, but I can't remember the name, didn't read it, and don't seem to be able to find it doing a quick search.
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Only just landed this little beggar
Be warned, you pesky crossword puzzles. I'm now armed and dangerous.
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In the beginning, Leo Fender, Les Paul, and Paul Bigsby, were friends and worked together. At around age 8, Leo Fender fell off a wagon and lost his right eye. It was replaced by a glass one. Les Paul got a record contract with Capital, wrote a guitar tune called Lover (a chart topper), went on the road with his singer/girlfriend (he was married at the time), was in a car wreck and almost died. The doctors wanted to amputate his strumming arm but instead cast it in a playing position. Paul Bigsby made a solid body guitar before Leo and Les! Paul Bigsby did it (although, the very first solid body guitar, not widely produced, was made in the early 30's by Rickenbacker). Bigsby was known as a master craftsman, and he also made a second solid body for Les to play when he discharged from the hospital. I'm at a point in the book where I think this guitar gave Les the idea for his Les Paul model because the writer just went into some background information.
This book is good I highly suggest reading it.
In the beginning, Leo Fender, Les Paul, and Paul Bigsby, were friends and worked together. At around age 8, Leo Fender fell off a wagon and lost his right eye. It was replaced by a glass one. Les Paul got a record contract with Capital, wrote a guitar tune called Lover (a chart topper), went on the road with his singer/girlfriend (he was married at the time), was in a car wreck and almost died. The doctors wanted to amputate his strumming arm but instead cast it in a playing position. Paul Bigsby made a solid body guitar before Leo and Les! Paul Bigsby did it (although, the very first solid body guitar, not widely produced, was made in the early 30's by Rickenbacker). Bigsby was known as a master craftsman, and he also made a second solid body for Les to play when he discharged from the hospital. I'm at a point in the book where I think this guitar gave Les the idea for his Les Paul model because the writer just went into some background information.
This book is good I highly suggest reading it.
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...a gift from one of our fellow Bottom-feeders...
Thanks, Mike!
Just as funny, but not nearly as angry as you might expect from Lewis Black...damn near gentle, and extremely thoughtful from time to time.
He writes a wonderful essay on seers...physics...and another on The Amish.
...a rainy Friday afternoon we’ll spent...
Thanks, Mike!
Just as funny, but not nearly as angry as you might expect from Lewis Black...damn near gentle, and extremely thoughtful from time to time.
He writes a wonderful essay on seers...physics...and another on The Amish.
...a rainy Friday afternoon we’ll spent...
