Emil M. Antonowsky Loved that. I remember it being mostly about fighting and women and very sparsely about jazz.

    ratcharge I've not finished it as it's daunting as hell. A really fascinating read, though. The fact that it's essentially his expression of how he experiences the world, identity, reality, sexuality, sensuality etc. makes it a pretty potent and disorienting experience.

      v Head On / Repossessed is one of my fave books.

        v I really enjoy his writing, Head-On / Repossessed is such a fantastic double book. I would go so far as to say that the reason why I still am motivated to create music is because of those books,

        Damn, it's payday and this review just made me buy it. 🪞❄️ 🤧

          Read Michelle Leon's 'I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland' last week. Recommended. Can read it in a night/few hours. Interesting behind the scenes stuff. She's a good writer.

          Mostly read non-fiction and music related stuff these days. It's a golden age of music books. Every scene, city, label seems to be covered by a book these days.

          Lammie
          I read that IBM book. It's extremely good.
          Also read the book he wrote on eugenics in the US. Wasn't as good as the IBM one, and was pretty repetitive but still worth a read. An ugly history brought to light.

            • JJosh

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              Yo @Randall, replying to your job post here to keep things neat and tidy.

              If that's where you're at right now, then this one by Rich from Sauna Youth is a great read. It's tales of his experiences supporting people with learning disabilities to be in bands and everything that entails (managing, driving, rehearsing, booking/running /organising gigs and tours etc etc). He puts that together to explore D.I.Y in general and how the playing field can be levelled. Very informative and funny too.

              Dunno what availability is like over there so can always lend my copy (posting paper, or things posing as paper, is still cheap from EU to USA).

              https://roughtradebooks.com/products/d-i-y-as-privilege-a-manifesto-richard-phoenix

              https://richardphoenix.com/DIY-as-Privilege

              Real Hank just started the new Mike Sniper biography "Blank Dogs and Irishmen" (he explains the title in the book--his dad is irish)

              Legit funny.

                Roberto Bolaño - 2666. I'd put it off for a long time because it seemed kinda daunting: 900 pages, cover art of a 19th century Symbolist painting with themes of classical Greek myth, and blurbs that say stuff like "a supreme capstone to his own vaulting ambition" and "a work of devastating power and complexity." I figured it would be one of those intellectually punishing-but-ultimately-rewarding novels that you could spend a whole winter season grinding through. But the style is actually fun and breezy and free, so I'm flying through it. (It is indeed very good btw)

                  BloodstainsAcrossMantovani Everything Bolaño did is mandatory reading imo, the short stories, the novels, the novellas, even his journalistic pieces about litterature are amazing and unmistakably his own. Ironically (since he always considered himself a poet first and foremost), I could’t fully get into his poetry yet, but I try from time to time and I’m sure it will happen as years pass. I’m almost jealous when I hear of readers opening their first book of his and having this crazy world of fiction open up to them. In one word : enjoy!

                      ratcharge Hell yeah man. Very good to know. Outside of Neruda and Borges*--who is one of my absolute fuckin' favorites ever--I waited way too long to explore South American lit. Finally read 100 Years of Solitude a couple years ago, and my brain felt ike a tornado of visions and tears at the end of it.

                      *"Borges-like" was actually the vague (and lazy, and inaccurate) impression I had in my mind of 2666
                      before I started reading it. 900 pages of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"-type vibes seemed intimidating lol

                        Finished Harry Crews' Florida Frenzy the other day. I read a couple of his novels each year, but was really glad to pick up this essay collection not too long ago. Great stuff.

                        Working right now on Michael McDowell's Toplin, which is his stab at psychological horror instead of the southern gothic style of most of his novels. Digging it so far, a pretty claustrophobic read with more grotesque touches.

                          Haven’t seen this mentioned yet, I’m read Peter Jeffries - The Other Side of Reason by Andrew Schmidt. Another Hozac book about the golden days of Flying Nun. Just diving deep into Peter Jeffries catalog, and there are some real gems.

                            Randall It’s pretty good so far! Learning a lot about music of course. And, what sold me on Peter Jeffries as a guy is an anecdote from when he was in art school. The prompt was to make a piece that changed as much as possible over the course of three days, so he bought a shit ton of ice cream and made an ice cream tower that melted everywhere over the course of the three days. You can borrow it when I’m done if you’d like.

                                filthqueen666
                                Thanks. I have a copy. Just haven’t taken it out of the shrink wrap yet. Really wish HoZac would stop doing that