Ha! I first heard about that from a friend who is a huge follower of Icke and truly believes all that stuff about lizard people from outer space ruling the world. What's really scary is that he should know better than to believe in a bunch of outrageous pseudo-science babble considering his father was an astronaut.

There's an article in the magazine Antiques, April "05 about collecting absinthiana, a few mistakes but a decent article.

Cool beanz, Daddy-O! I'll have to pick up a copy.

Been reading "Gods, Men and Wine" on and off for months. It's grate, but the non-fiction prose is soooooo dense and full of detail that I do not have time to read and digest it.

Been reading much HST too, since just before he died.

Pick me up one too, I have no idea where they sell it around here.

I can scan it if you want but it's a large page magazine and a long article.

I'm about to start that. I'm reading Deliverance at the moment. James Dickey only wrote 2 novels, he was mainly a poet, but both Deliverance and To The White Sea are both brilliant and brutal.

I recently finished Wild Chase, by Haruki Murakami. Our beloved Sheepprofessor takes his name from a character in that book. It's excellent, funny and exceedingly bizarre.

I couldn't find it at Barnes & Noble yesterday, and they carry a shitload of magazine titles. Maybe Kirky could scan it...

The article is by William P. Hood Jr. translated from french by Frederic Lecut,
maybe it's a re-print, doesen't say, I hate to put such a huge file on the band-width, it's up to Cros.

It's fine with me.

Weird, I was reading a short story of his, " Where I'm Likely To Find It", in this weeks New Yorker. Pretty entertaining.

Dark Spring, by Unica Zurn

After long, intense relationships with, alternately, Hans Bellmer and Henri Michaux, Unica Zurn wrote a few excellent books and unquietly passed away in a mental instituition.

I like Hans Bellmer. Maybe I should read this, how you say, "book"?

(god i've been waiting so long to use this emoticon)

I think the last time a book made me weep
was my callow, pubescent reading of Watership Down.
Jonathan Franzen completely exploits the medium of the novel.
It made me realize:
- I need to spend more time with my mother
- This is going to be excrucuiating
- That's probably natural

Don't forget Dad.

And yes,
he knows how to play with your emotions.

For me, it was a book on island biogeography called "Song of the Dodo," by David Quammen. I laughed my ass off almost the whole book. Until he got to the part where he imagined the final moments of the last dodo on Mauritius. Fuckin' killed me.

Rimmy, I'm finally reading, "I Promise to Be Good." Though it's trade paperback. Couldn't find a hardcover version. You'll need to get it.

Cool, let me know how it is. I'll probably read it over the summer.

Just picked up "How to be Alone." Jonathan Franzen on Jonathan Franzen. He's my new fave author guy, but I'm running out of books.

And the Ass saw the Angel, by Nick Cave

Yes, that Nick Cave

Any good? Worth a read? What is it? Fiction?

Hey Rimmy, I finished with the letters.
A couple of comments:
--Even though Mason's the best translation in my mind, I was actually struck by the fact that it still isn't as good as I think it could be. I especially noticed it on the Seer Letter.
--There are only a scant few letters from 1870-75. Like maybe 75 pages worth. Everything else is pretty much letters to his family from abroad.

It's still a nice reference, but I'm glad I didn't waste the money on the hardcover.

Finished "Strong Motion" by Jonathan Franzen
Thanks to friends for this read.

Renée reminds me of someone...

Beautiful Losers. It always cheers me up.

ha. i had a cousin who was named Kateri after Kateri Tekakwitha.

I'm reading a series of trashy novels about a cro-magnon woman who likes to pull up plants and kill things and have lots of sex with minty cro-magnon hunks.

Sounds Clan-ish.

I love Leonard Cohen's lyrics, but I thought that book was tedious. It had some equisitely written paragraphs, chock full of grate lines, but overall I found it sloppy. Kind of reminded me of Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion trilogy.

No question that Miller's the better (leaving that trilogy aside) novelist. But there's just something about an almost coherent book written in a meth-induced frenzy on a secluded island that just can't be beat.

The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.
The End of Alice by A.M. Homes

Need to pick up Beautiful Losers again. I had it years ago during a bad break up and it didn't help me one bit.

Still reading Bukowski's Ham On Rye.

I'm in a rut.

"Yeah, I know he's a pretty good read,
But God, who'd wanna be such an asshole?"

"Bukowski's readers don't necessarily want to be him, rather he/she lives vicariously through him a life they would never themselves want to lead."

I actually knew a Buk reader who genuinely wanted to be Bukowski. He went out of his way to complete the image. Was an ass when he was in his Buk phase.

Wrote some decent poetry, though. Had a line "I've had enough scotch to baptise an infant the old-fashioned way."

You have a problem with drinking, writing and eating typewriter ribbon?

When you put it that way, no...no I don't.
Mmmm...typewriter ribbon...

Vintage ribbon is a bit bitter.

The bitterness makes you trip wordz™

Reminds me of "Naked Lunch."

Just stay away from the steely dan.

Aye, Peeps, 'tis good; fiction also.


Cross "Where the Red Fern Grows", with "Gummo" and you have a rough approximation.

What makes it especially good is that it reads like a Bad Seeds song; melancholy and with a quiet acceptance of the grotesquerie of life.


I didn't like Beautiful Losers. His "Indians" come across like swingers from the Village.

Another good book by a singer:

Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary, by Lydia Lunch, is an interesting read, especially if you're one of those Village swinger types. Debauched!!!


Book Club!!

Next Week: The Joy Luck Club, and also some crap by Toni Morrison or something.

Just started "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
I love books with an uplifting story.

I'll re-read "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy after this.
I'm in a happy phase.

The Jungle is a grate book.

If you can find it, Burning Valley by Phil Bonosky is a grate find.

Welcome to the Jungle by W. Axl Rose is a pretty good read.








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