Intern_8033 wrote:Hey Dylan,
Please be sure to let us know when Cold Mountain turns out to be a total suckfest. I heard the movie was good and it was the biggest shit pack of shit I've ever seen, worse than Moulin Rouge.

That's all I have to contribute because reading is boring.

Andrew

I've just finished it, and while not a total suckfest, was a bit disappointing. I liked the lack of a happy ending, though. That was a welcome surprise.

Wow, you guys actually have time to read for pleasure. Sheesh, lucky bastards.
I am swamped with tech manuals of all sorts (electronics, music stuff, and a myriad of computer shyte) I dont have time for pleasure reading (so much to learn and all that).

Though at one time I did manage to read for fun....my favorite has to be Umberto Eco's "Facault's Pendulum". If you are into that type of stuff, it is an excellent read....spooky.

Regards,
spoon

I've enjoyed the following books lately:
fast food nation
the second american revolution - Gore Vidal
The art of war - Sun Tzu
and the Cometbus book...

all great.

-C.

Right now I'm reading Naked Lunch, by William S Burroughs. Its really hard to describe, check it out if you have any interest in the effects of control/addiction.

Before that i read several autobiographies. Roman Polanski's, before that Tom Arnold's (strange combo), and before that Groucho Marx.

Unfortunatly I dont have much time for reading for pleasure, its pretty much all assigned early american literature from my sophomore lit class. Alot of Poe and Hemmingway, I think eventually we get the option of reading or writing about Kerouac, still waiting...

Danm wrote:Right now I'm reading Naked Lunch, by William S Burroughs. Its really hard to describe, check it out if you have any interest in the effects of control/addiction.

If you like it, check out Exterminator or [/Junkie[/i] - those are good collections of shorter works.

Danm wrote:I think eventually we get the option of reading or writing about Kerouac, still waiting...

Personally, I think you will soon grow tired of Kerouac, but I know everybody has to read him.

I just started Milk It, a collection of essays by Jim DeRogatis about the "alternative" music explosion in the 90s. Hey Steve, you're in there quite a bit!

Jim's got really no taste in music, but reliving that time is pretty fun.

i can't fucking stand jim derogatis; i've always felt that he should be in a rush cover-band. has anybody seen that music review show of his on channel 11, the musical version of "siskel and ebert"? the thing i've never understood is why they even bother...who the fuck cares? i'd like to meet ONE person who bases their music selections upon the tastes and recommendations of jim derogatis...i'll bet a dollar that this one person would be one of those guys who still lives with mum and dad at age 37. come on.

books:

murphy by samuel beckett
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by robert pirsig
the adventures of captain underpants by dav pilkey
the outlaws of mesquite by louis l'amour
johnny the homicidal maniac by jhonen vasquez
the movies, mister griffith, and me by lillian gish
geisha: a life by mineko iwasaki
thinking in pictures by temple grandin
also, anything about bettie page, as long as it's short on talk and long on pictures.

by the way, naked lunch is not by burroughs, it's by ginsberg. i always enjoyed kerouac in high school, but i could never stand his friends--they've always seemed too fucking artsy-fartsy for anyone's good, kind of like the people who thought andy warhol was ever being serious.

regards,
jet.

jet wrote:by the way, naked lunch is not by burroughs, it's by ginsberg.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
I'm actually reading it right now and I don't really like it at all. It's hard to try to come up with some type of deeper meaning for it when you realize he was fucked up out of his mind when he wrote it.

I'm also reading a book called "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Brysonand it's pretty interesting, a little elementary and some of the stuff seems a little dumbed down but there's a lot of interesting stuff in it.

'Uncut' by Klaus Kinski was a good read.

oh, no wait, i'm being stupid again, i was confusing "naked lunch" with "howl", for some reason it's because of an earlier association with a line like:

"death under the kitchen sink, crying 'i'm not real'"

or something. sorry, i'm totally wrong.
jet