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Now that I can read my own stories again, here tis a quote I found amusing: Lenny Bruce demonstrated how far you could push a society as repressed as ours and how much you could get away with, but Elvis kicked "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" out the window and replaced it with "Let's fuck." It's from Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carberator Dung which I'm digging the further into I get. I'm up to the Clash and the punk movement of 1977, or thereabouts, and I'm finally able to reference some of the music he's talking about, unlike the first handful of articles where he kept talking about bands like the Godz and Count Five and whatnot, all groups I'd never heard of, but still he has this way of writing about them that makes you feel like you've heard them, and he just goes off on these beautiful tangents about anything from the sexual revolution to multiple drug references. Not to mention all his blathering about Lou Reed as well. I'm digging this read, for damn sure. Good thing I've got an inside connection and can easily procure (without purchasing) the albums he's talking about. Hence my inevitable dive into the world of Van Morrison.
Pat me on the back.
So, going along with this read, I should tell you cats that I need suggestions for good reads during the course of the next few months, and (hopefully) from here on out, though I have a feeling a history courseload means lots of reading for me, which is fine. I like history. But I love reading. I know I've got Franny and Zooey (sp?) by JD Salinger and The Unbearable Lightness of Being on deck, at least in my head. I need to go buy them. I've just found out that I'll be heading out to Spokane, Washington and New Orleans, Louisiana in the span of three days, so I'll probably be able to get through those two books. After that, though, it's off the deep end. What do I read? The email address is above, as always. Feel free to click and let me know what you think. I'm always open for a good suggestion.
And with that, I bid you, my friends, adieu.
Now that I can read my own stories again, here tis a quote I found amusing: Lenny Bruce demonstrated how far you could push a society as repressed as ours and how much you could get away with, but Elvis kicked "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" out the window and replaced it with "Let's fuck." It's from Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carberator Dung which I'm digging the further into I get. I'm up to the Clash and the punk movement of 1977, or thereabouts, and I'm finally able to reference some of the music he's talking about, unlike the first handful of articles where he kept talking about bands like the Godz and Count Five and whatnot, all groups I'd never heard of, but still he has this way of writing about them that makes you feel like you've heard them, and he just goes off on these beautiful tangents about anything from the sexual revolution to multiple drug references. Not to mention all his blathering about Lou Reed as well. I'm digging this read, for damn sure. Good thing I've got an inside connection and can easily procure (without purchasing) the albums he's talking about. Hence my inevitable dive into the world of Van Morrison.
Pat me on the back.
So, going along with this read, I should tell you cats that I need suggestions for good reads during the course of the next few months, and (hopefully) from here on out, though I have a feeling a history courseload means lots of reading for me, which is fine. I like history. But I love reading. I know I've got Franny and Zooey (sp?) by JD Salinger and The Unbearable Lightness of Being on deck, at least in my head. I need to go buy them. I've just found out that I'll be heading out to Spokane, Washington and New Orleans, Louisiana in the span of three days, so I'll probably be able to get through those two books. After that, though, it's off the deep end. What do I read? The email address is above, as always. Feel free to click and let me know what you think. I'm always open for a good suggestion.
And with that, I bid you, my friends, adieu.
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