what are you reading?
 

frankie and johnny were lovers!
oh lordy how they could love...

i just finished tif findleys, the last of the crazy people.
you?

short story of Checov, I like them

i'm currently juggling Cock and Bull by Will Self and Death on the Instalment Plan by Louis Ferdinand Celine

The Cheshire Grand Jury 1625 - 1659, A Social and Administrative Study by J.S. Morrill

Lord of the rings - Fellowship of the ring

I finally started reading.

Lee's Road Movies....just got it and Ambient Loop for Vancouver is really good too.

the rules of attraction

and i just bought lee's 1980s journals

today i read Optic Nerve issues 3,5,6, and 7 by Adrian Tomine. I bought them off ebay, they are fantastic i only have to get 8 & 9 and i will have the complete collection.

Right now? The Sonic Youth fan forum. Sorry, if I hadn't said it someone else would've.

Bookwise? Carl Hiassen's "Stormy Weather".

... about Chekov, I encountered this today.... funny.

Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors... good stuff, good stuff...

at the moment
Naomi Klein - No Logo
Merylin French - Women
some Kafka Stories & some Lovecraft

The Fall - Albert Camus

I have to read these books as summer homework for my English Class next year

A Seperate Peace-John Knowels
The Good Earth-Pearl Buck
Silas Marner-George Elliot

The Count of Monte Cristo

"Waldon"

that book couldent suck anymore if it tried!!!!!!!!!!!!, i had to read that for english lit a few years ago. although it might not be so bad out of the classroom environment which seems to make everything a hell of alot more boring! either way you have my sympathy.

Nothing and I'm getting rather sick of it, by the way what's the deal with the SY Book Club? Has the second book been picked yet?

William Blake-Songs of innocence and experiance

After this i'll start Ghost World which i'm looking forward to.

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!:) ;) :p , im so glad that you bought it!!!!!, it arrived pretty fast didn't it, you only ordered in on like monday didn't you?

I certainly did. You pay for service (£4). I looked at the first page, noticed the Sonic Youth reference that makes it great already.

i'd thought you'd like that:) , thats why i didn't tell you, didn't want to ruin it for you.

mmm, i have to think....

R.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (i am always three years behind on everybody)
J. Cale - What's Welsh for Zen? (autobiography)
P. Roth - ???
James Joyce - Dubliners
?? - An introduction to the Brain (scientific book about neuroscience, good stuff, I can really recommend this)

And I like books/articles about culture theory and cultural behavior, and things like that.

I just bought a copy of it two weeks ago, yay Daniel Clowes! I'm trying to track down A Velvet Glove but I think I'll have to order it from amazon.

*waits for screamingskulls rant about how great Clowes is*

ha ha ha ha ha, you know me too well!:p

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Astonishing X Men volume 1 by Joss Whedon

'like a velvet glove cast in iron' is not the way to go if you have only ever read Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, trust me, you are better off checking out 'David Boring', it is a better one to get next, then 'ice haven'.

'Like a velvet glove cast in iron' is very very very odd, and not really anything like Ghost World, nothing Daniel Clowes ever wrote before or after Ghost world is anything like ghost world.

trust me get David Boring!

David Boring is kinda odd, quite confusing but still has that sad seculded feeling you get from Ghost World. after reading 'Like a velvet glove' all i could think was what the hell aws he on when he wrote this, its is completely screwed. 'ice haven' has that nice ghost world feel to it too, but nothing Clowes has done has topped Ghost World in my opinion.

It is also definately definately worth checking out Adrian Tomine's comics, he has a drwing style exactly the same as Clowes'es, i cant tell them apart, but Tomine's work is alot more truthfull and sad. It mainly focuses on teenagers and young adults from the same generation (generation X) as enid and rebecca's in ghost world. so if you are searching for something similar to Ghost World then i suggest not something by Clowes but by Tomine.

good comics by Adrian Tomine are-
Summerblonde
The Optic Nerve series - there are 10, you cant find them on amazon, but you will be able to get them individually on ebay. And "32 storys:the complete Optic Nerve series" is not in fact the optic nerve series but rough drawings and serieses that did not make it into the actual proper series.

Mix Tape: the Art of Cassette Culture

Perfect Sound Forever: the Story of Pavement

This Must be the Place: Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century

i want this!, is it anygood?

I read Ice Haven in the store. It was great, I'll probably buy it after I get his other works. Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron seemed really interesting to me due to the fact that it was strange/messed up. I'll go with David Boring as my next purchase if you so wish though. I'm a bit tight on the green so that's why I'm not buying them all at once like I would like to.

It's J.K. Rowling, and the "three years" part is more like a decade.

I don't know what will be left for me to do after Book 7 comes out. It's like I won't have anything to live for. I love Harry Potter.

i just saved up for a while then bought them all at once from amazon, you wont find them cheaper than on amazon.
i still dont have all of them though, i need to get '20th centuary 8 ball' and 'caricature' then i have the whole Daniel Clowes collection.
although there are a few very rare ones out there like 'Orgy bound' which is about £300.00 on amazon. don't think i will be getting that one anytime soon.

It's pretty cool. Nothing too heavy, just a good fun read. Interesting to look at the variety of examples people gave Thurston to include in the book. People did cool things with cassette covers, too, sort of collage artsy covers.

I've actually made a couple mix tapes based on a couple of the example compilations in the book. The book has inspired me to start making mix tapes (yes, as in cassette, not CDR) again. There's something about having a side A and a side B that's very satisfying.

just finished rereading lexicon devil.

now it's american hardcore for the 569th time.

JPod- Douglas Coupland. It's pretty funny. I love Coupland.

umjammer atomsk, i found some good pages from Adrian Tomines Optic Nerve series so that you can see what its like. i also just read an interview with him and he said that he send his comics to Danile Clowes before he prints them to get his imput.

Angry boy with Rancid shirt.

I love this book...

At the moment I'm reading The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews.