It's exactly the same here in Alabama. A proposal was made about a month ago for a new library to be built in an empty Kroger building, but this isn't going to happen. The city's money is going to increase the size of the Sportsplex. Which isn't at all necessary.

"New Habits: Today's Women Who Chose To Become Nuns" by Isabel Losada

I'm reading Greil Marcus' Mystery Train for the millionth time.

That's a decent book.

On a related note, I'm reading Carla Ricci's Mary Magdalene and Many Others: Women Who Followed Jesus (1991).

for probably the 8th time. i just go about reading bits and pieces since it's not really in a novel/linear format.

Holy crap, what edition is that! I've never seen that cover, and it's called "The Naked Lunch" not "Naked Lunch."

One of my favorites, it gets funnier each read.

i don't know, i googled it looking for the cover. the one i have is a really obnoxious bright yellow.

it is pretty hilarious.
dig the signature by the way. love that album. one of the best parts of Fear and Loathing in las vegas is when they're playing the album in the vegas airport and hunter thompson is describing it...the part where mick goes "i think i busted a button on my trousers, hope they don't fall down. you don't want my trousers to fall down, now, do ya?"...you'd have to read it, unless i can dig up the paragraph.

Ah, yeah, I've got the yellow edition, too. It's so people three blocks away can see you're reading the dirty book with all the male homosexual graphic passages and shit about drugs.

I don't remember that in Fear and Loathing but it's been a long time since I picked that up. I'll have to check it out. I'm currently obsessed with the Gimme Shelter movie, too, but I can't stand the Altamont footage anymore. But the stuff from the American tour before that and the Mussell Shoals scenes are priceless.

well, FUCK ME! HAH!
i love how keith tunes his guitar AFTER he's done playing prodigal son. and if you ask me he jacked that top with the sparkles he had on at altamont and at madison square garden from anita.

Yeah, that is a pretty bizarre top. I love the shirt he wears in the studio, too. And I lust after that see-through guitar, whatever the hell it is. A gibson of some kind.

the marilyn shirt?
the snakeskin boots are killer.

gtr made by dan armstrong/ampeg. they're very heavy.

Love the boots. Totally Keith. The Marilyn shirt's good, but I was thinking more the pastel flowery one he wears before that in the scene wear he pulls the Cousin Minnie coupon out of the pocket.

i have an entire collection of those sort of shirts. you can usually find them at thrift stores for about $3 apiece or at vintage stores for a little more.

Nice look on Keef, but I don't think I could pull it off...

right now im reading celine's journey to the end of the night kinda been on a french kick that started with nausea

Can someone recommend a book on the origin and/or the evolution of language?

anything by steven pinker should do

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edit: i just saw his stuff:

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/tli/index.html

i'd stick to "the language instinct", though that is not a book on evolution per se.

however, th book's got a schweet bibliography that should feed you for years to come

Looks interesting. Thanks.

His book The Blank Slate seems good, as well. Have you read it?
However, I shouldn't be too quick to buy two books by the same author without having read anything else by him.

Catcher In the Rye-half finished

coincidentally, im reading Naked Lunch as well for the third time. But i'm hoping to pick up Desolation Angels as soon as I can find it.

Death Kit- Susan Sontag
Strangeland- Tracy Emin
Hey Nostradamus- Douglas Coupland

I've got that one. Yeah, it's quite good. Argumentative though. Might make you angry in parts. (That nature vs. nurture, one or the other debate always does.)

I'd say read a bit of Chomsky first (especially if you're interested in language/linguistics.) Pinker's very much one of Noam's disciples.

i cant read much lately. ive been overworking and i stop here & burn stress & all i read are mostly crap posts-- there are of course wonderful, honorable exceptions, and you know who you are.

naked lunch is so insane you should watch the movie it has nothing to do with the book or very little i should say but more so with burroughs and durgs as well as ginsberg

The movie's a fascinating interpretation of the book, really.

Maybe. However, from the reviews I read it appeared that Pinker should be read before Chomsky. Ever since I read Hegemony or Survival, I've been meaning to pick up something else by Chomsky, perhaps his linguistic works - considering I have trouble finding much interest in politics - but, obviously, I haven't. Hopefully soon.

oh that book is fucking funny

i was about to recommend it to someone here

pinker is definitely more accessible, chomsky is highly abstract-- besides, there's been a lot of fresh evidence coming from the neuroscience of language side of things since chomsky wrote his language stuff. so there are new lots of new things.

another good read is irvine welsh's bedroom secrets of master chefs its pretty insane like a fucked up british twilight zone meets the food channel

I actually saw the movie about a year ago and thought it was great, deffinitely not much in common with the book but a bit of insight into Burroghs life with plenty of fiction of course.

the psychic soviet - i. f. svenonius

how's that? the little bastard was my neighbor-- we used to run into each other in the elevator

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actually not a bastard at all-- really nice guy

very very funny.

have you seen this? he's got an internet tv show
http://www.vbs.tv/shows/index.php?show=Soft%20Focus


the book is a bit like the bits were ian svenonius asks iain mackaye those high falutin' questions

an old teacher of mine lent me "going after cacciato" and so far it's ok.

Never read this, but I loved The Things They Carried. A really unusual book, and he's such a good, naturally gifted writer.

Leo the African Amin Malouf - i love his writing
Imperial City Geoffery Moorhouse - a history of NY, fucking monster