Chronicles does get boring! Try to skip a few pages and finish it! I'm glad I did!

i'll get it back and finish it.

Hanne Darboven / John Cage : a dialogue of artworks

Overview of exhibition of Darboven's Tafeln, II and Cage's Ryoanji drawings. Includes illustrations of both series and essays by Joachim Kaak and Corinna Thierolf.

Inner City Sound, edited by Clinton Walker
paperback, 192 pages, with 285 photographs
ISBN: 1-891241-18-4

The classic document of punk and postpunk music in Australia.

The bands that spearheaded the late ’70s punk scene in Australia -- the Saints, the Birthday Party, Radio Birdman and the Go-Betweens -- are among the most important of their time. Inner City Sound is the classic account of the explosive development of that scene. Original articles from fanzines and newspapers, together with almost 300 photographs, vividly portray the creative ferment of the period and the dozens of bands that sprang up in the wake of the pioneers, including the Scientists, Severed Heads, Sunnyboys, Hunters and Collectors and many more.

Inner City Sound was first published in late 1981, as the postpunk scene was approaching its zenith, but soon fell out of print. It became a lost classic, so sought after that it has been bootlegged like the rare singles listed in its discography, and its influence was so seminal it actually helped shape the Australian indie rock scene of the following decade.

With this new edition, Inner City Sound is back in print for the first time in over 20 years. Editor Clinton Walker has added 32 extra pages of articles, photos and discographical data, which take the story through to its real resolution around 1985, when Nick Cave, the Go-Betweens, the Triffids, and others began to break through internationally.

Its DIY graphics, high-octane prose and many rare images make Inner City Sound a crucial part of the culture it portrays.

“One of the seminal texts of Australian music writing.”--Ian McFarlane (Encyclopedia of Australian Rock)

“I grew up with Inner City Sound, lived vicariously through its pages. It gave me a firsthand account of a period in music that was vibrant, innovative and filled with wonderful characters.”-- Richard Kingsmill (Triple-J)

“An essential educational tool and a powerful weapon in fighting the aggressive ahistoricalness of the popular culture machine. Get a copy.”-- rocknerd.org

a book about astronomy.

The Crying of Lot 49.

I was reading Liv Ullman's Changing....

Friday I bought 33 1/3's Loveless book

Glamorama, planning to read Lunar Park next. I'm on a Bret Easton Ellis binge.

A translation of Arto Paasilinna's Hurmaava Joukkoitsemurha, where a bunch of suicidal men and women gaily travel to their common death, constantly postponing it.

the raw shark texts

I just want to say that 33 1/3's Loveless book isn't as great as the album.

A quick read on the way to work. Weird!


Just started this one at lunch break.

The Daydream Nation 33 1/3 book. gonna read it in bed tonight. just got it this morning.

It's for school.

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories

Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds

I need to start reading In the Wake of the Plague for college

I like this book, even if it is cliché to like it.

day of the trifffids

Dude rules.

I'm reading Bukowski's Love Is A Dog From Hell (poems from 74-77)

Honky. I have to read it for college, and I'm really not into it so far.

Before that I read The Crying of Lot 49. Pynchon rules.

Excellent book. Good movie too, except for the ridiculous fast forward ending.

I'm thinking of picking up Day of the Triffids from work soon.
There's a couple sci-fi books I want to read...
Which first, anyone?
Day of the Triffids
(Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, all 5/3)
Some Asimov stuff
More P.K.Dick
Stranger in a Strange Land
*I'm positive there is more haha

i'm reading "a picture of dorian gray".
poetry wise i'm reading zukovsky's collected short poetry, creeley's complete poems (1945-1979) and ryokan's zen poems.

Selected Writings - La Monte Young/ Marian Zazeela
http://www.ubu.com/historical/young/young_selected1.pdf

Rip it Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984

'Vanity Fair'... still.

To be the Man by Ric Flair :eek:wooooo!!!

"Go" - John Clellon Holmes

re-reading Neuromancer.

Heart of Darkness.
Next I might read the letters of Vicent van Gogh.

loads - brothers karamazov primarily, then some other stuff on the side, eg. susan sontag, h.d.'s novel HERmione, an introduction to art theory and some gertrude stein.

Still reading Alastair Reynolds, currently Galactic North, the short story collection set in the Revelation Space universe. Great shit.

A book on the Chinese school of chess. I am officially a very exciting person indeed.

the 5 people you meet in heaven

I read that recently. It's a surprisingly great book, and very short.

im enjoying it but it seems to be written as if its a film, and that really frustrates me when it feels like im reading a movie

To be the Man by Ric Flair, Woooooooo.......