Whatca' Diggin'?
 

So, I'm going to start this thread for people to let others know about what's got you all excited. Could be a book you're reading, record you just got, movie you just saw, or whatever else you think SY fans either might want, or "just have to" check out. Let us know what it is. Okay, well, since I'm not currently reading anything, I'll say that I'm really into watching the new season of "The Sopranos". So far its pretty good.

My favorite book is
"Shadow People" by Joyce McDonald

I think Sonic Youth fans would dig it
it's about some teenagers living in some noplace town in New Jersey
and their boredom leads to destruction

every time I start to read it I get excited

it's not a classic or anything though

Any S E hinton fans here i love all her books

I dig Douglas Coupland in an unhealthy way (especially "Microserfs").

And I'm excited about picking up his latest book. You know that feeling of anticipation you get when you're about to sit down with an unread book, one you've been looking forward to for ages? And you get so immersed in the story, you stay up all night, unable to put it down, curled up on the couch in your jammies...

Yes, I am a geek.

But anyway, if you haven't already read Coupland, do it. Do it NOW.

Magnolia. Go see my thread.

Collecting trade tokens.

Vonnegut! Vonnegut! Vonnegut! Vonnegut! Vonnegut!
Anyone with a sense of humour should read his books

The documentary 'American Movie' about this amateur film-maker who makes awful b movie horror and his permanently stoned friend. They live in a no hope tiny town and have ideas above their station. It's kind of sad that they are so deluded but it is absolutely hilarious for the same reasons, sometimes it ventures into spinal tap territory it's so funny. One of my favourite films ever

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/
Some good quotes

Mark: Would you buy this movie for $14.95
Mike: Yeah, hell yeah, man.
Mark: If I can find 3,000 people like you across this country, man, I'm in business.
Mike: Of course, man, I mean... Shit, that's what "Rush" tickets were.

Mark: I was called to the bathroom at the cemetery to take care of something. I walked in the bathroom, and in the middle toilet right there... somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet. They shat on the wall, they shat on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really, really profound moment. Cuz I was thinkin', "I'm 30 years old, and in about 10 seconds I gotta start cleaning up somebody's shit, man."

Mark:Last night, man, I was so drunk, I was calling Morocco, man. Trying to get to the Hotel Hilton at Tangiers in Casablanca, man. That's pathetic, man. Is that what you wanna do with your life? Suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at 2:00 in the morning? That's senseless. But that's what happens, man.

http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/details/275076/
here's a torrent of it, everyone should watch it!

I watched that recently too. That spun me into a depression for weeks.

It was piteously funny, if that makes sense. Mark was so passionate about filmmaking, but his efforts were so half-assed, and his failure was imminent, so the whole time you're watching this film, you know you're watching a dying dog struggling to pull itself back up standing.

I admit though, Mike cracked me up. That guy was such a fuckin melt, you couldn't help but laugh at him.

I personally thought the 5th and 6th books were FANTASTIC, and the 7th was such a disappointment that it made me wish I'd never bothered finishing the series.

Black House was also a great fuckin book. I want to read The Cell, but I hear it's stylistically quite different from most of King's other novels. Aside from the ending, one of my favorite King novels has to be It. The character development in that book is unbelievable.

Coupland is fiction, and damn good fiction at that. My top recommendations would be Microserfs, Shampoo Planet, and Generation X, to start with. The rest are a bit touchy depending on your tastes.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Everything Is Illuminated by I Forgot His Name. Both are really excellent.

I reccomend Coupland. I just finished Shampoo Planet, and it's great.

Lately I've been watching the Big Lebowski over and over.

I've been listening to Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise and Modest Mouse - Build Something Out Of Nothing.

I've been reading just about nothing.

Pearl Jam-Live at the Garden DVD

No one likes S E Hinton?

things I'm excited about lately:

Ernst Kurth: music theorist who wrote some books in the early 20th century. The one I'm excited about now is Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' (1920)

Arthur Schopenhauer: going back over his philosophy in depth, in particular, The World as Will and Representation...

Giacinto Scelsi: good composer, not too well known

The Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion: Awesome, literally inspires awe in me.

American Movie - Great film! i randomly saw it late at night and thought it was utterly delightful... the way it was shot... the humour... really cool bunch of guys....

Coupland - he's pretty good, not totally great maybe... my favourite book of his was Hey Nostradamus! Shampoo Planet was fairly enjoyable as well...

Stephen King - was my favourite writer when I was 14... first writer I got into... Insomnia still stands as one of my favourite novels of all time... i think i cherish it largely for reasons of pubescent sentimentality... Needful Things and Pet Semetary I couldn't put down when I read them... I'm a bit sceptical of his newer stuff mind... the one about the cell phones doesn't look promising and i read about 1/3 of black house and abandoned it...

things i'm excited about:

my noise band
playing online scrabble

toy cameras. unwound. sex.
it is what i dig a lot these days

Goddammit whorefrost, I STILL don't know who you are from the old board.

Things I'm Excited about:

Dinosaur Jr., April 7, @ The Orange Peel
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, June 16-18, Manchester, TN
(Sonic Youth, Beck, Les Claypool & Oysterhead, Common)

What I'm diggin' lately: the new board, new madlib record, staropramen beer, fussball, and making music

Fussball? Like foosball?

Why did I think you were in Ireland?

a trip i m about to take (travel, not acid) and the prospect if getting a lot of music that i have been waiting for for a very long time.

i think its better if you have to wait a bit and anticipation grows. that is in relation to just about everything not just book, films or music.

Im making a game website + video + fourm. Should be killer. Plan to be done by the end of the month. Itll be updated every week though with new games and video.

i'll never tell

I don't know. Why did you think that?

I really liked "The Dark Tower" series. I've read all seven books and they are some of my favorites. I've heard all the criticism. That the last three were a major let down for a number of people, but I really liked them myself, and yes I even liked the ending. I think I just saw something it in that maybe not everyone saw. I've discussed it with others, and they've pointed things out to me that I didn't realize either. I'll probobly have to read all seven books back to back someday, since I bought them as they each came out, and sometimes there was a good five years between each installment. Plus I never read the more enhanced version of "The Gunslinger" which might be worth a read.

Seriously, I'm begging you. It's keeping me awake at night.

Well, maybe not. But it might start.

how long before marley repeats his question to truncated, and how long before he repeats it after that?

sonic youth touring where i live in the fall

SY in our Nation's Capital:D....I'm getting pretty antsy.

Same here!

Right now I'm just re-reading Slaughterhouse-five, and trying to get through David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. I've read maybe two books that are longer than IJ, but they're not as headache-inducing. I like his writing, though.

I'm excited about The Office, because it is an amazing show. The finale was a week or two ago, but there's repeats. I want to marry the whole cast.

HENDRIX BICH

I don't know why, but I've listened to him nonstop for the past week and I'm eating up every live recording of his I can get.

my favorite is probably la forum '70 although it's tough to say

yeah The Office is a great show...the first season sputtered somewhat, but season two elevated it to one of the very best shows & perhaps the best comedy on television.

I listened to Lush Life & Coltrane's Sound today, A Don Cherry bootleg,
& Sun Ra's Astro Black which someone shared at the group a little while back.

hey AssBlaster, they're all black; are you proud of me for being so accepting of other races? that dude is a straight-up a-hole. fuck him...right in his assblaster. I don't see the color anyway & it proves nothing even if one listens to lots of "black music" artists. After all, the artists are performers for the listener, for instance. His whole point in that other thread is a weak one just like the "assblaster" himself. he has to try to be controversial because he has nothing to say. Dig? AssBlaster loves to give rep points out to hateful comments, so I'm waiting on mine.

What am I digging? A grave, for your mother! Hahahaha.

Wow, shitty post.

I'm really into Animal Collective and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's right now.

Maps is beautiful.

lol

Sufjan Stevens
Danielson
Grandaddy
Manual
Essex Green

Yeah, grandaddy is great.

I'm really into the whole 'Lost Experience' now. The conspiracy theories, the Others, the whole mythology of Lost, including the literature and philosophy that has influenced the writers of the show. This includes The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with his theory of the Noble Savage, which hypothesizes that Man, at nature is a noble and ethically superior being who is only corrupted by human society and culture... And also I'm starting to collect live recordings from Soulseek... Metallica, Dream Theater, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Merzbow, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer, Massive Attack, etc, etc..