Semi hip 40 year old takes his book collection to the charity shop...

[catalog]

i got a lot of "hip" books from HMV - trainspotting, junkie and queer by burroughs, post office by bukowski

 

[Corpsey]

Howard Marks

 

[Corpsey]

Basically any book which in any way promotes drug use.

 

[catalog]

oh yeah - definitely. i had mr nice. also did any of you read that robert sabbag one? snowblind? better than marks one i think

 

[catalog]

at that time, books were 6.99, i used to buy more of them than CDs, cos some of the good CDs were £15.99

 

[Corpsey]

That was a stage in my life, too - reading about drugs because I never got to take drugs apart from the odd spliff down a nature reserve

 

[catalog]

as soon as you had your first bean you forgot all about reading about drugs

 

[woops]

this is not a thread about hip books its a thread about cult books

 

[Corpsey]

By the time I was actually taking drugs I was in yet another pretentious phase where I was reading Aristotle and Walt Whitman.

 

[catalog]

i probably took the most drugs of my life when i was reading gadamer and foucault

 

[catalog]

"Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to"

 

[Corpsey]

 

[version]

One of the most embarrassing films of all time. Absolutely toe curling. I dunno how John Simm doesn't just sit in his house all day every day wincing as he replays it over and over in his head.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Top tip: avoid the feeling that this thread might be about you never being even semi-hip in the first place.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Corpsey]

This scene is amazing too

 

[version]

They've even got Howard Marks in it,

 

[Corpsey]

When I first saw it though I was probably too young to have started going clubbing and it was all quite aspirational.

 

[version]

"The late-prophet, Bill Hicks... "

 

[Corpsey]

The semi-hip 40 year old would probably have a copy of Bill Hicks "Love All The People" too. (And American Psycho/Less Than Zero.)