luka

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I'm reading love in the time of cholera and I fucking love It don't care if it's a girls book. A Colombian women made me promise to read it years ago cos apparently I'm in it, but I've not got to that bit yet. I could never face it before, it seemed too obscene but now I've made the committed I'm besotted. It's the best
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
There are two music journalists that I sort of know a bit, they both released books last year I think it was so I thought that I ought to buy them. I got my parents to buy them and send them to me in Portugal but they never showed up and I forgot all about them. However, when I went to my parents' house the other day they had the package as it turned out that - another brexit bonus - it kinda hung around in no-man's land for a few months and then finally bounced back to theirs. So I finally have it at last; I guess at some point I will start on Bass, Mids, Tops by Joe Muggs (I guess everyone here will be reading that one) but first I decided to embark on Mars by 1980 by David Stubbs. It's... fine I guess, but so far it really sort of divides into two parts - stuff I'm interested in and know most of anyhow, and stuff I don't know so much about cos I'm not that interested in it. That seems a slightly harsh summary, I dunno, there isn't anything particularly wrong with it... he writes well, he has a passion for the subject. Somehow there is some spark or something lacking, something to really get it airborne, never mind to Mars. Has anyone read it? Do you know what I'm getting at here? I can't really put my finger on it, and that feels rather churlish or mean to complain about something while being unable to say what is wrong with it... but there it is.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I'm reading John Waters Mr Know-It-All, and while I can't recommend it to anyone who doesn't like his films, there is a chapter that is a pretty good primer to the sicko car crash teen death records that were popular in the late 50s and early 60s..


Nervous Norvus - Transfusion




Mark Dinning - Teen Angel




Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her




The Shangri-las - Leader Of The Pack




Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back

It is a fascinating phenomenon. Do you know The Fang by Nervous Norvus WK? I love it.


 

william_kent

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There are two music journalists that I sort of know a bit, they both released books last year I think it was so I thought that I ought to buy them. I got my parents to buy them and send them to me in Portugal but they never showed up and I forgot all about them. However, when I went to my parents' house the other day they had the package as it turned out that - another brexit bonus - it kinda hung around in no-man's land for a few months and then finally bounced back to theirs. So I finally have it at last; I guess at some point I will start on Bass, Mids, Tops by Joe Muggs (I guess everyone here will be reading that one) but first I decided to embark on Mars by 1980 by David Stubbs. It's... fine I guess, but so far it really sort of divides into two parts - stuff I'm interested in and know most of anyhow, and stuff I don't know so much about cos I'm not that interested in it. That seems a slightly harsh summary, I dunno, there isn't anything particularly wrong with it... he writes well, he has a passion for the subject. Somehow there is some spark or something lacking, something to really get it airborne, never mind to Mars. Has anyone read it? Do you know what I'm getting at here? I can't really put my finger on it, and that feels rather churlish or mean to complain about something while being unable to say what is wrong with it... but there it is.

I've got both.

Muggs - well, I slagged that one off in another thread. Maybe he should have talked to some people who actually ran a sound system?

The Mars one.. unread, in a pile. I understand where you're coming from on that one. Not that I've read it..
 

william_kent

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when it arrived in the post the Stubbs one gave me the same feeling as I had when i bought the one about Can ( 'all gates open" ), like I CAN NOT BE ARSED
 

Benny Bunter

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I'm reading love in the time of cholera and I fucking love It don't care if it's a girls book. A Colombian women made me promise to read it years ago cos apparently I'm in it, but I've not got to that bit yet. I could never face it before, it seemed too obscene but now I've made the committed I'm besotted. It's the best
Surprised you like this. Many years since I read it but I loved it, never made it far through 100 years of solitude though.
 

luka

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If you can't understand my love for this book you don't understand me I'm a Latin American romantic with a passion for salsa music I would rather die than to make my living anywhere but in the dust of the streets writing love poetry for schoolgirls
 

Benny Bunter

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Just read Hamlet and king Lear back to back, both for the first time. Makes everything else I've ever read seem shit. Think I might read em both again straight away.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I'm reading love in the time of cholera and I fucking love It don't care if it's a girls book. A Colombian women made me promise to read it years ago cos apparently I'm in it, but I've not got to that bit yet. I could never face it before, it seemed too obscene but now I've made the committed I'm besotted. It's the best
Is it a girls' book? Certainly it makes perfect sense to me that you would love it. When I read it I do remember thinking that it was just the sort of thing that you would like. Which is weird cos I wouldn't become aware of your existence for another fifteen years or so.
 

luka

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Assuming the poet, us, the wounded hero, is the jilted lover Ferandino or whatever his absurd name is
 

Benny Bunter

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But what makes it good do you think? What were the things you liked about it
The language and the characters. In other words, not really the plots (though they are really good as well).

And the sheer depth. It's not just Shakespeare's genius that's mind-blowing but also that the audiences at the time understood it. Really made me think how thick popular audiences are these days in comparison
 
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