7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
American Gods ~ Neil Gaiman (Yeah, he's british, but it's definitely an American Novel).
Edited to add: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, or Hell's Angels ~ Hunter S. Thompson. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is a great book, but I like these two more.
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"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kerouac: On the Road
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
2003: Toronto
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle 2016: Toronto 1 & 2 2022: Hamilton/Toronto 2023: EV Seattle 1&2
not my favourite cause id have to give that some thought but yep one here for one flew over the cuckoos nest. def being in the top 5. so glad ive not managed to ever see the movie.
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Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kerouac: On the Road
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Nice list. I need to read some Jonathan Safran Foer. I started 'Everything Is Illuminated' way back when but got distracted and didn't finish it. I'll add it to my list of things to do.
Nice list. I need to read some Jonathan Safran Foer. I started 'Everything Is Illuminated' way back when but got distracted and didn't finish it. I'll add it to my list of things to do.
I just started Everything is Illuminated two nights ago. I also borrowed Eating Animals....you posted the clip on
Facebook about that, yeah?
Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehardt
Dispatches - Michael Herr
One Flew over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
The Western Lands - William S Burroughs
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
The Catcher In The Rye - Salinger
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me - Richard Farina
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Chump Change - Dan Fante
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Big Sur - Kerouac
The Adventures of Huck Finn - Mark Twain
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kerouac: On the Road
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Nice list. I need to read some Jonathan Safran Foer. I started 'Everything Is Illuminated' way back when but got distracted and didn't finish it. I'll add it to my list of things to do.
I would definitely recommend Extremely Loud... As much as I loved Everything Is Illuminated, I think his second novel was a thousand times better. Although some people take issue with it.
2003: Toronto
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle 2016: Toronto 1 & 2 2022: Hamilton/Toronto 2023: EV Seattle 1&2
Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kerouac: On the Road
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Nice list. I need to read some Jonathan Safran Foer. I started 'Everything Is Illuminated' way back when but got distracted and didn't finish it. I'll add it to my list of things to do.
I would definitely recommend Extremely Loud... As much as I loved Everything Is Illuminated, I think his second novel was a thousand times better. Although some people take issue with it.
The Celestine Prophecy
On The Road
Jitterbug Perfume
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Edit for me being a dummy and skimming over the "American" part of the thread title. :roll:
Absalom! Absalom! (Faulkner)
A Confederacy of Dunces (O'Toole)
Portait of a Lady (James)
The Marble Faun (Hawthorne)
Light in August (Faulkner)
The Moviegoer (Agee)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Blood Meridian (McCarthy)
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
on the road
anything steinbeck
been reading alot of dave eggers lately. the guy is maybe my favorite living author. you shall know our velocity blew me away. it scared me. not in the horror movie sense.
oh and i agree about extremely loud and incredibly close. the guys writing style reminds me of eggers. so many mind blowing and goose bump inducing moments in that book. as crass as it seems to say it, it may be my favorite book on the tragedies of 9/11. i read that thing oh i would say almost a year ago and it remains on my mind, and i talk about it with others often.
Bernard Malamud - The Natural
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
"It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, "Stardust"
'Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps' by Emmet Grogan
Review
“The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.” –Dennis Hopper
“Of all those activists, Hopper thought the most interesting was the late Emmett Grogan, who ran the Diggers, a group that gave away food and clothing. Hopper thinks that Grogan's romanticized autobiography, Ringolevio, is the best book dealing with the '60s. The title was a New York street game ‘of life and death.’ ‘Grogan thought that anybody who ever played that game would learn their position in life,’ Hopper said. ‘He was out of New York, studied film making with Antonioni. He was a jewel thief, a heroin addict and then came to San Francisco and started the Diggers. He had a lot of charisma.’” –The San Francisco Chronicle
“Emmett Grogan was a wonderful storyteller, and Ringolevio is a great book.” –Jerry Garcia
“It wouldn’t be surprising if Emmett Grogan–‘60s underground hero, prime mover of the Digger movement in San Francisco–were to come back to life. To know Grogan–a wild phenomenon who made the world his stange and could strut more in a month than Olivier played in a lifetime–was to entertain such possibilities.” –The Boston Globe
“A kind of case study that reappraises the '60s unapologetically but honestly, noting the mistakes and excesses, but also acknowledging some of the things that came from it that we should be proud of. Most people are afraid to admit how much fun it was." –Peter Coyote
Grogan was “the underground superstar of the counterculture, a young man whom everyone who was hip had heard of but whom no one could ever find…Wherever it was happening in the 1960’s, Emmett Grogan was there.” –The New York Times
“This autobiography is at once an amazing example of romantic self-mythologizing and a broad history of the hippie movement of the late nineteen-sixties…Mr. Grogan writes so clearly that he almost convinces us that the whole story could be true.” –The New Yorker
“Grogan…who blends idealism with cold-blooded nastiness, sets forth in this playback not only his own life and times–but also what it means to be on the other side of the barricades, away from the hearth where the bowls aren’t always full…Grogan’s chronicle of his life in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco…is most interesting.” –The New York Times Book Review
“The autobiography of a sometime saint…an astonishing mass of raw experience. It blows myths, settles scores and leaves one pondering the invisible rules by which history and individuals impinge upon one another.” –Life
“Superman of the Underground.” –The Times (London)
“Emmett Grogan is the nom de plume of a youthful author whose autobiography Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps will likely cause a stir when it is published.” –Publishers Weekly
A “lengthy, indulgent but intermittently fascinating autobiography of head Digger Emmett Grogan.” –The Washington Post
“The story of the San Francisco Diggers, pioneers of the Haight-Ashbury scene, told engagingly by the head Digger himself.” –The San Francisco Chronicle
“[The San Francisco Diggers] combined Dada street theater with the revolutionary politics of free. Slum-alley saints, they lit up the period by spreading the poetry of love and anarchy with broad strokes of artistic genius. Their free store, communications network of instant offset survival poetry, along with Indian-inspired consciousness, was the original white light of the era. Emmett Grogan was the hippie warrior par excellence. He was also a junkie, a maniac, a gifted actor, a rebel hero, …and above all a pain in the ass to all his friends. Ringolevio [is] half-brilliant.” –Abbie Hoffman
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8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
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Edited to add: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, or Hell's Angels ~ Hunter S. Thompson. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is a great book, but I like these two more.
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A Confederacy of dunces - John Kennedy Toole
I also love Steinbeck.
If I knew where it was I would take you there.
Kerouac: On the Road
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
2016: Toronto 1 & 2
2022: Hamilton/Toronto
2023: EV Seattle 1&2
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Nice list. I need to read some Jonathan Safran Foer. I started 'Everything Is Illuminated' way back when but got distracted and didn't finish it. I'll add it to my list of things to do.
well???? what are yours?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I just started Everything is Illuminated two nights ago. I also borrowed Eating Animals....you posted the clip on
Facebook about that, yeah?
★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehardt
Dispatches - Michael Herr
One Flew over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
The Western Lands - William S Burroughs
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
The Catcher In The Rye - Salinger
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me - Richard Farina
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Chump Change - Dan Fante
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Big Sur - Kerouac
The Adventures of Huck Finn - Mark Twain
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Yeah. But at the time I didn't make the connection, though I knew I'd heard the name before.
If I knew where it was I would take you there.
I would definitely recommend Extremely Loud... As much as I loved Everything Is Illuminated, I think his second novel was a thousand times better. Although some people take issue with it.
2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
2006: Toronto 1 & 2
2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
2010: Buffalo
2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
2016: Toronto 1 & 2
2022: Hamilton/Toronto
2023: EV Seattle 1&2
Cool. I'll check it out.
Slaughterhouse 5
Of Mice and Men
On The Road
Jitterbug Perfume
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Absalom! Absalom! (Faulkner)
A Confederacy of Dunces (O'Toole)
Portait of a Lady (James)
The Marble Faun (Hawthorne)
Light in August (Faulkner)
The Moviegoer (Agee)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Blood Meridian (McCarthy)
Good book. Though I think 'The Crossing's better.
We'll just have to agree to disagree on that one.
Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
anything steinbeck
been reading alot of dave eggers lately. the guy is maybe my favorite living author. you shall know our velocity blew me away. it scared me. not in the horror movie sense.
Bernard Malamud - The Natural
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
And 'Dispatches' - Michael Herr
'Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps' by Emmet Grogan
Review
“The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.” –Dennis Hopper
“Of all those activists, Hopper thought the most interesting was the late Emmett Grogan, who ran the Diggers, a group that gave away food and clothing. Hopper thinks that Grogan's romanticized autobiography, Ringolevio, is the best book dealing with the '60s. The title was a New York street game ‘of life and death.’ ‘Grogan thought that anybody who ever played that game would learn their position in life,’ Hopper said. ‘He was out of New York, studied film making with Antonioni. He was a jewel thief, a heroin addict and then came to San Francisco and started the Diggers. He had a lot of charisma.’” –The San Francisco Chronicle
“Emmett Grogan was a wonderful storyteller, and Ringolevio is a great book.” –Jerry Garcia
“It wouldn’t be surprising if Emmett Grogan–‘60s underground hero, prime mover of the Digger movement in San Francisco–were to come back to life. To know Grogan–a wild phenomenon who made the world his stange and could strut more in a month than Olivier played in a lifetime–was to entertain such possibilities.” –The Boston Globe
“A kind of case study that reappraises the '60s unapologetically but honestly, noting the mistakes and excesses, but also acknowledging some of the things that came from it that we should be proud of. Most people are afraid to admit how much fun it was." –Peter Coyote
Grogan was “the underground superstar of the counterculture, a young man whom everyone who was hip had heard of but whom no one could ever find…Wherever it was happening in the 1960’s, Emmett Grogan was there.” –The New York Times
“This autobiography is at once an amazing example of romantic self-mythologizing and a broad history of the hippie movement of the late nineteen-sixties…Mr. Grogan writes so clearly that he almost convinces us that the whole story could be true.” –The New Yorker
“Grogan…who blends idealism with cold-blooded nastiness, sets forth in this playback not only his own life and times–but also what it means to be on the other side of the barricades, away from the hearth where the bowls aren’t always full…Grogan’s chronicle of his life in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco…is most interesting.” –The New York Times Book Review
“The autobiography of a sometime saint…an astonishing mass of raw experience. It blows myths, settles scores and leaves one pondering the invisible rules by which history and individuals impinge upon one another.” –Life
“Superman of the Underground.” –The Times (London)
“Emmett Grogan is the nom de plume of a youthful author whose autobiography Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps will likely cause a stir when it is published.” –Publishers Weekly
A “lengthy, indulgent but intermittently fascinating autobiography of head Digger Emmett Grogan.” –The Washington Post
“The story of the San Francisco Diggers, pioneers of the Haight-Ashbury scene, told engagingly by the head Digger himself.” –The San Francisco Chronicle
“[The San Francisco Diggers] combined Dada street theater with the revolutionary politics of free. Slum-alley saints, they lit up the period by spreading the poetry of love and anarchy with broad strokes of artistic genius. Their free store, communications network of instant offset survival poetry, along with Indian-inspired consciousness, was the original white light of the era. Emmett Grogan was the hippie warrior par excellence. He was also a junkie, a maniac, a gifted actor, a rebel hero, …and above all a pain in the ass to all his friends. Ringolevio [is] half-brilliant.” –Abbie Hoffman