Just starting 'None Too Fragile', my Mum bought it for me and brought it around a couple of days ago. Go on ya Mum, love ya! xxx
“ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)
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I Am Philosophy and So Can You.... disappointed to learn AFTER purchasing it that it's not a Stephen Colbert book... it's written about people who like him. Not quite what I was after. Oh well.
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I haven't seen the movie either. Although I did see a little snippet of it the other day on some movie channel and I quickly turned it. I don't think I will be seeing it any time soon. A) movies never do books justice and I couldn't subject myself to it so soon after reading the book. :?
my sister loved the book. Keeps telling me to read it.
Should I? Or will it be too depressing?
It's really good, but it is depressing. Depends on how sensitive you are. It's hard to take at times.
Life by Keith Richards. I'm about 80% finished and it's been a great read so far.
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me.
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The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks- by Susan Casey
Another great book by Ms. Casey. She is so fucking rad. Her other book, The Wave, is amazing.
Don't fuck sheep. -EV 7/11/11
You can never have enough Neil in the mix. -EV 10/24/10
There's only one commandment: Don't be an asshole. -EV 5/6/10
life - keith richards
the vampire diaries: the return:midnight - lj smith
house of leaves - mark z. danielewski
arthur rimbaud - enid starkie
how it feels - brendan cowell
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Just finished "Not Without Hope" by Nick something, about the four guys whose boat flipped over in the Gulf of Mexico and 3 of them died. 2 were NFL players. Good quick read. (Read it over 24 hours)
im telling you... reading all the footnotes is trying my patience.. and i dont have much to begin with. its distracting but i was told it was necessary by the person who recommended the book.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
i'm currently reading the best laid plans by terry fallis. thus far i'm enjoying it a lot more than i'd expect considering it's a satire of canadian politics.
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Ukrainian war reporter Vasily Grossman was one of the first to describe a Nazi death camp in print, and his 1944 article “The Hell of Treblinka” was used at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal as evidence of the Holocaust. His postwar career in Soviet Russia was marked by persecution: He was censored by Joseph Stalin’s antisemitic regime, and after he submitted his masterful World War II novel Life and Fate to a publisher in 1960, the KGB confiscated the manuscript, his notes and even his typewriter (the book was later smuggled out of the country and printed in 1974). But this didn’t quiet Grossman, whose indictments of Stalinist Russia were at least as damning as those of George Orwell and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Understandably bitter over the suppression of his work, the author worked on Everything Flows—a shorter, but even more eviscerating, meditation on the monstrous results of the Soviet experiment—until his death from cancer in 1964. This new translation brings his searing vision to light.
The novel opens as Ivan Grigoryevich, a once-promising intellectual long ago banished to the hell of the Gulag for some long-forgotten transgression, is released following the death of Stalin. As he revisits figures from his past, many of whom lied or ratted out dissidents in order to stay free, Grigoryevich sadly shakes his head at the moral cowardice in the face of the state’s supreme wielding of violence.
Everything Flows is not a subtle work, but these were unsubtle times. Grossman uses only the surface trappings of a novel in his stark ruminations on 20th-century Russia, particularly Stalin’s systematic destruction of his enemies. His descriptions are intense; at one point, he effectively puts the reader right in the middle of a dying Ukrainian village during the Great Famine in the early 1930s. Fortunately, the KGB couldn’t keep Grossman’s books under wraps forever. His testament stands as a fitting tribute to the millions of voices that were prematurely silenced
Savage Beauty - the Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Then onward to Patti Smith's autobiography.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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Adelaide 1998
Adelaide 2003
Adelaide 2006 night 1
Adelaide 2006 night 2
Adelaide 2009
Melbourne 2009
Christchurch NZ 2009
Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
:thumbup: This is one of my favourite Thompson books.
2009 - Toronto
2010 - Buffalo
2011 - Toronto 1&2
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
2018 - Fenway 1&2
2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
2023 - Chicago 1&2
2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
Training courses are fun but assessed courses suck. :x
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
It's really good, but it is depressing. Depends on how sensitive you are. It's hard to take at times.
__________________________________________________________
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Just about to start Any Human Heart - William Boyd.
This was a 6 part series over here before Christmas. Some of the best TV of last year.
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
Another great book by Ms. Casey. She is so fucking rad. Her other book, The Wave, is amazing.
Don't fuck sheep. -EV 7/11/11
You can never have enough Neil in the mix. -EV 10/24/10
There's only one commandment: Don't be an asshole. -EV 5/6/10
life - keith richards
the vampire diaries: the return:midnight - lj smith
house of leaves - mark z. danielewski
arthur rimbaud - enid starkie
how it feels - brendan cowell
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
im telling you... reading all the footnotes is trying my patience.. and i dont have much to begin with. its distracting but i was told it was necessary by the person who recommended the book.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
You'll need to understand French to get on with that one.
I recommend the Steinmetz book instead.
and what makes you think i cant?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Flat-Crowded- ... 676&sr=1-1
it's the Enron story written as a fiction
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Ukrainian war reporter Vasily Grossman was one of the first to describe a Nazi death camp in print, and his 1944 article “The Hell of Treblinka” was used at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal as evidence of the Holocaust. His postwar career in Soviet Russia was marked by persecution: He was censored by Joseph Stalin’s antisemitic regime, and after he submitted his masterful World War II novel Life and Fate to a publisher in 1960, the KGB confiscated the manuscript, his notes and even his typewriter (the book was later smuggled out of the country and printed in 1974). But this didn’t quiet Grossman, whose indictments of Stalinist Russia were at least as damning as those of George Orwell and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Understandably bitter over the suppression of his work, the author worked on Everything Flows—a shorter, but even more eviscerating, meditation on the monstrous results of the Soviet experiment—until his death from cancer in 1964. This new translation brings his searing vision to light.
The novel opens as Ivan Grigoryevich, a once-promising intellectual long ago banished to the hell of the Gulag for some long-forgotten transgression, is released following the death of Stalin. As he revisits figures from his past, many of whom lied or ratted out dissidents in order to stay free, Grigoryevich sadly shakes his head at the moral cowardice in the face of the state’s supreme wielding of violence.
Everything Flows is not a subtle work, but these were unsubtle times. Grossman uses only the surface trappings of a novel in his stark ruminations on 20th-century Russia, particularly Stalin’s systematic destruction of his enemies. His descriptions are intense; at one point, he effectively puts the reader right in the middle of a dying Ukrainian village during the Great Famine in the early 1930s. Fortunately, the KGB couldn’t keep Grossman’s books under wraps forever. His testament stands as a fitting tribute to the millions of voices that were prematurely silenced
Read more: Everything Flows - Books - Time Out New York http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture ... z1Dq2JA7G2
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird