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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    edited October 2016
    Recently stumbled on this thread.

    Just finished Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements by Bob Mehr. Great read about almost making it.

    Starting Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    ezekiel 1;1-(10)-28
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    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    daniel 2;26-(44)-47
    acts 5;29- (39)
    hebrews 10;30,(31)-39
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited October 2016
    Currently reading:
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    Well written and an amazing story! Definitely an excellent read!

    And I lucked out and managed to dig up a copy of the March 1941 National Geographic which has an article by Richard Archbold who is the subject of one of the chapters. Very cool.
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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12207147-revelation-it-s-grand-climax-at-hand
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    must read for everyone including my siblings
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    jerparker20 said:

    American Pastoral by Phillip Roth

    Great book, enjoy it!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
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    So far I am enjoying it. There are 2 more in the series.
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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    1 timothy 5;25
    matthew 10;26
    luke 12;2
    theres nowhere to hide.....!!!
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    The Great Bridge by David McCullough
    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
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Ms. Haiku said:

    The Great Bridge by David McCullough

    Great book!
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    edited November 2016
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    Bacola's band, Second Coming ended up playing a show with Mad Season on New Year's Eve - it was '95 going into '96 at RKCNDY. The first show they did was the Crocodile, the second show was at RKCNDY with us, the third show I believe was the Moore Theatre. And I think they did one more Crocodile show. And that was it - as far as I know. During that time period, he did probably fifteen to twenty shows with Second Coming - he was late every single time. It was exciting - for me to share a stage with him again... was great. He wouldn't move a whole lot but he dominated that crowd, just by his presence. He did a song called "It's Coming After", which he recorded with us on our first record (1995's L.O.V.Evil). He would come to some of our gigs, because we were doing a cover band as well - to finance Second Coming. He would come out to some of those shows on the outskirts of Seattle, hop onstage, and sing "Would?" or "Man in the Box" with us. He would usually pull up with my dad. My dad was a big Greek guy - looked like Paul Sorvino, like he belonged in the Mafia. He would show up with my dad and another one of my dad's buddies - total mafioso looking guy. They would be in suits like his two security bodyguards, Picture Layne walking with Paul Sorvino and Robert DeNiro into a club. Layne would be in a suit also. The crowd would go crazy. ~ Yanni "Johnny" Bacolas

    I remember coming back to my apartment by the Seattle Center - my little neighbourhood had a coffee shop and a grocery store. All of a sudden, it was totally different, I hadn't been home for a few months, and I remember going to the coffee shop, sitting down and reading the paper, and thinking, "Why is everybody atring at me? What's going on?". Suddenly, this little neighbourhood that I lived in for five or six years was different. As it intensified, I just bailed on it. That's when I started going back to Montana, and reconnected with friends there. From that point on, when we had time off, I either went back to Montana, or if we were going to Europe, I would go early to Greece or Paris. I bailed on Seattle for pretty much that whole time - I spent very little time there for those two or three years. It felt like you were on tour still, even though you were home. It felt like you were under a microscope wherever you went. We'd all heard about "sophomore slump". We were feeling that, and a combination of all that stuff - it was a pressure cooker. Making (1993's Vs.) really wasn't that much fun, even though we were in an amazing spot - north of San Fransisco, in the best studio we'd ever been in. There was a swimming pool in the back, and it was in the mountains. It was kind of (like) where I grew up, so I was super-comfortable with the location. And we were recording with Brendan O'Brien - it was the first time we'd ever been in the studio with a real producer who knew his shit. If yout told him, "I want the bass tone to be like Motorhead", or "I want the bass tone to be like Funkadelic", he knew how to dial it in. There were all these amazing things happening, but I don't think anybody was really having much fun. ~ Jeff Ament

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    When Cameron Crowe was making Singles, Jeff Ament worked on the set on the art direction. The set that he created as Cliff Poncier's apartment had stacks of cassettes lying all over - one was Cliff's demos. Jeff went so far as to put song titles on the cassette - something no one looking at a movie would ever see. Chris was visiting the set, saw that, took those song titles, and wrote those songs as a gift for Cameron. The A&R guy at A&M, as a gift, pressed them into CDs. Put the cover artwork that Jeff had put on Poncier's demo, pressed up a thousand, and gave them to us. They got around. "Fluttergirl", "Spoonman", "No One But You", "Missing", and I think there's one more. ~ Susan Silver

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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    dankind said:

    Ms. Haiku said:

    The Great Bridge by David McCullough

    Great book!
    Did you read the Wright brothers book by him?
    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
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Ms. Haiku said:

    dankind said:

    Ms. Haiku said:

    The Great Bridge by David McCullough

    Great book!
    Did you read the Wright brothers book by him?
    No. That one and the expatriate one have been on my to-read list for a while now. The subject matter just isn't as interesting to me as revolutionary America or the Brooklyn Bridge.

    I've read 1776 and The Great Bridge twice each, and I'm wrapping up my second read of John Adams.
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    edited November 2016
    You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
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    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,998
    edited November 2016
    "Ghosts Phantom" by Jo Nesbø..
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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    1 corinthians 5;11-13
    1 timothy 3;8,9
    1 peter 5;2
    ecclesiastes 7;11,12
    james 1;12-27
    1 john 2;16-25
    james 1;27 without spot
    what i read today...
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Nutters 1;15
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