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Post by Sprague Dawley on May 2, 2023 21:42:34 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 7, 2023 11:09:17 GMT
note to self, forage for these at library
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
The Edible Woman
The Testaments
Paul Bowles
Sheltering Sky (fuckit anything really)
Kurt Vonnegut
Cats Cradle
Breakfast of Champions
Goodbye Blue Monday!
Somethign about Monkey Island
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jun 27, 2023 16:37:18 GMT
Still crushing through punk (ish) bios and added The World of Suzie Wong for fun. The Billy Idol biography is hilarious. I get it's an autobiography and your memory is your memory but there's just a lot of grandiosity (should I be surprised)? I built Vortex, there were drugs and bodily fluids flying off the ceiling, fucking on the floor, etc etc. Maybe? I don't know, I wasn't there, but seems kinda farfetched. At one point seems to imply The Saints came along a couple years after Gen X. You may not have heard about them, but I'm pretty sure they existed solidly first. There's so much talk of the wild shagging etc at one odd point it goes into a random porno-esque description of a girl (attendant?) on a plane where they just looked at each other and went into the bathroom and he slid his cock into her quivering mound of love pudding, etc. Then basically he ends up all crazy on drugs (one of the interesting parts of these kinds of books is these guys with intense drugs addictions -- for whom money was essentially no object, they could just fund them) including heroin which he kicks because he gets really into riding motorcycles. I am not an addiction counselor, but it generally seemed like something pretty hard to do that most people really struggle with leaving the reader to draw only one conclusion from these countless examples: Billy Idol is a pretty fucking badass rad dude.
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Post by sukebegg on Jun 28, 2023 9:59:04 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jul 5, 2023 11:27:18 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Jul 24, 2023 14:52:27 GMT
I think I read 1984, Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies for HS classes. Cold War staples, since we were still in the midst of it, as I graduated in 1984 actually. Gotta vote for the Apple or the Orange, otherwise automatic descent into barbarism and chaos. Could be fun, I thought... Why were the students in their mid-20s?? FWIW, the first filmic version of 1984 came out in 1956 and the second came out in...1984! "Many of the film's scenes were shot on the actual dates mentioned in the novel." Now that's post-modern...Richard Burton's last film. I am not sure if I ever saw it... A new one is coming...well, prolly not available for viewing in the West: I think The Trial is a much better "dystopian movie". Brazil also. (And of course, Clockwork Orange, of which "Class of 1984" tried to rip off I think.) www.pastemagazine.com/movies/dystopian-movies/best-dystopian-movies-of-all-time-1 |
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feels sorry for Adolf
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Post by fuckface on Jul 24, 2023 23:20:46 GMT
read 1984 while on the dole in the late '70s...it felt both distant and looming. mind you, i was listening to a lot of weird music, smoking pot, taking mushrooms and various over the counter long since banned pharmaceuticals around that time...most of which probably didn't help my paranoid state of mind too much.
the whole period culminated in early '81 when after watching 'network' with my friend rodney one night. he got up walked out and got on his bike to ride home. then stopped, came back to the front door, stuck his head thru it and yelled that classic line "i'm as mad as hell, and i'm not going to take this anymore" then rode off. the last words i heard from him. the next day he commited suicide.
fuck, i'm shaking and crying now. fuck!!!
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feels sorry for Adolf
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Post by fuckface on Jul 25, 2023 2:36:26 GMT
uh, feeling a bit silly now for over sharing and getting emotional about something that happened so long ago. i mean, i often think about rodney but never get upset when i do...it was just a long time since i had been back and revisited that exact moment i saw / heard him last.
it just came on and it surprised myself. damn. sorry.
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Post by fuckface on Jul 25, 2023 3:34:46 GMT
shit, now i'm feeling stupid for apologising...
i'm going round in circles
i'm really very happy
going round in circles
and i'm having so much fun
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jul 25, 2023 5:57:54 GMT
Why were the students in their mid-20s?? FWIW, the first filmic version of 1984 came out in 1956 and the second came out in...1984! "Many of the film's scenes were shot on the actual dates mentioned in the novel." Now that's post-modern...Richard Burton's last film. I am not sure if I ever saw it... A new one is coming...well, prolly not available for viewing in the West: 60 pages in now and it seems palpably malsuited to being made into a film. The entire story happens inside Winston's head. He can't say any of his thoughts aloud. He can't even give a nod and a wink to anyone. Silent blank faces do not a movie make. Maybe they could have the dreaded narrator voiceover running right the fuck through the thing, start to finish. Plus it is bleak as shiiiiiiiiiit. Ain't finished the book yet but after the miserable ending to Animal Farm I'm guessing Georgie Orwell ain't gonna pencil in The Rock breaking free of the shackles of Big Brother. Would hazard a guess Arnie and Sly as Winston And Syme ain't gonna be required. |
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Post by fuckface on Jul 25, 2023 7:15:25 GMT
^exactly. thats why the film version falls flat
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Post by sukebegg on Jul 25, 2023 14:45:00 GMT
I read the three or four core books by CC, a rather controversial character. Assigned it in an Intro to Sociology class taught by a young and somewhat controversial prof. at UCLA, where CC had written his, again, controversial doctorate dissertation. Anyhow, I read the other books a decade later, down and out in LA, latching onto metaphysical nuggets wherever I could. The idea of coming to hold indifference to the fact that death is stalking us, everywhere and always, is a nice little encapsulation of a timeless spiritual goal. tbh, holding that mindset CC describes above is the real "woke" (shhhhhh)
I also read a couple of Whitley Strieber books around that time, Still maintain he is pretty fascinating.
More on this later...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jul 31, 2023 23:20:18 GMT
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fuckface
feels sorry for Adolf
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Post by fuckface on Jul 31, 2023 23:52:32 GMT
ha. i used to frequent the'soon fatt' restaurant when i was working in ipoh, malaysia  |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 5, 2023 21:42:47 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 31, 2024 23:05:11 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 16, 2024 10:41:24 GMT
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