What are you reading?

[Auditor]

Blindsight by Peter Watts

taking me a bit longer than i thought to get back n finish it but i'm liking it a lot so far, pretty unique sci fi in what might seem like a very boring premise at first

Helluva book!

[Waterbagel]

How Music Works by David Byrne. Maybe 20% memoir, 80% Byrne's experiences in the musical world, from the literal context in which humans found themselves developing different kinds of music to his direct/indirect experience with how labels finance (or don't finance) releases.

I'm nearly done with it - the upcoming chapter I'm most excited about is what I believe are his guidelines for how a music scene lives and thrives -- welcome advice for someone in a town where the music scene still hasn't quite recovered from COVID.

[88marquis]

How Music Works by David Byrne. Maybe 20% memoir, 80% Byrne's experiences in the musical world, from the literal context in which humans found themselves developing different kinds of music to his direct/indirect experience with how labels finance (or don't finance) releases.

I'm nearly done with it - the upcoming chapter I'm most excited about is what I believe are his guidelines for how a music scene lives and thrives -- welcome advice for someone in a town where the music scene still hasn't quite recovered from COVID.

It's so good! I had the pleasure of meeting David and seeing him present this in a theatre in Minneapolis in I believe 2012-2013. I think it was at the Walker Art Center. I didn't know what to expect walking in as I was honestly just really excited to see him in person, but I ended up really enjoying the presentation!

I would have a signed copy of it still, however when I went to the restroom I set it on the paper towel dispenser and someone walked in, grabbed it, and ran out before I finished my business. I guess they really needed a copy lol.

[ASYMPTOTE]

[jcnporter]

[fujee]

Apparently this book fails to mention Stars of the Lid?

[jcnporter]

Apparently this book fails to mention Stars of the Lid?

Yeah, it's a great book, but that felt like a BIG omission. I think at the very least least a bit on the Kranky roster could have fitted nicely into the last couple of chapters. I did get some great new listening from it though, this in particular, stood out, just an absolutely astounding album from someone I'd never really heard before -

[Betterthanyourkids]

Currently ripping through The Rifles, William T. Vollmann, for book club. It's a very indulgent style, flowery and changing voice/perspective often, but also highly readable? I'm not too far into it and don't know what to expect, but I wanted to break into Vollmann's bibliography and wasn't ready for Europe Central.

Also to the person earlier who was reading Blindsight: fuckin NICE

[Betterthanyourkids]

Kinda on topic, but for a while I've been meaning to read in sequence all the books BoC mentioned in TH era interviews. There's three books + some authors they speak about generally. A bit of a project amidst all the stuff I'm usually reading but I feel like it'd elucidate something, unsure what exactly, about TH

[vitriolie]

[TheStatPow]

Just finished Innerspace, Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy



Trying to get through Guy Debord, Society of The Spectacle. Good book but I hit a wall a few chapters in because I'm not well versed in Marxist abstractions.

[2020k]

Currently working my way through The Vampire Lestat and enjoying it a little bit more than Interview With the Vampire.

[Cupz]

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Didn't know the story was so short and surprisingly the video game had more depth to it. Laugh Track is so cute and disturbing I love it. Boy And His Dog was kind of dumb and rapey but I appreciate how influential it has been to post-apocalyptic fiction (and did it inspire Xentrix somehow? There's an underground civilization.)

[jcnporter]

[SamuraiDrifter]

Just finished Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine, now resuming where I left off about 10 chapters into The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. Fun read, but definitely historically dubious in some places, as a lot of esoteric literature from the early 20th century was.

[PurpleFlurp]

Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo has been the most formative book that I have read in the past year. I am constantly recalling its lessons and the humility that Augustine shows is something that I have been obsessing over since I finished the work. Looking forward to when I dive further into his writings!

[Mexicola]

Being You by Anil Seth. Following up 'A World Appears' by Michael Pollan. Going down the consciousness rabbit hole.

[llydia]

I am going through McCarthy

[Waterbagel]

i'm about to finally read the road for the first time, myself!

my wife and i are headed to Ireland and Scotland (first time for me!), so I picked up We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole - kind of a fun mix of memoir and modern history of Ireland

[Josh]

I was at Newbury Comics yesterday to pick up Inferno on CD and while I was there I grabbed the first volume of Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond manga. Pretty cool so far. I'm not a huge manga person, but I love samurai stuff.