Things The Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Oliver Everett (or E from the band the Eels)
An especially good autobiography. A pretty rough life. Y'know...other than becoming a rock star.
What are you reading in general?
Moderator: Orlion
-
Cagliostro
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 9360
- Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:39 pm
- Location: Colorado
-
danlo
- Lord
- Posts: 20838
- Joined: Wed Mar 06, 2002 8:29 pm
- Location: Albuquerque NM
- Been thanked: 1 time
- Contact:
My neighbor gave me a copy of Ronnie-by Ron Wood, looks very interesting-I'm probably more interested in the old Small Faces and work with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, I think he mainly played bass back in those days. I'm sure there's cool stuff about the Stones, but I've heard enough about Jagger's bisexual exploits and Richard's drug use and depravities...I'll have to look at it sometime...
fall far and well Pilots!
-
Dragonlily
- Lord
- Posts: 4186
- Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:39 pm
- Location: Aparanta
- Been thanked: 1 time
- Contact:
I almost stopped reading rather than read this one. Picked up HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE for an ideal escapist reread.Dragonlily wrote:Started Roberts' GENUINE LIES this morning and almost stopped it just as fast. I hate books in which the hero/heroine is accused of murder. Because of Roberts' knack for relationships of all kinds, I'm giving the book a chance.
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." -- Roger Penrose
-
StevieG
- Andelanian
- Posts: 7204
- Joined: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:47 pm
- Location: Australia
- Has thanked: 24 times
- Been thanked: 27 times
I have recently finished reading this - it's a great autobiography. There was certainly drama/tragedy in his life. It helps, of course that I'm a big fan of his music and (particularly) lyrics. I also love the title!Cagliostro wrote:Things The Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Oliver Everett (or E from the band the Eels)
An especially good autobiography. A pretty rough life. Y'know...other than becoming a rock star.
-
stonemaybe
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 4836
- Joined: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:37 am
- Location: Wallowing in the Zider Zee
Finished Cloud Atlas. I can't exactly say why I thought it, but I did think it was superb.
Jumps about in time all over the place, with hugely varying storylines but with good linking. Kind of like a dystopian fairytale with hints (just hints) of a happy ending.
Just started 'The End of Mr Y' by Scarlett Thomas. Looks promising, from first chapter it seems like it'll be a kind of literary paranormal whodunnit.
Jumps about in time all over the place, with hugely varying storylines but with good linking. Kind of like a dystopian fairytale with hints (just hints) of a happy ending.
Just started 'The End of Mr Y' by Scarlett Thomas. Looks promising, from first chapter it seems like it'll be a kind of literary paranormal whodunnit.
Aglithophile and conniptionist and spectacular moonbow beholder 16Jul11
(:/>
(:/>
-
Orlion
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 6666
- Joined: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am
- Location: Getting there...
- Been thanked: 1 time
Well, if I can get myself to quit being afraid of it, I'm reading Don Quixote in the original spanish...
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
-
aliantha
- blueberries on steroids
- Posts: 17865
- Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
- Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Buena suerte con eso proyecto!Orlion wrote:Well, if I can get myself to quit being afraid of it, I'm reading Don Quixote in the original spanish...
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
https://www.hearth-myth.com/
-
Orlion
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 6666
- Joined: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am
- Location: Getting there...
- Been thanked: 1 time
Gracias (Mira? Puede ser que se nada de espanol, pero la gente jamas sabria! Ja, ja, ja ) 
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
-
aliantha
- blueberries on steroids
- Posts: 17865
- Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
- Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Verdad, verdad -- pero supongo que entiendes espanol o no intentes hacerlo. (Intentes, right? "Would try"? Man, it's been for-freakin'-ever since I've been forced to use subjunctive in Spanish -- thanks a *lot*, Orlion! )
I'm actually kinda fascinated by the idea of this project. You're not going to try reading it in the original, are you? I'm confident that Spanish has changed markedly since the 12th century or whenever it was...
)I'm actually kinda fascinated by the idea of this project. You're not going to try reading it in the original, are you? I'm confident that Spanish has changed markedly since the 12th century or whenever it was...
Last edited by aliantha on Fri May 01, 2009 7:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
https://www.hearth-myth.com/
-
Orlion
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 6666
- Joined: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am
- Location: Getting there...
- Been thanked: 1 time
Anytime, it's good to stretch those spanish muscles... and it would be conditional, or intentariasaliantha wrote:Verdad, verdad -- pero supongo que entiendes espanol o no intentes hacerlo. (Intentes, right? "Would try"? Man, it's been for-freakin'-ever since I've been forced to use subjunctive in Spanish -- thanks a *lot*, Orlion!
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
-
aliantha
- blueberries on steroids
- Posts: 17865
- Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
- Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Bah -- you say intentarias, I say intentes...Orlion wrote:Anytime, it's good to stretch those spanish muscles... and it would be conditional, or intentariasaliantha wrote:Verdad, verdad -- pero supongo que entiendes espanol o no intentes hacerlo. (Intentes, right? "Would try"? Man, it's been for-freakin'-ever since I've been forced to use subjunctive in Spanish -- thanks a *lot*, Orlion!
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
https://www.hearth-myth.com/
-
Orlion
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 6666
- Joined: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am
- Location: Getting there...
- Been thanked: 1 time
Fair enough, what matters is the "intentacion"aliantha wrote:Bah -- you say intentarias, I say intentes...Orlion wrote:Anytime, it's good to stretch those spanish muscles... and it would be conditional, or intentariasaliantha wrote:Verdad, verdad -- pero supongo que entiendes espanol o no intentes hacerlo. (Intentes, right? "Would try"? Man, it's been for-freakin'-ever since I've been forced to use subjunctive in Spanish -- thanks a *lot*, Orlion!
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
-
aliantha
- blueberries on steroids
- Posts: 17865
- Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
- Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Exactamente!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled English-language thread....
We now return you to your regularly scheduled English-language thread....
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
https://www.hearth-myth.com/
Y'all are gonna laugh.....
"Crazy From the Heat" by David Lee Roth. For quite some time now, I've been hearing about what a great book this is, and how it's not just a Van Halen tell-all. It's actually not that at all.......It's a by-God great book about Dave's life and his philosophy. It's pretty much stream-of-consciousness, but it's fascinating getting insight into the guy.
And it makes me feel like I've utterly wasted my life. The man's done everything......You know those Dos Equis commercials about "The Most Interesting Man in the World"? That's Dave.
I highly recommend it.
"Crazy From the Heat" by David Lee Roth. For quite some time now, I've been hearing about what a great book this is, and how it's not just a Van Halen tell-all. It's actually not that at all.......It's a by-God great book about Dave's life and his philosophy. It's pretty much stream-of-consciousness, but it's fascinating getting insight into the guy.
And it makes me feel like I've utterly wasted my life. The man's done everything......You know those Dos Equis commercials about "The Most Interesting Man in the World"? That's Dave.
I highly recommend it.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
Not really wealth, no.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
-
Dragonlily
- Lord
- Posts: 4186
- Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:39 pm
- Location: Aparanta
- Been thanked: 1 time
- Contact:
-
Damelon
- Lord
- Posts: 8598
- Joined: Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:40 pm
- Location: Illinois
- Has thanked: 2 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Royal Flash, by George MacDonald Frasier. The second novel of the Flashman series, which revolves around the memoirs of a Victorian era British soldier. He's a cad, a coward, a toady, yet he gets credit for being enormously brave and forthright. It's a fun read, plus Frasier puts a good deal of historical research into the stories.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn