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calm down its an ambient September read. funny book but not the most ambient. medium ambiance.

HCEs Trial! (except the names are swapped and the references are almost indecipherable and the time of day is unclear and HCE is also a number of historical characters)

WHAT IS JOYCE THOUGH WITHOUT A BOOK THAT BREAKS DOWN ALL OF HIS PUNS AND LOVE OF THE UNIVERSE WITHIN IT HELL YEAH IM READING THIS I HEARD CAMPBELL WAS KIND OF A MISOGYNIST BUT I DONT SEE ANY OTHER RECCOMENDED READINGS TO GRASP IT THAT INTEREST ME SO I WILL SHAKE MY HEAD IF HE SAYS ANYTHING SEXIST!

THATS RIGHT BABY AMBIENT SEPTEMBER IS (practically) HERE AND I HAVE FINNEGANS WAKE DOWNLOADED AND OWNED IN MY HOUSE! I AM TAKING IT DOWN!

at least, Im on the twenty ninth page of the version i found online. Strangely terrible to find the correct edition that I want given the book is written in english

really cant focus

cant focus

read like two weeks ago but got distracted. Should, at least in excerpts, be required high school reading, especially next to a poetry unit

John Green said it changed his life in high school. Read on the commute from guelph to kipling station. Written like the future. or maybe like the present as related to todays future.

john green co-sign. really good and much weirder (/pos) than I expected given genres. Paige is married to Kaveh Akbar which is adorable. Two sweetheart poets turned novelists in love.

not to extrapolate textual meaning 20% into a novel, but this is a perfect companion piece to 3 months of reading about fame, reactions to fame, production (i.e. labels), the release and inner monologue of the creation of art, and of course, the egoism of the artist. Navigating whether it is enlightened or embarrasing to be so critical of art, in pursuit of something truly excellent.

I dont think I can grasp this as straight man. but ill try!

It's all Jawbreaker, isnt it?


always has been

zach shipped me a copy, picked up in SF and sent from rural maine. I read it while sitting in the grass while the power was out

at the drive in breaking up is responsible for garage rock revival, which was caused by nu metal fans. another L for cock rock.

need more of this style of book (vignettes of multiple bands that tell there story and make a point about a larger issue). The green day chapter was okay but he didn't have any firsthand sourcing, but Jawbreaker had some interviews from the guys and made it feel more complete (and sad)

The Courtney love interview is really bad, the last few chapters have dashed my hopes that fame and popularity can create true good in the world, because it seems like while nirvana blew open the door for independent music hitting it big, you also get Brazilian nirvana fans telling bitches to go home. You have Axl Rose. You have cash grabbing hacks like Hirschberg. Really made me sour on music journalism as a whole.

Brat is our Nevermind, by the way. Think about it. an album that becomes inescapably popular by word of mouth, so much so that labels do not know how to advertise it. Defining generational apathy in an intense political climate, implications of drug use as related to carelessness. Concise and simple lyricism that tackles big emotions. Cross-genre appeal. After it's release, major labels can't let go.

everyone here feels about as lovable as they are hateable. I liked Chad a lot. makes me want to listen to more k records