I believe the full phrase is 'great minds don't read Kerouac because he's dogturd'.

the smugest little cunt i have ever seen ever in my life ever. i just want to punch his face and ram a bottle down his cock every time i see him.

I read the other version first, so it's only like 3/4 of a re-read.

Got into a re-read of The Great Gatsby on my plane ride. Must continue soon. I really got into it. Fitz was a prose expert. Sublime stuff.

I watched a documentary earlier today about a woman who attended the marriage between John and Jackie. She said John's half were trying too hard. Ever so slightly nouveau. Not that you didn't know that already.

Top Ten Smug British Cunts of the Noughties:

1: Jeremy Clarkson
2: David Cameron
3: Paul Weller
4: Peter Mandelson
5: Tony Blair
6: Gordon Ramsey
7: Charlie Brooker
8: Paul Ross
9: Simon Cowell
10: Phil Jupitus

Paul Ross thanks you for remembering he exists.

hahaha

Not being funny, but you seem to have missed out Jimmy Carr, the bloke off of points west and Jeremy 'fucktower' Kyle.

^Glice

I don't actually mind Carr all that much, although that might be because I've only watched him for maybe two minutes in my entire life, during which I quickly made the Frank Sidebottom connection and left it at that. Kyle's an obvious ommission though. I don't know what Points West is.

I'll tell you who really is a smug bastard though, whats-his-face ... the bloke who did Big Brother and now does X Factor, Dermot something. Unbearable.

Dermot O'Leary. Proper cunt he is. Points West is a local news programme.

I'm sure you don't need to hear him speak. Just look at his face. He's from Axminster but looks like he's from Taunton. What a cunt.

Yeah, Dermot O'Leary, that's him. Smug as you like.

I youtubed points west and think I found the bugger, Chris Vacher, right? Yeah, even from the snippet I saw he absolutely oozed that certain kind of chatty smugness that regional newscasters seem to specialise in. We've got one in London, Alaistar Stewart. Drives me round the bend. Russia drops a nuclear bomb on America while he's going on about some steel drummers in Tooting losing their rehearsal space. It's TV gold, really.

Don't forget Piers Morgan, so fucking wet, how does he keep getting on the tele??

what about that bloke from BBC1 who girl that woman a paki and kept his job? he's ceratinly one of the smugest bastards in the country.

just finished this, it's pretty good, now i need to get a copy of MES's autobiography




Reading this now but haven't really taken to it yet



And waiting for this to arrive




Plus, I've got this for toilet reading at the moment

I'm generally a big Disch fan but I agree, that one's really hard to stick with. Have you read Camp Concentration? Brilliant book.

Just got cracking on this jaunty little number. I'll see you all in the Spring

Also:

Plus, some Classics (Archilocus)

Uno Koji - Love of Mountains

Reading Goodbye 20th Century which I find interesting purely as a Sonic Geek.

Despite all the claims of how straight they always were, I bet there is a great kiss and tell book like Angie Bowie's to be had that we will likely never read since they never fucked anyone over enough to generate it. Lee's journals hint at this, and I just don't buy that they could hang out with Lydia and Thirwell and emerge so unstained.

Steve is straight as an arrow, poison or otherwise, but the other members?
Like you said, JRNLS80S doesn't deny the use of cocaine. And the Kim/heroin rumor seems to have been around forever.

Yeah, and I kind of fill the role of the "stable" one in a group of crazies in my circle, so I figure SY probably have just as much to hide on a much larger scale.

If you hang out with the likes of Lydia and the Butthole Surfers, you are always going to seem less debauched, which makes having people like that around surprisingly useful. Bowie actually did the same thing with Iggy and Lou Reed, but Angie knew too much and had too much to gain in $$ and vengeance not to unleash all the dirt.

Naked Lunch for the first time ever.

Enjoyed the hell out of that book.

I'm only a few pages in but enjoying it so far.

biggest criticisms of Goodbye 20th Century:

No mention of Thurston's stint playing in Even Worse even though it details all their other early bands at the time and addresses his growing interest in taking part in the hardcore scene at the time. Pretty silly it would overlook his playing in a hardcore (scene at least) band.

No mention of Steve Albini or Big Black despite the obvious alliance with SY in the early days.

No mention of Bruce Pavitt either, and Sub Pop is only mentioned way after they were an established marketing force mega-indie. Pavitt put "Kill Yr. Idols" on Sub Pop 100 the very first compilation he released on vinyl, included SY tracks on several of his cassettes before that, and constantly hyped them in his fanzine and column in the Rocket in Seattle.

In general it seems as if when the author couldn't talk to somebody he just didn't mention them in the book, except perhaps in passing, and then often out of sequence from when they actually interacted with or impacted the band.

I swear some of the timeframes are just wrong. It says they were playing Washing Machine songs on tour with R.E.M. and at Lollapalooza before the album was actually released, but I know I was playing it on my radio show regularly when I went to both those gigs in George, Washington that summer. May have just been the advance cassette that DGC sent KAOS, but the point is, college radio was already playing the songs.

Definitely the book is better and meatier than Confusion is Next was, but it is in no way comprehensive or spot on accurate.

reminds me a little of a surreal sherlock holmes or philip marlowe...

hire the mysterious dr freud, private detective of the unconscious, to follow you around in your dreams! he will hypnotize you and use his extraordinary powers of deduction to discover all the dirty little secrets even you didn't know about yourself! ...stop touching yourself that way.

"One day I had an experience which showed me in the crudest light what I had long suspected. It related to one of my most acquiescent patients, with whom hypnotism had enabled me to bring about the most marvellous results, and whom I was engaged in relieving of her suffering by tracing back her attacks of pain to their origins. As she woke up on one occasion, she threw her arms around my neck.

"The unexpected entrance of a servant relieved us from a painful discussion, but from that time onwards there was a tacit understanding between us that the hypnotic treatment should be discontinued. I was modest enough not to attribute the event to my own irresistible personal attraction, and I felt that I had now grasped the nature of the mysterious element that was at work behind hypnotism."


...needs to be repackaged and marketed as a pulp novel.

It's superb

more anais. gotta get my kicks somehow. :(

neuromancer and loving it

finished reading The Sandman: Fables & Reflections




Now I am finally getting to read a book I bought a couple of years ago but have not had the time to digest.

finished it and loved it, tonight or tomorrow i will star do androids dream of electric sleep.
i might also read guy debrod's society of the spectacle

The Mysteries of All Nations : Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales" - by James Grant (1880)




downloaded and printed it out from Project Gutenberg, a great website where you can find hundreds of thousands of books that are all public domain.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

this!

What is that one like? It's legendary, but I've never read it...yet.

Finished Less than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, moving onto Theo Fleury's autobiography, Playing with Fire.

Just discovered whatshouldireadnext.com for whatever's after...I have been craving something philosophical and meaty, but kinda hesitate at classic literature.