Blog of a Bookslut pointed me towards World Hum's fifth anniversary top travel books list, which fulfills both functions nicely. I'm unfamiliar with at least half of the books on this list and I'll be looking for many of them. Others are just plain wrong.
Paul Theroux's Great Railway Bazaar at number 3? Theroux may be a great writer, but he…
Via Grow A Brain.
But it's not "a straight-up Sonic Youth field on fire, with a compact potency of rock n roll enlightenment."
That's just silly-talk.
Every time I see some young rock critic dude bashing on the Replacements as ancient and irrelevant history, as being the perfect band for old white American rock critics, it gets me all defensive—being the forever young white dude rock critic that I am. The release of Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (a Mat–ian title if there ever was), the new Mats best–of seems to have brought all the Mats morons out of the woodwork yet again.
In short, for me, in my opinion (attn: legal dept.), the Replacements…
Hayden B. Peake reviews a biography that just might make Hall's name better known.
William Shakespeare
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
"Would I leave without saying 'good-bye,' E?"
"Well, I wouldn't normally think so, but you were just so quiet. I thought you'd snuck out. What's going on?"
"I just finished my Sonic Youth review. It took me all day."
"I heard the music playing earlier."
"I've been listening to it for five days straight."
"You know you don't have to like something just because you liked it in the past. It's okay not to like it."
"Oh, I know. But this is really good." I nodded my head for…