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The Obscene Bird of Night is one of my favorite novels ever. Very playful, very dark, very fun. To me, it's one of those books that keeps bubbling up in your mind years after you've read it. I really like Cortazar's The Winners. It definitely has elements of the "feel" (whatever that means) of his l...

I've been going through Bakhtin's "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." I just finished Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake which I greatly enjoyed. It also seems to fit in nicely with Bakhtin's ideas on novelistic discourse. I'm taking a break before moving on to Gormenghast and am, instead, readi...

J.F. wrote:I purchased the Swans' "Cop/Young God - Greed/Holy Money"-double CD.

And after listening to it a bit, I wonder why.

Yeah, not really my favorite set by them.

Bert and Ernie go brutal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InZNBcJTmWs" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false; That's great, but in terms of seemingly incompatible music and video compositions, my reward has to go to the Cannibal Corpse/Tommy Se...

cleanzero wrote:F. Fellini - Giulietta degli spiriti

Certainly one of the craziest/greatest Fellini's for me.

btw: anyone heard the "Nah und Fern" box ? how is it ? it means some sounds and versions are different. are they better or worse ? How is it? Well it's Gas, it's fantastic. I never listened closely enough to the other releases (stolen as MP3s and subsequently lost) so I can't tell you how different...

I've been buying a lot of stuff (for me) lately. Of note: Sleep - Dopesmoker (2LP). It's actually kind of surprising how well this works on vinyl. I was a little wary of them breaking up a 60 minute song into, it turns out, three sides, but the breaks actually come at some pretty appropriate moments...

Jesse wrote:

How is this?

I'm not sure how I feel about Tarkovsky. I loved Stalker, was fairly bored with Solaris and fell asleep during Andrei Rublev (Though I would like to go back to it at some point).

I've never seen Beckett in a theatre but can only imagine that environment detracting from the experience of the work. That's strange. Most, if not all, of those "Beckett on Film" pieces made me want to run out to any production I could get to (which is none). I found them very difficult to watch a...

Now come on, I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet:



Gymkata!