one of the most wonderful video/song combinations ever. also, a future Apop release. However, I don't know what Miss 260 LBS is up to:
Integrity and forthrightness perks my ears.
APOP
The Swan, Nip/ Tuck, Dr. 90210, anything about plastic surgery. BRING BACK THE SWAN: MAKE MORE WOMEN CRY ABOUT THEIR NEW GIGANTIC BREASTS!!! you may think it's shallow, but these people are creating a more interesting world. what would you rather have: boring housewives with average busts; or, surreal, plastico-meltastic, haus-haures with bodies like frankenhooker? i thought so. oh, to stand at the foothills of greatness as grossness erodes whatever bland beigeness to become normal!Andy Griffith... can I be a Fun Girl? They never get their man! And please, let's not do the color episodes.L&O Sexxxy Victims Unit!
I wish greedy libraries would share their reference materials with me. If they allowed the borrowing, I wouldn't be so dreadfully tempted to steal. Not that I would, mind you. So, yes, reference and how-to tops my lists usually. I love all sorts of dictionaries, with the exception of the variety that seem so common in college dorm rooms. Shiny, thick paged, usually described in the title as "American" or "new". These deceptively large dictionaries have the least diversity and detail, and are, apparently, the only variety of word reference that Hasting's carries. AND that's _during_ "Back To School" season. Initially, these faux helpers dumbstruck me in their simplicity, but I always sober with the reassurance of our lowering standards. The idea is to add words as our world increases specialization and knowledge; not to level entire listings for mc
with McJob
(Actually, Merriam Websters Unabridged is probably okay... but not fantastic. I'd really like to have the 20 volume unabridged OED, and apparently it's on sale until 1/07, but 900 USD is still out of my budget.. as is the 300 dollar subscription to OED online, so, I resort to dictionary.com for a quick, dirty fix until I have access to my 2 volume Shorter OED.) I used to seem to like Irvine Welsh, but he's really not a multi-tricked pony. Anymore, I think Filth (Initially, the least 'digestible'of his books for me) is his best and only worthwhile read. However, Marabou Stork Nightmares is also pretty decent, even if it seems to be bred from uncannily similar perception-tweaked stock. Douglas Coupland. James Baldwin, especially The Fire Next Time. I like books about the history of cities.. right now, I have a continued interest in reading about New York in the 1800s. "The Machine in the Garden." David Foster Wallace. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Books on (history of) typography and printing. The All Music Guide to Electronica seems like an outdated idea, but I still cling to the idea that, maybe someday, someone will want to update it. There are so many entries that are rediculously incomplete and it seems to pay more homage to trends of its printing date: DJ culture and that shit. James Tiptree jr (Alice Sheldon). Asimov. Octavia Butler. Avi. Tripod trilogy. Norwegian Wood and Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami. Speaking of Japs: Oe, Tanizaki... I really do like Hesse's Steppenwolfe. It's easy for others to blow him off as sophomoric or, "so, public high school", but I've never let age exposure or accessibility come between me and my books. I still love Hatchet and My Side of the Mountain, for crying out loud. I wouldn't toss out Ibsen or Poe simply because I read them the most when I was in grade school. On the other hand, some things do get outgrown. I never liked Stephen King after the summer before 5th grade. OK, I have a soft spot for the Bachman Books.
Magazines:
Cabinet*Wax Poetics*ei*Illustration*Ptolemaic Terrascope