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"Killers and Stars is simply amazing, a stark, acoustic song cycle that peels back the nerves of the human condition with bristling intensity and wit." The Memphis Commercial Appeal gushes over Patterson Hood's solo album, Killers & Stars, giving it four stars. (registration requires, in cases like these, remember bugmenot.com)
My first post is up at A Million Love Songs, a short piece about "Sugar, Sugar" and why the song is significant for me.
"I love hearing people complain — especially when there’s nothing I can do about it. Back pain or the health system — great, I’m all for it. I want to hear people complain while I do little tasks for them." The Dallas Voice interviews David Sedaris, whose book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, is released Tuesday.
"'He's happy and I don't just mean happy in a not-suicidal way,' explained one member of Morrissey's entourage who wished to remain anonymous. 'He's like Little Morrissey Sunshine.'" Deadbrain dishes some Morrissey satire.
"While the rest of the DC stood rooted to the spot, Angus duck-walked his way around the stage like a depraved goblin Chuck Berry, dripping rivers of sweat as he methodically, ritually disrobed. We duck-walked with our air guitars around Alex's room, careful not to skip the needle." The Guardian publishes an excerpt from Seb Hunter's Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict.
Thanks to the people who recommended China Mieville's Perdido Street Station as the 24th book of the year in my 52 Books, 52 Weeks project.
Posted by david on May 29, 2004For future fun, if you want to go all sci-fi next year, maybe consider these next :D Cheers!
Books
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
Permutation City by Greg Egan
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Macroscope by Piers Anthony
The Divide by Robert Charles Wilson
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
For 'kids'
The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Older, more pulpy 'classics'
Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance
The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Kull by Robert E. Howard
Short story collections
Super Flat Times by Matthew Derby
Pastoralia by George Saunders
The Rediscovery Of Man by Cordwainer Smith
N-Space by Larry Niven
Otherness by David Brin
Comics
Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths by Darko Macan & Edvin Biukovic
Grendel Tales: Devil's Choices by Darko Macan & Edvin Biukovic
Top Ten by Alan Moore & Gene Ha
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Miracleman by Alan Moore & Garry Leach
The Incal by Alexandro Jodorowsky & Zoran Janjetov
The Metabarons by Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez
Web comics
http://e-sheep.com/
http://www.platinumgrit.com/ (not SF really, but Aussie! just cuz :)
You cannot leave out Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_ if you read any further sci-fi, IMHO.
Posted by: FmH on May 30, 2004 03:51 PMPerdido Street Station is a good book.
You are right!
Posted by: 小说 on July 20, 2004 08:54 PM