what are you reading now?
Murphy
cat malogen
The Singing Neanderthals - The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steve Mithen
Been sat at work mini-library for too long, skim reading the indexes wasnt enough
Even for hominids and our collective journeys, a transcendent bit of interpretation. Needs a new edition but would be intriguing to see what the more musically persuaded among you get from it. I especially enjoyed an evolutionary angle expanded so fully, how universal childhood mindsets are within our species, inspiration, bonding/incorporation/exclusion, trance states and the closest to mining what we understand by the contentious word ‘groove’
Meaty forehead Nietzsche quote about new souls surely singing/10
Been sat at work mini-library for too long, skim reading the indexes wasnt enough
Even for hominids and our collective journeys, a transcendent bit of interpretation. Needs a new edition but would be intriguing to see what the more musically persuaded among you get from it. I especially enjoyed an evolutionary angle expanded so fully, how universal childhood mindsets are within our species, inspiration, bonding/incorporation/exclusion, trance states and the closest to mining what we understand by the contentious word ‘groove’
Meaty forehead Nietzsche quote about new souls surely singing/10
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Mildly intoxicated, just finished Keynes General Theory after two months and ~70 pages of notes, and I plan on publishing my annotated version of the text in markdown on IPFS, for the millennial convenience of my future biographers.
dilbert1
Well-known member
Fed up with how many of these Marxist bookish types we have on the forums personally
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Indeed, what we need is more neoliberals.
version
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Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
In case its not clear that I'm kidding, and I expect it isn't: I am.
We need more post-neo-meta-keynesians
We need more post-neo-meta-keynesians
version
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How was the Peter Sellers one?
william_kent
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I'm curious about the one about Lawrence from Felt - is it as good as the glowing reviews suggest?
Benny Bunter
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jenks
thread death
The Sellars book is remarkable- he’s not really interested in a straightforward birth to death biog - it ranges over time and space but also he soon realised there’s much to dislike as well as admire. It becomes vicious but justifiably so. I’d read the Burton/Taylor joint biog earlier this year so I knew what I was letting myself in for - it’s long, a bit too loquacious but also funny and a perceptive about the pursuit of fame and the cost of being talented.
jenks
thread death
It’s good because he manages to mix the comedy and tragedy well. It could’ve been a freak show on this weird guy who never made it and lives in a deluded world where he thinks fame is just rounded the corner. He comes across as self absorbed but also charming - Hodgkinson doesn’t shy away from some of the dreadful things Lawrence has done - especially in his relationships with ex girlfriends but also he doesn’t sentimentalise the drugs stuff. Also Pete Astor of The Loft comes out of it very well. There’s also that good film from Heavenly from a few years ago - Lawrence of Belgravia that’s worth a watch.
william_kent
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Lawrence lost me about Denim, but the first couple of Felt albums are exactly what he wanted, under rated lost classics on a par with the VU ( or how he perceived the VU when "Crumbling The antiseptic Beauty" came out )
but! DRUGS? I should have guessed but I always thought he was too narcissistic to indulge - why chop out lines on a mirror when it would obscure your reflection ( and the refracted image in a burnt spoon is just going to do ever weirder things to your face due to physics, etc ) - I suppose the same goes for girls, I just thought he was too in love with himself to manage relationships
I was going to buy it anyway, although maybe when the paperback came out, but I might order it NOW
jenks
thread death
I hope you like it. I must admit I found post Felt Lawrence less interesting. That perverse love of all that cheap 70s tat that those of us who lived through it didn’t want to repeat.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I was reading poems by Charles Tomlinson this morning and last night I was reading some old Brian Sewell evening standard columns in which he very entertainingly and quite persuasively savages Lucien Freud, Howard Hodgkin etc. (let alone Damien Hurst et al.).
My ongoing and lately often delayed project is Fellowship of the Ring.
My ongoing and lately often delayed project is Fellowship of the Ring.
Which Sewell volume is that, Jack?
version
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A film of his called Hoffman got reissued recently. Apparently Sellers tried to have it destroyed because there was something in his performance that unsettled him.
jenks
thread death
Yep Lewis talks about it a lot - a film that seems to have been too close to the truth. A good overview here: https://wearecult.rocks/reality-betrays-us-all-hoffman-1970