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i've only read "libra" (about lee harvey oswald) - i should read more of his books.

yes i concur- this book (titled "divine invasions") is a really interesting read and other titles i remember enjoying: "dr bloodmoney" "flow my tears, the policeman said" "the divine invasion"

"the man in the high castle" is my favorite maybe i should describe it a bit: it's one of his early books- a very carefully written alternate history (germany/japan won ww2) that i find very haunting. the book is a bit different for dick (not as breathless, if that makes any sense) but just as...

there was K-Records / Beat Happening and TeenBeat / Unrest lo-fi pop scenes around the same time (or maybe a little after) as the uk fey pop thing. i was around back then- but too busy buying psych-rock/garage punk reissues and stooges/mc5 revivalist records to notice... :o

i wrote an article about merzbow around 1997- it's been online since around then. maybe i'm just being paranoid- i've noticed certain elements of that article pop up in other articles written about merzbow since then. most notably the edwin pouncey-penned feature in the wire a couple of years...

this example below is somewhere between "crap" and "genius" in my book- i made copies of a bunch of 70s rock reissue CDs for a friend and in scanning the covers noticed how unique some of these designs can be:

last couple of days i've been re-listening to my mid90s restless/mute cd reissues of "tago mago", "monster movie" and "ege bamyasi"- what a fine band. and these reissues sound great to me. i always assumed the hiss and grime was part of their sound- i can't imagine hearing them cleaned up. i...

i have an LFO Demon / Retrigger split 12" on Restroom which is pretty good- the politics are more implicit than explicit Restroom also released a 2LP comp called Widerstand.org- full of left-inspired noisy breakcore. i just got this record over the weekend- haven't had much of a chance to...

he plays drums on the second Harmonia LP (Deluxe) which is pretty fantastic- though the drumming is mostly very subdued Mani's best work in my opinion is on the first three Guru Guru albums- the first two (UFO, Hinten) have lots of electronics and noise effects while the third (Kanguru) has a...

i've always had a soft spot for "landed" and "Delay 1968"- which are at the bottom of your list so i'll just write about them a bit i love the raw sound of "Delay 68"- the way they plod through these velvet underground-inspired jams and try to find their own sound. it's a heavy record, and...

just started joseph conrad's "lord jim" been trying to read several books i should have read a long time ago (in school) but never did.

i have all the spoon / mute / restless reissues on CD and i can't imagine buying all these new reissues- even if they sound "better"- i just don't have the energy to re-buy them, let alone do some sort of listening test to see if they do indeed sound "better"

hm- not sure about this- does one really have to take sides? what about faulkner and twain? poe...? flannery o'connor? chicken fried steak...? millions of people voted for Bush in the (civilized) north too- if you look at county voting results you'll see that the south and west isn't just...

i use discogs as a quick reference- i know it's not perfect or complete, but they do have a lot of info in there also use wolf's kompakiste http://www.kompaktkiste.de/ cause he has lots of scans of covers and labels i use http://www.allmusic.com/ also all these resources are flawed- but...

i think i would agree- especially when spelled with a Z (Kozmigroov) marion brown and priester are on my wants list- i'm extremely cheap when it comes to buying records though- so i usually wait until i stumble upon these (vinyl only) titles before i pick them up

i love batoh's solo lp- i bought it when it came out because i was a ghost fan but overall, (especially nowadays) i think it's better than any ghost LP. more otherwordly as you say, and much starker and stranger than ghost anyway- my favorite ghost is "temple stone"- it was recorded in various...

i have an obsession with the 70s output of the norwegian ECM label- many people really hate the spacy reverbed sounds of these records but i can't get enough of them i've been able to find many of these titles at record conventions or used record stores for under $5 each spaced out jazz...