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Punky Brewster's a great comparison for this disc...not sound-wise, but you can palpably hear the fun he's having putting the album together.

Just a lot of post-punk, tropicalia and Black Metal I guess...important elements of any musical diet. You'd probably really like the Ellington disc...he's playing with Mingus and Roach and there's just this slight abrasive, percussive edge to his playing on the disc that's slightly out of...

Tried to rip a bunch of dub onto my iPod before the summer began but, not currently having quality headphones, it was no use at all. Unless you really like hissing...

I liked most of "Alien" and don't mind "The New Black" but, to these ears, it sounds kind of rushed...more SYL by numbers than anything else (obligatory really fast song where D swears and yells along, giant bombastic number, really fast, bombastic, repeat). His "Ziltoid The Omniscient" is...

What a great disc, sad that Townsend and company won't be playing out live anytime soon...some of the most fun I've had at Metal Shows in ages (although Celtic Frost came close).

Anaal Nathrakh "Escathon" Blight "Detroit: The Dream is Dead" Bone Awl "By Ropes Through Dirt" Cheb Khaled "Hada Raykoum" Gal Costa "India" Crippled Black Phoenix "A Love of Shared Disasters" Dead Reptile Shrine "A Journey Through The Darkest..." Delfonics "Delfonics" Lizzy mercier Descloux...

God, where do you even begin with jazz? Love, love Coltrane's two Village Vanguard sets (despite being drastically different), and the final "Olantunji" concert is still one of the most powerful statements of purpose I've ever heard. Too much to choose from, but Blakey's sets at the Cafe...

Which is of course no match for Luke Luck and his licking of lakes (not to mention his duck). I can get a pretty good rhythm going most of the time but that section throws off my mojo without fail.

Not quite as epochal as some of the recordings listed above, but I just picked up a Johnnie Taylor live set from 1972 ("Live at the Summit Club") that is absolutely scorching. The band falls apart a bit at the beginning, but really pull together once Taylor (who's in top form throughout)...

Very cool...you also have to love any compilation that includes "Tanz Debil" and "People Are People" on the same disc.

That's what always bothers me about the Rap = bad articles. While they seem to go out of their way to mention that, y'know, not every rapper does this, they do fail to mention that everybody's receiving exactly the same message of materialism from pop music, movies, television...hell, almost...

I have been absolutely LOVING "Ascetics" and "Racket" recently. Such great and extremely listenable discs...while I appreciate what Peter Sotos' intent may have been, it seems that cutting loose from his obsessions (and no longer including 14 minute sound collages of tearful rape victims and...

I'll go for Austerlitz as well, as it seems extremely interesting. Sorry for the lack of PM, but due to crazy personal things this is the first time I've been on a computer all week.

In the case of contemporary novels, I'd echo a Delilo suggestion (as I've been meaning to read something by him for aeons) along with some other suggestions I've been meaning to check out: Uzodinma Iweala "Beasts Of No Nation" Andrzej Stasiuk "White Raven" Roberto Bolano "The Savage Detectives"...

Well, Henry James is out then :)

Henry James is someone I've been meaning to give a good read (particularly after Greene's gushing praise). Just picked up a copy of "The Ambassadors" the other day that I'm itching to crack open...

I'm in as well! Don't have much time today to contribute to this discussion, but would love to be a part of it.

Well, it's Dissensus so wouldn't we have to poo-poo Kerouac while praising John Clellon Holmes as an undervalued master :p? Great idea to raise some kind of discussion, though. I'm always amazed by the lack of proper book-related message boards on the internet. I remember that the book...

Ah, I'm looking at it from a Canadian perspective. If that's the case, I rescind said snarky comment.

Pretty tough to have much sympathy for that though. Hey, mind if I fill this humid closet with cloying smoke first thing in the morning and then take off? Cheers!