The Great Hullabaloo: BOOKS.

[Shit Dickface]

Is it true that some of the passages come off as sorta wonky? Chris Olson from CHUD told me about one line that was just cringe-inducingly awful.

[Ed Hocken]

Been reading Guiermo Del Toro's The Strain, I haven't read a good action book in years. (Matthew Reily can just fuck right off in my book)

Book is an extremely breezy read.

[Shit Dickface]

A bunch of Amy Hempel's short stories. Holy shit, she can write.

EDIT: Shoulda grabbed Tokyo Vice - keep me posted 'cause I'm gonna get it on my next library run.

[BillyG]

I started Tokyo Vice last night. I'm going to storm through it, I can already tell.

[Abraham Smashington]

Reading Boneshaker at the moment. Not that far into it, but digging it so far.

[Ed Hocken]

Funny, I'd always envision Joe Strummer and myself going out for tacos.

[Shit Dickface]

Excerpt from the Diary of Patti Smith:
"That one musclebound dipshit crashing on the couch keeps trying to fuck me. Trying to decide whether to give in or have Lou Reed stab him to death with used needles while he's asleep."

[Nathan]

Yeah, Jake would've been fine. I would've been kidnapped by Lou Reed and shat on.

[Ed Hocken]

Pretty clear that if Jake had lived in NYC at that time. He wouldn't have been mugged and then he and Rollins would tour together.

[Shit Dickface]

Please Kill Me is GREAT. Haha, I wanted to live in late 70s-80s NY after that.

[Ed Hocken]

Please Kill Me. Oral history of Punk Rock. Makes me never want to go to New York. And everyone was a complete asshole. Complete animals. Totally wasted all the time and fucking everything/one.

What a shock....

Coming up next Fordlandia by Greg Grandin. This book is about how Henry Ford bought a shit ton of land in the Amazon and tried to make his own utopia while securing rubber supplies.

Newsflash, it did not work.

[Shit Dickface]

Just finished Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein. True story of this guy whose from Missouri and ends up working for one of Japan's largest newspapers as a police reporter. Tons of crazy stories involving murder, robbery, Tokyo's sex districts and a very sad passage on human traffiking.

This would make for a good movie or mini-series.

NICE. I've been meaning to pick this one up. Fuck, I gotta go to the library and pick up a bunch of holds. ARRRGGHHH

[Nathan]

Please Kill Me. Oral history of Punk Rock. Makes me never want to go to New York. And everyone was a complete asshole. Complete animals. Totally wasted all the time and fucking everything/one.

[Ed Hocken]

Just finished Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein. True story of this guy whose from Missouri and ends up working for one of Japan's largest newspapers as a police reporter. Tons of crazy stories involving murder, robbery, Tokyo's sex districts and a very sad passage on human traffiking.

This would make for a good movie or mini-series.

[Ed Hocken]

Just finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie. Not gonna lie, got a bit misty eyed while reading it. *sniff*