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I'm listening to nowt at present: anyone have any suggestions?

I love the Catcher in the Rye, but I also read it in high school. I'm not sure it would have the same effect on me today.

Is it over-rated? Surely.

Is it a wonderful read? Yes.

J.D. Salinger's other work is all so much more phenominal than Catcher, yet everyone only seems to know of Catcher.

Salinger is just an amazing writer and would surely be amongst the top America writers in history had he more output. His name is always seemingly forgotten in these discussion.

"Salinger? Yeah, he wrote Catcher in the Rye, and it's a lasting addition to American literature."

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I've always suspected that Caulfield grew up to become a serial killer: he just seems the type from that book.

Almost finished Smoke and Mirrors: two more stories and it shall be dead.

There's a few pics of me wearing my brown mac on these boards.  I've had it since high school and it fits a bit tight now.  I was wearing it when I bought my first issue of Hellblazer so I didn't purchase it in some attempt to emulate J.C.

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I bought mine because I thought it might be raining when I was wearing a suit. I've not been in a job that's required me to wear a whistle rather than a rainproof coat as yet, so it seems to have been a waste of time.

That'd be pocket billiards. 

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You keep dwarves in your pockets to masturbate you?

Motorhead's duet with Girlschool at this very second...

That's a "yes", then?

Is that the sort with the Silver Bullet Band who does an even worse Springsteen impression than John Cougar Mellencamp?

I found Grodd once. Does that count?

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Only if you're dyslexic.

John : Fucking Shadow Dog

Lucifer : Fucking Fenris

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:lol:

 

Maybe Mike just doesn't like dogs all that much, eh?

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All these writers prefer cats to dogs for some reason. I've never been able to understand it.

The only two exceptions that spring to mind are Jack London and Olaf Stapledon, and it isn't like the dog comes out of Sirius very well, is it?

Yes. I never wear it though.

the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs's song and as Sethos said...

the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song, "Gold Lion" is pretty damn awesome.

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You mean it doesn't sound like Wayne County on helium?

Pandemonium by Killing Joke.

Possibly.

I need to get out more, no doubt.

Diana and I have been screwing around with 3 ISPs. 

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Sounds kind of kinky....

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I think he means they've been experimenting to find out which ISP they wish to use, rather than being gang-banged by everybody who works for each of the three ISPs in turn.

(At least, I hope that's what he means.)

Oh, now, come, folks. We've all got Native American blood, don't we? Or, we have Native American friends. And they think the Redskins logo is a fitting tribute to our noble ancestors. :rollseyes:

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The whole "native american" business is horribly patronising, really: they were natives centuries before America was ever thought up.

It's an absolute swine that you can get Learning To Flinch on CD but not Stand In The Fire, really. What the hell are they thinking?

The Doktor has his own flightcase and everything...

 

Did you roadie for the Mission as well, Hellboy? I'm told most of the Sisters' roadcrew defected during the five years between tours.

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No..i just did a couple of gigs for the Sisters. Sheffield and somewhere else i cant remember although i knew Craig and Wayne from the Mission when they lived in Leeds. I got the Sisters gigs because their chief roadie at the time was a kid called Jes who i shared a house with.....Eldritch is one of the biggest wankers i have ever met though.

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I see.

he has that reputation, it seems...

Damn, Mark, some of those I have never heard and would really, really like to.

 

Really.

 

Where do I get these? What albums?

 

Rev. Robert Wilkins <No Way To Get Along/Prodigal Son> Rolling Stones

 

Ma Rainey <See See Rider> Bruce Springsteen

 

Big Joe Williams <Baby, Please Don't Go> AC/DC

 

Son House <Death Letter> Cassandra Wilson

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There's a great version of Hellhound On My Trail by Cassandra Wilson as well.

The version of Walkin' Blues on the Hindu Love Gods album is incredible, but that one's been deleted so you'll have to download that one. Most of the rest of the album isn't a lot worse. (Zevon also does a fine version of Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger on "Stand In The Fire".)

Also, re the Stones, can I mention the Pretty Things and Them? The Pretty Things are best known for their psychedellic stuff now, but the first couple of albums are mostly blues covers, and sound like a louder, rowdier version of Them.

Oh, and there's John Martyn's version of I'd Rather Be The Devil: trust me on this, you need that one.

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Did you roadie for the Mission as well, Hellboy? I'm told most of the Sisters' roadcrew defected during the five years between tours.

Opinion on Marilyn Manson is divided amongst Goths in the UK.

 

Some like him , some don't.

 

The thing everyone over about 21 agrees on though is that he is not goth. Manson is just shock rock, which is not necesarily a bad thing.

 

As for David Bowie, his work has been highly infuential on proto-goth and goth music. Without Bowie I think there would have been no Bauhaus, or at least a completely different one.

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Shock rock isn't a bad thing when done by Alice Cooper, but Manson is hardly in that league, is he?

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I didn't claim he was. He is in the same genre in many ways though.

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In much the same way as Limp Bizkit are in the same genre as Motorhead, I'd have said (but then I can't suffer his stuff...)

Fair point about Bowie though: it's a pity more of the buggers didn't take inspiration from John Cale or somebody instead.

So DC doesn't even trust him with it's mainstream intellectual property anymore?

Opinion on Marilyn Manson is divided amongst Goths in the UK.

 

Some like him , some don't.

 

The thing everyone over about 21 agrees on though is that he is not goth. Manson is just shock rock, which is not necesarily a bad thing.

 

As for David Bowie, his work has been highly infuential on proto-goth and goth music. Without Bowie I think there would have been no Bauhaus, or at least a completely different one.

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Shock rock isn't a bad thing when done by Alice Cooper, but Manson is hardly in that league, is he?

Aren't the proper goths very disdainful of Maz Manson, seeing him as a dodgy novelty act who's no more goth than David Bowie?

Of course, after sobriety crept back in, I felt better of the entire experience, and immediately reprented my homophobic nature.... 

 

Whatever, "homophobic" is an overused term.

Only homophobes think so. 8-)

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Like the only people who seem to use the term "politically correct" are tabloid columnists, yes.

Oh, and it's the Cowboy Junkies' version of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, surely?