Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What are you Zornlisters reading? David Keenan's "England's Hidden Reverse" (on Current 93, Coil and Nurse With Wound, among others) just arrived the other day and it's on my bedside table next to a pile of issues of Mike Carey's comic "Lucifer" (probably the best of the "Sandman" spinoffs, if not sometimes as good). (I see Keenan also has a book on My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" -- http://www.continuumbooks.com/series_details.cgi?sid=311&ssid=FCU862K3I86CU8 8HE7R01H -- anyone read anything from this series yet?) Anyone else have any recommendations? I'd rather read something else than catch up on the last two Harry Potter books... Later, Ben http://www.thewilyfilipino.com
I just finished "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino. Experimental, but very fun to read; not a common combination. It is also the only book written in second person, that I have read. Zach -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Benito Vergara Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:43 PM To: Zorn List Subject: summer reading list Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What are you Zornlisters reading?
I read Haruki Murakami's The windup bird chronicles. Great book, set in tokyo in the 80s, a man in search of his estranged wife and himself. Hes got some interesting jazz references in there. Some amazing historical WWII stories, delves into some mystical stuff. Great translation. Really worth the read. Now Im reading interviews with Jim Jarmusch and an autobio on akira kurosawa I also second, If upon a winter's night...
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Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What are you Zornlisters reading?
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Now Im reading interviews with Jim Jarmusch and an autobio on akira kurosawa
I just watched Down By Law last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I don't know why. The humor was mostly inexplicably funny; no one who watched it with me could figure out why it was so funny. There weren't any jokes per se, save the butchering of clichés. I did enjoy Lurie's score performed by the Lounge Lizards (Ribot and Lindsay were both present, though Ribot did not play guitar...) Is Roberto Benigni unable to play any one other than himself? It seems that every movie he is in he is the same character and he always falls in love or is in love with his real wife. Would it be fair to call him an actor? Zach
Hi,
I just watched Down By Law last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I don't know why.
I call that a clever, subtle sense of humor, which his films are full of. I wouldn't miss any of his output, but DBL is certainly one of his best works, together with Dead Man and Ghost Dog, imho.
Would it be fair to call him an actor?
Wouldn't you like to get paid for doing nothing? :-) Best, Efrén del Valle
Zach
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variety of opinions on Jarmusch films. I think Stranger than paradise is without a doubt his best film. The rest of his films are only... good.But that's only my opinion. About Benigni question: Yes, he's not an actor, and his presence on any film is quite disgusting. Regards. Ricardo. --- Zachary Steiner <zsteiner@butler.edu> escribió: >
Now Im reading interviews with Jim Jarmusch and an autobio on akira kurosawa
I just watched Down By Law last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I don't know why. The humor was mostly inexplicably funny; no one who watched it with me could figure out why it was so funny. There weren't any jokes per se, save the butchering of clichés. I did enjoy Lurie's score performed by the Lounge Lizards (Ribot and Lindsay were both present, though Ribot did not play guitar...)
Is Roberto Benigni unable to play any one other than himself? It seems that every movie he is in he is the same character and he always falls in love or is in love with his real wife. Would it be fair to call him an actor?
Zach
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Hey all... Have read all of Haruki Murakami's books that are available in English: absolutely fantastic! Love them all (except "Underground" - it's too tragic... interviews with victims of the Tokyo Underground Gas Attacks), but my fave is "Hard-Boiled Wonderland". I just started Ben Elton's "High Society" - very funny, entertaining, and what not. Recommended. patRice np: The Fall, Peel Sessions --- jason tors <jasontors@yahoo.com> wrote: > I read Haruki Murakami's The windup bird chronicles.
Great book, set in tokyo in the 80s, a man in search of his estranged
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on 7/29/03 10:43 AM, Benito Vergara at bvergara@sfsu.edu wrote:
Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What are you Zornlisters reading?
Howard Souns' DOWN THE HIGHWAY: THE LIFE & WORK OF BOB DYLAN (great) Bill Adler's TOUGHER THAN LEATHER: THE RISE OF RUN-DMC (quite alright) and just bought Arianna Huffington's PIGS AT THE TROUGH, which I'd been waiting for in paperback but couldn't wait any longer. sh NP: Charlie Parker, The Bendetti Recordings (courtesy of Mister Wisckol)
Aside from the endless one-chapter-at-a-time slog through _Matter and Memory_ (I think I'm having just *too* *much* *stress* for philosophy this summer, I keep finding magazines to read) I've dipped into a couple of excellent SF novels -- _Whole Wide World_ by Paul McAuley (near-future police procedural set in a post-rebellion, neo-puritan London) and Paul Cornell's _British Summertime_ (a cross-generic timetravel paradox thing with two interlocking sets of blasphemies (political/religious) which have managed to get it thoroughly unpublished in the US (buy the british edition on amazon.co.uk) that I hesitate to describe for fear of blowing the pleasure of reading it) -- and Patrick J. Geary's _The Myth of Nations_, which deconstructs european nationalist myths of origin by looking at the "ethnic" composition of the "barbarian" elites in the zone between Late Antiquity and Early Medieval (written for a general audience, not for historians ... the argument is one he wants regular folks to hear). I also really enjoyed _Over-Sensitivity_ and _Requiem_ whenever it was that I read them (somewhat before "summer") ... and I'll second the comments on The Believer as well. Oh, and last weekend the "Sex Issue" of Tin House gave me one of those moments you die for ... I was reading the house copy of it at a local cafe while my laundry was drying, & a somewhat tipsy middle-aged woman leaned over my shoulder & asked, "WHAT are you reading, sugar-plum?" What could I do but respond honestly, "An article about a convention for people who like to have sex dressed as stuffed animals"? -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com One cannot judge the value of an opinion simply by the amount of courage that is required in holding it. -- George Orwell np: Emmanuel Tuts-Schiemsky, _Rust voor de Stilte_ nr: Henri Bergson, _Matter and Memory_
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