geez macroint you can't tell me when you read about scalpings that you don't wince!!  that's so insensitive.

i just find it amusing what types of violence people find acceptable.

i just find it amusing what types of violence people find acceptable.

the soft scientist wrote on 04/18/07 at 11:00am:

please take it somewhere else.  this thread is for book discussion.

because your antagonistic statement was in reference to things he stated in a totally seperate thread, that had nothing to do with books.

hxplsn wrote on 04/19/07 at 9:56am:


I think you're wrong on that one...the scalping reference was towards the book I said I was reading on stories of the Hopi Indians.

A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals

It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have always been reduced to a list of producer and sample credits, a publicity photo or two, and some hastily composed shout-outs. That’s a damn shame, because few outside the game know about the true creative forces behind influential masterpieces like PE’s It Takes a Nation of Millions. . ., De La’s 3 Feet High and Rising, and Wu-Tang’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). A longtime scribe for the hip-hop nation, Brian Coleman fills this void, and delivers a thrilling, knockout oral history of the albums that define this dynamic and iconoclastic art form.

The format: One chapter, one artist, one album, blow-by-blow and track-by-track, delivered straight from the original sources. Performers, producers, DJs, and b-boys–including Big Daddy Kane, Muggs and B-Real, Biz Markie, RZA, Ice-T, and Wyclef–step to the mic to talk about the influences, environment, equipment, samples, beats, beefs, and surprises that went into making each classic record. Studio craft and street smarts, sonic inspiration and skate ramps, triumph, tragedy, and take-out food–all played their part in creating these essential albums of the hip-hop canon.

Insightful, raucous, and addictive, Check the Technique transports you back to hip-hop’s golden age with the greatest artists of the ’80s and ’90s. This is the book that belongs on the stacks next to your wax.

Re-reading the "Preacher" graphic novels by Garth Ennis.

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/preacher.jpg

Man, those were good.

erewhon wrote on 07/11/07 at 4:47pm:


Sweet! I'd keep it and buy them a replacement copy...I'm on a mailing list for Gil Scott-Heron (just received a message for the first time in over 2 years) and there's a rumbling that he might have gotten his shit together and go back on the road. I would most definitely go see him even though I wouldn't be able to tape.

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

It's a drug-addled two-for-one!

Aside from Goldblum, there's some other B-movie actor I'm thinking of.  I'm not sure who, though.

b-fins wrote on 07/12/07 at 5:34pm:


Harry Hamlin?

Really? I just signed up 7-10 days ago, invited by someone else here who shall rename mainless. No complaints so far. Hope nothing weird happens.

onetet wrote on 07/19/07 at 3:27pm:


I have received a lot of invites to the site, but what I found really weird is that I will see this invites on list-servs (after getting one from the same people).  Which makes me think they spam everyone in your address book.  But maybe I'm wrong...maybe shelfari is super awesome and people genuinely want everyone they know to sign up.

Now re-reading Confederacy of Dunces for writerly inspiration.

How many of ya'll have shelfari accounts?
www.shelfari.com/onetet

onetet wrote on 07/19/07 at 12:59pm:


I fucking hated that book. Forced myself to finish it.

I prefer http://www.librarything.com

Currently reading "Bridge" by Iain Banks. I didn't know he wrote non-science fiction. Too bad I know the premise of the book already from reading about it on Wikipedia. Would have been fun to piece it together. Still a good book.

I think Shelfari has a lot of potential but I got bummed out really
fast coz no one on my list writes reviews of what they have, so
it's like... oh you own that book... but I own lots of books that
stink... did you throw it up there just coz you own it or coz you
like it? Until more people write reviews of their books, then it's
kinda useless to me.

camouflage wrote on 07/30/07 at 5:27pm:


I agree, more reviews would be helpful, and maybe over time we'll all get around to providing that.

But in the meantime, I still think it has other uses. I'm not trying to create shelves of every book I own, but rather of the books that I love (in fact, I own very few books thanks to the Pratt). That way, every book on my site is one that I enjoyed and would enjoy talking about. Meanwhile, you can create a top 10 list, so you can learn a lot about people's taste by looking at those. And it shows you people who you have a lot in common with, so hypothetically if you find someone that you have a lot of matches with, the books that person likes that you haven't read may very well be of interest to you.