My first bit of promotion: I wrote one about Flaming Lips' Zaireeka & it's supposed to come out next month. Don't settle for the bootleg version.
http://www.amazon.com/Flaming-Lips-Zaireeka-Mark-Richardson/dp/0826429017
― Mark, Friday, 23 October 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Not to toot my own horn or anything but:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/mermandiscobook.jpg
― HOOS Ass Is It Anyway? (latebloomer), Friday, 23 October 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
they finally caved in :)
― HOOS Ass Is It Anyway? (latebloomer), Friday, 23 October 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
is that real?!
― piscesx, Friday, 23 October 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Should've seen this coming, but currently on Amazon's Zaireeka page:
"Amazon.com Sales Rank: #300,206 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
Popular in this category: (What's this?)#13 in Books > History > Africa > Democratic Republic of Congo"
― BleepBot, Monday, 26 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
#13! Thank god for specialty charts, hey?
― I've got some funny ideas about what sounds good (staggerlee), Monday, 26 October 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
adam, libraries are legal and free!
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone read the Nick Drake one?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 11:39 (2 weeks ago)
I have a page in it, proudly. Also, I think Amanda did a gret job w/it.
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry Amazon is being slow.
The Strand Bookstore in NYC has the Eno book in stock: http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/profile/?isbn=0826427863
Atomic Books also has my book in stock: http://www.atomicbooks.com/index.php/music-we-like-mostly/outsider-experimental/33-volume-67-brian-eno-green-world.html
Powells should be coming through this week. And hopefully the Amazon situation will get sorted out pronto as well.
And please, don't get the book on torrent! The book only costs around 8 dollars, I lost a lot of money writing it, and I'm a music journalist, so you probably have some idea of my shaky finances!
― geeta, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
dang it, i just ordered it from Amazon UK and they estimate a Feb. 2, 2010 dispatch date. so i guess i'll be reading it next year then. ;-)
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i asked about it when i was at borders and it looked like it had a november release date, weird. i'll get it from amazon or powell's when it's up there.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
A magazine paid me actual $ to publish my rejected 33 1/3 proposal. And it's available for free on my blog. No torrents necessary!
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Link please.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
And congrats! That's awesome!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Email me. I send link.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Sent you an email via ILX.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ask and ye shall receive.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
also sent.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
a short film about Kevin and John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66CI3vS-7c
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
a search for album title and your name also works. never heard of the band or read any lovecraft but your description of the music makes me want to find out more. apart from that, i thought that's a terrific proposal and if i were etc... let's say i hope that one day you'll be able to write the book.
― willem, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks Willem! I felt very passionate about it til I got rejected. Then I thought about ten new projects :)
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, you snooze you lose.
xp
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost I didn't know the album title, though.
???
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Just a joke because John wrote to me right after you.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
@Geeta (& New Yorkers): GOT IT! thanks for The Strand tip (how appropriate name-wise). it's stacked on a table near (beside/behind) the music section, not on shelves. already enjoying from the Q-ride home - more feedback soon!
― Paul, Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome, Paul! I stopped by St. Mark's Bookshop and they had some copies of my Eno book too, in the music section.
― geeta, Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
just chiming in way late to the party to say that john d's 'master of reality' is fucken awesome
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The Green World book's not out till January in the UK. Sadface.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like Amazon finally has it available for reals, for reals.
― We call them "meat hemorrhoids" (Alex in SF), Friday, 30 October 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's about time! As of this morning, Amazon.com officially has the Eno book in stock, with no shipping delays. That certainly took them long enough.
― geeta, Friday, 30 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, finally my pre-order is in progress.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 October 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome. Hope you like it.
Nick -- Amazon UK finally has the Eno 33 1/3 book in stock, as of today. So no waiting til January!
― geeta, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Geeta, are you going to do any readings and presentations at book stores for it?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd love to do some readings at bookstores, but right now I don't have anything on the agenda. If you have any ideas for venues, let me know!
― geeta, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm most of the way through the neutral milk hotel one after seeing all the love for it here. the interviews are interesting, but the writing is, uh, kind of terrible? :/
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
bought on the Amazon Kindle store, read a page or less. oops
― ksh, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i just got whiney's nation of millions of book in the mail this afternoon and i'm about 100 pages in--more impressive considering how much time ive spent going to my ipod to relisten to PE and other golden era rap. the whole things been great but so far the wattstax chapter has been particularly exceptional, i just reserved the dvd at the library here.
after i finish i'll try to post something more concrete, but right now i just wanted to lavish some praise
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Saturday, 22 May 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I've read several of these books and on the whole I've been disappointed. One or two (e.g. Bowie's Low) I've just had to stop reading, as they were such dull re-treads of oft-written ideas. But then I keep getting sucked into trying another (they're so short and inexpensive!). I enjoyed Darnielle's Master of Reality.
Anyway, I have Drew Daniel's volume on 20 Jazz Funk Greats and might give it a go -- I somehow doubt Drew will disappoint.
― Duke, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I suppose it's also my fault for buying a book about a much-written-about album such as Low.
― Duke, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
These books used to be about albums from the canon (Dusty In Memphis, Pet Sounds, Low) but now it seems they're going wilfully *anti* canon (The Dreaming rather than The Hounds Of Love, Boys for Pele as opposed to Little Earthquakes, Aquemini as opposed to The Love Below/ Speakerboxxx etc). Not that i'm complaining!
― piscesx, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked the one about Low.
― iago g., Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Aquemini is way more hip-hop canon than Speakerboxxx.
― Mexico, camp, horns, Zappa, Mr. Bungle (Matos W.K.), Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
who's writing the aquemini one
Michael Schmelling
― The Reverend, Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
there are definitely disappointing/subpar books in the series but generally i feel like they're mostly worth what little money and time they cost you and are usually at least fun if not great. how I would rank the ones I've read:
Led Zeppelin IV by Erik DavisAja by Don BreithauptUse Your Illusion I and II by Eric WeisbardThe Who Sell Out by John DouganIt Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Christopher R. WeingartenElectric Ladyland by John PerrySign O' The Times by Michaelangelo MatosArmed Forces by Franklin BrunoLet's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste by Carl WilsonExile On Main Street by Bill JanovitzDouble Nickels On The Dime by Michael T. FournierIn Utero by Gillian G. GaarIllmatic by Matthew GasteierLet It Be by Colin Meloy
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda want to read the colin meloy one out of the most morbid of curiosities
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not completely terrible and is at times engaging, but it's about as indulgent and autobiographical as you'd expect from a famous person who's not a professional writer
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link