What's a noise dude reading?

Finley Wren - Philip Wylie (AGAIN, BUT ALWAYS WORTH IT)

astronomy for liberal arts dummies, explained in clear beautiful prose. if I didn't live in a city, I'd go buy a telescope.

this was close to being really good but in the end I just didn't believe half the shit the guy was saying (which was a drawback when he starts trying to make serious points about the Iraq war).

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3a/4d/015bd250fca0fb1f9e578010._AA240_.L.jpg

Apparently they made a movie of it starring:
Rutger Hauer
John Hurt
Craig T. Nelson
& Dennis Hopper

which I obviously have to rent now

The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
Suicide: No Compromise - David Nobakht

only i just realized a whole signature (ie 30 pages) is missing argh

a little pretentious, but sorta interesting nonetheless

Blues People --- never read it before for some crazy reason, but it's pretty immense

This leads to a famous Jewish riddle: how can twins born minutes apart have a Bar Mitzvah 28 days apart? Answer: The first child was born just before sunset on 30 Adar, the last day of Adar I, while his twin was born just after sunset on the first of Adar II. In a non-leap year the second twin will have his birthday on 1 Adar, and the first twin 29 days later on 1 Nisan (since there is no 30 Adar in a non leap year). Thus their Bar Mitzvahs, which are held on the Saturday after the boy's 13th birthday, will take place 28 days apart (or even 35 days apart if 1 Adar is a Friday; if the birthday is a Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah takes place a week later, so the older twin will have his Bar Mitzvah on 8 Nisan, 35 days after that of his younger brother on 2 Adar).

collected village voice reviews of various ny early 70's loft concerts. look at the table of contents. hard to even imagine what it must have been like.

http://homepage.mac.com/javiruiz/English/booksenglish.html#thevoiceofnewmusic

has anyone read this book and if so is the whole thing going to be just him pointing out how everyone who has written a pro-israel book has falsified old research data etc. about how bad and hated arabs are? i think it might be kind of a boring book but it is hard to find decent books about this topic, amirite

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for school
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i just read a couple of weird books about visualization and healing. yeahhh.

and at this moment i am reading "technoculture and critical theory: in the service of the machine?" yeahhh.

i bought 'em used! the four books came out to about $100 including standard shipping.

i just finished John Cage:an Anthology and I'm about to reread Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (my favoritest book) for like the millionth time.
I'm also reading some really boooring Eno-woship book called "his music and the vertical color of sound"

yeah! housing and land planning/policy and stuff. i'm about to start my master's at USC, which has one of the most solid urban policy schools in the country.

no, i have to do a project-based comprehensive exam -- i do a presentation and then try to defend it from the wrath of the faculty meanies. powerpoint ahoy!