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Slava wrote:

Kilroy wrote:

Slava wrote:I borrowed For whom the bell tolls by Hemingway from the library to read on the train commute and its utterly overrated. if I have to read a chapter about some Spanish matador's ballsack again, I'm going to throw this into the North Sea and pay my fines to the library.

I would probably suggest avoiding the Beat Poets then...

I actually love Kerouac. His narration doesn't feel forced.

Yeah, Kerouac is the most popular for a reason... He's probably the most accessible... He keeps things more neutral.

Ginsberg and Burroughs are better writers, but I can't read much of their work. The subject matter, is... Unrelatable.

I just figured the homo-erotic overtones of the Beats might trigger the same matador's ballsack reaction...

If you like Kerouac, do you like Bukowski? He's like if Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg had a love-child and he dug chicks...

Kilroy wrote:

Slava wrote:

Kilroy wrote:
I would probably suggest avoiding the Beat Poets then...

I actually love Kerouac. His narration doesn't feel forced.

Yeah, Kerouac is the most popular for a reason... He's probably the most accessible... He keeps things more neutral.

Ginsberg and Burroughs are better writers, but I can't read much of their work. The subject matter, is... Unrelatable.

I just figured the homo-erotic overtones of the Beats might trigger the same matador's ballsack reaction...

If you like Kerouac, do you like Bukowski? He's like if Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg had a love-child and he dug chicks...

I haven't read much Bukowski but that's on my reading list and I also like Ginsberg. The problem wasn't the homoerotic overtones, there are barely any in For whom the bell tolls, it's a love story set around the Spanish revolution, but the utter pointlessness of a narrational tangent. I did not expect it to be so tiresome when Hemingway is considered to be the example of keeping prose simple.

Danny Darko wrote:

hermes wrote:

Danny Darko wrote:damnit man, I just found out NBC has been paying some other guy with the same name for my songs.
Here comes a bunch of headache emails...

is that guy also a musician? otherwise that would be weird nbc just sending a random person money and they have no idea why

Yeah he is. I was lucky he tracked me down and emailed me.

well that was nice of him

i've been reading some books by tom brokaw about the greatest generation, pretty interesting stuff. i like history and the great depression/wwii was a fascinating time period

Current reading the first of Philip Pullman's trilogy.

2 months in, still page 36.

hermes wrote:i've been reading some books by tom brokaw about the greatest generation, pretty interesting stuff. i like history and the great depression/wwii was a fascinating time period

Grapes of wrath is one of my favourite books and probably the greatest written about the depression period.

Note to self: No Espresso after 5 PM.

Slava wrote:Note to self: No Espresso after 5 PM.

Ooohhh... Bad choice, man. You'll be up til witching hours.

More proof there is no justice in the world: T.J. Simers just won an age discrimination lawsuit for $15 million.

Tonight's groove...

Man needs to get off the steroids before those veins burst.

That must be like a Rorschach test because I see a robot standing in front of an open book.

Now I see a robot reading a book while screwing a crab.

RIP Antonio Browns career

Biggest loser is Demariyus Thomas, who had to end up on the Jets to create a roster spot for that clown.

#AntonioClown

Damn! I just had to drop a rack on 2 preseason tickets in Shenzhen....2nd row.

I had nowhere else to express this but ****ING RAMS

They suck. You cant score that many points the past couple games and still lose.