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<![CDATA[Eric added 'A Year With Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno']]>
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to: A Year With Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno (Paperback)byBrian Eno
I picked this book up after the graphic designer, Stefan Sagmeister, mentioned it in a lecture he gave some years ago. Admittedly, I've had this book tucked in a desk cubby pulling it out every so often during my lunch break over the last what must be 4 or 5 years. After finally finishing it, I won't say "A Year" changed my life in the way it seemingly changed Sagmeister's, but Eno is a fascinating personality with many insights that I will go back to in the future. (His Turner Prize speech is one for the ages.) I've never found any writer's diaries very interesting, so I give Eno credit for holding my attention off and on over the last half decade it's taken me to read this. He's a thoughtful artist—more thoughtful than most—and I hope he someday collects his thoughts in a more refined and focused place.
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More Things Like This (Hardcover)
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<![CDATA[Eric added 'Eating the Dinosaur']]>
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to: Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)byChuck Klosterman
Whereas Wells Tower's collection of short stories was the work of fiction I wish I had written, "Eating the Dinosaur" is its cultural criticism counterpart. Simultaneously ambitious and accessible, insightful and funny—if only all criticism could be like this! Only Klosterman could mine such profundity from topics such as Weezer, Ralph Sampson, watching professional football, and ABBA. The last essay on the Unabomber and the internet is required reading for anyone concerned with the collision of culture and technology.
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Moby-Dick (or, The Whale)
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<![CDATA[Eric added 'The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present']]>
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to: The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present (Paperback)byScott Plagenhoef
Once I've listened to all the songs written about in this book, I'll be able to tell you if this survey is as myopic as the daily Pitchfork download and its "who is the bigger hipster" popularity contest. But on first read, I'm impressed with the range of music noted here, even if at times the selection seems willfully ignorant of touchstone singles because the bands were more popular when they released them. (Music critics are a notoriously cranky lot and always are trying to establish the obscure sophistication of their taste.) What's nice is that the writing does express unabashed love for the music it speaks of, and that emotion comes through even in the most cerebral of the entries.
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