Giuseppe Zangara

Another downside of frats is you meet people like UseTheSledgehammerUh.

Save for that brutally long exegesis on the various types of whale that weighs down the middle, Moby-Dick is good. Along those lines, the only flaw in Don Quixote is too many pages-long speeches on propriety and valor and such. Which is a minor quibble, really, as it don't take up much space in that wonderful novel's near-1,000 pages.

There's no set rule for what constitutes a short story/novella/novel, and generally, a novella will be marketed as a novel by its publishers, since the idea of a "novel" sells better. If you want something to bide by, there's this: A reasonable estimation. The other Hemingway I've read was The Old Man and the Sea, which I consumed when I was 14. I hated it, but, again, I was 14. Also, I acquired A Moveable Feast at the same time I did The Sun Also Rises, so I will get to that one soon.

Ernest Hemingway: hot or not? I read The Sun Also Rises recently, marking the first time I'd read one of his works since my freshman year of high school. I liked TSAR okay, but wasn't particularly moved by it.

Well, yeah.

Enter the 36 Chambers, 3 Feet High and Rising, Aquemini and Stankonia are the only rap albums to feature skits that manage to hold up under repeated listens. As for the topic at hand, Sonic Youth's "The Diamond Sea" could've benefited from about 10-12 minutes less feedback.

I cringe now when I read one of those "this thread would've been better if no one posted in it" posts.

You're 16, right? If so, yes, Angel Dust.

Some months back, feeling nostalgiac, I downloaded Angel Dust. It was so much better when I was 16 :/

Also telling is his disinterest in black rappers.

Even at his most cheerfully guileless, Jingus's posts depress me.

I imagine him saying something like "let me lick your balls" in the voice he used in Life with Louie and I laugh.

This evening was one of good, strong beer and mediocre weed. That said, people who always talk about drug use are as bad as women and those who keep the "The thread that never ends" thread an ongoing concern.

Women are the worst. And so is anyone keeping that fucking "The thread that never ends" thread alive.

"FTPOACOT" is excessive tweeness made reality. It's a fucking Mentos commercial.

I'm stoked for this movie, though the book wasn't one of McCarthy's better ones.

This is one of my beloved childhood treasures that I have no interest in revisiting in my adulthood; let me have my memories. (FYI: Ed Wood is the only Tim Burton movie I much like these days, so I know Beetlejuice won't hold up.)

Look, I said I could see why people like it.

So I gave up on finishing Under the Volcano. Overwritten melodrama disguised as Serious Literature. There's a few hours where, after I decide to give up on a book (this one only being the third I could not bring myself to finish within the last year), I feel bad, as if I let the book defeat me. This passes, though. My reading time is too precious to waste on crap. Which isn't say I quit all books I dislike. Not at all. I can loathe a book with every ounce of my being, but, if it's an easy, quick read, I'll stick with it to the end. Under the Volcano, Saul Bellow's Herzog and Celine's Journey to the End of the Night (these being the aforementioned three books) were utter fucking chores to get through. And hey, at least I can see why people would like that Bellow and that Celine; I'm at loss as to how Lowry's work remains a classic. The 100 pages I read were little more than cheap trash.

I'm gonna go with either "The Blues Are Still Blue" or "Dress Up in You."

I don't feel so strongly about "Another Sunny Day" now, though I still like it quite a bit. Also, I hate "For the Price of a Cup of Tea"; "Funny Little Frog" is fine by me.

Going for ones not already mentioned: the Boredoms, circa 1990-1995; fusion period Miles Davis; the Wedding Present, circa Seamonsters; XTC, back when they still played live (so, pre-1982); Stevie Wonder, circa 1971-1976; late-60s Rolling Stones...there's more, I'm sure.

Corey, you should read An American Dream, by Norman Mailer. Ellis took a lot of cues from Mailer.

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I couldn't finish Journey to the End of the Night. There's a lot of really nice writing, and, yes, some of it was very funny, but the whole affair was just too excruciatingly bleak. The narrator would've been better off comitting suicide.