It gets better. I read the last 600 or so pages in a single weekend because I couldn't bring myself to put it down for more than like 3 hours at a time. Who would have thought that extended discussions of Russian wheat farming could be so utterly enthralling?
I don't know if I've ever heard an album with a bigger drop-off in quality between the first and second halves than the new Wu-Tang Clan. The first 7-8 tracks are brilliant and probably about as close as we're ever going to come to hearing 36 Chambers-level shit again. Then all of a sudden there's this totally embarassing RZA solo cut and the whole thing just completely falls apart.
Has anyone here had any contact with Anthony Powell? I think I want to read A Dance to the Music of Time but I'm not sure I want to invest my money/time in another multi-volume novel that I might only sorta enjoy (shout out to Marcel Proust).
(Mostly) finalized top 5
1. M.I.A - KALA
2. Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
3. The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
4. Jay-Z - American Gangster
5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
I stopped reading at this point. "Well, we don't actually know any real, concrete facts about this case right now, but I'm not going to let that get in the way my prefab narrative!" Ughh.
I'm gonna have to side with snuffbox and Czech on this one. Sean Taylor (a known thug) probably got himself into some bad shit with the wrong people and brought this on himse