You are not a f*cking DJ. You’re an overpaid, untalented, cake-throwing c*nt.

Android 666

That is all…

old gregg

crikey, skimming through the Oxegen thread over on gigs and some guy tried to eat himself while on drugs :eek:

like, you'd have the old teeth grinding on cheap sweets caper but wtf drug prompts someone to look down at their own hands and get peckish?

ianuss

Baps Brunker setting the record straight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbwKfGR_d8

She's a complete and utter dikkhead.

Zascar

I really really tried, but I could not force myself to watch more than 15 seconds of that

ianuss

Ha, it's worth it alone just to see the two boys flirting away with each other at one stage.

ED E

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Scubadevils

Holidays soon, can't feckin wait - currently selecting some new albums to bring with me, a routine part of holidays at this stage. Same as for books - I have to admit to never reading 1984 or Animal Farm and wondered what the good folks of these parts recommend if I only go with one? I've selected this one too on a recommendation from a mate of mine - 'Life & Fate'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Fate-Vasily-Grossman/dp/0099506165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310675272&sr=8-1

Any other must have books for holidays?

BaZmO*

Scubadevils wrote: »

Any other must have books for holidays?

I wouldn't have put the two you've suggested in the holiday book category.

Animal Farm would be more allegorical in the sense that it's more a story and thereby probably the easier of the two to read, although it was a very very long time since I read it. 1984 is a bit more full on so maybe a bit tough for a holiday read.

If you haven't read it I'd suggest To Kill A Mocking Bird, amazing book. Or Perfume by Patrick Süskind.

ianuss

I can't read fiction, never could. I'm always thinking 'what's the point in reading this' when I try and read fiction. I keep thinking I'm being lied to or something. I tend to only read history, politics or current affairs. If you're looking for a good book on European history from 1500-1998 I'm your man though.


Unrelated to books, http://nobreastsnorequests.tumblr.com/

cranky bollix

Scubadevils wrote: »

Holidays soon, can't feckin wait - currently selecting some new albums to bring with me, a routine part of holidays at this stage. Same as for books - I have to admit to never reading 1984 or Animal Farm and wondered what the good folks of these parts recommend if I only go with one? I've selected this one too on a recommendation from a mate of mine - 'Life & Fate'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Fate-Vasily-Grossman/dp/0099506165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310675272&sr=8-1

Any other must have books for holidays?

animal farm is great, but its really short, you could probably read the whole thing in few hours

Scubadevils

BaZmO* wrote: »

I wouldn't have put the two you've suggested in the holiday book category.

Animal Farm would be more allegorical in the sense that it's more a story and thereby probably the easier of the two to read, although it was a very very long time since I read it. 1984 is a bit more more full on so maybe a bit tough for a holiday read.

If you haven't read it I'd suggest To Kill A Mocking Bird, amazing book. Or Perfume by Patrick Süskind.

Yeah I was thinking that my holiday selections could be somewhat challenging for what is supposed to be a time to relax, another lined up was 'The History of Western Philosophy' but second thoughts on bringing that one. Never read either of the last two, will check them out too, cheers.

ianuss wrote: »

I can't read fiction, never could. I'm always thinking 'what's the point in reading this' when I try and read fiction. I keep thinking I'm being lied to or something. I tend to only read history, politics or current affairs. If you're looking for a good book on European history from 1500-1998 I'm your man though.


Unrelated to books, http://nobreastsnorequests.tumblr.com/

Yeah I've been the same in recent years about fiction and very much stuck with history, philosophy etc but was thinking I might dip into some of the famous classics such as those by Orwell, I figured I must have missed something! I did read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' a couple of years ago actually and enjoyed that alright.

cranky bollix wrote: »

animal farm is great, but its really short, you could probably read the whole thing in few hours

Heard its short alright, might hold out for that till winter :cool:

ianuss

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013870/Robber-broke-hair-salon-beaten-black-belt-owner-kept-sex-slave-days--fed-Viagra.html

Scubadevils

Ha -

'What a bastard. Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left."

Android 666

Scubadevils wrote: »

Yeah I was thinking that my holiday selections could be somewhat challenging for what is supposed to be a time to relax, another lined up was 'The History of Western Philosophy' but second thoughts on bringing that one. Never read either of the last two, will check them out too, cheers.



Yeah I've been the same in recent years about fiction and very much stuck with history, philosophy etc but was thinking I might dip into some of the famous classics such as those by Orwell, I figured I must have missed something! I did read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' a couple of years ago actually and enjoyed that alright.



Heard its short alright, might hold out for that till winter :cool:

1984 is good and off the top of the head you could also check out:
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Betty Blue
Life of Pi
Time Traveller's Wife
Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Day of the Triffids
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
To Kill a Mockingbird
Also the Steig Larrson trilogy are handy enough to get into as well. Also Candide by Voltaire and Gulliver's Travels are a bit of a laugh if you want to read some classics.

Scubadevils

Android 666 wrote: »

1984 is good and off the top of the head you could also check out:
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Betty Blue
Life of Pi
Time Traveller's Wife
Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Day of the Triffids
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
To Kill a Mockingbird
Also the Steig Larrson trilogy are handy enough to get into as well. Also Candide by Voltaire and Gulliver's Travels are a bit of a laugh if you want to read some classics.

2nd shout for that so maybe its a must...

I'm really liking the sound of this 'Life & Fate' but suspect a deep read too, its about 900 pages long too.

At the centre of this epic novel, overshadowing the lives of its huge cast of Russian and German characters, looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies.

Completed in 1960 but confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society rejected the compromises of a lifetime and earned its author denunciation and disgrace. It remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

Scubadevils

More on 'Life & Fate' - I've convinced myself anyway on this one...

Fifty years ago this past October, Vasily Grossman submitted for publication the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century. The KGB immediately destroyed all copies of what Grossman called Life and Fate (Zhizn' i sud'ba in Russian) except for two hidden by his friends, and he died in 1964 without ever seeing his work published. For more than a quarter-century, the book was unavailable in Russia. Finally, in 1988, it was embraced by the cultural revolutionaries of glasnost as they slashed and burned their way through the official narrative of Soviet history, encrusted with 70 years of lies. In their search for a usable past, something not to be rejected in disgust, not to shudder over, but to cherish and be inspired by, they were awed by the brave and nearly lost attempts of their fathers and mothers to imagine a just and moral political order.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/11/the_russian_masterpiece_youve_never_heard_of?page=full

BaZmO*

Android 666 wrote: »

1984 is good and off the top of the head you could also check out:
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Betty Blue
Life of Pi
Time Traveller's Wife
Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Day of the Triffids
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
To Kill a Mockingbird
Also the Steig Larrson trilogy are handy enough to get into as well. Also Candide by Voltaire and Gulliver's Travels are a bit of a laugh if you want to read some classics.

Those two are on my to read for ages now, and I actually bought a copy of Life of Pi, just haven't gotten round to it yet.

Read The Wasp Factory years ago, thought it was quite good, if not a tad messed up.

Clockwork Orange is also very good, takes a bit to get into it due to the slang and lingo that Burgess uses, but it's a great read. It's also where the word Moloko comes from pop pickers.

Scubadevils wrote: »

2nd shout for that so maybe its a must..

It's definitely a must, holiday or no holiday. Fantastic book.

Another one that's a great read and very interesting to boot is The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (he's the guy that Robin Williams played in Awakenings.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered in 1986.

The book comprises 24 essays split into 4 sections which each deal with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits and excesses in the first two sections (with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere of the brain) while the third and fourth describe phenomenological manifestations with reference to spontaneous reminiscences, altered perceptions, and extraordinary qualities of mind found in retardates.

Because of the way it's broken down into different stories it would make an ideal read for holidays.

Is mise le key

Just out of interest, have you ever read,

The communist manifesto ?

or if you just want to stick with fiction,

The catcher in the rye ?

(cue the jokes 'are they not both works of fiction')

Android 666

BaZmO* wrote: »

Those two are on my to read for ages now, and I actually bought a copy of Life of Pi, just haven't gotten round to it yet.

Read The Wasp Factory years ago, thought it was quite good, if not a tad messed up.

Clockwork Orange is also very good, takes a bit to get into it due to the slang and lingo that Burgess uses, but it's a great read. It's also where the word Moloko comes from pop pickers.

Burgess actually used a lot of Russians words for the slang iirc, implying the notion that there was a communist takeover in the future.

The Wasp Factory is very much a wtf book in terms of the way it ends but I enjoyed it and it was a great debut.

Life of Pi is a great book but if I was choosing between that and Catch 22 as the next book to read it would be Catch 22, hands down. An absolute masterpiece. Definitely one of my favourite books ever.

Another great one I'm just remembering is The Diceman by Luke Rhinehart. A psychologist decides to live his life by basing all his decisions on the roll of the dice. I really enjoyed it when I read it.

Also Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe - a great, great book that begat a terrible, terrible movie. And if it's non fiction you prefer you should check out The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, his account of the Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the beginning of the Psychedelic Movement - really fascinating.

Some great books I read years ago about club culture (pre-millennium so a bit dated at this stage) are
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House by Matthew Collin
Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds.

If I think of anymore I'll let you know. But To Kill a Mockingbird is definitely a good one to pick up for the holliers.

EvolutionNights

Shantaram
Life of Pi
The Age of Kali
Down and out in Paris and London
Papillion
Currently reading Life by Keith Richards.

joker77

Would second the Dice Man as well - really enjoyed that one. Brave New World was stunning - when you think of when it was written - there's so much in it that was way ahead of it's time.

Ever read William Gibson? The 'Sprawl' trilogy is essential reading - Neuromance especially. A whole lot the terms we use for the internet are taken from that book - also way ahead of it's time.

In terms of classics - Papillon is great, as is The Count Of Monte Christo - if you like a bit of prison escaping!

Recent stuff - yea the Girl with the dragon tattoo would be good for holidays - you fly through them, but a decent read. The Book Thief I thought was very good.

Oh yea - Shantaram as well

francois

Ian Banks is great-though his SciFi culture novels written as ian m banks are excellent

Is mise le key

Yes, papillion is one of the best alright,

Papillion
http://www.4shared.com/document/cwumMSyj/CHARRIERE_HENRY_-_PAPILLON.html

And seeing as we venture into the drugs literature,

The doors of Perception
http://www.mediafire.com/?inltjjj3zm4

Passage from the book once he has come up on the mescaline,

"From the French window I walked out under a kind of pergola covered in part by a climbing rose tree, in part by laths, one inch wide with half an inch of space between them. The sun was shining & the laths made a zebra like pattern on the ground & across the seat & back of the garden chair, which was standing at this end of the pergola. That chair- shall I ever forget it? Where the shadows fell on the canvas upholstery, stripes of a deep but glowing indigo alternated with stripes of an incandescence so intensely bright that it was hard to believe that they could be made of anything but blue fire. For what seemed an immensely long time I gazed without even knowing, even without wishing to know, what it was that confronted me. At any other time I would have seen a chair with alternate light & shade. Today the percept had swallowed up the concept. I was so completely absorbed in looking, so thunderstruck by what I actually saw, that I could not be aware of anything else. Garden furniture, laths, sunlight, shadow – these were no more than names and notions, mere verbalizations, for utilitarian or scientific purposes, after the event. The event was this succession of azure furnace doors separated by gulfs of unfathomable gentian. It was inexpressively wonderful, wonderful to the point, almost, of being terrifying. And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad."

francois

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0714/breaking49.html?via=mr

ianuss

francois wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0714/breaking49.html?via=mr

Is that from the same case as the 40 yr old Limerick woman who died after shagging a dog?

francois

ianuss wrote: »

Is that from the same case as the 40 yr old Limerick woman who died after shagging a dog?

No another-what is in the Limerick water?

ianuss

francois wrote: »

No another-what is in the Limerick water?

Maybe they just have really sexy dogs.

Daroxtar

Childhoods End and An Béal Bocht. You could read them both in the space of a few hours but they're both great.

old gregg

EvolutionNights wrote: »

Currently reading Life by Keith Richards.

I just finished that yesterday. From the point at which the band form I found it a perfect sitting in the sun with a glass of red type of read. I'd read loads of Stones books back in the day and had met a few of the folks who crop up in the book so enjoyed it.

francois

ianuss wrote: »

Maybe they just have really sexy dogs.

I think you're barking