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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on May 21, 2008, 08:53:17 PM
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I usually piss it away on magazines when I get bored, but I don't want to this time. I'm not a big reader, and anything that is too deep gets way over my head quickly. So here are some options:
1) use it to get some subscriptions to magazines, but what?
2) buy some music books [last year I bought Kill Your Idols (which I liked), This Wheel's on Fire (haven't read it), Shakey (which I'm halfway through) and I think the Chunklet book (I liked). This year I would probably be buying the Ego Trip books and something else]
3) buy an amount of moleskine notebooks equal to my age.
4) piss it away on various other stuff on their website (lame board games, dvd's, etc...)
Somebody recommend some stuff. If you do, I might end up sending you something from bn.com in return.
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Have you read Chuck Klosterman's books? Kill Your Idol's was great and it made me think of Klosterman right away for some reason just because it's a different approach to music writing and mostly because Killing Yourself To Live was great.
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How about a non-lame game?
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I really like this one card game, Pit, but they don't have it.
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The only thing Barnes and Nobles has a corner on is seating for me to read books and magazines for free.
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I like that every Barnes and Noble smells the same.
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Why not pick up a few of the 33 1/3 books? They're fun, quick, easy reads (most of them, anyway), and they have a surprisingly high ratio of good to bad.
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I'm a big fan of their cat calendars. I'll see you there next December 24th!
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I'm a big fan of their cat calendars. I'll see you there next December 24th!
I'll be there, picking up the 2009 Stuff on My Cat calender!
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Books 1 - 3 are out.
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A great music book, if you haven't read it, is Our Band Could be Your life by Michael Azerrad.
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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond.
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Seriously, though, I know what you mean about piddling it away on this and that and you end up with a bunch of half-decent clutter. I'm browsing their DVD sets (not Selleck)--I'd probably go for a few nice things that would also display nicely--but I'd be torn on whether to shell out for a regular DVD set now or wait on the Blu-Ray thing or something, as that stuff (players, at least) will probably drop like a led blimp in the near future.
EDIT: I personally don't like buying books unless they are reference or visual, as they just don't have that enduring appeal to me. Plus, they're heavy.
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A great music book, if you haven't read it, is Our Band Could be Your life by Michael Azerrad.
i endorse this music book.
also,
*It Came From Memphis
*Things I've Learned From Girls Who've Dumped Me
*BOMP!: Saving The World One Record At A Time
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Perfect from Now On? Eww boyy
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A great music book, if you haven't read it, is Our Band Could be Your life by Michael Azerrad.
HehHeh, poor Michael had to defend certain exclusions to...a certain caller.
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The only music book I've read lately was from the Barnes and Nobleses:
Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll
by Julian Cope
Otherwise a couple good recent non-music purchases from this Spring....
Spy/counterspy: The autobiography of Dusko Popov
by Dusko Popov
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World
by Mike Edison
Prejudices: A Selection
by H. L. Mencken
Bad Lands (Lonely Planet)
by Tony Wheeler
Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
by Ted Conover
Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man's Journey Through Ethiopia and Yemen
by Kevin Rushby
The Overrated Book
by Patton Oswalt/Henry Owings
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* Elvis Costello's Armed Forces (33 1/3 Series)
* 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 2
* Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (33 1/3 Series)
* Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (33 1/3 Series)
* The Kinks' The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (33 1/3 Series)
* The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (33 1/3 Series)
* In the Aeroplane over the Sea (33 1/3 Series)
eh?
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I just got these with some Christmas Barnes & Noble gift certificates:
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