Read and listen to whatever your loved ones tell you to.

Jun 22, 2006

Go watch 100 awesome music videos on YouTube (via MonkeyBites) - a fun, well-annotated list. Watch them all compulsively! Boogie Down Productions blew my mind.

Kevin was very right-on in recommending Now Wait For Last Year as a good PKD book to read. I LOVE it! Might be my second favorite so far behind Ubik. I should know by now to not doubt Kevin’s recommendations. Kevin’s recommendations in the comic book field alone have turned me onto:

Hellboy
Christopher Priest’s Black Panther
The Tick
Paul Grist’s Kane and Daily Bugle
Fables
Lucifer

He knows his shit! Really, recommendations from your near and dear are the way to go. Here’s the songs that I have been introducted to via Hines Bro Brian in the last 15 years:

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Here Comes Your Man by The Pixies
Bad Reputation by Freedy Johnston
Ask by The Smiths

Amazing! And my run of reading PKD comes from Eliza, who correctly suggested that I would love Jonathan Lethem.

I am building a “word of mouth” program where friends can come here and suggest books, music and movies for me to absorb. Everyone can rate each others suggestions and comment on it, and the most popular will bubble to the top of the list. Kinda like Digg, but lamer and simpler and built for me.

| Tags: brian, comics, kevin, lists, music, pkd

6 Replies

Christopher
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 11:14 am

I think I already told you about Shade the Changing Man, a character created by Steve Ditko in the 70’s but revamped by Peter Milligan in the 90’s. Unfortunatly, only the first six issues have been “graphic novelized.” After you finish with PKD a natural follow up would be some of the Heinlein stuff. Also, Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Something also tells me that you might like the Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. This is one of my favorite books.
And, at the risk of sounding like a dork, Moby-Dick is and always will be the coolest book ever.
Will
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 am

I’ve read Moby Dick. It is indeed an awesome book. It’s like listening to a mad, charismatic professor rant on and on. I dug it. Neuromancer I loved, too. I think I remember it starting out amazing and then fading a bit. But whatever. It was great. Heinlein — never read him, but maybe I should.

Shade, that’s right. I will check that out. Well, when I get my “word of mouth” thing in place, or my “suggest o tron” or whatever — everyone can suggest whatever they’d like.
tony
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 12:42 pm

Even *I* was into Shade the Changing Man! And I am not even a comics fan! I’m not kidding!
Jim
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 2:42 pm

I’m going to second Christopher, Heinlein is pretty good. I’ve read Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land. Liked them both. Can’t go wrong with Moby Dick either. Wait, am I posting under a different name without knowing it…

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

The Relic, by Child and Preston. Forget what Hollywood did to the Relic, it’s an amazing book. A true page-turner with a fantastic pace. Perfect summer vaca book.

Brute Force - Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. Great book. It will change your perceptions of that war.
Patbaer
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 6:11 pm

Will, I’m gonna go ahead a burn you a copy of Liam Lynch’s new album “How to be a Satelite”. I’d also suggest you download the episodes from his video podcast called Lynchland. He’s basicly who I want to be when I grow up.

I don’t know if I oount as a “loved one”.
Sarah
Jun 27th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

Hi Will,
Though I am not related to you, you did once affect someone related to me. (My mother found you endearing and hilarious in Fun Squad.) This, and my sudden memory of posting on your What CDs Should I Buy post from long ago, made me think it might be an appropriate time to remind you to get yourself a copy of Paul Weller’s 1992 eponymous album. In fact , I’d be happy to send you a copy if you email me an address. You dig good pop. You’d dig this.