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[i am overwhelmed with love for the world today ...]

posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 10:04am on 06/10/2008 under , ,
... and I hope I stay this way, it is an A+ good feeling.
  1. Can anyone recommend a good, readable history of the American punk scene to me? I am enjoying reading history of popular music lately, and punk is one place where my knowledge is pretty much zero. Well-written and enjoyable and not too srs bsns history are my biggest criteria in books.

  2. I have seen a bunch of amazing shows lately -- Bombadil, Justin Townes Earle, Mason, Okkervil River supported by Crooked Fingers, Caitlin Cary with her band -- but I'm in that phase where I don't really want to talk about them, I just want to sort of roll around in how much I fucking adore Will Sheff and Eric Bachmann's guitar playing and Justin Townes Earle's stupid face and stupid voice and stupid pants and Caitlin Cary's entire existence.

  3. There's this thing happening in Chapel Hill where the football team not only "doesn't suck" but are actually "sort of amazing", and I don't quite know what to do with it. This is not my reality, okay, guys? I know logically that at one point in the '90s we were good (I have a favorite Mack Brown joke, so you know I know that era), but ritual destruction of Top 25 teams on national television Does Not Compute for me and Carolina football. I guess it's really a matter of who cares why they're good -- the team is fun this year and it makes me stupidly giddy to watch them.

    [Poll #1273390]

  4. Tonight I am going to see the Rumble Strips, who are the artists behind the best-album-of-2007-that-I-acquired-in-2008, and I was pretty sure that I was never going to get to see them live, and I am so excited I am almost vibrating out of my skin.
Five things make a post, right? Because if they don't, I am too tired to cope.
Music:: Toadvine -- Ben Nichols -- The Last Pale Light in the West
Mood:: 'tired' tired
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posted by [identity profile] traveller.livejournal.com at 02:13pm on 06/10/2008
I reuploaded this icon JUST to tell you we can't be friends anymore.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:38pm on 06/10/2008
i can't help it, my love for skynyrd is true and pure and lifelong. i came to the allmans late.
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posted by [identity profile] omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com at 02:19pm on 06/10/2008
If you find a good punk book, can you post it?

(or, if you feel like posting a Read These Books About Music list, that would be awesomeness too)
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:38pm on 06/10/2008
i haven't read many yet, but i have a large list of to-reads, so if i amass a decent number of decent books, i will in fact make that post! :)
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posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 02:45pm on 06/10/2008
Allman Brothers "Ramblin' Man" vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd opening riff on "Sweet Home Alabama"..... SO HARD TO DECIDE!!


P.S. Your football teams doesn't entirely suck!!!
Edited Date: 2008-10-06 02:46 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:49pm on 06/10/2008
YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE. :P


(not there can only be one, because that's obviously untrue, but you still have to choose! *g*)
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posted by [identity profile] vylit.livejournal.com at 02:51pm on 06/10/2008
I think both should be an option. NOT FAIR, min.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:50pm on 06/10/2008
that's just what [livejournal.com profile] quicknow said to me this morning! *evil*
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posted by [identity profile] spuffyduds.livejournal.com at 04:02pm on 06/10/2008
Do you have a favorite Dick Crum joke, or are they just too EASY?
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:50pm on 06/10/2008
i have never heard a dick crum joke! if i had ever heard one, i might have a favorite.
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posted by [identity profile] serialkarma.livejournal.com at 04:38pm on 06/10/2008
It's not specifically *punk*, but Our Band Could Be Your Life (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Band-Could-Your-Life/dp/0316787531/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223311037&sr=8-1) is a fantastic collection of essays about the indie underground that sprang up immediately post-classic punk, as it were. I love, love, love it and would definitely recommend it if you're interested in any kind of history of contemporary popular music.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:51pm on 06/10/2008
that's on my list of things to read -- i have to finish all the half-read non-fiction strewn about the apartment before i can get more non-fiction from the library -- so i'm glad to hear that it's good.
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posted by [identity profile] blergeatkitty.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 06/10/2008
Please Kill Me (http://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0140266909) was pretty good, as I recall, though it's been a few years since I've read it.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 06/10/2008
oooooooh, thank you! i'll definitely check that one out, it looks about exactly what i'm in search of.
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posted by [identity profile] catechism.livejournal.com at 07:32pm on 06/10/2008
+1! This was the one I was going to say, too.
Edited Date: 2008-10-06 07:32 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] sundancekid.livejournal.com at 06:16pm on 06/10/2008
I really need to hear your Mack Brown joke, plz.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 06:51pm on 06/10/2008
ahahahahaha, right, you're at Texas.

Okay, so: what did Matt Doherty do that Mack Brown never managed?


... made Carolina a football school.
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posted by [identity profile] bloodlossgirl.livejournal.com at 08:18pm on 06/10/2008
Someone took both of my suggestions: Please Kill Me (a fave of Dr. Nick!) and Our Band Could Be Your Life.

But other things that are good about music:

Rip it Up and Start Again (Simon Reynolds on post-punk)

and

Rotten - you guessed it, by John Lydon. PIL RULEZ.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 07/10/2008
yay, thank you! i will add both of those to my list.
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posted by [identity profile] cis.livejournal.com at 09:59pm on 06/10/2008
Neither of them are quite strictly history of the US Punk scene, but I have heard very very good things of Greil Marcus' 'Lipstick Traces' (more uk punk based) and Krank Kogan's 'Real Punks Don't Wear Black' (more... a collection of all sorts of things), though i haven't read either in full. (declaration of interest: i have known f kogan online for many years)
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 07/10/2008
i will look out for both of those!
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Lynyrd Skynyrd, no doubt about it.

posted by [identity profile] druidspell.livejournal.com at 10:13pm on 06/10/2008
I've heard good things about The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise (http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Punk-More-Than-Noise/dp/1873176163/ref=pd_sim_b_4) by Craig O'Hara, Please Kill Me (others have mentioned this as well), Roger Sabin's Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk (http://www.amazon.com/Punk-Rock-What-Cultural-Legacy/dp/041517029X/ref=pd_sim_b_9), and My So-Called Punk (http://www.amazon.com/So-Called-Punk-Distillers-Religion-How-Stage-Dived/dp/0312337817/ref=pd_sim_b_28) by Matt Diehl (which covers neo- and pop-punk like Green Day and FOB more than bands like Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols).
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Re: Lynyrd Skynyrd, no doubt about it.

posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 07/10/2008
ooooooooooooh. i am going to be reading about punk forever, aren't i? *grin*
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posted by [identity profile] afadingvoice.livejournal.com at 10:18pm on 06/10/2008
the whole football thing is very weird. I apparently brought carolina's football suckyness to ann arbor, cause michigan is blowing it pretty hard. i can't remember the last time carolina was in the top 25... was it mack brown days? ahh, high school.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:01pm on 07/10/2008
the dth reports to me that we were last ranked in october, 2001 -- that was post mack brown, right? i have to admit that i didn't pay much attention to the team for a while there.
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posted by [identity profile] calligrafiti.livejournal.com at 10:20pm on 06/10/2008
ritual destruction of Top 25 teams on national television Does Not Compute for me and Carolina football.

I know. I saw the ending of the UNC v. UConn game on tv Saturday, and for a moment I figured someone had mixed up who scored what.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:02pm on 07/10/2008
well, when uconn kicked their first field goal, espn did put it up on carolina's side of the score line. so there was SOME mixing up. *grin*
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posted by [identity profile] tangleofthorns.livejournal.com at 10:40pm on 06/10/2008
While it's not a history of punk per se, if you haven't read the Lester Bangs collection Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung (http://www.amazon.com/Psychotic-Reactions-Carburetor-Dung-Literature/dp/0679720456), I highly recommend it. In addition to being smart and energetic and intimately engaged with punk as a genre (not to even touch on his bizarre relationship with Lou Reed), it's some of the most hilarious (and essential) music criticism ever.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:02pm on 07/10/2008
i haven't read it; i'll definitely put it on my list. :)
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