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#51 2011-03-11 03:39:12
- fxh
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yup Harry Porter Does Dorset is one of my fav movies
#52 2011-03-14 07:02:38
- macabee
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The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo & Israel: A History Dr Martin Gilbert
"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough"
James Thurber
#54 2011-03-14 13:58:53
- formby
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#55 2011-03-14 14:21:51
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"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#56 2011-03-14 14:48:50
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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#57 2011-03-14 15:09:45
- formby
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#58 2011-03-15 07:17:39
- macabee
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"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough"
James Thurber
#59 2011-03-15 12:31:48
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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound
#60 2011-03-16 01:28:30
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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#61 2011-03-16 05:11:20
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Serious reading: "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater.
Light reading: "Cockfighter" by Charles Willeford. The man has a way with words (and a way with cocks!).
Aimee Thanatogenous: An American would despise himself for living off his wife.
Dennis Barlow: Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.
#63 2011-03-16 05:21:50
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"Beneath the Underdog" by Charles Mingus and "Straight Life" by Art Pepper.
Every success I have in life can be attributed to these two tomes.
Aimee Thanatogenous: An American would despise himself for living off his wife.
Dennis Barlow: Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.
#65 2011-03-16 05:23:51
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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#66 2011-03-16 05:27:33
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Hampton Hawes! Have not read it, although I will czech it out. I have an album of his that was produced by David Axelrod that I love.
West coast rules! Just ask Tupac. Hermosa Beach FTW.
Aimee Thanatogenous: An American would despise himself for living off his wife.
Dennis Barlow: Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.
#67 2011-03-16 05:30:40
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Aimee Thanatogenous: An American would despise himself for living off his wife.
Dennis Barlow: Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.
#69 2011-03-16 05:35:11
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I'm too young, but my pops saw Chet Baker, along with Mingus, Miles, and others, at Lighthouse in Hermosa back in the 60's. Fuck, all I got to see was Nirvana live, a poor substitute.
Aimee Thanatogenous: An American would despise himself for living off his wife.
Dennis Barlow: Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.
#71 2011-03-16 19:31:48
- fxh
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Just finished:
Self's Deception by Bernhard Schlink
Self's Murder by Bernhard Schlink
Theres still another one I have to read.
Gerhard Self the (anti?) hero is a semi retired ex Cop or State Prosecutor (I can't remember) who is now a private investigator - he's in his late 60s - feeling his age, smokes, drinks a bit, lives alone with his cat, mostly - sometimes his girlfriend stays over. Its character driven not plot and wanders around through Germany's Nazi and Stasi past constantly stumbled over in the present. Thoughtful, provoking, gentle, wry and dry with enough gratuitous violence to keep it close to noir.
Schlink is a real life Judge in Germany who has written a lot. His most famous is probably The Reader - made into a film. I've also just finished "Guilt About the Past" - 6 lectures he gave at Oxford in 2008 on Germans' guilt about their past.
#72 2011-03-17 06:53:01
- StevenJoseph
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I have just finished with Fleshmarket Alley by Ian Rankin, it's about the trade in humans and other horrific subjects in Edinburgh. It's nice book.
#73 2011-03-17 07:41:53
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Deep thoughts on Catskill fly-fishing by John Mordock. I forget the title, something like "Deep Thoughts on Catskill Fly-Fishing."
I keep it in the car for entertainment between appointments.
Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?
#74 2011-03-17 15:38:03
- 4F Hepcat
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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound
#75 2011-05-09 06:12:37
- curl
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I m reading Twilight at the moment. The best fantasy book on vampires I had ever read.