I have mixed feelings here. This is a low pick. I greatly enjoy stories that incorporate music, such as this and “Love is a Mixed Tape.” Im familiar with most of the music mentioned and locations in part of the book. I liked listing the artists and bands. It just didn‘t seem to go deep enough for me. There‘s a film of this being made.

Part 4 -Last one.

-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Wilson Pickett
-Solomon Burke
-Queen
-Siouxsie and the Banshees
-Rilo Kiley
-Curlers
-Joan Armatrading
-Van Halen
-Bon Jovi
-Joy Division
-Karen O
-Tv on the Radio
-Johnny Cash
-Limp Bizkit
-Arcade Fire
-Norah Jones
-The Decemberists
-Girl Talk
-Beach House
-The Knife
-The Counting Crows
-The Pretenders

End

It‘s chunky at 974 pages.

Natasha Lyonne in the Criterion closet.🤣https://youtu.be/sNUAkiIoTFk?si=mjjHQQJ48F8rBfjb

“My first encounter with the originality of Canadian French-speaking cultures came at an early age, when living in Ottawa during the 1950s. It was immediately apparent that the French taught in English- language public schools belonged to a world apart from the everyday French spoken in the streets.” #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

A cute little copy.

https://www.peterkuper.com/insectopolis

Part 3

-The Doors
-Blonde On Blonde
-Erykah Badu
-Interpol
-Sam Cooke
-Carole King
- Run DMC
- Neko Case
-Flaming Lips
-Cat Power
-Billie Holiday
-Leonard Cohen
-Janis Joplin
-Tori Amos
-Graham Nash
-Cat Stevens
-Carly Simon
-Sam Cooke
-Lou Rawls
-Beyoncé
-N.E.R.D.
-OutKast
-PJ Harvey
-The Eagles
-Kate Bush
-Joanna Newsome
-Amy Winehouse
-Michael Bolton
-Belle And Sebastian
-The Strokes
-Cole Porter
-Pulp
-Erasure
-Orange Juice

The problem with reading for empathy. How we consume stories in an age of performance. 🤔

https://youtu.be/YbT4Hjr3LBk?si=WHDyhWNoRPo-xVgO

🐍

New products. I picked up TJ‘s new body sunscreen gel. They have a new mineral sunscreen too.

“It‘s just a book”

and you‘re making just a movie 🙀

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/29/wuthering-heights-casting-director-...

Not if they don‘t talk and take on the real issues it doesn‘t. ✊

This sounds right.

I‘m curious where this statistic comes from. Who tracks this information? It seems like more than 50% these days. I do sometimes avoid getting a book if it‘s in first person. Yes yes I do.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. My estimate is that we have some where between 800 and 1000. We do get rid of books we don‘t want every once in awhile. We have also moved a couple times rather recently, that always involves having to part with some books.

Book obsessed. Mental health. Getting lost in books. Her name is Sarah. Ok sign me up.

#independentbookstoreday

I already read the Sarah Vowell section.

#independentbookstoreday

Reflections on a guillotine is in here. I just got that. I should‘ve checked.

“Because of the mythical lothario conjured up in Nin‘s journals, I‘ve always fantasized about having an affair with Henry Miller, horn dog Henry Miller, who can‘t keep his hands off me, who will back me over a couch and go at me, who will fuck me so I stay fucked.”

Her new one.

1. A few bucks.

2. Tagged. Yes most of his characters.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

“Anytime a woman documents the indignities of withstanding a misogynistic world, there are a dozen bench-warmers at the ready to charge her with wallowing, with perpetuating a cycle or psychology of victimhood, with the cynical glamorization of her own suffering. In short, of making a scene. Of being pathetic. Haven‘t we gone far enough? Why can‘t we just shut the fuck up? It‘s all more silencing.”

Here‘s a new video on Cajun/Acadien French by a young French YouTuber. https://youtu.be/6eEQqQJw_jA?si=kawNMwNDZArvCDaE

Part 2

I‘m listing all musicians and bands mentioned. I thought I lost this book out in the wild. It turns out it fell behind the sofa.

-TLC
-Bob Dylan
-Billy Joel
-Buddy Holly
-Jimmy Cliff
-Lou Reed
-The Magnetic Fields
-Yo La Tengo
-Modest Mouse
-Nick Lowe
-The Shins
-Stevie Nicks
-Nina Simone
-Fiona Apple
-Pete Seeger
-Neil Young
-Pavement
-Radiohead

“I let myself be cocooned in Ok Computer. No-body paid me any mind when I threw up a little, sending a stream of Long Island iced tea tricking down to the sidewalk. Briefly I dozed off and had an an insanely unsubtle dream in which my vagina spilt open as I walked, causing a whole bloody spectacle on Telegraph Avenue, children screaming, men fleeing”.

Hmm. Yeah. That happened to me once.

On the new Wuthering Heights film. Uuugh!

https://youtu.be/KmnM7PTOsLI?si=DkjwNdaU3nxHc5UA

“For years the myth of Philomela hung over me. The tongue stump. That soundless scream. A formal revolution in testimonial utterance. At the time I first encountered Heroines I was meant to be writing a dissertation on confessional poetry and women‘s projects of self-making, mainly Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, two ‘poetesses‘ you should never admire publicly if you wish to be taken seriously. (In any case I wasn‘t. Taken seriously that is.) -

Adolescence (Netflix) review. Red pill culture: https://youtu.be/OcM-od_uV6M?si=1XvApkCtjJ7lXL6Q

Ok now I have six of these figures. Probably enough, right? They should make an Amelie one, the red-head from Run Lola Run, Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind😉. It‘s a good thing plenty of them just don‘t appeal to meee.