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What the fuck is this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exai/dp/B00CEOUJD8
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Listened again. Keeps getting better each time.
i don't think i'll ever be able to forget this
recks on is fun to dance to like an idiot doing kungfu.
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A Stranger in Tibet: The Adventures of a Wandering Zen Monk
It's about a Japanese zen monk called Ekai Kawaguchi who in 1897 decides to got Tibet to search for Buddhists texts because he thinks the Chinese translations in Japan are not good enough. The guy is absolutely hell bent on getting to the scriptures. Tibet and Nepal were both closed from foreigners at the time and he learns the local languages by talking to children and women in the street, is robbed, is deserted by his guides, etc. He was also the first Japanese person to visit Tibet and Nepal.
From the Wikipedia:
He left Japan for India in June, 1897, without a guide or map, simply buying his way onto a cargo boat. He had a smattering of English but did not know a word of Hindi or Tibetan. Also, he had no money, having refused the donations of his friends; instead, he made several fishmonger and butcher friends pledge to give up their professions forever and become vegetarian, claiming that the good karma would ensure his success
From the book:
He had spent the entire previous year in disguise in culturally TIbetan village called Tsarang in the little-known semi-independent kingdom of Lo, between Nepal and Tibet, and there at an altitude of nearly twelve thousand feet had kept himself in shape by running up and down mountainsides with a load of rocks on his back (the villagers, who at this point took him for a Chinese monk from Lhasa, thought this was some sort of mortification of the flesh). After two and a half years of hard study he spoke Tibetan well enough to pass as a native if he had to, had learned to live without bathing for months on end, and was confident of his health and physical strength.
It's a really fascinating book and gives a lot of background on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism also.
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I would have expected this to be much darker given the subject matter and the Reach for the Dead preview. I think Geogaddi is way more dark and unsettling. I like TH anyways.
Also just last week I had a dream of nuclear war between UK and Germany, lol. The euro crisis had broken up the EU and the old European states were at war again. People were cheering as their countries' nuclear bombers were flying overhead which was pretty chilling.
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Despatched
Edit: If it's actually dispatched now it has a small chance of arriving on monday, but I'm guessing it's either tuesday or wednesday..
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That's annoying and weird that they updated the interview. But I'm glad they did (they should have published it this way at the start!). But the three book recommendations are interesting. I read excerpts of the Oliver Sacks book Mike mentioned, and I heard an interview with him on NPR. It was very interesting. I'm going to check out the other two. I would love to chat with them about their reading interests more.
You just know those three authors are about to see a minor bump in sales figures for the next month or two...
I just read that Sacks book (Musicophilia) a few months ago. Oliver Sacks is selling tons as it is already, I don't think BOC fans can contribute any noticeable bump.
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Besides reading the Exegesis I also started Ubik yesterday.
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Oh, and I also need to add Seesaw's Poetry. Good stuff.
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For some reason I've been listening to a lot of ambient lately. Besides the usual stuff (The KLF, The Orb, FSOL, Biosphere, ...) I've listened to these:
Rosy Parlane - Willow
BJ Nilsen - Vinyl
Lotide - Moonless
V/A - Pop Ambient 2013
The last track on Pop Ambient 2013, Terrapin's cover of Cirrus Minor, is fucking trippy. I had fallen asleep while listening to the compilation and woke up when Cirrus Minor was playing. For a moment I thought I had dropped acid or something.
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I haven't really drawn anything on paper in years except occasional doodling but yesterday I was listening to Biosphere and decided to do some drawing and made this up while Patashnik was playing..
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I saw people in shorts and flip-flops when I was in Galway last February. It was like +3 degrees Celsius and constant drizzle. What the hell?
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Having a steady job eats my credibility.
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^ this is looking nice but that's a shame to place your speakers that way
Yeah, it's a bit of a problem now because I don't really have a solution on how to place them properly, but I usually work with headphones and when mixing with speakers I listen from the other end of the room so it's not that bad for placement but the acoustics in that room are currently absolutely horrible. I need to work that out somehow.
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Last autumn, but this is pretty much still my setup since I haven't really updated it lately.
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We were testing a cat harness for him so that we could have walked him on a leash, but that did not pan out well because he was pretty confused by it. That explains the wide eyed expression.
Anyway, walking a cat on a leash is one of the most ridiculous things to do. They're not cooperative to say the least.
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A source close to the North Korean regime reported that Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is furious about the Windows 8 problems and is considering a number of options, including declaring war on Microsoft.
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My ex's cat:
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Anyway, I'm also reading the Dictionary of the Khazars. Just semi-randomly going through the entries trying to figure out the story.
That's the way to do it imho. Did you see my posts about it here? Watch out for the Islamic sections, they're evil and incompatible with the rest of the book.
Yeah, I think it's because of your post that it was in my Amazon basket. Ordered it with the other books.
I bought it as used because there were no new copies in Amazon UK at the moment. It seems that it's actually a proof copy. It's a soft cover but has a dust jacket, underneath which is just plain blue covers and on the back cover reads "Uncorrected proof copy on proofing paper and the property of the publisher and not for sale." Adds nicely to the confusion, lol.
I think I also got a pirated book once from an used book seller at Amazon. The printing was shoddy and all the pictures had mysteriously turned to black and white..
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