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Spot on observation. This has always been my only real quip with their typical compositional structure. The worst offenders are on their earlier albums: so many tracks wrap up the percussion but then let the melodic elements loop on for ages (viz. first track off ISS:SA). NTS is actually nice in a way because the drawn out bits are at least getting subtly tweaked or gradually morphed. But I hadn't explicitly noticed until you said this how many short chunks I'd love to hear further explored/developed (reminds me of the Lego Feet stuff in that way).

Black eyed peas for new year's, as my late gran always demanded. For luck, yeah? 10/10, have not died yet.

Judges is my favorite; it's like Bible superheroes. Essentially: the Jews are being naughty, God has some guy do some magic to set them straight, they behave for a while, but later start acting up again, so God… tries the same trick a dozen more times? Yeah okay, that's cool, God. You do you.

Omelette & coffee & Ornette Coleman

I mean, SF is often a narrative vehicle for cool or interesting ideas first, & a compelling story second—& hey, fair enough, not always a bad thing by any means. But, in Harsh Mistress, the ideas Heinlein seems most interested in kicking around are not the gravity/physics, the moontown tech, or anything like that, but instead his pet anarchist talking points (like, the anti-atomic family stuff gets an absurd amount of attention for having nothing whatsoever to do with the plot). It's not that he's wrongheaded, necessarily, but that's not what I'm looking for from the book (YMMV).

I argued with my brother about this one just the other day. He loves it, but I say any book that manages to make moonmen chucking giant rocks at the earth just feel boring & preachy is doing something seriously wrong. I've been reading a ton of old school spooky stuff for October: Poe, Stevenson, Lovecraft, Machen, Bradbury (Something Wicked), Henry James… Found a JC Oates collection titled Nite-Side that doesn't totally suck. I hunted down The Greater Trumps based on somebody here's recommendation, but it's not my cuppa; too much "power of love will overcome all adversity", not enough grist behind the imagery for me. Felt a bit like A Wrinkle in Time, actually, or the sequel, I can't remember now. Also bought Book of the New Sun 1/2; hope it lives up to the hype.

This AM radio guy whose whole show is just him saying Hail Marys for an hour or so is gonna feel pretty dumb when he meets the pasghetti monster, or whoever, or maybe not, I dunno.

french press for life, gentlemen. making cold brew concentrate in mine lately though as it's been hotter than blood outside as a general rule, if you ask for cream, you get half&half (which is half cream in UK, so light cream diluted with whole milk) totally dude, even better if you find one in an recycled-air mini-mall so you can cop a couple t-shirts with logos on them later

If you play this three times in the bathroom mirror, a Gescom SKAM remix will appear over your left shoulder

Catch-22 has never done much for me. Snagged a paperback Mason & Dixon for ¢15 today. Even if it sucks, I can use it to finally see what’s on top of the fridge.

Good stuff! Gene Wolfe is awesome, & those Kirby collections are solid gold.

sunshine put me on a pf73 kick today also some pushbutton objects & the ko-wrecktion ep

are you kidding, who even reads anymore

Fav breakfast. Torn nori + boiled, chopped okra mixed with the nattō or a bit of mackerel + chili are welcome additions too. Coffee. natto & okra sounds like sticky heaven Big pot of oats, myself—or, per Myles, "great holy suffering indiarubber bowls of brown stirabout." Food o the gods, lads

Yes splinter cell is excellent. On an old school kick myself: basscadet lego feet urmur bile AB3 trainer electro-soma em:t - t:me (woob et al. comp)

Did a few Rez runs last night (PS2). Area 5 is still wizard amazon; definitely makes my top 10 coolest gaming experiences. The Oval track for one of the bonus areas is also pcool.

I made it all the way through thinking Snoke was being played by the old, bald ex-military guy from Breaking Bad. So, that was a point in the movie's favor, I guess. Also, I am baffled that Benicio Del Toro as paper-thin-stock-middlegrade-literature-thief-archetype was, in retrospect, totally fine by me. (Cannot agree with you guys about the ginger Nazi commander guy, though; he & his character are awful. Sure, he's the new Moff Tarkin—except, you know, not threatening, not driven by evil ideology or even sadistic cruelty, & totally incompetent at every turn. Almost as inexcusable as goofy, cartoon ghost-Yoda.)

what a mess. I feel dirty :(

URGENT UPDATE --- BE ADVISED: The Hubbard sucks & has consequently been returned to the world, secreted beneath the eaves of an opportune bus shelter. The Alice book is most toothsome. Oh, & happy 2018, literate watmm-kin!

Bummer. Maybe try Monday or Tuesday (or Haunted House), collections of shorter pieces where the style really does embody & reflect the content & themes of each. Unless she's just not for you, of course; that's fair enough. I was given a totally rad decipher of the Carollian Alice for Xmas, but I reckon I'll check out this L. Ron Hubbard paperback I found at a bus stop yesterday first as it looks like top notch stuff.