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doublefourtime

"...you have waited for this day and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing."

Nov 16, 2006 23:04

(I admit it. I'm trawling the back catalogues for this entry.)

The majority of the time I make mixes for other people - which means I have to try and find a balance between my taste and theirs (some people are soooo picky) - or mixes along random themes (clouds! numbers!), which are all very amusing but not very personal ( Read more... )

i has an opinion, mix cds, mix cds: completed, introspective

Comments 13

chibirhm November 16 2006, 23:32:25 UTC

I am pretty awesome.

doublefourtime November 16 2006, 23:35:51 UTC

Yes. Yes you are. Awesome like the sun's gravitational pull.

instabilitas November 17 2006, 08:23:47 UTC

Have you read The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; Nick Hornby's new one?

doublefourtime November 17 2006, 09:33:44 UTC

Ooh, no. I didn't even know he had a new book out!

I haven't managed to read his lastest novel either (A Long Way Down?).

mrsjadephoenix November 17 2006, 12:27:09 UTC

It is and isn't really new. "The Polysyllabic Spree" is a monthly book column he's been doing for a magazine called The Believer for the past couple of years, and the first collection of them came out at the end of 2004. I read it and then started 2005 with the ambition of doing my own monthly book roundups in LJ but I only succeeded in doing about half a year's worth.

I expect The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is the first compilation plus whatever more he's done since. I thought they were quite interesting reads - not as awesome as 31 Songs, but it's pretty hard to beat that.

I don't know if it was just me, but I found A Long Way Down kind of disappointing. It wasn't really bad or anything, it just...it felt kind of bland and didn't gel with me nearly as much as his other novels.

sullen_hearts November 17 2006, 13:22:14 UTC

A Long Way Down was the most pointless waste of talent since White Teeth: Discuss.

I liked 31 Songs but no one else I ever knew did.

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sullen_hearts November 17 2006, 12:56:33 UTC

Ohhh I love all this downloading you make me do.

I love Hinduism too, did you know? If I had to choose, I would be either a Hindu or a Reform Jew (most people think I'm Jewish anyway)

doublefourtime November 17 2006, 19:47:28 UTC

I definitely see the appeal of Hinduism. It's one of "freer" religions, as it were.

Plus, I adore all the different incarnations of God. GANESHA FTW.

instabilitas November 18 2006, 03:32:16 UTC

Yeah, A Long Way Down was for the critics! Not for the popular fiction fans.

There's another one after the Complete Polysyllabic Spree - They're columns out of the Believer..... Find it! I'm halfway through

doublefourtime November 22 2006, 16:54:27 UTC

It's definitely going on my Commercial Holiday! Buy Me Shit! list.

I'm tempted to wait until it comes out in paperback, though.