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Sound Man A memoir of a remarkable rock-and-roll career from Glyn… Goodreads (opens in a new tab) Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20949444-sound-man, "Sound Man". Two memoirs to start the year. Weird, I never read memoirs.
This one was quoted in some video I watched chasing Chris Scruggs stuff ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeR2yZ2pWCw what a great band! that steel player?!) that I probably landed on looking up a https://500songs.com (which I’m 90 episodes into) citation, so I found myself reading it.
- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. youtube.com (opens in a new tab) A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs (opens in a new tab) Figure 2. Link preview of https://500songs.com, "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs". Figure 3. The paperback cover of Glyn Johns “Sound Man” as I read it, subtitled: A Life Recording Hits With The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces…” (whispering: of that entire list of bands, I only really enjoy Led Zeppelin’s entire catalog, and barely a few individual songs from the rest. I don’t get the stones or the who, and I agree with The Dude re: the Eagles?)Anyway, it's fast, and fun if you ever went through a late 60s / early 70s rock phase before the 00s when it absolutely saturated american culture (let's not kid, it still does).
third book of 2024: “Particle Theory", a collection of stories by Edward Bryant ( https://reanimus.com/store/index.cgi?author=Edward%20Bryant ).
I started this a while ago after reading an interview with Ted Chiang (maybe this one? https://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm ).
I really, really like Ted Chiang’s stories. Ted really, really likes Bryant’s stories. Some of these were quite good, some just OK. I stalled on it a few times.
”giANTS”, the one about ants, is one of the good ones ( https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/edward-bryant/ ).
Edward Bryant - The Nebula Awards® The Nebula Awards® (opens in a new tab) Figure 4. Link preview of https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/edward-bryant/, "Edward Bryant - The Nebula Awards®". (🐜 🐜 🐜 https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110209784638054304 )
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not my goofy ass sitting on a log reading Italo Calvino's "The Argentine Ant" only to discover by feel that I am sitting on a damned ant hill as they crawl up my back under my shirt 😬🤣 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6752551) Mastodon (opens in a new tab) Figure 5. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110209784638054304, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)". Figure 6. the paperback cover of the currently available I-assume-reissue from reAnimus press, with a font that might as well be called “space ship” in gray over black top and bottom and a washed out early 90s 3D rendering of some chemical over a washed out face. It’s so great that 50 year old collections can get picked back up and run by groups like reAnimus, and I look forward to the software getting more sophisticated, because the printing was pretty simple (top of page author on the left, top of page book name on the right, rather than story name, for instance), if better looking overall than lots of presses like this.
