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Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Posts: 2367 Twin Cities, MN 
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 09:50 AM
I've been on a Hemingway kick lately. I'm currently re-reading For Whom The Bell Tolls. It's been almost 10 years since I've read any Hemingway. Time passes and you forget how powerful of a writer he was. He moves worlds in small and simple sentences. He is a true master story teller. |
Joined: Jan 02, 2009 Posts: 1307 The original Plymouth, UK. 
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 09:58 AM
Currently reading Dan Walsh's adventures on his bike: http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Horizon-Motorcycle-Journey-Around/dp/0760336040/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1447343703&sr=8-4&keywords=dan+walsh+world&pebp=1447343711349&perid=1PPMQRA1GXTTA6Y3Z903 Really enjoying it - it reads like an old Surfer surftrip tale. Inspiring me to get off on a road trip south.... — |
Joined: Oct 01, 2014 Posts: 519 Streatham, London
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 10:01 AM
Black Earth by Prof. Timothy Snyder Fascinating book. "This book is long listed for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying." |
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 11:56 AM
I'm reading two music related books at the moment. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein and A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. |
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 12:38 PM
Finishing reading "The Power Of Now" |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5314 the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 08:41 PM
i wish i had time to read |
Joined: Jul 09, 2010 Posts: 1153 Lillian Alabama
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 09:54 PM
1421 and 1434 by Gavin Menzies. It's about the Chinese exploration of the world by sea back in pre Columbus days. Exciting to me but I like history and I know some folks don't care for it. Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!! |
Joined: Sep 28, 2012 Posts: 922 Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 07:40 AM
I am currently reading Carlos Santana's autobiography, and apparently he had the nickname "El Apache" during his teenage years in Tijuana based on his favor for the Shadows' song. Later he also learned songs by Link Wray and Duane Eddy. Later on however, as the Santana family moves to San Francisco, Carlos very openly mentiones his disgust of the "surf music" his new friends listen to. He also picks up Hendrix' famous line "you'll never hear surf music again", which he understands as a statement for the emancipation of the guitar as an instrument, which again would only fit, if the equation was: surf music = Beach Boys. (I read a similar interpretation of the quote in a Hendrix biography once.) Besides that the book is one of the rare cases of an autobiography by a musician that really is mostly about music. It's a nice read and you get plenty of recommendations for records to listen to. Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin) |
Joined: Sep 03, 2006 Posts: 332 Herten - Germany 
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 08:58 AM
Keith Badman: THE BEACH BOYS The bass guitar player of The Cruncher brought a foto to me showing Carl Wilson, Johnny Paris (sax player for Johnny & The Hurricanes) and Alan Jardine backstage at Cincinatti Gardens, Cincinatti. |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2013 Posts: 4536 Wisconsin
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 11:51 AM
simoncoil wrote:
Nickels for every time that quote's been misused would fund a pretty good set of reference works; paper or music. Still diggin' into my Lewis & Clark book. (Ambrose's) Wes DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices. |
Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1277 San Pedro, CA
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 12:18 PM
I'm not saying it's aliens, but...
Bill S._______ |
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Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Posts: 2367 Twin Cities, MN
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 12:53 PM
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Joined: Jul 31, 2012 Posts: 4053 Nashville, TN.
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 10:22 PM
A stack of New Yorker magazines that I fell behind on. Cheers, http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic |
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 2847 Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Posted on Nov 17 2015 10:43 PM
CrazyAces wrote:
That's SO easy to do. I have quite the stack myself. —Matt "tha Kat" Lentz |
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Joined: Jul 31, 2012 Posts: 4053 Nashville, TN.
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Posted on Nov 18 2015 09:33 AM
Matt22 wrote:
They come too fast, often. LOL! Cheers, http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2013 Posts: 4536 Wisconsin
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Posted on Jan 12 2016 05:10 PM
This beats network kabuki any day & twice on Sunday. The winter stash is stacking up nicely.
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Joined: Apr 23, 2012 Posts: 421 fresno california u.s.a.
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Posted on Jan 13 2016 10:42 PM
ahh the newspaper youngun. |
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Joined: Apr 23, 2012 Posts: 421 fresno california u.s.a.
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Posted on Jan 20 2016 05:02 PM
ahh well let's see surfguitar101forum youngun. |
Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Jan 21 2016 06:40 AM
Shanghaiing Sailors by Mark Strecker, a guy I work with. "Shaghaiing," or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915 So I guess I'll learn me a little history. One hell of a link eh? —Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube http://www.syndicateofsurf.com/ Last edited: Jan 21, 2016 06:41:30 |
Joined: Apr 28, 2009 Posts: 460 Victoria 
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Posted on Jan 23 2016 03:21 PM
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg. Quite a good read so far. — |
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