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so who is tops?
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ignatius j reilly ?CFZB said:
wnt2bBeast
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i used to liste to a lot of that old crap the Doors are the only ones i still listen to..
Morrison was deep
Morrison was deep
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I kept the choices limited to the "classic" actsDIVISION said:
even as I own virtually every possible Joy Division recording, the material is limited
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pink floyd, though i dig the stones as well
saw floyd in concert, fucking cool
stones good in concert as well
saw floyd in concert, fucking cool
stones good in concert as well
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nice pull from the era "A Confederacy of Dunces"CFZB said:
interestingly too,the author much like Joy Division's Ian Curtis commited suicide
A word on the history of the novel is worth mentioning here. The author, John Kennedy Toole, committed suicide in 1969, and his mother found the hand-written manuscript in her son's papers. She brought them to a publisher, who dreaded having to read even a portion of the work and to notify Toole's mother that it stunk. Instead, he was blown away by Toole's draft, and the rest is history. The novel earned him a posthumous Pulitzer Prize, and it is universally hailed by critics.
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber
From Library Journal
Narrator Barrett Whitener renders Toole's cast of caricatures with verve enough to satisfy admirers. Toole wrote this novel in Puerto Rico during a hitch in the U.S. Army. In 1966 it was rejected by Simon & Schuster. In 1969 Toole committed suicide. Toole's mother then tried to get it published. After seven years of rejection she showed it to novelist Walker Percy, under whose encouragement it was published by Louisiana State University Press. Many critics praised it as a comic masterpiece that memorably evokes the city of New Orleans and whose robust protagonist is a modern-day Falstaff, Don Quixote, or Gargantua. Toole's prose is energetic, and his talent, had it matured, may have produced a masterpiece. However, listeners who do not feel charmed or amused by a fat, flatulent, gluttonous, loud, lying, hypocritical, self-deceiving, self-centered blowhard who masturbates to memories of a dog and pretends to profundity when he is only full of beans
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yeah and on vinyl as wellDIVISION said:
me and a few college bros used to make a trek to a cool import store in tuscaloosa(home of the U of Alabama) and spend much of our drinking and drug allowances on import vinyl. bear in mind this was '81-'82
I have about a half dozen Joy Division bootleg albums (e.g. Dante's Inferno) from thier live performances
reminds me to track down a business I read of in a stereophile mag that will take your vinyl albums and do thier best to transfer them to the best digital possible
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btw Div
Sound and Vision mag came today in the mail
they had favorable reviews of fitty's Massacre
and The Game's The Documnetary
Sound and Vision mag came today in the mail
they had favorable reviews of fitty's Massacre
and The Game's The Documnetary
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I considered buying Game's album but I'll just wait to get it used.
I stopped listening to 50 awhile back.....
Joy Division will always be my favorite rock band.....the things they did for their time were revolutionary. They changed the game and bridged the gap between post-punk and goth, something that hasn't been seen since. They were truly a hybrid band, rock based with gothic undertones.....
Ice Age
Walked in Line
Disorder
Love will tear us apart
Decades
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and Beatles, Led Zepplin, Cream
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Shadowplay is my all time favoriteDIVISION said:
recently downloaded a gem of a cover of New Dawn Fades
by Massive Attack
blew me away
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Zep's in there of courseUlcasterdropout said:
my second choice
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just did a search on amazon "A Means to an End"DIVISION said:
1. She's Lost Control - Girls Against Boys
2. Day of the Lords
3. New Dawn Fades - Moby
4. Transmission - Low
5. Atmosphere - Codeine
6. Insight - Further
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Stanton-Miranda
8. Isolation
9. Heart and Soul - Kendra Smith
10. Twenty Four Hours - Versus
11. Warsaw - Desert Storm
12. They Walked in Line - Godheadsilo
13. Interzone - Face to Face
14. As You Said - Tortois
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in the room with a window in the corner I found truth
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I'd have to take Zepplin. My second choice would be Floyd only because alot of their music can be a bit dark and gloomy and if I was on the island I'd want to stay as up as possible.
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damn I'm loading up an amazon shopping cart and I already spent 3 bills on a Henckels knive/cutlery set today
Wow, a whole 8 voters so far-that's like one a day.......and I wonder why so few (hint: location is everything on these boards). 
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killed it
