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[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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Great William T. Vollmann interview.

Vollmann being the most interesting writer (and likely person) on the planet.

[Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland 🇮🇪 @Stairnahireann]

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[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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[Sack Boy @Sack_Boy16]

Thanks for reading.

[Sack Boy @Sack_Boy16]

Recent book thread that people should read, in some order:

William Vollmann - A Table for Fortune, Rising Up and Rising Down, Expelled from Eden

Annie Dillard – For The Time Being

Roberto Bolano - 2666

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses

[RareIrishStuff @RareIrishStuff]

Archival footage of Dublin in 1915, capturing the city's streets, trams, horse drawn carriages and people going about their daily lives before the Easter Rising.

Footage: J. Gordon Lewis for British Pathe

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

4 Books that I would reccomend

[Sack Boy @Sack_Boy16]

Books that People should read

Thomas Pynchon – SHADOW TICKET (the greatest living genius. A late career masterpiece. I hope he has one more in him. I'm sure he does.)

Annie Dillard – For The Time Being (profound, timeless, wise)

Kinsella & O’Tuama - An Duanaire, 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed (one of the most important anthologies of irish poetry, maybe the best and in conversation with Bards of Gael and Gall. Every irish person should read this book.)

Cross & Slover - Ancient Irish Tales (partial to Lady Gregory’s too.)

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

Books People Should Read

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

Books that people should read (no particular order)

Homer – The Iliad and The Odyssey
Ovid – Metamorphosis
Plato – The Republic
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Aristophanes – Poochigian or Roche trans.
Sappho - Anne Carson trans.
Cattulus
Seneca – Letters from a Stoic

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

Bill Fay - Cosmic Concerto.

Video is Dublin, Ireland in 1965.

"It's a cosmic concerto, and it stirs my soul
Like my old dad said,
Life is people, life is people
In the space of a human face,
There's infinite variation"

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[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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One last beautiful track - so innocent. The strings!

1968.

What was happening in the late 1960s? There was an "atmosphere."

I really have a strong feeling that the 2020s will be our 1960s, after the cultural wasteland of the 2010s (our 1950s).

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

The Delfonics are one of my favourite Philadelphia-Soul Groups.

Here is one of my all-time-favourite deep cuts.

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[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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How anybody on earth could come up with something like this...

What a melody. What a lyric. What an emotion it evokes.

It's so smooth but it also feels like sentimentality is earned, the rite of passage for any pop song.

I guarantee Prince loved this.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions have no equivilents.

You could argue - if you wished - that they occupied for "Black America" the same position that the Beach Boys did for "White America."

However, this is clearly reductive.

Music is for everyone.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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If this doesn't make you feel better consult your doctor.

Love Train - The O' Jays

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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For this track George Clinton walked over to Eddie Hazel and told him to "play like you just found out your mother died."

The guitar solo rings out with a voice that 10,000 cats in an alley couldn't replicate.

Genius. Immortal. Classic.

Eddie Hazel.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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Immortal classic for the ages.

Pretty sure cosmos itself aligned and this album and indeed track is a cosmic sigil that pierces the veil between a) what is known, b) what is unknown and c) what will never been known.

Can you get to that?

I wanna know

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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Bill Callahan.

Two masters for the price of one?

"Met a woman in a bar
Told her I was hard to get to know
And near impossible to forget
She said I had an ego on me
The size of Texas."

"No matter how far wrong you've gone, you can always turn around"

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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Gil Scott-Heron is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He used music as the means to get heard.

I listen to him often.

Oddly - I'm drawn to these two songs right now- both covers.

He is ammending the Satanic Blues myth here. Masterfully.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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British counterpart to the Great Bill Fox was Adrian Borland.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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"The blood of the indian tribes / was it spilled so we could have such a life."

"Even Egypt set beneath the sun"

"Call the FBI and CIA" <- You could use a different four-letter word about them.

And it's not Love.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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This song discusses the U.S. bombing Iran in 2023. Also talks about "south of sudan", "ops", "scooby doo", "west bank" "propaganda", "superbowl." Etc

In Irish culture namesake is important.

Try read The Yellow Bittern (Heaney trans.) if you're curious.

[I'm not Stanislaus @For_Stanislaus]

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Madlib is the greatest currently living producer as far as I'm concerned.

This short track when it released was really significant in my artistic development.

I follow Nonames Bookclub. I've read shockingly little compared to her.

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