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President Nixon

President Nixon

Richard Reeves

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The first president with no idealogy other than a desire to be president. So far, the best nuggets are his opinion of West Side Story ("Propaganda!") and soup.

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Japrocksampler: How The Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds On Rock 'n' Roll

Japrocksampler: How The Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds On Rock 'n' Roll

Julian Cope

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I'm so glad the royalties from "Charlotte Ann" enables Cope to create arcane historical studies like this one.

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Celine Dions Lets Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste | Carl Willson, Carl

LET'S TALK ABOUT TASTE

5 years ago

When the editors of Continuum's 33 1/3 book series rejected Toronto music critic Carl Wilson's initial pitch to write a book on Pere Ubu's Dub Housing, they asked him to come up with a “less obscure” album. Wilson upped the ante considerably and chose one of the top selling albums of all time – Céline Dion's Let's Talk About Love. For Wilson, it was a chance to boldly examine his own taste and the socio-economic divisions that music fandom is built on. We cultural studies fiends may be drooling… read review

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I, Tania

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A book that explains what REALLY happened in the SLA...by making everything up. more info at brianjosephdavis.com/tania.htm view post

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Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and the author of Portable Altamont, a collection that garnered praise from Spin Magazine for its "elegant, wise-ass rush of truth [and] hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes.” His audio art has been acclaimed by Wired, Pitchfork, and Salon and was recently collected on the Blocks Recording Club release the Definitive Host. Davis writes a monthly column for Arthur. I, Tania, his novel about the SLA will be available Oct 10th.
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