posted October 21, 2005 10:22 AM         

Any posters have recommendations?

In a - if you like this (example) than you should listen to or read (example) this?

My recommendation: The new Neil Young - Prairie Wind... awesome

I really like his music. However, he has released (in my opinion) some pretty horrible stuff (Are you Passionate?).

This c.d. has more of the Harvest Moon feel.
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posted October 21, 2005 11:26 AM         

I accidently discovered Isobel Campbell recently; http://www.isobelcampbell.com/

I haven't heard an album as yet, but I've got a feeling I'll like some of her stuff from the vibe and music on the website.

I'm going to order one soon.

posted October 21, 2005 11:30 AM         

If you'd like to read a good book, try The Poisonwood Bible - by Barbara *something*

This is a 3 inch thick book that I read in 4 days.

Very moving, very enlightening, very entertaining.

It's interesting because each chapter is done in 'first person' by a different family member. It's like reading all of the family's individual journals. And the things that happen to this family, CRAZY.

They're a family from the deep south of the U.S., who's father (and dictator) is a Baptist preacher, and he drags them to the depths of Africa to "share the Good Word" that Jesus is their savior - and he doesn't exactly get received well, nor does the rest of his family. Then, they have to adapt to the realities of living in the jungle, and it's just not an easy adaptation.

There are 3 daughters, each very different. One is a shallow beauty queen/egomaniac, one is a sweet young thing who is brilliant, competitive, and very boyish, the other is mamed physically, and also mentally/emotionally caged. The mother is just trying to be a good mom & wife, but HATES her husband...

And they all go through this together. Some come out alive, others don't.

The journey is poignent and transformational for all of them. You end the book with a feeling that you'd like to know how they're doing now, but the end of the book does go into the future and tells you where they all ended up. But you still feel like you'd like to keep in touch. You know what I'm talking about.

posted October 21, 2005 11:42 AM         

I was a little upset that when I went to look at the lyrics it wasn't saying anything uplifting as I had thought. "If you follow every dream," sounds good so far... "You might get," yes? yes? "...lost" Bummer

posted October 21, 2005 12:13 PM         

Sheaa: I checked into the Isobel site. I like it! May be another c.d. purchase.

Ms. lioneye: You have that way about you that gets me hooked Your excitement is contagious. Your book suggestion sounds interesting and worth checking out.

Rob: I've heard Donovan. If Belle and Sebastian sound like them and/or Isobel, than I'm sure I'll enjoy.

AG: Well, I sort of view a lot of his music like poetry. I don't always get a meaning from it... but I do like the feeling/emotion expressed.

Thanks all.
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posted October 21, 2005 12:20 PM         

If you're even a fraction of a romantic/idealist/adventurer.

Non-fiction. Fast read.

Into the Wild
by JON KRAKAUER

"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.
http://www.booksellersnow.com/bsnintothewild.htm

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posted December 01, 2005 10:47 AM         

So I have a recommendation for a book that I enjoyed.

Cash: The Autobiography

posted December 02, 2005 09:52 AM         

Based from the 2 song sample (Hymn for Her and Anima Sola) feel... I like it.

I love hearing new music. (Especially when I like it).

posted December 02, 2005 12:49 PM         

I am reading Anne Rice's The Witching Hour. I'm just in the beginning of the novel, but so far it's an intriguing story about an old witchy family that immigrated from the sugar cane islands to New Orleans.

posted December 02, 2005 01:07 PM         

I have that book!

I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

It does look interesting. I think the old New Orleans feel is what appealed me the most.

Now that cold weather is here... I may just have to break it out.

Edited - The Lestat production sounds entertaining.

posted December 08, 2005 01:33 PM         

I saw their show a couple of months ago.

NOTE: The name of band may offend some.
http://www.theheartlessbastards.com/HTMLobj-101/NewResolution.mp3

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posted December 09, 2005 05:24 PM         

Kewl that some of you guys know of The Witching Hour. So far I like it, but become a lil frightened when reading it at night. *shrugs her shoulders* It's a bit creepy. Hehe.

posted February 15, 2006 02:36 PM         

It's gooooood.

Will be a new addition to my collection.