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Post by **Brian** » Mon November 15th, 2010, 2:13 pm

Excel 2007 for Dummies

how exciting

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Mon November 15th, 2010, 3:19 pm

562 pages? Woah. Alright, that Like, Misunderstood sounds amazing. I'm defo checking that out. Thanks for the recommendation.

Does Ugly Things still exist? I used to love that magazine. I remember in the early 90s reading a HUGE article on the history of the MisFits in there. I'm sure that seems quite "so what" now, but then they were still a band of mystery. I mean, where else can you read a 12 page history of Kim Fowley?

Right now I'm blowing through Elephant to Hollywood, Michael Caine's second autobiography. I LOVE this man in all his Cockney style and class, but I wish that this book wasn't so full of minimalist stories that come across as little more than excuses to name drop. All the same, I'm sure I'll go back and read his first autobiography at some point.

Related, several years ago I read an amazing book called Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London. I loved the stories of roommates Caine and Terence Stamp prowling around London what they wore, who they hung out with, where they ate and drank. The book wasn't solely focused on them, but it did a great job of tying together the music, fashion, film, art and photography scenes and showing how that scene evolved. Highly recommended if you dig that kind of history.

sleyja · Post by **sleyja** » Mon November 15th, 2010, 3:42 pm

badcarburetor wrote:562 pages? Woah. Alright, that Like, Misunderstood sounds amazing. I'm defo checking that out. Thanks for the recommendation.

Does Ugly Things still exist? I used to love that magazine. I remember in the early 90s reading a HUGE article on the history of the MisFits in there. I'm sure that seems quite "so what" now, but then they were still a band of mystery. I mean, where else can you read a 12 page history of Kim Fowley?

Yeah. Ugly Things is still around. I think they are up to about 30 issues now. It come out once or twice a year and it's crammed, and I mean crammed, with good stuff. That Misfits issue is worth big $ now.

http://www.ugly-things.com/

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Mon November 15th, 2010, 4:05 pm

Man, finding out shit like is kind of a bummer. I mean, I'm stoked that Ugly Things is still thriving, but it makes me think of all the awesome print zines that have shit the bed in the last decade. And, even for the ones that are still around, it's a bitch for me to run into them. Used to be that Tower was the one stop shop for all things print about music/subcultures. Even Criminal seems to have cut back on their zine selection. Sucks. Reading "zines" online just fails to have the same punch.

Thinking of Ugly Things reminded me of an Aussie zine that I used to love called Noise for Heroes, Music for Zeros. It had the same obsessive quality about it that makes Ugly Things so great, if not the depth of journalism. Great punk zine. Looks like most of it is archived here: http://www.nkvdrecords.com/topnfh.htm.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Mon November 15th, 2010, 7:43 pm

Diana wrote:
Metalfreak wrote:If you like reading about someone's acid trips, car/ motorcycle accidents, mishaps with the law, and their views on what America has become, then you'll enjoy it.
Uhm - yes, yes & yes. Link to this please when it's available.

forgot about the requests to put up a link so here's one:

http://books.google.com/books?id=nlucDT ... &q&f=false

Diana · Post by **Diana** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 12:50 pm

Metalfreak wrote:http://books.google.com/books?id=nlucDT ... &q&f=false

HA! The whole book is online? I was planning to toss him some money for it. Oh well.

Thanks for the link!

Brian wrote:Excel 2007 for Dummies

how exciting

Brian, don't read that garbage. I can teach you Excel in 10 minutes. Call me.

slut rag · Post by **slut rag** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 2:24 pm

goosebumps.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Wed November 17th, 2010, 5:28 pm

Diana wrote:
Metalfreak wrote:http://books.google.com/books?id=nlucDT ... &q&f=false
HA! The whole book is online? I was planning to toss him some money for it. Oh well. Thanks for the link!

Brian wrote:Excel 2007 for Dummies

how exciting
Brian, don't read that garbage. I can teach you Excel in 10 minutes. Call me.

yeah I know that's what I thought lol

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu November 18th, 2010, 11:49 am

the internet

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Mon December 27th, 2010, 12:45 pm

Vince Neil - Tattoos and Tequila

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty redundant at this point. Dude tells some ok tales, but he's not particularly self aware or revealing. This book has nothing on The Greatest Story Ever Told - The Dirt, not *that* was a fully exposed rock n' roll memoir. It even beats out Crazy from the Heat for my favorite book of all time.

Next up with be Keith Richards new memoir.

I love this trash.

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Mon December 27th, 2010, 1:50 pm

The Keef book is pretty great!

Moloc · Post by **Moloc** » Wed December 29th, 2010, 12:48 am

Under the Dome by Stephen King. (When I have time between diaper changes.)

WREKage-Paul · Post by **WREKage-Paul** » Wed December 29th, 2010, 2:32 am

Juggler of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward Lerner. I was overdue for some good SF after reading a few good fantasy books...Towers of Midnight (Jordan and Sanderson) and Hedge Knight (George R.R. Martin).

I'm also skimming through Mean Deviation, the history of progressive metal, by Jeff Wagner (edited by Ian Christie). It's pretty fucking awesome, with a lot of nods to extreme metal along the way.

Diana · Post by **Diana** » Wed December 29th, 2010, 1:03 pm

badcarburetor wrote:Next up with be Keith Richards new memoir.

My brother sent this to me for Xmas. In large print. I can read it from across the room.

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Wed December 29th, 2010, 1:11 pm

Shit, the print was already LARGE. How many pages is the large print vers, 20,000?

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