Just finished Ubik last night—what a ride! I love that PKD just let it flow. I want to sample this interview for my next track!
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John Dies At The End
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is my favorite Murakami book. Ever read that one? Crazy.
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I remember loving it when I read it, but it’s been years, should go e it a reread soon.
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Well if you’re looking for a brutally honest answer, Hans, it’s vintage porn all the way for me, especially stuff from the 70s and 80s.
Mayfair Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1
Mayfair Magazine Vol. 19 No. 6
A boner most probably!
Just finished “Greener Pastures” by Michael Wehunt. Lovely collection of horror stories, mostly of the cosmic horror and inner drama variety. A few of my favorites:
–The title story: a very Twilight Zone tale where something is closing in on a trucker at a late-night diner.
–“October Film Haunt: Under the Haunt”: a group of horror fans seek out the film-site of a cult movie in a fresh take on found footage
–“A Discreet Music”: Aickman homage in which a widower finds his body physically transforming shortly after his wife’s death. Yes, the story is named after the Eno album
–“Onanon”: hits that “things man was not meant to know” vibe so well
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Pretty wild. I read it years ago, and I feel like, even for Murakami, that one is pretty out-there. I remember that there are unicorns involved.
I really owe his early works a re-read. It’s been too long.
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Pragmatic Thinking & Learning / Andy Hunt - re-reading this one a bit at a time
The Art of Attack in Chess / Vladimir Vukovic - slowly reading this one with the chess app open. it takes an hour to read a page
Electronic Music / Allen Strange - reading this one even more slowly. it needs to be much closer to the synths than where it is way over on the coffee table. it’s very dense, but it looks amazing. kudos to Jason Nolan et al for their work on the reprint
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There is something special about books like that.
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A little journey to India.
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr is one of the most amazing things I’ve read in a while.
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I’ve been on a horror kick recently, having just discovered Stephen Graham Jones. He’s a Native American writer with a mean streak like early Steven King, and a sense of humor that’s actually funny. He does body horror that captures some of the queasiness of Chuck Palanhuik, but without the unfocused social commentary that spins out halfway through. I’d best describe his work as folk horror, and it’s stomach churning in the best sense.
I finished his collection of short stories “The Ones That Got Away,” and it was consistently good. So, I picked up a full length novel (The Only Good Indians). I’m about halfway through and thoroughly enjoying it. I already know I’m going to plow through his entire back catalog.
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The Map and the Territory
The Possibility of an Island
I really like Houellebecq’s work.
I have just reread these two marvels.
I like it even more.
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Appropriate for Mother’s Day (US), I’m reading “Break It Down” by Lydia Davis and came across her story “Mothers”:
Mothers, when they are guests at dinner, eat well, like children, but seem absent. It is often the case that they cannot follow what we are doing or saying. It is often the case, also, that they enter the conversation only when it turns on our youth; or they accommodate when accommodation is not wanted; smile and are misunderstood. And yet mothers are always seen, always talked to, even if only on holidays. They have suffered for our sakes, and most often in a place where we could not see them.
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Just started American Pastoral. I love Philip Roth’s writing!
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An all timer for me, that book 
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This is a great book. Unfortunate that I have to put the same asterisk next to Houllebecq’s name that I do for Ye. sigh
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