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Dinsdale Piranha
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 Posted - 04/18/2003 : 21:36:50
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Hey all,
I kinda brought this up in another, more frivolous thread for those who keep score. Lets dig deep and speculate and make things up and speak of things we may not know.
1. What (if any identifiable) books influence FB's creative output? Maybe he's a prolific or distinguished reader of sorts, maybe it all comes from other music, or films? Its all related....
2. What about people on the forum? What books are people finding homes in? What rings true and what exposed new possibilities?
For me, in an off the cuff list, I can throw out
Foucault's Pendulum, Name of the Rose, Island of the Day Before: Umberto Eco
Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon: Thomas Pynchon
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (anthology): Douglas Adams
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: William Shirer
Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners: James Joyce
Tons of other that I will think of later...
Hope this starts a healthy thread
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 01:51:46
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| I know that Big Red is about Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars), but that's all I've got off the top of my head. To quote you, "Tons of other[s] that I will think of later..." :) |
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 09:17:28
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for FB I think it is obvious that Ray Bradbury is in there.
Of course, the little green men stuff. But there are also these other great Bradbury books/tales that seem to resonate in the music.
There is this thing. The 12-year-old-simple-truthfulness to FB music. Just innocent but complex, like many characters in Bradbury (Dandelion wine, Something Wicked..., Dinosaur Tales........). Maybe I'm just reaching.
I now predominately read Phil (metaph., ehtics/morality) and all things cognition. No more time for leisurely reads. Though, I do have the pleasure of reading the ONION weekly.
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