Books I want to read:

The City of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Parenthood Decision
Cheerfully Childless
MisConceptions by Naomi Wolfe
Survivor: A Novel
The Batille Reader
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Kite Runner
The Way of All Flesh By Samuel Butler

The White Plague by Frank Herbert
Independence Day by Richard Ford
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bello
The Power and the Glory by Graham Green
The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse
The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Beyond Stretching : Russian Flexibility Breakthroughs by Pavel Tsatsouline
The WInd-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Free Lecture

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 7 P.M.
Anne Waldman discusses her life as a Beat poet with Harry Ransom Center Curator of British and American Literature Molly Schwartzburg. This free lecture occurs at the Harry Ransom Center.

Waldman co-founded with Allen Ginsberg the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she serves as the Artistic Director of the Summer Writing Program. She has published dozens of books of poetry, and her work has been translated into several languages.

This program is presented in conjunction with the Ransom Center's current exhibition On the Road with the Beats.

Recording

Looks like recording will start in June for the new Sweet Lee Morrow album. There are plans to record with Grammy-nominated producer John Congleton

Sweet Lee Morrow was just signed to Good Records

Congrats, boys!

Toxic Cleanse

Sometimes exit is the best option. Some people stay far too long in toxic relationships, exploitative jobs, and other horrific situations. Anger is the good friend that urges us to leave these situations, that won't let us feel comfortable enduring mistreatment. When you see the sign that says exit, head for it. Sometimes exit entails physically leaving a person or organization. More often, though, it means detaching at a deep emotional level by acknowledging that you are on different wavelengths.

I sold my Bike

I finally sold my bike. Goodbye, bike!

C.S. Lewis - the "Virgin Mary" of the Church of Christ

It’s hard to defend the idea that Lewis really is writing for nonbelievers — or even intended to. It’s more plausible that he was writing for believers and that the ridicule of nonbelievers helps create a sense of “us vs. them” solidarity among believers who have faith but don't realize that they have reason behind them as well. They can join together in pitying the poor, benighted atheists.

Sweet Lee Morrow

April 3, 2008
Austinist Show Preview: The Fever Dreams, Haunting Oboe Music, Visitors, & Sweet Lee Morrow @ Antone's

If you’re in the mood to delve into the music of some fine local acts, you will not want to miss SureFire Media + Promotion’s latest event at Antone’s tonight. When we last checked in with them, we learnt of their plans to bring fresh faces to the historic venue on 5th St. Thursday’s bill features four exciting bands primed for their moment of glory in the Live Music Capital. Haunting Oboe Music has been ubiquitous in the past year, playing everywhere, from The Parlor up north to the Do512 Compound down south, and almost every Red River venue in between. The ambitious band plans to drop an EP every month this year; you can read our review for January’s h here and buy it, along with the February, March, and April releases at Waterloo Records or via iTunes. The Fever Dreams’ experimental psychedelic concoctions are intriguing to the say the least, with numerous twists and turns throughout. The outfit’s versatile creations can be found on last year’s Tregan of Polycorns, also available at Waterloo Records, as well as End of an Ear and Cheapo Discs....