What are you reading?

[AKA*NYC]

here are two more violent outbursts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUPtf_IbVCU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeijcg6Umo&feature=related

and also an extended version of the baghdad rant w/ english subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExfLOwmSD88&feature=related

[AKA*NYC]

yes but my grasp of the language and especially idiom is highly tenuous. i can read and speak just enough to get by.

[Fade to Black]

I can't understood the spoken language so the impact of the videos is lost on me

However reading the translated rant above I dig this guy. He makes Ari Gold look bashful.

[mamaboy]

limonov "eto ia edichka"--his only book for me....so touching ,intimate prose....but im afraid i ll be alone here....
bye the way anibody appreciate celine?took me awile to sqeeze this juice into my mouth.....but im so slow learner...

[zamb]

the passion of the Western mind- Richard Tarnas

[loveless]

the reader (yea, i know its a movie but the book is actually pretty good and short)

[Fuuma]

the reader (yea, i know its a movie but the book is actually pretty good and short)

Book isn't bad but I read it awhile ago so it's kinda hazy. Film is one of those "for your attention" international cast thing like the english patient, right?

[destroyed]

rene daumal's poems
this stuff is new to me but it is riveting
he is an og psychonaut----wish i'd come across this stuff a decade ago

[Schadenfreude]

[grapz]

Reading hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world

[Faust]

The Gift by Lewis Hyde

Struggling with this. Laika, have you read it?

[c.r.e.a.m.]

Reading hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world

weird, me too. i just got done re-reading wind up bird chronicles. murakami just never gets old.

[D_S]

plenty more

Thanks for the link but my russians not so good :)

Been super busy the last 2 weeks but when I have some down time im definitely gonna get a friend to translate for some late night entertainment

[destroyed]

yeah i am going to read mount analogue (on my shelf) after i get through wind up bird chronicle (100 pages left) and cyclonopedia (about 150 left!); i arrived at daumal through jodorowsky as well.

henri michaux looks like a kindred soul. will look into it, thanks!

[klangspiel]

daumal's fascinating isn't he? and he's just the tip of a larger iceberg of personalities which hovered around and outside of the breton / aragon junta, notably his immediate circle of comrades -- the simplistes / le grand jeu -- gilbert-lecomte, vailland, de bouly, sima (great great painter), de reneville, henry, et al.
gilbert-lecomte in particular is worth checking out for further psychonautic expeditions.

and yea, glad to see michaux mentioned here. a kindred spirit for sure. light through darkness was a long-standing bedroom companion a few years ago. the 5th chapter "chasm-situations" -- oh boy, a real page turner (randomly if you wish) :)
interestingly, the local library has it shelved in the science / medical section amongst other books on psychological observations of substance abuse.