"Did Preminger have an eyepatch? "  Monocles don't count.  But a monocle over an eyepatch would be a win-win.

I've got a song up on Spotify and I've made (checking tracking report . . .) 18 cents over 1 year.  That's like a dime AND a nickel AND three pennies.  I guess I should think about cashing out soon.

Hah, I just started The Conformist 2 days ago and am loving it so far.  I've read most of Moravia's novels and short stories but missed a couple of earlier ones like this.  He always seemed the most Italian of Italian authors to me.

Beryl Bainbridge - The Girl In The Polka-Dot Dress - Her last unfinished novel.  Reads more like her earlier, quirky novels (Injury Time, Sweet William) than her later historical fictions.  
Georges Simenon - The Cat - well written, novel of an elderly couple's dysfunctional relationship.  Many amusing touches
Kono…

I think he's got Portuguese and Spanish and Italian and Ukrainian and an occasional word from Hutz's own private gypsy language on that record.

but the "L-M-N-O-P" line is classic.

"American Pie" is my hatesong pick.  It goes on forever with the same boring melody - sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but still the same, awful  melody.  And the rhymes sound like something a middle-schooler would've come up with.

"his future might lie in more substantial work with female vocalists"
- like that female (at least I think she was) that sang "In heaven everything is fine"

Man Or Astroman for song titles like "Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage"

When I hear "Black Hole Sun" all I hear is too much time in a studio and way too much overproduction/sweetening/whatever.  I think "Black Hole Sun" is to the 90's what "Hotel California" is to the 70's.

Throw some Georges Perec in there "Life: A User's Manual".  And I didn't see Camus listed, make it "The Plague".

gass's middle c is probably the best recent book I've read.  What a unique writer, hope he lives another 20 years so he can write another novel.New Laszlo Krasznahorkai coming out this month - can't wait.

Great news for Callista!  New CNN contract means these lovebirds can re-open that Tiffany's credit account.

William Gass "Middle C" - finally finished it, a slow read but worthwhile.  Similar in style to The Tunnel. Apparently took him about 20 years to write and he's 88 so probably the last novel we'll see from Gass.

I read some of those Re/Search books years ago on loan from a friend.  The books on J.G. Ballard and Industrial Culture were majorly interesting.

And, to make it worse, "Closing Time" was 11 minutes long.  At least that what it seemed like.  Just like the weatherdweeb says "it's 82 degrees but feels like 104" this song may be 3 or 4 minutes but feels like 11.

"Reflections in Blue" album from 1977 has some great tunes.  Little bit blues, little bit r&b and soul and all really tasteful.  One of my go-to albums for 70's soul.

That's a good one.  He's got so many songs like that but if you see him in concert he's the most cheerful guy, full of jokes.

It's a tossup to me on Thompson's most nihilistic song: End of The Rainbow or I'll Regret It All In The Morning from his next album, Hokey Pokey.
"Whisky helps to clear my head
Bring it with you into bed
If I beat you nearly dead
I'll regret it all in the morning
I'm so drunk I couldn't care
If that's a wig or your own hair
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Gruppo Sportivo Superman from 1978 with a great tribute to Frank Zappa.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCt…