I'd be more offended if they'd done this to a Fear song or an Angry Samoans song.  Actually they SHOULD do this to GG Allin.  I wonder if they kept the lyrics for Anti Social Masturbator or Last in Line for the Gang Bang or Suck My Ass It Smells (god, every song's a winner…) and transformed the music if they could…

I'm trying to fill in some of the obvious gaps in my reading history, so I just finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn after meaning to read it for, like, fifteen years.  I liked it a lot although it got really annoying when Tom Sawyer showed up and started fucking around talking bullshit.  Next I'm going to get…

GREAT book.  Gormenghast is my favorite of those books.  Really amazing.

I don't think I've ever heard this song but I like it a lot.  Favorite Shellac tune ever is going to be Watch Song.  That song never gets boring.  But as far as bands go, I'd definitely take Big Black over Rapeman and Shellac.

The sort of vapid non-argument that passes for literary criticism, like — hey, if I describe this with as many confusing words as possible, people will forget that I'm saying the most boring, dull, obvious things imaginable about a particular work!  The gist I got from Franco's essay was that "American Psycho" is a…

Shit-moths, Randy.  Shit-moths.

I don't know if I'd call Celine my favorite writer, but he's definitely one of them.  There's this urgency about him that's so unlike anything else I've ever read — especially North and Rigadoon (haven't read Castle to Castle yet).

I've only read one by Gombrowicz — Ferdydurke.  Pretty hilarious and bizarre.  John Updike said it had some of the truest and funniest literary satire available.  I don't know if I'd go that far, but definitely worth reading for the sheer weirdness of it.

A cool project, and you seem to have a pretty decent list there.  I only skimmed it, but I'll offer you some names it looks like you may have missed (or I may have missed them, because… I skimmed it): Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Thomas Bernhard, Isaac Babel, Witold Gombrowicz, Fernando Pessoa, Malcolm Lowry.

I'm reading Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks right now.  The Magic Mountain is probably one of my favorite books, but I haven't read anything else by him, so I picked this up on a whim a couple of days ago.  It's pretty great, and fucking miraculous, since apparently he was only 26 or something when it was published.  I…

HA, that's a great description for it.

I agree with you on V.  Pynchon's one of my favorite writers, but I could never understand people who put that work over any of his others.  And Gravity's Rainbow is way too manic, and there are just too many crazy, fascinating plots, to ever be really boring.

DAMN IT LITTLE RED UNDERLINES CLAIMING FOREWARD ISN'T A WORD, MAKING ME LOOK LIKE A CHUMP, I TRUSTED YOU

"Nationalism is an infantile disease… It is the measles of mankind." — Albert Einstein
We're not so much amoral as we are stupid, apathetic, and lazy.  Is that such a crime?  Anyway, this country was founded on a bedrock of hypocrisy, so what're we supposed to do?  I hate whenever any so-called patriot uses the word…

I tried to find the forward online, just so I could read it and hate it and get that feeling of pleasurable hate that I always seem to get from James Franco.  That special kind of tingly English lit major hate.

Yeah I had the exact same reaction to the Divine Fits album.  Spoon I can take or leave, but I luv the New Bomb Turks to death.

This is one of those bands who're responsible for some songs that're so great, it doesn't really make sense that I haven't explored them more.  I've only heard bits of Scream Dracula Scream and Born in 69 makes me ridiculously happy.  Another kind of similar band: New Bomb Turks, who're probably one of the best punk…

Man, I just want to hear about how this makes Harold Bloom freak the fuck out.

So MUCH amazing and hilarious hate in this article!  The Jesus Lizard probably being my favorite band, I always love hearing about whatever trivial opinions David Yow happens to have at any given time.  "I think Stephen Stills should be tortured to death." is a t-shirt slogan or something waiting to happen.  I'D WEAR…

Yeah I'm pretty excited for it.  I've been meaning to read it for awhile, but had trouble finding it in used bookstores.  I think I'll either love Witz or loathe it, but I'm REALLY hoping for the latter.