comics

Here are the comics I want to get rid of, or at least the ones I think someone might want. I'm mostly just going to give the titles--if any of them interest you, let me know and I'll type in the individual issues and trade paperbacks.
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I also have the Clerks edition of Oni Double Feature, which appears to have been signed across the cover by two people who may have been Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, or perhaps Kirk Douglas and James Madison. Huh.

(Note: Where I've listed writers and not artists above, it's not to diminish the significance of the artist in the creative process. It's just that I'm lazy.)

more books

Books I read recently, or have finally given up believing I will someday read. I may change my mind about giving up a few of these.

Molly Bang, Picture This. The illustrator explains "how pictures work". Excellent.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The classic book on American urbanism.
Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show. The classic book on Texas ruralism.
Julian Dibbell, My Tiny Life. The classic book on LambdaMOO.
John Berger, Photocopies. Very short stories.
Clem Fiori, The Vanishing New Jersey Landscape. Black-and-white nature photographs.
James Thurber, Credos and Curios. Late work.
Salman Rushdie, East, West. Stories.
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Stories?
Al Burian, Burn Collector #12. Well-written zine about living in Chicago.
Kathleen Norris (ed.), Leaving New York: Writers Look Back. Anthology featuring Didion, Dylan, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, James, Kincaid, Capote, et al.
Rick Moody, The Black Veil. "A Memoir with Digressions" about, uh, a bad time in his life I guess.
McSweeney's #4. This is the one where the stories were bound separately, with cover art chosen by each author. Authors include Lethem, Moody, Murakami, Saunders, and Denis Johnson.

something different

This post is free-stuff-free.

On Friday night Vermillion Lies came back to the cafe, and I brought my accordion to the show and made them let me sit in on "Circus Fish". (In Half Moon Bay I'd played the lobster, but I correctly assumed they'd recruit a lobsterist from the Sketchbook Quartet this time.) It was fun, so I went down to Santa Cruz last night and did it again. They asked me to join them again on October 11 at Moe's Alley, which I may do, although I'd have to leave band practice early.

tapes

I don't know if anyone still listens to cassette tapes--I don't, except in the car--so I'm just going to post a few. Condition unknown.

Negativland, Escape from Noise. Doctor, am I losing my mind?
Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists, Show of Hands. Technically impressive.
Groove Collective, Hopelessly Live - Sketches of Pain. Tour-only live album by the jazz/funk/fusion band.
Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman, Song X. Free jazz. With Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, and Denardo Coleman.
David Bowie, Pin Ups. Cover album. I like his "See Emily Play."
Various Artists, Night Spirit Masters. Gnawa collection from Bill Laswell's Axiom label.
Shankar, Soul Searcher. Also from Axiom.