“Lipostudio . . . And So On” — Matmos

Matmos Improvises with a Bird Cage

“As Time Goes By” — Harry Nilsson

“This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us” — Sparks (Live in 1974)

Post-Halloween Sugar High

Watch Moog, a 2004 Documentary about Robert Moog, Pioneer of Electronic Music

Jim O’Rourke at Work on the Grizzly Man Soundtrack; Special Appearance by Werner Herzog

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

“Los Angeles” — Frank Black

Book Shelves #40, 9.30.2012

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Book shelves series #40, fortieth Sunday of 2012

So we dip into the penultimate book shelf in this series, the one I shot last week in hazy hangover.

(This shelf is lower right; I’ll be working down to up and right to left).

Kids puzzles and a toy accordion block some books on folklore, history, and music.

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As always, sorry for the glare, blur, and poor lighting. Blame my ancient iPhone 3gs .

A book my grandmother gave me a few years ago:

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Sample:

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This is a wonderful old collection:

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Pissing in the Snow: I’ve gone to that well more than once.

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Kind of a motley crew here; the Barthes is misshelved but the lit crit shelves above are too full, so . . .

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Musical bios. More of these are scattered around the house. I gave away a few recently.

Some of these books made it on to a list I wrote of seven great books about rock and roll.

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Anthony Scaduto’s Dylan bio, which I, ahem, *borrowed* from my uncle years ago.

It made the rounds in high school but I managed to get it back somehow (but not its cover):

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David Byrne — Sessions At West 54th (Interviews and Live Performance, Full Show)

“Who” — David Byrne and St. Vincent

“Duquesne Whistle” — Bob Dylan

Black Orpheus (Full Film)

The Compleat Beatles (Full 1982 Documentary)

Bluebeard’s Castle — Béla Bartók (Full Performance)

“Cities” (Live in 1980) — Talking Heads