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Ass burgers. :):blush:

 

Is that a glossy top-shelf magazine? :)

 

You're the one that read a book about it! It's a syndrome apparently. :blush:

 

Oh, I see what you did there. <_<

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Back from the Brink - Paul McGrath

 

Now, usually footballers autobiographies are utter turd (anyone managed to get through all of Shearer's? Jesus Wept tbh) but this one is simply brilliant. It's well written (by his ghost writer obviously) and is a pretty honest account of the problems he had with drink. He also doesn't try to play the victim, he admits to being a twat when drunk, and pretty much being drunk most of the 90's. Excellent book imo.

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Second Son - Charles Sailor.

 

Superb book, quite rare, its the story of a construction worker who falls from from a sky scraper but survives the fall, and discovers he has christ-like powers, the church try to prove he is a charlatan but the media promote him as the second coming, best book I've read in a long time.

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I've raided the shelves of the gay section at Lewisham Library again - well, it's actually a trolley that they keep moving around. Social exclusion-tastic! :icon_lol: - so I'll be ploughing my way through Colm Tóibín's The Story Of The Night and Felice Picano's The Book Of Lies over Christmas. Picked up Nick Cave's novel too, looked like it might be worth a look.

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I've raided the shelves of the gay section at Lewisham Library again - well, it's actually a trolley that they keep moving around. Social exclusion-tastic! :icon_lol: - so I'll be ploughing my way through Colm Tóibín's The Story Of The Night and Felice Picano's The Book Of Lies over Christmas. Picked up Nick Cave's novel too, looked like it might be worth a look.

 

Never been a fan of his music but his film was very good (The Proposition).

 

Nobody's Perfect by Anthony Lane

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I've raided the shelves of the gay section at Lewisham Library again - well, it's actually a trolley that they keep moving around. Social exclusion-tastic! :icon_lol: - so I'll be ploughing my way through Colm Tóibín's The Story Of The Night and Felice Picano's The Book Of Lies over Christmas. Picked up Nick Cave's novel too, looked like it might be worth a look.

 

Never been a fan of his music but his film was very good (The Proposition).

 

Nobody's Perfect by Anthony Lane

His music prior and including Tender Prey is amazing, it was only after they removed the needle from his vein that his music turned to pap.

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I've been asked to play piano on a performance of "Into My Arms" at a friend's wedding next year. Well, they originally asked me to sing it too, but fuck that. :icon_lol:

It's not a hard song to sing young meenzer. Just tear the neck off the cheapest bottle of scotch you can find and smoke for the duration of the performance but never actually removing the fag from your mouth.

Either that or invest in a dime cap of smack and live the experience.

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I've been asked to play piano on a performance of "Into My Arms" at a friend's wedding next year. Well, they originally asked me to sing it too, but fuck that. :icon_lol:

It's not a hard song to sing young meenzer. Just tear the neck off the cheapest bottle of scotch you can find and smoke for the duration of the performance but never actually removing the fag from your mouth.

I said Nick Cave, not Tom Waits...

Either that or invest in a dime cap of smack and live the experience.

Now that'd do it. Depends if it's before or after the speeches I guess... :D

 

Fortunately I have a friend who can do the song justice, though. His voice already sounds thoroughly fucked-up without any of the actual drugginess - a gift indeed. :huh:

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I've been asked to play piano on a performance of "Into My Arms" at a friend's wedding next year. Well, they originally asked me to sing it too, but fuck that. :icon_lol:

It's not a hard song to sing young meenzer. Just tear the neck off the cheapest bottle of scotch you can find and smoke for the duration of the performance but never actually removing the fag from your mouth.

I said Nick Cave, not Tom Waits...

Either that or invest in a dime cap of smack and live the experience.

Now that'd do it. Depends if it's before or after the speeches I guess... :D

 

Fortunately I have a friend who can do the song justice, though. His voice already sounds thoroughly fucked-up without any of the actual drugginess - a gift indeed. :huh:

Yeah yeah don't go all Patrokles on me, I know the difference between the musical god that is Tom and the drug induced musical medium that is Nick Cave but you have to realise that back in the good old days Nick the stripper was performed that way.

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Just finished the '100 Years of Solitude' which is class (as has been mentioned on here before) although it took me a while to get into it. Almost finished the excellent short stories collection 'Revenge of the Lawn' by Richard Brautigan.

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Righto I need help

 

I am off away over Crimbo and after Crimbo and I have ran out of reading material

 

I Enjoy:-

 

Pratchett and Similar

Biographies (Mainly sport)

Horror

 

So what you suggest?

Assuming you have read the Hitchhiker's guide, have you read Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently stuff or Last chance to see?

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Righto I need help

 

I am off away over Crimbo and after Crimbo and I have ran out of reading material

 

I Enjoy:-

 

Pratchett and Similar

Biographies (Mainly sport)

Horror

 

So what you suggest?

 

Have you read any of the stainless steel rat stuff? They are pap novels but a bit entertaining in a light reading way.

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