Whatcha Readin'

[Kyburz at ASU.Edu]

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 Micah_Bedwell_at_PHPOST at mail.nextel.com wrote:

>      Oh, Listening,too:
>      
>      Vulgar Boatmen, Trashcan Sinatras, "Rhythm of the Saints", Jimmie Dale 
>      Gilmore, Bill Frisell,"Beatles at the BBC", "Guitar Paradise of East 
>      Africa".
>      
> 
> 
I reply here only to ask about the Vulgar Boatmen.
I dated . . . well, let's just ask:  do you refer to the GAinseville 
VB's, or other?  Is Walter with this version?  Saw him with the Silos 
(remember, long ago named Rolling Stone's best new American band?) in 
Tampa years ago.  Anyhow, there's this great club here, in Tempe (near 
Phoenix, which I LOVE) called Gibson's--very small but gets great bands.  
I saw The Heads (No Talking; Just Heads), with all the old group sans 
David.  Singing was Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) and she was 
great!  I always thought I hated her.  Also saw The Wedding Present, who 
were fabulous, and also some other one-hit-wonder band of late.  Coming 
are Cibo Matto (wonderful Japanese, all-female band doing disco songs 
nearly all based upon food--you recall "I KNow My Chicken"?) with The 
CArdigans (MIke apologized to me when he said he'd be marrying the 
singer--ha ha).  Oh--just realized how the above sounds--I did not date 
Walter.  Anyhow, on with this drivel.  I always listen to The Smiths, The 
Stranglers (I know, grow up), The Talking Heads.  Now, I"m listening to 
The Velvet Underground a lot, and I am amazed at how little attention 
Cale and Eno's collaboration got (the most recent, can't recall the 
title, emblematically).  Others. . . . Beck, U2, Liz Phair, No Doubt (I 
know), a lot more.,  Mike is mysteriously caught listening to Steely Dan 
lately (ugh--can't take it, ever since I listened to them the whole night 
through once, while enjoying some horrible drug in the 80's).  He always 
listens to David Bowie and Velvet Underground, but is always up on what's 
"current," through CMJ (he used to manage the college radio station at 
USF and hasn't left certain  practices behind).  Oh, CMJ--College Music 
Journal (they put out a monthly mag with a free CD inside --a sampler).  
Sorry to condescend to those who know this already.

Oh, that *was* a thrill.

What I am reading:  Ira Shor's "When STudents Have Power:  Negotiating 
Authority in a Critical Pedagogy."  I'm reviewing it and it is really 
pretty good.  Also, still plugging away on a slow 2nd read of GR.  
Glancing back at IJ now and then (give him a chance, eh?)  A funny 
thing:  My mother-in-law got a collection of essays called "Tennis or The 
Meaning of LIfe" to which DFW comments on the back cover:  "I have no 
complaints except that the title's redundant."  ha.  I liked it anyhow.

Ok, also reading a book on the history of science (Einstein's REvolution) 
which is really informative, esp toward my diss., also a book calle d 
"The Philosophy of Science," an apparent doctoral thesis with some merit, 
and a lot of Composition journals.  God I'm exciting.

Happy New Year,


Bonnie L. Kyburz, Instructor
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