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shite, i've ordered way too many books now. it started with a discussion with max over the Pirate's Dilema, which led to me borrowing Heath and Potter's 'The Rebel Sell', Iain Sinclair's 'Disappearing London' and Thorstein Veblen's "The Theory Of The Leisure Class". The latter especially fitted into a couple of books i'd got from the library, histories of victorian london, a theme i'd begun to dug into. I'd also ordered Peter Ackroyd's 'London: A Biography'. So far, i've gotten through 'The Rebel Sell' and 'The Theory Of The Leisure Class', a quarter of 'London: A Biography', and a history of the London Underground which a guy at work lent to me. Then with Ruaridh's upcoming psychogeography themed peformance for the gig this sunday, it seemed to be the underlying meme to much of my recent reading material, so i just finished another book i had got, Merlin Coverley's 'Psychogeography' which provided a good overview of all the overlapping themes and ideas which fall under the umbrella name, plus a short bio/description of most of the notable names associated with the practise. From that I've ended up on an Amazon spending spree and now have before me a selection of books thats gonna take me weeks to get through:
Peter Ackroyd's 'Hawksmoor' (which i just realised is where Warren Ellis must take inspiration for his Jack Hawksmoor character in The Authority).
Robert Louis Stephenson 'Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde' (only 88 pages - surely thats not correct??)
Daniel Defoe's 'Moll Flanders'
I'm sure there is some Stewart Home and JG Ballard on they're way too. oh, and a copy of Bill Drummond's '17'!

I was gonna write some music reviews but i think i should stop procrastinating and get some reading done. Just a quick note then of three things i've been quite into recently - Growing's 'All The Way' album is pretty strange and noisey for a drone album, going pretty organic techno at points; The Ragga Twin's retrospective on Soul Jazz 'Ragga Twins Step Out' is fucking awesome, and today i picked up Madlib's new 'Beat Konducta Vol. 5 Dil Cosby Suite' which is sounding pretty good too.

Labels: books, psychogeography, reviews