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…I just read two autobiographical Louis Armstrong books, first Satchamo, my life in New Orleans, tells the tail of Louis’ early life growing up poor as dirt in the south, it was well written and not like a polished auto-biogrphy written with help from a accomplished author, this book was belted out by the man with his own two hands, thus it is a bit rough around the edges but makes for a more real expierence. Next was Louis Armstrong, In his own words, which was a collection of his writing from essays to letters to magizene articles to proposed chapters to a sequel to Satchamo, the only issue i had with the two books was that he contridicts himself in some of his stories for instance how he got his first cornet, in Satchmo it was at reform school, and then in his own words he speaks of getting it from his bosses he delivered coal for and even saving money for it in another story, beyond that this writing is so powerful in it’s simplicity and passion much like his music…
…currently i am reading Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son, it is a collection of letters from Lord Chesterfield to his illigiamate son, circa 1700’s and they are packed with advice from how to behave around royality to how to woo women, interesting stuff…
The Lord of The Rings-Two Towers, Book 5.
okay veyr exciting, i got the 20th anniversary edition for christmas and i finished fellowship of the ring and book 4 of the two towers.
book 4 is way more exciting than book 5.
Quote:…I just read two autobiographical Louis Armstrong books, first Satchamo, my life in New Orleans, tells the tail of Louis’ early life growing up poor as dirt in the south, it was well written and not like a polished auto-biogrphy written with help from a accomplished author, this book was belted out by the man with his own two hands, thus it is a bit rough around the edges but makes for a more real expierence. Next was Louis Armstrong, In his own words, which was a collection of his writing from essays to letters to magizene articles to proposed chapters to a sequel to Satchamo, the only issue i had with the two books was that he contridicts himself in some of his stories for instance how he got his first cornet, in Satchmo it was at reform school, and then in his own words he speaks of getting it from his bosses he delivered coal for and even saving money for it in another story, beyond that this writing is so powerful in it’s simplicity and passion much like his music……currently i am reading Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son, it is a collection of letters from Lord Chesterfield to his illigiamate son, circa 1700’s and they are packed with advice from how to behave around royality to how to woo women, interesting stuff…
………..i hate to be the Grammar Police…….but, man…………that whole post has only one period. that’s a whole lot to say in just 2 sentences
.i have never been much of a Satchmo fan, but the books sound pretty cool. if you had to recommend only one of them, which would it be? also, if yer a fan of that genre, definitely check out "Beneath the Underdog" by charles mingus…..it’s a really quick read, and highly entertaining
.Just started this memoire of one of Picasso’s lovers called Loving Picasso, quite interesting, starts when she is quite young and discovering the highs and lows of love, raw and intriguing…
hope to be reading this soon, sounds great…
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well they didn’t have the strange loop book, had to order it in so picked up This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin. Breaks down why we love the music we do from a cognitive psychology/neuroscience perspective…
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Images from an experiment to locate the neural regions of the brain involved in listening to music. Daniel Levitin and another scientist scanned the brains of 13 people as they listened to scrambled and unscrambled versions of a tune.Reading this picture type book about Hendrix i found in the library, had been staring at me in the dark corner i read at and i decided to pick it up after the Picasso phase, it is called the Hendrix Expirence or something and it is small but is co-written by Mitch Mitchium or is is Mitchell anyway the guy that drummed in the expirence so hearing his story of Hendrix is fun and the pictures are pleasing…
Some biography about Che, My Friend Che, by one of his revolution buddies, good insight, making me wish i had the drive to try and fix the unfixable…
I’m going to re-read Harold Pinter’s the Birthday Party. Saw on the DVD that J was into Nick Cave’s band of the same name and wondered if the name is a coincidence or if J has read it also. As I recall, it’s about an unhappy young man and the people in his life, his girlfriend?, his parents.
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