A Book and A Beer

The book I am reading and the beer I am drinking
Angry Orchard GLUTEN FREE Apple Ginger beer DO NOT ASK WHY. There is a severe dearth of acceptable beer options in my hood. But anyway, looking at it next too Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, they somehow seem to fit.Angela Carter’s badass feminist heroines would run through that Angry Orchard, eat the apple they weren’t supposed to, torch the place and make it rain. They would also probably drink some real booze.Or perhaps they would pack their boots in for the day and snuggle in with some of that Roasted Dandelion Root tea I have in the background, haha don’t hate.

Angry Orchard GLUTEN FREE Apple Ginger beer DO NOT ASK WHY. There is a severe dearth of acceptable beer options in my hood. But anyway, looking at it next too Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, they somehow seem to fit.
Angela Carter’s badass feminist heroines would run through that Angry Orchard, eat the apple they weren’t supposed to, torch the place and make it rain. They would also probably drink some real booze.
Or perhaps they would pack their boots in for the day and snuggle in with some of that Roasted Dandelion Root tea I have in the background, haha don’t hate.

I love K Records, I love Calvin Johnson, I love (most) Magic Hats, I love statuettes of angels, all things great.Love Rock Revolution is really a story I haven’t heard before. Calvin Johnson in his youth, all the behind-the-scenes friends, Evergreen State College freaks and punks, etc. I haven’t really gotten too far - Calvin just released the first K album - a cassette recording of Survival of the Coolest (by Heather’s band Supreme Cool Beings.) Reading LRR is kinda meta in that it’s a book about intense, nerdy, need-to-know young punks and that’s kinda what you realize you are in reading it. Does that make sense? Drink enough of these Magic Hat Tickets to Rye, and it’ll make sense. I always kinda forget that dark beers like this are always gonna be 7% ABV. Yeah, fun, obsessive times. I only regret that this copy is a proof. Am I missing any sweet photographs?

I love K Records, I love Calvin Johnson, I love (most) Magic Hats, I love statuettes of angels, all things great.
Love Rock Revolution is really a story I haven’t heard before. Calvin Johnson in his youth, all the behind-the-scenes friends, Evergreen State College freaks and punks, etc. I haven’t really gotten too far - Calvin just released the first K album - a cassette recording of Survival of the Coolest (by Heather’s band Supreme Cool Beings.) Reading LRR is kinda meta in that it’s a book about intense, nerdy, need-to-know young punks and that’s kinda what you realize you are in reading it. Does that make sense?

Drink enough of these Magic Hat Tickets to Rye, and it’ll make sense. I always kinda forget that dark beers like this are always gonna be 7% ABV. Yeah, fun, obsessive times.

I only regret that this copy is a proof. Am I missing any sweet photographs?

Book and a Beverage tonight. Been off the juice going on three weeks, and it’s cold anyway. So, homemade spicy chai tea (if you know a good recipe, get at me!) and The Lost Women of Rock music: Female musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington.I dig it cuz I’m a music geek and most of the bands focused on are the “never-woulda-known-otherwise” “Brighton-based-and-stayed-local” late 70s scene and FORGOTTEN bands because men like to re-write history to pretend women don’t play instruments.Got a long list of to-check-out bands now: mo-dettes, Dolly mixture, Au Pairs, Rubella Ballet, etc. And revisiting old favorites the Raincoats, the Slits, X Ray Spex, the mekons.This is an entertaining read and a very smart one too. Scholarly works on punk, is there anything better? maybe scholarly works on punk and chai tea.(Bonus book: Batman in background)One final thing:my Friend: Whatcha readin?me: Lost women of Rock musicfriend: Oh, I hope they found them.me: They did.

Book and a Beverage tonight. Been off the juice going on three weeks, and it’s cold anyway. So, homemade spicy chai tea (if you know a good recipe, get at me!) and The Lost Women of Rock music: Female musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington.
I dig it cuz I’m a music geek and most of the bands focused on are the “never-woulda-known-otherwise” “Brighton-based-and-stayed-local” late 70s scene and FORGOTTEN bands because men like to re-write history to pretend women don’t play instruments.
Got a long list of to-check-out bands now: mo-dettes, Dolly mixture, Au Pairs, Rubella Ballet, etc. And revisiting old favorites the Raincoats, the Slits, X Ray Spex, the mekons.This is an entertaining read and a very smart one too. Scholarly works on punk, is there anything better? maybe scholarly works on punk and chai tea.
(Bonus book: Batman in background)

One final thing:
my Friend: Whatcha readin?
me: Lost women of Rock music
friend: Oh, I hope they found them.
me: They did.

Yo Soy Chicana. TRU. This book speaks to me so deep. The beer, who needs it. There is la raza in my veins. El veinos. I’m drunk but who cares; read this. Please.

Yo Soy Chicana. TRU. This book speaks to me so deep. The beer, who needs it. There is la raza in my veins. El veinos. I’m drunk but who cares; read this. Please.

bootycaller: LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE LEGS THEY BARELY KNOW HOW TO STAND THEY’RE SO EXCITED FOR FOOD OHY GOD This is neither book nor beer related but I just had too. Sorry.

bootycaller:

LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE LEGS THEY BARELY KNOW HOW TO STAND THEY’RE SO EXCITED FOR FOOD OHY GOD

This is neither book nor beer related but I just had too. Sorry.

(via dudguacamole)

I like rap. I like poetry. This book, the Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley, is opening up new poetic and rap worlds and helping me feel less conflicted about “oh woe oh alas oh how about that iamb?” and “flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin my ash” Smart stuff. Fun stuff. On a guilt-free Busta kick.The beer is kicking too.

I like rap. I like poetry. This book, the Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley, is opening up new poetic and rap worlds and helping me feel less conflicted about “oh woe oh alas oh how about that iamb?” and “flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin my ash” Smart stuff. Fun stuff. On a guilt-free Busta kick.
The beer is kicking too.

I guess I should something this more often. I’m always reading. Always already drinking.The beer tonight is modelo. It works for me. The book tonight is My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairytales, edited by Kate Bernheimer. It is so super good. There is a mix of classical tellings and more modern works but they’re so great. You might recognize some of the names of the contributors - Aimee Bender, Neil Gaiman, Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates - others you will want to definitely check out. Compilations are good for that, at least, even though they fuck with my OCD (“Do I read the whole book straight through? Just a couple stories? Will I ever come back to the book if I skip around?”) DO IT UP.

I guess I should something this more often. I’m always reading. Always already drinking.
The beer tonight is modelo. It works for me. The book tonight is My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairytales, edited by Kate Bernheimer. It is so super good. There is a mix of classical tellings and more modern works but they’re so great. You might recognize some of the names of the contributors - Aimee Bender, Neil Gaiman, Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates - others you will want to definitely check out. Compilations are good for that, at least, even though they fuck with my OCD (“Do I read the whole book straight through? Just a couple stories? Will I ever come back to the book if I skip around?”) DO IT UP.

I have been HAVING ISSUES lately. This book/beer combo was an attempt to understand my own brain.
Goose Island IPA, well, that was inevitable. You need a beer to truly get into yr head. Haven’t had this one in a while but it’s solid.
The book is Suzanne Antonetta’s (a pseudonym) A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World. It is a memoir dealing with the author’s own manic-depressive disorder, and includes interviews with some family members and friends who have a variety of “atypical minds,” including (especially interesting to me) a cousin’s partner who has multiple personality disorder - all female - and a male body.
It is really wild stuff and quite beautiful as well as sort of sad.
Manic-depression is creative and exhilarating and (kind of) fun but it is also very destructive to the person it inhabits and there is only so much that it can be helped unless you feed yr body with medication, which I refuse to.
Rather, I read this on my roof to attract some mood-enhancing vitamin D. I think it worked, or maybe it was the beer. I didn’t even try to jump off.

Tonight’s pure class. 1950s Lesbian pulp and a PBR. Welcome to my seedy underbelly.

Tonight’s pure class. 1950s Lesbian pulp and a PBR. Welcome to my seedy underbelly.

THIS IS THE LYFE. Cold brew: Brooklyn Summer Ale, perf fresh. The only problem I’m currently having with it is HOW MANY FRUIT FLIES IT IS ATTRACTING. Good God. I’m vegan fer chrissakes. But ON TO THE BOOK! Dan Epstein’s Big Hair and Plastic Grass, which I seriously believe should have just been called AFROTURF. C’mon, man. Anyway, it’s freakin awesome and insane and informative and groovy, whatever. The uniforms! The hair! The ugly as shit ballparks! Doc Ellis! It’s all here.I put off reading it fer a long time because THIS CRAZY DUDE at work kept talking about it and I really didn’t want to have another thing to have to talk to him about but yeah. Lotsa fun.

THIS IS THE LYFE. Cold brew: Brooklyn Summer Ale, perf fresh. The only problem I’m currently having with it is HOW MANY FRUIT FLIES IT IS ATTRACTING. Good God. I’m vegan fer chrissakes.

But ON TO THE BOOK! Dan Epstein’s Big Hair and Plastic Grass, which I seriously believe should have just been called AFROTURF. C’mon, man. Anyway, it’s freakin awesome and insane and informative and groovy, whatever. The uniforms! The hair! The ugly as shit ballparks! Doc Ellis! It’s all here.
I put off reading it fer a long time because THIS CRAZY DUDE at work kept talking about it and I really didn’t want to have another thing to have to talk to him about but yeah. Lotsa fun.