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right where you are sitting now
by Robt. Anton Wilson
altho mostly unimpressed by RAW’s fiction/novels i find his reflections & ruminations on conciousness, quantum mechanics, philosophy, psychology, & seperating bullshit from “real life” facinating …this book is an excellent example …un-pigeon hole-able; you gotta experience it
Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati (Visions Series)
what the buddha taught
by Walpola Rahula
the book on buddhism for me …answered everything i wanted to know, not just about the school of thought in the particular but re: life in general …written by an oxford educated ceylonese monk …buddhist flavored pragmatic, easy to understand answers to big questions
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
the buk bok
by Jim Christy
funny mini-bio/essay on why bukowski matters from a canadian cousin …centered around a buncha polaroids, including one of buk clowning w/a nekkid neighbor that precipitated a famous linda king-chuck buk smack-down …that particular pic is pieced together after being ripped to shreads by l.k., or so the legend goes …a fresh take on the buk myth, well worth it
The Buk Book: Musings on Charles Bukowski
a hundred camels in the courtyard
by Paul Bowles
this book is very entertaining, tho it always makes me wish i had some kif …the dreamy hallucinatory sequences are great …bowles reminds me of the king who dreamed he was a butterfly, & upon waking could not remember if he was a king dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who dreamed he was a king; bowles gets so inside the head & customs, etc. of his arab characters, it’s hard to believe he isn’t arab himself. pure morrocan roll
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
tarantula
by Bob Dylan
young robt. zimmerman from minnisota dreamed he was woody guthrie for a while, then plugged into an amp & got all long haired electric DaDa while recovering from his motorcycle crash …lucky us
Tarantula
on the road
by Jack Kerouac
the wabi-sabi masterwork of american beat lit. …slandered as mere typing by those who shoulda known better, it is no doubt 1 of the the most influential tomes of the last 1/2 of the last century
On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
the roominghouse madrigals
by Charles Bukowski
oh, how i wail & gnash my teeth when youngsters who have only recently stumbled over bukowski talk googoo eyed about ‘how well you walk thru fire’, or ‘war all the time’ or anything that didnt come out from black sparrow, (or city lights), first …this was hank when he was almost as crazy fucking the muse standing up in the alley against a garbage dumpster drunk on oblivion as he so often claimed to be …this is the buk that makes all the later buk matter …this is the beginning of why he had laurels to rest upon, why he deserved a hot tub in san pedro in his later latter years, why he was revered in france or anywhere else poetry is/was considered respectable & fearsome …there are a few other collections that come close, notably ‘a dog from hell’ & ‘mocking bird’, but for me; this is the stuff that kicks the devil’s ass up around his neck
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966
cat’s cradle
by Kurt Vonnegutt
kurt at the top of his game …hilarious, deep, defying easy genre pigeon-holing …effortless perfection from a perfect master …to this day i am often moved by certain circumstance to cry out: ‘no godamn cat, & no godamn cradle!!’ & scowl & tsk tsk tsk when no one knows what i’m talking about
VALIS
by Philip K. Dick
late old school master sci-fi mystik PKD’s schitzotistic masterpiece …out of his mind? receiving signals from the sirius dog star aliens? channaling ancient christians in parrallel universes? making psychedelic mid-nite movies of the coming of the alien messaiah?
…sure, why not?
Valis
