Fun Book

Hi,
 
Been reading "Complicated Game" by Andy Partridge (XTC), and it is mostly a bunch of interviews talking about a few songs ... none of them the ones you like ... where's a Box of Paints? Where's This World Over?
 
But there are some fun things, and he has a kick'y humor. That would explain his penchant for the band using a KICK, in the drums, in the most unusual places, but it works. 
 
Between this book and Robert Wyatt's, I think I have found two insaknicanicks that I can relate to!
 
Very enjoyable read and the guy KNOWS music and its history. Btw, skiffle2 is the punk era!
 
Hahahahahaha!!!!

An interesting book is Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) by Malcolm Gladwell.

Any good books for Dyslexics like me?

eph221
Any good books for Dyslexics like me?

Otto, by Otto?

 

It's ok to be dyslexic, 10 out of 3 people are.

craigb
It's ok to be dyslexic, 10 out of 3 people are.

My neighbor, that I have been helping a bit with his Parkinson's and meds, also is dyslexic (not sure it is related to Parkinson's), and the way he plays wow, is funny. His left hand is on the arrow keys and his right hand on the keyboard numbers (not keypad), and he is actually getting better at it, and learning to TAB his way through characters and target faster. But he still has issues with his right or left directions, when I take him somewhere or show him something, and I say now take a left ... he doesn't slow down or stop and think ... he moves in a different direction.
 
He has gotten quite a bit better since he has played WoW with me next to him, kinda coaching things some. I don't think he realizes how much he can learn (still) and work with, that he never developed, and in some ways, this helps him with his daily this and that. At 50 something, he's still a "kid", but at least he has found something that helps with mind/hand coordination, that hopefully will get better for him. 
 
I still don't know if he can't think straight, or it is just a habit like thing that the words do not mean anything to him (language was not visual for him!), so he can properly identify left with left and right with right. But I got him thinking ... when I tell him that there is only one right left hand, because the other one is wrong!

That's another *interesting* book.  *The Lopsided Ape Evolution of the Generative Mind* by Corballis.  Bi-cameralism doesn't only happen in poly ticks.  (uh-oh)

it's funny.  Before you edited it I thought you wrote something like *in tunic cameralism*.  Ah those were the days.  Inside the beltway really is another planet.  Proxima XYZ.

Uh oh

jamesg1213
Just finished reading 'Complicated Game', very enjoyable.
 
...

I'm almost done and will review it afterwards.
 
So far, the only thing that is difficult for me, is the choice of songs that are discussed, and I find that some of those songs are not as valuable for me, as they are for the interviewer. I have been listening to some of the albums in order as I read these, out of curiosity, as well. 
 
I happen to like "The Big Express" a heck of a lot, and one of its poorest songs is the only one discussed. I thought "Wake Up" was fabulous, and "This World Over" even more valuable and a hint of a sound that would come a bit later (AV1), but nothing is said about it much. 
 
The stuff about Sodd Hungrun is not a big deal, other than he is obviously not as talented as we think? I'm not a great fan of "Skylarking" and was very disappointed after "The Big Express" by comparison. We had at least 2 very strong and nice pieces to play all the time, instead of an album that was (originally I had the album) ... not that strong even though some things were slightly more conventional, probably thanks to Dodd Tungroon.
 
Best one for me, still is about the notes and chords, something I speak about all the time here. He says that it's not about the notes or the chords, or you do not find any magic or voodoo in the music, and I agree completely. You have to break it up and try different things, and it's not just a note or a different chord, and to me this is one of the hardest thing to tell someone who says he/she is a "musician". Well, they are, but not quite an artist, yet?
 
After this book, off to one on the worst title ... "Krautrock"!