Rocket To Russia - The Ramones

There's just something about the combo of Cretin Hop->Rockaway Beach. It really got me going this morning and will again this afternoon as I pull out of the parking lot from work...heading home for two weeks on the coast of Maine. Ya, baby!

I was very impressed with fellow blogcritic The Theory's vacation reading list. I wish mine was so ambitious. I'd love to say that I'm going to be taking on Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, and maybe even Anna Karenina...but that of course would be a pretentious loada crap (not the books, just the idea that I'm actually gonna read that stuff).

So here's what I've got in my pile so far:

• Rebel Heart: An American Rock 'n Roll Journey - Trashy account of one of rock's premier groupies, Bebe Buell.
• Last Train To Memphis - Elvis, the early years.
• Zen In The Art Of Writing - Ray Bradbury's collection of essays on writing.
• Great American Prose Poems - Subtitled "From Poe To Present". I heard a radio piece on Russell Edson a few years ago and was immediately hooked.

I'll probably also bring along Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung because he was my rock critic hero when I was a kid.

Now if it'll just stop raining on the east coast....

(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)