The Friday Morning Listen: Pre-Vacation Edition

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)

Article Author: Mark Saleski

Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. He has contributed to Jazz.com and also writes reviews for Blogcritics.org. He produces the weekly feature The Friday Morning Listen. …

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