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42 reviews
Kill Your Boyfriend/Vinamarama Deluxe by Grant Morrison
3.0
both really fun reads!! for me they moved at breakneck speed, but i'm just more into introspective slow-burn stuff -- whatever whatever. predictably was way more into kill your boyfriend which had me tearing up a little by the end, eep. perhaps hitting a little too close to home. crown jewels: all the vimanarama sketches at the end, immortal god-beast throwing back a molotov cocktail as if it were a shooter
Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 by Inio Asano
4.25
something something loss of innocence something something not necessarily believing in a god more than believing in someone that will listen. oyasumi punpun, the creed of hopelessly lonely and fucked up children worldwide. coming of age but in the way that there's no future to grow into.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
3.5
finally done phew. it was driving me insane to have this in progress for so long, but also i liked knowing i could always take a break from whatever i was reading to hang out with the worst people i know. kinda piddles along after catherine dies, honestly. as an aside: ellen is the funniest character ever written. anyone in this book will voice the most poetic musing on obsession or love and she'll just be like, "shut up! you're a maniac! be normal!" which, to be fair to her, in most cases she was 100% right to do that. overall, solidly alright.
The Last Musketeer by Jason
3.0
gah so sweet. had me giggling heavy at my desk but then the last page 😀(weeping.) love the detail of the martians looking cat-like instead of humanoid that had me chuffed most of all
Opening Band by Levi Prewitt
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.0
fun + light read from one of my fav artists :D nicely makes the horrible awful point of "there is no such thing as being a real artist/musician/whatever and there's no point in worrying about that! just do things!" which will only spur me to do evil things with my time
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
3.25
pretty speedy read, language was brutal and succinct which made the tone so deliciously apathetic. plot itself is lacking though :/ what's up with spanel. she seemed so much more important than just introducing marcos' destructive nature. i don't know, i have problems with characters in this coming and going and making no impact, but maybe marcos is so self-centered that it makes sense no one was of any importance except for the women he could mine a child from, whatever. there's something to be said about marcos putting real value into only his father and his unborn male child, never extending to the women he could get fulfillment from (cecelia and jasmine) it was good as a character study, but beats felt rushed at times and no one felt...whole. but i guess who has time for growth when there's capital to be pushing
The Velvet Underground & Nico by Joe Harvard
2.0
great excerpts and well researched but not a lot to add to upon that. snzzzz oh sorry zzzzz wait hold on i'm up 🛌snooork mimimi sn
Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris
5.0
my summer with lou reed was so incredibly tumultuous writing anything would feel like taking an acid shower. i don't have nothing to say i have far too much to say. ew. anyways
this is a tragedy of someone who refuses to decentralize their suffering from their identity. i see him. the wounded part of me can't let go of the idea that i could have saved him. in lou i see myself. i see men of situations past where i was deluded of the same fixer-upper project. i see patriarchal cruelty. senseless, but it makes him feel big. i'm terrified of him. i'm afraid of everything. lou is a mirror.
Lou Reed's Transformer by Ezra Furman
4.5
can't figure out anything better to say than something i should not have written drunk and alone crying and writhing happy lou reed summer
at its core a rumination on failure; failure to achieve, failure to conform, failure to ...be. but what is power if not declaring no, i decided this? my definition of failure is triumph? am i left empty handed in loss? why am i wrong for living in-between? maybe i can stop hurling the word nothing at the mirror like a swear and find comfort in indecision. maybe transforming.
at its core a rumination on failure; failure to achieve, failure to conform, failure to ...be. but what is power if not declaring no, i decided this? my definition of failure is triumph? am i left empty handed in loss? why am i wrong for living in-between? maybe i can stop hurling the word nothing at the mirror like a swear and find comfort in indecision. maybe transforming.