My Playlist (Part Three) 5/2010

 [I am back working through my pretrial detention journal. It is out of order. Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. The date in the title is the date it was written. I hope this is not confusing. You can find everything from my pretrial detention journal that is published under the “Pretrial Detention” link under topics on the right hand of your screen.

Continued from My Playlist (Part Two) 5/2010 and My Playlist (Part One) 5/2010.

This particular journal entry has three problems: 1) I cannot find the last page, which is where I put the date it was written; 2) it is therefore incomplete, and 3) it is rather long. It reads as if I wrote it before I gave up the idea of suicide altogether; it is a sort of intellectual history written as an elegy. It follows a piece dated to 5/10/2010. So, sometime in early May 2010 seems right.

As for length, I am doing as I do with all my very long piece, breaking up over several posts.

The links are, of course, now. No internet access while in pretrial detention.

What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. sch 11/13/2025.]

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. Reds (movie)
3. Move It On Over, George Thorogood
4. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones (One of the three albums I kept playing the summer of 1982)
5. Gravest Hits, The Cramps (Second of the three for the Summer of 1982)
6. The Envoy, Warren Zevon (The third album)
7. The Glass Key, Hammett (probably read during high school)
8. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
9. 16 Candles (movies)
10.  Streets of Fire (movie)
11. Synchronicity, The Police
12. Eat to the Beat, Blondie
13. Return of The Dark Knight (comic)
14. Howling Wolf - London Sessions 
15. Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner
16. Golden Decade II, Chuck Berry
17. Abbey Road, The Beatles
18. Glenn Miller
19. Handel's Messiah
20. Empire Burlesque, Bob Dylan
21. Sister Carrie, Dreiser 
22.  Back in the USA, MC5
23.  The films of Almodovar
24.  The Cat Who Walked Through The Walls, Robert Heinlein
25.  Cyberpunk
26. Heavy Metal (magazine) 
27. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois 
28. The Art of War, Sun Tzu 
29. The Nation 
30. The Atlantic 
31. Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut 
32. Bruce Sterling 
33. Barrack Room Ballads, Kipling 
34. The Stray Cats [This is the only I edited; originally it was "Stray Cat Strut". I cannot countenance now that song, sch 11/13/2024.] 
35. Joe Ely (from college to now)
36. Essays, Gore Vidal
37. Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut (goes back to  college)
38. The Killer (John Woo movie) 
39. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (read after my arrest)
40. Face to Face, The Kinks 

[And that is where the list ends in 2010. A paragraph was crossed out, the next page is missing, and having transcribed it from my messy handwriting to here, I am wondering why left off two items:

1.  Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
2. William Gibson

Okay, I admit that I had gotten away from reading Robbins by 2010, but I had also gotten away from doing much reading of fiction. Then there is my putting Bruce Sterling on the list when I continued reading Gibson. Peculiar how my mind was working then (and now, and before then, but that is how minds work, right? If you look at the posts under "books" you will see what I added during my prison years. sch 11/13/2025.]

sch 11/13/2025.]