Bowie Book Club Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Sound of the City by musicologist and BBC DJ Charlie Gillett, a veritable bible for pop music nerds. Spoiler alert: Greg does not sing in this one (or any one, ever).

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This episode, we chat about what we've been reading besides the book we're supposed to be reading. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The Archies with their hit song Sugar Sugar Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson's new-ish Jughead series Zombie Archie Coin - Op Comics Ghost World Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez Palomar by Gibert Hernandez Black Leopard, Red Wolf Room to Dream - a sort of autobiography of David Lynch Catching the Big Fish Dune Feast Your Eyes What's Up Next Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett Amazon | IndieBound New book club member Maggie the Dog is not impressed.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Silence by John Cage, an intensely charming (though sometimes confusing!) book about music theory (sort of) and mushroom hunting (definitely) Our guest is Mark Schlipper - experimental/improv musician (and Moon Knight aficionado) whose current projects include drone rockers The Luna Moth, improv stoner-doom-noise-mininmalism Perish The Island, and various other other solo projects. Support your local library! Like seriously. Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Video of John Cage performing Water Walk American Masters documentary on John Cage Simple Men - movie by Hal Hartley Super Troopers - maybe the greatest movie of all time, depending on your definition of comedy. As Slow as Possible - this Cage piece is currently being performed in Halberstadt, Germany and is scheduled to complete in 2640. Black Mountain College John Cage - Lecture on the Weather Video Performance of 4'33" Cage's love letters to Merce Cunningham Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic The Good Shepherd Center Chapel Performance Space - the home for experimental music in Seattle. Erik Satie - Vexations John Cale Brian Eno Terry Riley - In C Uncut Article about the Low Sessions Spike Jones Boots n' Cats What's Up Next Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett Amazon | IndieBound What Song Did We Choose?

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This is another gossipy episode with a little bit about the tome we're about to read - Silence by John Cage

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guaralnick a compendium of all things related to the musical genre, and most emphatically NOT about Motown.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we just gossiped about this and that - though it all seems to come back to Bowie, as usual.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016.This time we do a super quick roundup of our 2019 books and shout out some folks who are WAY ahead of us on the book list live from the floor of Podcon2, where we saw a bunch of great pdocasts and learned how to make this a little bit less of a mess.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford - a cheery little tome that's been called the "Consumer Reports of the Funeral Industry". Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our guest this episode is the hardest working man in show business, or at least the hardest working person who's been on this show - Levi Fuller, who's known for his bands Levi Fuller and the Library and the Luna Moth, and his quarterly Ball of Wax compilation, which gathers great music from all sorts of directions. Stuff we Mentioned Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly #25 - songs about books. Bushwick Bookclub of Seattle Wild by Cheryl Strayed Bluets by Maggie Nelson Stiff by Mary Roach Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty and her guide on How to Make Your Death Plan New Yorker article about Jessica Mitford Mitford singing 'Right, Said Fred' with Maya Angelou the etymology of the word 'wake' "Safety" coffins George Romero Pure Cremation Online cut-up generator Dismal Fest in Seattle Garden District Bookshop in New Orleans What's Up Next We start a streak of music books with Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick. And here's our list of books for 2019! What Song Did We Choose? Levi presented us with his take on the book in "The Funerals Profession" With these cut-up lyrics At family contribute the funerals profession Through the special and navigated benefit no plenty able sadness and always with notice and more without family tribute family back already With many services friends we direct him here and with music consistently dignity always The Here about a body icon’s family memorial fans broke cremation gems funeral so the vast lots that public place be traditional We’ll next headline England People want crematorium and legal occasion ignorance conscious call news a simply life ashes remember church unselfconscious throughout vast families The Here about a body icon’s family memorial fans broke cremation gems funeral so the vast lots that public place be traditional We’ll next headline England And his choice from Bowie:

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read In Cold Blood, a non-fiction novel about a gruesome killing in Kansas by Truman Capote who may have shared our fancy for wild speculation.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time, we read The Divided Self by R.D. Laing, a treatise about schizophrenia and injecting humanism into the science of psychology. And Greg says "So yeah" about 50 times.