- The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Simon Armitage (Translator)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 1 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 2 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 3 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 4 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots In Disguise Volume 5 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 by John Barber
- Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman by Harold Bloom
- The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
- Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... by Joe Carducci
- The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
- The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
- 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
- Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
- Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
- The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Friedrich Engels
- Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber
- Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
- The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss
- When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
- Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard
- Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
- Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
- A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
- Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman
- Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
- Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
- An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
- The Future is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology by Richard Labonté
- Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge by Alison Landsberg
- The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen
- Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
- My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris
- Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
- A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy
- Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
- Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl
- Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader by Todd James Pierce
- Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
- Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
- Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers
- Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Second Edition) by Henry Rollins
- American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
- Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka
- Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
- Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
- A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman
- The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
- Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
- Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
- Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
- Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2) by Brian K. Vaughan
- A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
- Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
- Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
- Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
- The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens by Amy Yates Wuelfing
- What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin
This Week In Podcasts
I am going to try out a new feature. Lately, I have been listening to a lot of podcasts. Each week I will post a “best of” from what I have checked out the previous week, similar to my weekend reading posts.
So, week one:
Net At Nite interviews Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia.
Something I Learned Today just started podcasting. Their first podcast focused on Boston hardcore. A second podcast is also online.
All Go No Slow! recently did a full set of anti Ronald Reagan songs. It is quite refreshing, in the age of “conservative punks” and the rightward dive a lot of the hardcore scene seems to be heading towards, to see someone do a great set like this. Sadly, I bet the current generation of ragers don’t even know about a lot of the fucked up shit that went on in the eighties. If you asked them what Oi Polloi’s Hands Off Nicaragua was about, they’d probably have no idea.
To celebrate Henry Rollins’ birthday (46!), Harmony In My Head did a set filled with a lot of old hardcore songs and other cool stuff.
The other day, I caught up on the HIMH broadcast from early August also. Henry spends the first hour playing and discussing the music of Miles Davis. An hour of Miles Davis: it doesn’t get much better than that.
Signifying Nothing Episode Alpha
https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-episode-alpha/
Playlist
Bl’ast!-It’s Alive
Septic Death-Hardware
Annihilation Time-Razor
Lion Of Judah-Commodity
Abusive Action-Heatseeker
Jeasuseater-Your Airstream Future
Our Turn-Break The Chain
Henry Rollins-Maya
Floorpunch-From The Outside
Youth of today-Thinking Straight
Full Speed Ahead-Assault
The Faith-Subject To Change
Society System DeControl-Not Normal
411-This Isn’t Me
Rain On The Parade-On My Mind
By The Grace Of God-Dead Ends
Forward To Death-Retro Is Poison
Mind Eraser-Chewed Up, Spit Out