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CollectionsYour library (1,440), Have read some of it (5), To read (12), Currently reading (19), Read but unowned (56), Owned it (32), Wishlist (18), All collections (1,547)

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About meMy main interests are music, art (collage/painting/photography), horticulture (mainly palms), basketball, nutrition, existentialism, sociology (race/class relations), etc. My username is a Miles Davis track from 1970; I decided to capitalize the "Yes" and "No" in it. I'm a guy.

About my libraryI've probably only read about half of these books, sorry. I'm really just here to catalog them, not to engage in discussions or recommendations, at least for now. Most of my time goes to music and art, but I'm trying to become a book snob. I've just sort of acquired a lot of books through osmosis over the years, partly due to living in a city like New Orleans, with its untold amount of thrift stores, book stores, yard sales, etc. I like books that have an element of surrealism injected into a plot that is plausible, or vice versa. It's hard to explain what I'm talking about, so I'll do that later.

¬"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to discover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." - Albert Camus
¬"Words suck." - Beavis
¬"The acts of life have no beginning and no end. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game." - Tristan Tzara
¬"You're talking to someone who really understands rock music." - Tipper Gore

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Favorite authorsJohn Ashbery, J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, Charles Baudelaire, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, Ethan Canin, Robert Creeley, T. S. Eliot, Miranda July, Steve Kilbey, Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Millet, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Ondaatje, Tristan Tzara, Diane Wakoski (Shared favorites)