Member: catmeyoo

It's nice to meet you! I look forward to exploring your books.

posted by lisaunger at 1:33 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2007

I am gonna go to school on your rock and blues collections. Thanks!

posted by runobodyii at 12:11 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2007

coffeezombie,

Since you like Bangs, and if you follow Jim Derogatis, Chicago Sun music critic, at all, or even if you don't, I recommend his "Let It Blurt; the Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic." No rock feel to the writing, but interesting stuff about interesting times. You have to kind of ignore Derogatis' tendency toward depression and gloom but it can be done.

posted by catmeyoo at 12:01 pm (EST) on Jul 25, 2006

I actually met Meltzer when I interviewed him for an article in my college newspaper. Later at a book reading he signed the promo copy of "Rhythm" the publishers had sent me to read before the interview. Nice guy. The first thing he did before the reading was set his cup of Starbuck's coffee on the table and spike it with a small bottle of whiskey. He also downed a couple pints of free beer before things were done. It was a good reading, especially when he started dishing out some slams on Abbie Hoffman. "Whore" has been one of my favorites for some time. I've also read a lot of Lester Bangs (one critic Meltzer speaks of with a combination of fondness and cynicism) and have some Nick Tosche I've been meaning to get around to reading. I've always enjoyed reading people who can express in words the way I feel listening to music. Meltzer's my favorite, since his writing best approaches the feel of the music itself.

posted by coffeezombie at 12:20 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2006

Thanks for the note. I like Meltzer--he and I grew up at the same time and I remember how exciting it was to have actual rock critics and magazines like Crawdaddy and then Rolling Stone--I didn't discover them though until I moved to San Francisco from Denver (in 1969) although I had discovered underground radio several years earlier visiting Palo Alto. It's as much fun to read his comments about other critics as about the musicians themselves, especially Christgau. A Whore Just Like the Rest has a great index and makes a super reference book.

I see you've got his Autumn Rhythm: Musings on Time, Tide, Aging, Dying, and Such Biz too--rock's first generation getting up there in years and his personal take on it. No index in that one. His writing is as high energy and high spirited as ever though with lots of music and literary references. I love that kind of stuff.

posted by catmeyoo at 8:38 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2006

Always nice to see someone else who has read Richard Meltzer. What did you think of "A Whore Just Like the Rest"? I'm always surprised that there are only 9 people on the site who have it listed, and at least one of them didn't seem to like it that much.

posted by coffeezombie at 8:08 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2006

It is good to find another fan of James Wright's poetry. Jeffrey

posted by southwestpoet at 3:53 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2006

My cd entries have few bibliographic details. What is there is original cataloging. I entered each one by performer (usually) where "author" was requested and cd title only, with cd in hand, then copied picture of cover from Amazon or another source if Amazon didn't have it available. On classical records I usually noted the composer in the title line and the orchestra and conductor, or chamber group, whatever, under "author". If I wanted to list performers on albums where the "author" was listed as "Various," or other odds and ends of interest I entered that information under comments. Entering cds went much quicker than books after I figured out a systematic way to copy the album cover pictures quickly. LibraryThing made that easy after I figured out how to do it.

I hope to go back and add & correct things later but am trying to get all my collections entered first. Hope this helps. I think others who have entered cds have done more with the record, and I hope to study some of those in more detail later. I also think there were other tools I could have used to make it easier and more standard, but hey, it worked for now. I'm really glad to have this online and available when I need it. Hooray and Good luck!

--catmeyoo

posted by catmeyoo at 4:22 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2006

I'm new to library thing and I love that you cataloged your cds. How exactly did you do it?

posted by kdhenley at 2:43 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2006

i love your picture too, especially for the black cat. A black cat is always the best cat.....

posted by 49shelves at 7:48 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2006

What a fantastic profile picture!!!! -DavisFamily

posted by davisfamily at 10:19 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2006