Imbibling Bibliophile #85

Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis

  Hitachino Nest Yuzu Lager, Kiuchi Brewery

On the turntable: Doobie Brothers, "Best of The Doobie Brothers"

Sunday Papers: Edmund Wilson

“No two persons ever read the same book.” 

 On the turntable: Led Zeppelin, "White Summer"

Imbibling Bibliophile #84

The Antique Land by Diana Shipton

Hikiyama Black, Johana Beer

On the turntable: Dexter Gordon, "The Best of Dexter Gordon"

Brocade & Octopi: From Nishikikoji to Takoyakushi

The next installment of the Kyoto Streets series, at Deep Kyoto:

http://www.deepkyoto.com/brocade-octopi-from-nishikikoji-to-takoyakushi/

 
On the turntable:  Adam and the Ants , "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
 

Imbibling Bibliophile #83

A Long Strange Trip by Dennis McNally

High Five Hefe, Iron Horse Brewery

On the turntable:  Jean-Luc Ponty, "Aurora"

Sunday Papers: Archibald MacLeish

"The only friends you make really are the ones you make when you are young and you keep them but don't keep them.  I mean they are always anyway your friends because they once were but only in memory.  When you see them again you go back there where they were."

--From a letter to Ernest Hemingway  


On the turntable: The Levellers, "Best of the Levellers"

Imbibling Bibliophile #82

Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich

Speedbird 100, BrewDog

On the turntable: Booker T & the MGs, "And Now!"

Imbibling Bibliophile #81

Aku Aku by Thor Heyerdahl

Adnams Broadside (Cask), Sole Bay Brewery

On the turntable:  Bismillah Khan, "Shehnai Virtuoso"

Sunday Papers Thursday Edition: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“PITY THE NATION”

(After Khalil Gibran)

Pity the nation whose people are sheep

And whose shepherds mislead them

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars

Whose sages are silenced

And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Pity the nation that raises not its voice

Except  to praise conquerers

And acclaim the bully as hero

And aims to rule the world

By force and by torture

Pity the nation that knows

No other language but its own

And no other culture but its own

Pity the nation whose breath is money

And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed

Pity the nation oh pity the people

who allow their rights to erode

and their freedoms to be washed away

My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty

On the turntable:  "Led Zeppelin, "Osaka 1971-09-29 "

Imbibling Bibliophile #80

 Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff

La Grihète Songe-Fête Ambrée, Brasserie Artisanale Du Sud

On the turntable:  Adam and the Ants, "Antmusic"