Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sunday readings...here and there


 
 
From the July issue of Wired: 
 
 
 
 
 
Given today's technology... a surprisingly interesting article on 'Knuckle Busters' in this weekend's Wall Street Journal:
 
 
 
 
 
And also standing out in this weekend's Wall Street Journal (if you're a David Bowie fan):
 
 
Speaking of Bowie, there's also this article (much older) on what he was thinking when he made his highly successful and commercially friendly Let's Dance:
 
"I wanted to come in touch with the common factor and not seem to be some sort of alien freak," David Bowie told writer Lisa Robinson shortly after the release of Let's Dance, his most accessible — and commercially successful — album. "I don't want to seem detached and cold, because I'm not."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-eighties-20110418/david-bowie-lets-dance-20110330#ixzz3C1iPNhsf
 
 
This book is coming out next week and got a good review in WSJ and is also discussed here:
 
 
 

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