Alec's Tavern : The Frost Blast

[Doomtroll]

Fucking PlasticHead won't get back to me about my Red for Fire LP. I ordered it weeks before Christmas as to avoid all the Christmas shipping shit, way before the deadlines! yet still no shipping confirmation, and now no replies to my email questioning them.

I'll email them again after new years, bastard better not be fucking me over again.

 

[Rivfadír]

Vinyl?

 

[Doomtroll]

Yes

 

[Rivfadír]

Cool, do you have any other Solefald vinyls? If there are any, that is.

 

[Doomtroll]

Nope. The only vinyl they ever made was for Red for Fire, if I recall.
I hate my friend Husvik, he has everything by them including their bloody Jernlov demo tape.


Also, just wondering if anyone has got any good recommendations for literature. I mean both fictional and non-fiction books, or even poets and their works. Stuff to really make me think, open my mind and actually learn something new from it. I'm just finishing a few Auto/Biographies at the moment and I want something new a bit more deep to jump into after reading about celebrities drone on about fucking shit. halp plz? Links would be appreciated too.

 

[tobz]

I recently read Isaac Asimov - I Robot for the first time, and it completely blew me away! Please, don't mistrust it just because of the film, which really doesn't have much in common with it...

 

[Rivfadír]

Hmm, sucks as Red for Fire is their weakest album :/

 

[Doomtroll]

Hmm, sucks as Red for Fire is their weakest album :/

I don't mind it really.

 

[Rivfadír]

It's not bad, just their least good.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Friday night = Whisky night!

 

[Naglfar]

Also, just wondering if anyone has got any good recommendations for literature. I mean both fictional and non-fiction books, or even poets and their works. Stuff to really make me think, open my mind and actually learn something new from it. I'm just finishing a few Auto/Biographies at the moment and I want something new a bit more deep to jump into after reading about celebrities drone on about fucking shit. halp plz? Links would be appreciated too.

I have kind of a narrow reading focus, mostly non-fiction and mostly historical literature, but if you want some good history books I can recommend a few (mostly modern history, though, don't ask me about vikings). Although, off the top of my head, if you haven't read Catch-22 yet, that's something you probably want to read. =)

 

[Rivfadír]

For fiction, I recommend Neil Gaiman. Anything he's done.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Hey Mr V,for your next album,drop the drum machine and hire this guy

 

[Naglfar]

For non-fiction, I recommend Neil Gaiman. Anything he's done.

he does non-fiction? or is that a typo? (if it isn't, what non-fiction has he done, I'm curious now lol)

 

[Doomtroll]

For non-fiction, I recommend Neil Gaiman. Anything he's done.

Well considering I love The Sandman series and American Gods, might be perfect for me <3

 

[Naglfar]

Good Omens is my favorite Gaiman novel, I'd recommend that one too! And if you like Gaiman, look into his buddy Alan Moore (although you're a Brit, so you probably already know about him).

 

[Rivfadír]

I prefer American Gods to Good Omens. Even though Good Omens is hilarious, American Gods is just so more involving.

 

[Rivfadír]

Oh, and he doesn't do non-fiction. I made a stupid typo.

 

[Naglfar]

Oh, and he doesn't do non-fiction. I made a stupid typo.

Let down... I was hoping for some Neil Gaiman essays on the production of groundnuts in colonial Senegal.

I haven't read American Gods yet, but because of lack of time. I probably won't get to do any leisure reading until next August. I asked someone I met who had it on his shelf a couple of days ago and he said it was very good. Gaiman can be frustrating, though, because he's the king of anti-climax.

I can't remember any good non-fiction I've read recently... one of my favorites is King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hothschild (I think I mispelled it), which basically was the book that interested me in what I work on now, back when I was a wee lad in college. Another book I read that I liked a lot, which is kind of an academic book but I thought was positively brilliant, is Absolute Destruction by Isabel Hull. Holy crap, that was a good book. It's about German militarism... it's pure awesome condensed into 400 pages.

 

[Alec Walter Conway]

I found 35 bucks on the ground today.

Must've hugged a leprechaun while I wasn't paying attention.

Yay me.