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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
This deserves a thread of it's own. Things The Granchildren Should know is the autobiography of Mark Everett - lead singer and writer for EELS. I never read autobiogs. They smack too much of ego for my taste unless the writer has geninely been massively important in some way. Before this one the only one I'd read was the egotistical and grossly self-aggrandising "How to lose friends and alienate people" by the nonentity Toby Young. It confirmed everything I suspected about the genre. This one however - because it was by E himself - I thought I'd take a chance. It was fucking brilliant. Written with a spectacular lack of ego, he tells of his life which, even though it's filled with misery and those closest to him dying, he manages to make it a positive book and there is no self pity on show at all. There are places where I was trying not to cry and he'd deliver a complete belly laugh on the same page (sometimes the same paragraph). The chapters that deal with the deaths of his parents are poignant, heartbreaking but not without a vein of jet black humour running through them. I missed my stop on the bus and ended up 5 miles away because I was so engrossed in it. It's the first book in a long long time that I've ought and read cover to cover in the same weekend. I never knew that Goeorge Bush attacked the Daisies of the Galaxy album as trying to sell filth to children in his election campaign. I cannot recommend this book enough. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.176.9 |
I really like Eels. His dad invented all those parallel universes, didn't he? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Yes - Hugh Everett III - died in bed aged 51. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Invented the theory to be precise - I don't think he actually made universes. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.176.9 |
That's a shame. It'd be some boast. Actually, given the mechanics of his theory, maybe he DID!  | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Is this the same fellah profiled in the latest issue of Mojo Magazine? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.176.9 |
No. I've never been in anything like that. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
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| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
No no... [shakes head at how easily he can get caught in a trap based on literalism] Okay… this "Mark Everett - lead singer and writer for EELS" fellah, is THIS the guy who was profiled in the recent issue of Mojo Magazine? Tony, on the other hand, is the chappie who was recently profiled in Sunday Sport and declared "the nation's most flagrant malingerer". | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.176.9 |
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| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Don't read Mojo magazine so I don't know. It could be though. He's put two albums out in the last 6 months or so. so he'll be on a publicity drive, whether he wants to be or not. When I saw EELS live at the Apollo a couple of years back, they ran some film clips of their TV appearances before the show started. There was one great one that's always stuck with me. He's being interviewed for some "yoof" programme or other Interviewer - So I hear that you're always working, always writing songs E - Yes, I'm writing one now Interviewer - That sounds great, what's it called? E - The inane interview. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
According to the EELS website, the Feb issue of Mojo does indeed have a 6 page feature on the band. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlLT3hLXDUU | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
Weber - itunes have several Eels albums for £5. One, Blinking Lights, has 33 songs! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I own all Eels albums. They're all well worth buying. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
All THE Eels albums I meant to say. | ||
| Clive (Clive) Username: Clive Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 81.104.165.168 |
Yes, a huge Eels fan here as well. Just recently got the latest but haven't given it a proper listen yet. Haven't read his biography yet but i caught the great documentary on him and his father. Very interesting. |