Time-wastinng quiz: Who are the favorite authors of indie and alt-rockers?

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I've got two in mind.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of them only read comics.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously! C'mon, you can figure it out.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

umm, ian curtis=gogol?
ben gibbard=agatha christie?

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean that pretty much all of those types of musicians read these guys.
I'll just say that they're both men and they're both dead.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously! I have serious doubts if most musicians who claim to be into, say, Camus have read him with any degree of attention. And the other one would be, um, Burroughs?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, one of 'em is Burroughs. Y'know, I don't really get 'Naked Lunch'.

And the other one is...

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Wm. Shakespeare and Robert Baden-Powell.
Prove me wrong, Nowell. I have science on my side!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll just say that they're both men and they're both dead.

Oh, I was gonna say, like, Chuck Palahniuk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, Kerouac?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope..although those are good answers.
But the answer is just of my own opinion.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck Palahniuk is totally OTM.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

nick hornby!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So it's not so much a quiz as a "hey, try to read my mind!"
I still say Robt. Baden-Powell, indie kids like knots.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bukowski I think is high up on the list, too.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite author of hippy jam-band fuckers: Tom Robbins.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite author of gothers: Poe.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, this was a dumb idea.
And yeah, it's Bukowski.

They like thought-provoking stuff. I think..
I don't know about Bukowski. But when I was reading his books, I found myself unable to stop.
Gawd, I'm only 15.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Thurston Moore = Denis Johnson
Colin Meloy = Maile Meloy
various Libertines = Graham Greene
Ira Kaplan = Philip Roth
Steve Malkmus = Frank O'Hara
David Berman = John Dos Passos
John Darnielle = Frederick Barthelme
Doug McCombs = Haruki Murakami
Mac McCaughan = Truman Capote
Lis Frasier = Radclyffe Hall
Luke Haines = Evelyn Waugh
guy from Divine Comedy = Evelyn Waugh
Julian Casablancas = stuck between Kerouac and Bukowski phases

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite author of gothers: Poe.

-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), September 22nd, 2004 7:52 PM.

Gaiman, surely.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, sorry, x-post. If you want guys all rockers tend to read, well, I think you'd have to separate into at least two classes of rockers (i.e. readers and not). But Denis Johnson and Camus and Marquez and Graham Greene for British indie bands seem pretty staple.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'In Cold Blood' is a really good book.
But I usually don't read books like that.
I'm afraid they'll fuck me up.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(Brighton Rock specifically for the Britindies; Johnson for the Americans, Camus and Marquez fading across, naturally.)

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a better book, actually, and in my opinion where the best of Capote lies. Not that I know much about Capote, but hey, zoom. The Christmas story published with it, that's a killer.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Both those books were made into movies.
Man, I should really be leaving now..I'm gonna get in trouble.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim Kinsella / Joan of Arc = Celine

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i think there are a lot more fans of Marquis De Sade in the indie community than are willing to own up to it.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

brent d. criscenzio (sp?)

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

David Byrne = Machado de Assis
lyricist from Arcade Fire = Charles Baxter
Devendra Banhart = O Henry
all of Clinic = Robert Louis Stevenson
singer from the Darkness = Goethe
guy from Fiery Furnaces = Julian Barnes
girl from Fiery Furnaces = Martin Amis
Fugazi = do not read fiction, only non-
Bob Pollard = Tom Wolfe
chubby guy from Hives = Tom Robbins
Jay-Z = Sterne
guy from Junior Boys = Raymond Queneau
Alan Sparhawk = Faulkner
Steven Merritt = Flaubert
Mirah = Margaret Atwood
Isaac Brock = Ken Kesey
Phil Elvrum = Mario Vargas Llosa
most of My Morning Jacket = Sir Walter Scott
most of Shins = Douglas Coupland
Mike Skinner = Mark Haddon
Karen O = Jean M. Auel
Thom Yorke = Judy Blume

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys are giving musicians WAY too much credit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

matt murphy = graham greene ('who's your favourite author? mine's graham greene/he kept the paragraphs short and the sentences clean')

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's only fun if you give people credit. Though of that last set I don't think I'm necessarily overestimating Byrne or Merritt, and I'm deliberately pretend-underestimating Pollard, Brock, the Shins, and Karen O. The Arcade Fire, Fiery Furnaces, and Low ones wouldn't particularly surprise me either way. (And hell yeah I can totally imagine Karen O reading and re-reading Clan of the Cave Bear on the F train.)

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Aphex Twin=Clive Barker

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dean Wareham loves Don DeLillo. Especially "Great Jones Street."

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm deliberately pretend-underestimating Pollard, Brock, the Shins, and Karen O

But not Thom Yorke?

― Comme personne (common_person), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So who out of Toulouse was so fond of Calvino, Josh?

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

tom morello has man-love for noam chomsky

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

tom robbins gets a lot of hate on this thread. is his hippieness that offputting? his books don't stink of pachoulli.... at least not new copies... fierce invalids was so fucking good.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry Crews
Thomas Pynchon
JD Salinger

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Top books in my network

1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
3. Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death
4. 1984
5. The Great Gatsby
6. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
7. The Da Vinci Code
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
10. Brave New World

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Rappers love Donald Goines.

The DaVinci Code...isn't that that new book about...shit, what is it about?

The Lord of the Rings books are boring! See the movies instead.
I used to love Harry Potter.
Ramble Ramble Ramble Ramble...

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yours and everybody else's network, Jon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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