Book Club!

Jenny is at SXSW, so I wanted to do a theme that sort of matched my situation. That is to say, it had to be a) solitary and b) kinda nerdy (at least in comparison to getting drunk and seeing a bunch of great music all week). Naturally, the answer was a mix about books (songs that reference authors or particular works of literature).

a.side:
1. Saul Bellow- Sufjan Stevens
2. Le Pastie De La Bourgeoise- Belle and Sebastian
3. Killing an Arab- The Cure
4. Black Cat- Broadcast
5. A Rose For Emily- The Zombies
6. Album of the Year- The Good Life
7. Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)- The Weakerthans
8. Song For Myra Goldberg- The Decemberists

b.side:
1. Lake King's Daughter- Karl Blau
2. Tereza and Thomas- Bright Eyes
3. Sylvia Plath- Ryan Adams
4. I Don't Want to Get Over You- The Magnetic Fields

5. Romeo Had Juliette- Lou Reed
6. Gravity's Rainbow- Klaxons
7. Helpless Corpses Enactment- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
8. Cemetary Gates- The Smiths

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hsfhzr

Comments/Explanation
"Saul Bellow"- Saul Bellow, naturellement. "Get in solid walls with the know-it-alls/ Get in trouble with Saul Bellow."
"Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie"- Judy Blume, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac. "Wouldn't you like to get away?/Give yourself up to the allure of Catcher in the Rye/ The future's swathed in stars and stripes/ Wouldn't you like to get away? Kerouac's beckoning with open arms/ And open roads of eucalyptus/ Westward bound."

"Killing an Arab"- Albert Camus, The Stranger.

"Black Cat"- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. "Curiouser and curiouser."

"A Rose For Emily"- William Faulkner, A Rose For Emily

"Album Of the Year"- John Fante, Charles Bukowski. "I was reading Fante at the time, I had Bukowski on the mind."

"Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)"- Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida.

"Song for Myla Goldberg"- Myla Goldberg (she wrote Bee Season, I think).

"Lake King's Daughter"- The lyrics to this song are from a poem by A.A. Milne (author of the Winnie the Pooh books). Karl Blau's new album AM is a tribute to Milne. It's rad.

"Tereza and Thomas"- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Omg, my favorite band and my favorite book!

"Sylvia Plath"- Yep...you guessed it: Sylvia Plath. "I wish I had a Sylvia Plath/Busted tooth and a smile/And cigarette ashes in her drink."

"I Don't Want to Get Over You"- Albert Camus. He's pretty popular, as far as songs about writers go. "I could make a career of being blue, I could dress in black and read Camus."

"Romeo Had Juliette"- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Obv.

"Gravity's Rainbow"- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

"Helpless Corpses Enactment"- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake. a.side//b.side is so metal these days.

"Cemetry Gates."- John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde.