(Part 2) Best composer & musician biographies according to redditors

Yeah, like a soulacoaster.

in snoop's autobiography he says

1. he was called snoop basically from birth. so i think we can safely assume he was born a dogg
   
   
2. he smoked weed for the first time when he was 12 years old
   
   
3. he smoked about an ounce a day once he hit his stride
   
   Snoop turned 40 in October and turned into a lion in what? like June? to compensate for the fact that he def didn't start at an ounce a day, I'm gonna say he started smoking an ounce a day when he was 16. So that's 24 years and 8 months at an ounce a day. So that's about 563 pounds.
   
   So I'm gonna say, assuming that the effect is cumulative, you should force your dog to smoke about 570 pounds of weed, just to be safe, to turn him into a lion.

there's an amazing book called but what if we're wrong?: thinking about the present as if it were the past by chuck klosterman that explores what will stand the test of time - for example, in the distant future probably only one artist will be remembered more than others to represent rock and roll (he says either elvis, bob dylan, or the beatles) and that will be determined by what we value in the future. wonder where frank is gonna fit into it all!!

Here's the xojane post that is suspected to be about Jian Ghomeshi.

The writer calls the guy "Keith", but there's a bunch of clues indicate Jian:

• Radio host
  
• Based in Toronto
  
• Black and red theme to his show
  
• Recently wrote memoir
  
• 35-45 years old
  
• Suspected to be gay
  
  Other info:
  
  
• She claims they saw Metric at The Opera House. Metric most recently performed at the Opera house on June 12, 2012. This means the author met him on June 11 or maybe June 10, 2012.
  
  
• She claims she saw him with Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake was in Toronto at the Luminato Festival on June 10, 2012.
  
  
• She claims "Keith" was writing a memoir. Jian's memoir was published Sept 18, 2012.
  
  So if this is a true story, the author waited a year to write about it.
  
  

You should get his audio book if you haven't already. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock

He narrates it himself, which makes for a way better experience than just reading it yourself.

Mainly because she recently released a book and album this year that were pretty darn good, I've been relistening to Dessa a lot.

Chime (2018) has some amazing songs about heartbreak and loss. Good Grief is my favorite off that album

A Badly Broken Code(2005) was her debut album and my favorite however. The Chaconne and Dixon's Girl are my two favorite songs off that album.

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I have hundreds of books, all on an overly expensive device I bought to have when I am on the motorcycle and camping. I wanted a waterproof one that would be fine if it got damp. Kindle Oasis (9th Generation) 32GB Wifi w/ Cellular - much better overall for reading than my phone or iPad. Overspent on a simple device, but it has been wonderful.

There are two books I keep reading over and over.

1. At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
   
2. In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon (The Teachings of the Buddha), The Dalai Lama
   
   I have also a bunch of Survival and Bushcrafting books and reference material. A lot I pulled from the Pathfinder School's FB page in their files list. If you are looking for something to cover a lot of topics, this one is a great collection: The Bushcraft Boxed Set: Bushcraft 101; Advanced Bushcraft; The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, & Cooking in the Wild; Bushcraft First Aid, Dave Canterbury & Jason A Hunt
   
   And while I have listed the 2 books above, I have a ton of one of my favorite genres right now (it's a phase, I know) but I love reading Zombie stories in the woods!
   
   As for keeping the Kindle charged up, that is easy. I pretty much leave it on Airplane mode unless I am getting a book pushed to it. It uses very little power if the screen backlighting is turned off. If it's low, I have a small solar charger I can use to charge it. I got the charger for my portable battery pack - 26000 mAH, charges in about 6 hours from 0 from the solar. OR, I take a few hours ride on the bike (go ahead, twist my arm) and recharge it from the charging USB plug on it. Same with phone.

Charles Ives: A Life With Music was an amazing read.

Even more blatant

I'm partial to Maynard Solomon's Beethoven!

[Amazon Link] (https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Revised-Maynard-Solomon/dp/0825672686/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1493914894&sr=8-5&keywords=beethoven+biography)

Second the "Sin in the Second City" it is pretty interesting. And also "For the Thrill of it." 1920s murders in Chicago.

Leopold and Loeb. The book is called For the Thrill of It.

Thank you for posting this. While I have listened to Ives' symphonies at various times during my life, I am now just trying to really listen to them "hard" and try to gain a better understanding of the music. This essay is a wonderful entry point. I'm going to get Jan Swafford's book on Ives. His being an accomplished composer and a composition teacher who can discuss sophisticated musical concepts in clear, expository, English is a rare gift. None of the vague, subjective, woolly prose you so often see in reviews of Ives and other complicated music. Swafford is probably well-known to the people here who listen and study music less casually than me. I just mostly listen and attend concerts ... unless I happen to catch a fascination with some kind of music. Then I start to research a little.

According to /u/Here_Comes_The_King's autobio (yes, I know), they actually got the name Crips from their original name Cribs (reference to the young age of the members), and an Asian market owner was reporting that he got jacked by a gang, in his accent, sounded like Crips.

The first part of that seems to be "Wikipedia true".

In addition to dozens of songs, he also wrote an autobiography.

I am skeptical.

You should read Between a Rock and a Hard Place if you liked that movie. I thought both were good, but Aron told the story much better in the book, as well as the book is more of a general biography than the movie (which just depicts his entrapment).

Judging by your username you might be like me and enjoy this one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061148768

This movie was adapted from the book entitled "Between a Rock and a Hard Place". I have not read it myself, but my father is crazy about it. Hooray for human endurance!

My friend recently published this book about his bicycle journey in South America, check it out if you're leaning that way: https://www.amazon.com/Shake-Sleeping-Self-Journey-Patagonia-ebook/dp/B072HZR519

(Note it's a good bit introspection and reflection as well, not all adventure.)

Didn't he publish that book mentioning the teddy bear in the acknowledgements or something in 2012?

Here is the link to the book! COME ON REDDIT! Lets make this book skyrocket to the top!

EDIT: Kindle Edition for those who enjoy digital

Also, here are some other books in the series for those who are interested:

The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat

My Name Is Bob