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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 1, 2017 2:01:08 GMT
Simple enough question.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 1, 2017 4:28:47 GMT
I just finished the November 1909 edition of Edison Phonograph Monthly, a magazine. The Library of Congress issued a compilation book with all the 1909 editions of the magazine during 1979, and they have digitised this and uploaded it to the Internet Archive.
This was a magazine issued by the Edison company to help its dealers sell Edison phonographs and records. There are articles, a list of new records for the month, and pictures of some of the performers on the records.
Since this was the thanksgiving issue, there is a lot of talk of how to sell the records during that holiday. There's lots of talk of advertising, how to advertise, where to advertise, etc. There is also discussion of the Christmas season, again with information on how to aggressively advertise and sell the products during that season (geez, people say commercialism of Christmas began in the 1950s, but after reading various magazines and newspapers from the 1900s, it appears it goes back much further than that).
....there is also discussion on the very expensive Amberola phonograph, as well as the cheaper Gem, Standard and Home phonographs. There is a degree of classism in these articles.
There is an article on a "police band" of Mexico, who made many records for the company, as well as an article on Harry Lauder, an extremely popular Scottish comedian and prolific recording star.
As usual, my favourite section of the magazine is the list of new records for the month, featuring a description for each record. Popular singers of the period like Billy Murray (no relation to the modern-day actor), Ada Jones, Byron G. Harlan, and Manuel Romain appear. Even in 1909, there were music groups that were put together by the record label and did not exist outside of the recording studio, in this case those artists included Edison Mixed Quartette (who sang hymns), Edison Concert Band, and American Symphony Orchestra....
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Post by theravenking on Jul 2, 2017 12:41:28 GMT
The Memoirs Of Schlock Homes by Robert L. Fish - a hilarious Sherlock Holmes parody
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 3, 2017 4:43:23 GMT
Read issue 31 of the magazine The Phonogram, published November 1902. The whole magazine is really a giant plug for Edison Records. There is a description of how the records are made, an article on learning languages via the records, a list of new records for the month, and other material. It is public domain and can be read here: archive.org/details/Phonogram31
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Post by dougb on Jul 3, 2017 15:25:43 GMT
A collection of copies of "Lucifer" the Theosophical Society's magazine from around 1890. The new "Bryant and May" crime novel Abominable by Dan Simmons A Very English Scandal (jeremy Thorpe book)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 1:17:20 GMT
As of now, I'm re-reading the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. I'll be re-reading Goethe's Faust next, and Dante's Inferno afterward. The lattermost has no correlation to the rest; it's merely a favourite of mine.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 4, 2017 18:16:57 GMT
I just finished Elea by René Barjavel. It was interesting but I had a hard time connecting to any of the characters.
Currently reading:
Le Mystère de l’allée des Anges by Paul Halter - as usual with this author featuring a locked room mystery
The June 2016 issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jul 6, 2017 23:04:49 GMT
Just finished 'Panzram: A Journal of Murder. Excellent book, very hard to put down. Anyone who thinks torture or corporal punishment is okay in ANY circumstances should read it. Carl Panzram was one very scary human being, but you can understand why when you see how his philosophy was formed.
Just finishing Alejandro Jodorowsky - Psychomagic. Very interesting.
About half way through the first volume of 'The Gulag Archipelago'. When I pick it up to read it's like being plunged through the looking glass into a land of horror.
As far as fiction goes, I'm reading Ursula Le Guin right now.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 8, 2017 1:34:12 GMT
THE REDEEMER by JO NESBO - a stinker with some good parts.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2017 4:19:52 GMT
I just started reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" yesterday, I plan on reading all the books before "The Girl in the Spider's Web" being made into a film next year. I'm only a couple chapters in so I don't have much to say about it so far. I've heard nothing but good things and I love Fincher's film. I haven't seen the Swedish films but they're on my watchlist.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2017 23:37:33 GMT
Finished ' The End of Matter' by Alan Dean Foster, should actually be a short-story as it is paper thin on ideas and just fills pages with running from one planet to another- just alot of page skimming over the paragraphs. Decided to give up on the ' Shining' by Stephen King, just couldn't get into this book and it's too involving and not smart enough and not scary enough. Next. Lost in the Summer Fiction Doldrums, have a trilogy of tales by Joseph Conrad that I am eyeing though??? so it's drift back to the shores of Non-fiction. ' Comedy is a Man in Trouble/Slapstick in American Movies' by Alan Dale And finishing up a really interesting book ' Hustlers and Con Men' by Robert Jay Nash was reading this last year and set it aside, finally found it again buried under the 'pile' read-me-read-me,,,alright already-sheeesh (books are so single-minded these days
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Post by darknessfish on Jul 17, 2017 20:06:52 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Jul 17, 2017 20:26:22 GMT
Dumb Vengeance by Stella Tower - A classic mystery narrated by ... a dog!
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 18, 2017 2:30:36 GMT
Pieces of Time - James Stewart bio. I've been nursing that one for a few weeks now, his non-film life is more interesting because it's the newest info on me.
Canada, Spirit of Place - a photo/essay collection. I'd wanted to find a (for me) definitive book about Canada for our 150th. This one published last Oct, I saw in an Ottawa bookstore while visiting last week (I ordered fresh copy via amazon). Fabulously composed, medium sized coffee table hardcover. Spectacular photos by John McQuarrie coupled with excellent writings from Roy MacGregor (excerpts from previous books of his on Canadiana).
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 19, 2017 11:14:10 GMT
Today I read a bunch of vintage newspaper articles from 1959 about Cincinnati TV station WCET, which at the time was an affiliate of NET ("National Educational Television"), and is currently an affiliate of PBS.
Fascinating insight into the early days of public television in the United States. Mentions of programming of the period, and the ways in which the station managed to get funding. Some of the programs sound interesting, such as "Jazz Meets the Classics" and "Escape from the Cage" (the latter was a documentary series about the changing attitudes towards mental illness).
I love reading old newspaper articles.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 20, 2017 9:31:54 GMT
The Disappearance Of Signora Giulia by Piero Chiara
Uncle Montague's tales of terror by Chris Priestley
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Post by politicidal on Jul 21, 2017 18:43:13 GMT
I'm finishing William Dietrich's latest Ethan Gage novel The Trojan Icon and am beginning David Grann's new book Killers of the Flower Moon. Pretty good so far.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 22, 2017 13:07:14 GMT
I just finished Take This Life by Sydney Bunce an obscure Australian writer. It's a solid "North by Northwest" style thriller about a man on the run from the police who is fordced to take on the identity of a reclusive millionaire.
Currently reading The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook edited by Peter Haining.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 1:00:07 GMT
Shogun by James Clavell.
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