{"id":124,"date":"2009-02-27T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-02-27T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:47:00","slug":"3313-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"331\/3 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/DSC_0031-737753.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/DSC_0031-737734.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The honest to god truth about me is that I&#8217;m a kind of nerd.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a programmer, nor do I think thats terribly interesting. What I do get down with is the details of the process of the things I&#8217;m interested in. Far too much. Seriously. For instance, I have not told you in detail of how my home could be made sustainable and safe if there ever was a zombie war. The truth is I spent way too much time figuring that out after reading <i>World War Z<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to a book I bought this week and read the same day. It is simply called <i>Low,<\/i> like all the books published by 33 1\/3 it is about one album, in all of it&#8217;s detail &#8211; about 150 pages worth. In this case it is about David Bowie&#8217;s Album <i>Low.<\/i> I&#8217;m not going to go over the big details or even the small ones you may not even care &#8211; or you might already know. There are tons of nuggets to keep a standard &#8220;trainspotter&#8221; like me happy. In fact I kind of rolled around in the facts (not unlike Mike Myers in that dreadful &#8220;Studio 54&#8221; movie) &#8211; the book was too much fun. My wife was kind enough to go to sleep and smart enough not to ask questions that would lead to my story telling. She&#8217;s smart in that way.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly suggest if you have the same kind of weakness I do check them out &#8211; I used amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p>I assume that the market for these books are primarily men &#8211; this seems to be the dominant gender attached to obsessive music collecting &#8211; not that I want to keep women from reading the books or even collecting music, everyone is welcome. I just always assume women are better balanced about this kind of stuff. And really how many people have more than 5 versions the same album. By the way they really are not the same &#8211; different covers, labels and track listings make for a very different musical experience, plus the cd versions often have extra songs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honest to god truth about me is that I&#8217;m a kind of nerd. I&#8217;m not a programmer, nor do I think thats terribly interesting. What I do get down with is the details of the process of the things I&#8217;m interested in. Far too much. Seriously. For instance, I have not told you in detail of how my home could be made sustainable and safe if there ever was a zombie war. The truth is I spent way too much time figuring that out after reading World War Z. Which leads me to a book I bought this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=124\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">331\/3 Books<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[118,126,160],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}