(Part 3) Best products from r/OldSchoolCool

Russian book called Hidden Cosmos. The Russian wiki has a pretty good writeup, but it's in Russian.

Edit: Also, James Harford has a much more serious and concerning performance appraisal based on interviews in the 90s with retired Soviet (now Russian) flight planners in his book on Korolev. Here's a link to the book on Amazon, if you're interested in Soviet space history. Its excellent.

Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature writes in great detail how the world keeps getting more and more peaceful since the enlightenment.

see: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052REUW0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Dodge City is another awesome book that covers much of his and his brother's lives as well. Also very well researched and includes other very interesting characters. The photo from OP is in the book.

If you are a huge fan of Flea, you have to check out the pilot of the Amazon series, Highston. I won't ruin it any more. It's awesome. https://www.amazon.com/Highston/dp/B017APV0JC

It was a confluence of influences: post-war access to higher education made "manual arts" (i.e. blue collar labor) less appealing to the growing middle class, unions declined from the 1970s forward (further undercutting such work), the trades in general have been devalued through emphasis on white collar work, machines/robots replaced many line jobs in factories, we stopped making "stuff" domestically, and probably most importantly, all those white-collar dads among the Boomers were simply unable/uninterested in teaching their kids any of the skills once reflected in "shop" classes.

Add in major liability concerns about letting kids handle real tools, the cost of insurance, the cost of facilities, and in more recent years the pernicious influence of No Child Left Behind (which only values "skills" that can be assessed through standardized tests) and you see the end of shop class in general.

There's a great discussion of these general trends and the value of manual labor in the book Shopcraft as Soulcraft that I highly recommend.

There are some good books about it. This one is the best,
I think.

https://www.amazon.ca/Live-New-York-Complete-Uncensored/dp/0316295043/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499705897&sr=1-1&keywords=snl

Tom Shales interviewed loads of cast members. Plenty of good insights and anecdotes.

I don't own it, but checked it out at the Pollock Pines Public Library in California. I'm searching about now, but finding nothing.
Down at Sutter's Mill and Placerville there are locally written books for sale in the gift shops. Would these small press efforts have an ISBN?
They Fell Giants was a hardbound book if that helps.
I recall seeing it on Amazon, but I don't now. Just an image that was in the book itself
http://www.amazon.com/Photo-Humboldt-industry-lumberjacks-California/dp/B0096SQA2E/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1449700311&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=They+Fell+Giants+sequoia+tree

Has anyone ever written a Star Punk novel? That seems like a fun mashup.

Edit: Just realized there's a Jim Butcher series that sort of fits the bill. Like steam punk in Cloud City.

For anyone interested in learning more about Monk, this is the authoritative biography:

"Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original" https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439190461/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_HZILzbQK6NT1W

I've been a Monk obsessive since I was 16, and one great musicological discovery (I think it was in that book) was that the soft three-note dissonant combo he ends many of his songs with mimics the horn of the trains that ran past his childhood home in North Carolina. Find "Functional" from his solo album Thelonious Himself and you'll hear it throughout. https://play.google.com/music/m/Tnqpl55mpik4kf6wvldbhzc7owu?t=Functional_-_Thelonious_Monk

Edited to add: for anyone who falls in love with Monk, your next stop is Art Tatum. You won't quite hear Monk's soul but you'll get to hear what Monk would have been if he had been a technical virtuoso. Try Tatum's song "Cherokee" and you'll immediately hear it.

Plenty of blond and blue-eyed Russians, you know. ;)

If you ever want a good book on Prussian history, I recommend Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark

Info text:

> In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished.

>But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex. Though now a fading memory in Europe's heartland, the true story of Prussia offers a remarkable glimpse into the dynamic rise of modern Europe.

>What we find is a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with neither significant resources nor a coherent culture. With its capital in Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe. Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests of Napoleon, and from the "iron and blood" policies of Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire in 1871, and all that implied for the tumultuous twentieth century.

>By 1947, Prussia was deemed an intolerable threat to the safety of Europe; what is often forgotten, Clark argues, is that it had also been an exemplar of the European humanistic tradition, boasting a formidable government administration, an incorruptible civil service, and religious tolerance. Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilization's fortunes. Iron Kingdom is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia's fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.

Linking google play instead of Amazon.

Because if you're going to buy a book about Hipster Dads, it better be hardcopy.

Or link the best Tumblr I've ever seen that wasn't filled with Whiskey.

Yes! Most recently I have been reading Your Pretty Face is going to Hell, but Open up and Bleed has quite a bit too from an Iggy perspective -- and it is just a fantastic book. There's also Bowie in Berlin but I have not read it.

There's also a biopic that been in the works but I have not heard much about it.

The book? Its called Rumble.

Nytimes article about her

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/arts/sassy-appraisal-sexes-argentine-cartoonist-articulates-women-s-hopes-fears.html

Another article with some examples of her work.
http://ojs.cf.ac.uk/index.php/newreadings/article/view/119/167

Her books are trasnlated to english and on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Edge-1-Maitena/dp/B000ENBO5I

She is a pretty awesome woman.

This was a popular Lynda poster, a still from her 1976 movie "Bobbie Jo And The Outlaw" (co-starring Marjoe Gortner). They ran that movie on HBO quite a lot back when HBO was new. It's kind of interesting. Lynda sings a song or two and I think she maybe shows her bare boobs?

It's on Amazon Prime if anyone's interested.

Edit: Wikipedia says: "It is the only movie where Lynda Carter has ever appeared in the nude." So yeah, boobs.

This is a great smaller watch and looks excellent with a leather strap.

http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-SNK809-Automatic-Stainless-Canvas/dp/B002SSUQFG

holy shit, i live in lebanon and i had never ever seen this picture before, got more? source? i would love to share them with family.

edit: just found it's from a book i think you guys would love.

for anyone interested in the Pilar years, I got 'Hemingway's Boat' by Paul Hendrickson in a very generous Reddit book exchange - highly recommended! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hemingways-Boat-Everything-Loved-1934-1961/dp/0099565994/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373978995&sr=8-1&keywords=hemingway%27s+boat

It's a complex topic most don't bother to understand. Easier to categorise every German soldier including Waffen SS as "evil Nazi".

If you want to read some very interesting (and entertaining) first hand accounts of Waffen SS and what it was like to fight in their units, I recommend the following books (can be found and downloaded online):

• Black edelweiss by Johann Voss: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Edelweiss-Conscience-Soldier-Waffen-SS/dp/0966638980/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
  
  
• Campaign in Russia by Leon Degrelle:
  https://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Russia-Waffen-Eastern-Front/dp/B000ZD3A8Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502739053&sr=1-1&keywords=campaign+russia+degrelle
  
  Both of these guys especially the second (Degrelle) were Waffen SS who survived some of the craziest fronts and battle in the history of humanity on the Eastern Front (Kursk, Kharkov, etc).