{"id":1327,"date":"2012-05-15T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2014-11-05T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T03:00:28","slug":"a-good-read-a-good-listen-and-a-good-drink-daniel-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/05\/15\/a-good-read-a-good-listen-and-a-good-drink-daniel-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Read, a Good Listen, and a Good Drink: Daniel Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-pFwhFy-WvJQ\/T7GJ4IY2igI\/AAAAAAAAAqE\/5WJZ9pBOOcs\/s500\/Daniel%2520Knox%2520a.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.<\/p>\n<p>In this series, some of NTSIB&#8217;s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to have the king of sardonic heart taking part in this series. Sardonic heart? you ask. Yes, because while Daniel Knox will make you laugh &#8211; if your humor is of a certain darker inclination &#8211; if you dig further down, you will find deep and jagged truths that might catch you on their barbs as they cling to your clothes with their familiarity. Yes, the world is broken, and we&#8217;re broken in it, but sit here a while, and we&#8217;ll share a grim laugh together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=202001355\/size=venti\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=ef8a06\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danielknox.bandcamp.com\/album\/to-make-you-stay\">To Make You Stay by Daniel Knox<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Good Read:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ask-Dust-John-Fante\/dp\/0060822554\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1335157219&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"blank\"><i>Ask The Dust<\/i> by John Fante<\/a><br \/>\nThe most prominent in a series of novels about Fante&#8217;s alter-ego Arturo Bandini. I love all of Fante&#8217;s work but I&#8217;ve read this book more times than I can remember. Bandini is pure ego and contradiction, cursing someone and admiring them in the same breath. His writing style is full of a rambling honesty that doesn&#8217;t hold back. Anyone who has ever tried to write or create something will recognize Bandini&#8217;s courage and doubt as their own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Road To Los Angeles&#8221; makes a good companion to this, as does &#8220;Dreams From Bunker Hill&#8221; which Fante wrote blind and limbless from his deathbed.<\/p>\n<p>There was a piece of shit movie made of &#8220;Ask The Dust&#8221; in 2006. Don&#8217;t even bother watching the trailer. It&#8217;s the worst.<\/p>\n<p><b>Good Listen:<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gondola No Uta&#8221; (from Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s Ikiru) by Traditional.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always favored voices with character over ones with skill. I work as a projectionist and this song from the end of the film &#8220;Ikiru&#8221; always made me run out to the balcony to take it in whenever it showed. His voice is so small and on the verge of cracking, but I can&#8217;t imagine it sung better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_C0_hkzCl4nI\"><div id=\"lyte_C0_hkzCl4nI\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/C0_hkzCl4nI\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C0_hkzCl4nI\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/C0_hkzCl4nI\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Good Drink:<\/b><br \/>\nI quit drinking a few years ago but not out of any great dramatic epiphany. I knew I was either bad at it or too good to keep going. But the best times I had were drinking alone and getting lost.<\/p>\n<p>I used to drink the hell out of scotch but if I had to recommend a drink recipe to anyone it would be this:<\/p>\n<p>wake up disoriented on a winter morning when you have nothing to do<br \/>\ntake a box of DayQuill\u00c2\u00ae gelcaps<br \/>\nfollow this with a bottle of vodka<br \/>\nclose your eyes<br \/>\nopen them and you will be outside<br \/>\nnow you are on a bus<br \/>\nsit on the back middle seat where it is warm and slightly elevated<br \/>\nfeel the arms of the bus wrap around you as the city you live in passes both very fast and very slow all at once<br \/>\nshow up someplace you haven&#8217;t been before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielknox.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Daniel Knox Official Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielknox.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Daniel Knox @ Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/danielknoxmusic\" target=\"blank\">Daniel Knox @ Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danielknoxmusic\">Daniel Knox @ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. 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