(*) Completed | (E) Excerpts | (I) In Progress | (-) DNF | (P*) Previously Completed | (*XX) Completed in 20XX
BOOKS READ IN 2023
USA Trilogy - John Dos Passos, 1937 (*)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant, 1783 (E)
Signs - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1964 (E)
Mount Analogue - Rene Daumal, 1952/1959 (*)
A History of the Modern Middle East - William L. Cleveland, Martin Bunton, 2016 (E)
Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 1978 (E)
Água Viva - Clarice Lispector, 1973 (*)
Four Phenomenological Philosophers - Christopher Macann, 1993 (*)
Beyond Nature and Culture - Philippe Descola, 2005/2013 (*)
Nudge - Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, 2008/2009 (E)
Aboriginal Legends: Animal Tales - A.W. Reed, 1998 (*)
Routledge Guidebook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception - Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, 2011 (E)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin, 1935/2008 (E)
Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990 (E)
The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks, 2015 (*)
On the Plurality of Worlds - David K. Lewis, 1986 (*)
Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1962/2002 (P*) (E)
Primacy of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1964 (*24)
Understanding Phenomenology - Michael Hammond, Jane Howarth, Russell Keat, 1991 (E)
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda - Fawaz Gerges, 2011 (E)
ISIS A History - Fawaz Gerges, 2016 (E)
The Islam/West Debate - Eds. David Blankenhorn, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Hassan I. Mneimneh, Alex Roberts, 2005 (E)
The Spirit of Terrorism - Jean Baudrillard, 2013 (*)
The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis, 1953 (*)
A Crash Course on the New Age Movement - Elliot Miller, 1989 (E)
Treatise on White Magic - Alice Bailey, 1934/2011 (E)
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis, 1954 (*)
Capitalism in the Web of Life - Jason Moore, 2016 (E)
Storytelling Globalisation From the Chaco and Beyond - Mario Blaser, 2010 (E)
Land's End - Tania Murray Li, 2014 (E)
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis, 1955 (*)
The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis, 1956 (*)
Siddharta - Hermann Hesse, 1922 (*)
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis, 1943 (*)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1932 (*)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott, 1884 (*)
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli, 2014/2016 (*)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson, 2005/2008 (*)
The Girl That Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson, 2006/2009 (*)
The Meaning of Travel - Emily Thomas, 2022 (*)
A Short History of Decay - Emil Cioran, 1949 (E)
Sex and the City - Candace Bushnell, 1996 (*)
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan, 2015 (*)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling, 1997 (*)
The Ticket That Exploded - William S. Burroughs, 1962 (*)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883-85/1961 (*)
Metamagical Themas - Douglas R. Höfstadter, 1985 (I)
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1874/1980 (*)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll, 1865 (P*) (*)
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll, 1871 (*)
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems - Lewis Carroll, 1869 (-)
I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb, 2013 (*)
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo, 2019 (*)
Nietzsche and the Feminine - ed. Peter J. Burgard, 1994 (E)
Conversations with Children - R.D. Laing, 1977 (*)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson, 2007/2009 (I)
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang, 2002 (*)
Towards a Gay Communism - Mario Mieli, 1977/2018 (E)
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: a Phenomenology of Music - Bruce Ellis Benson, 2002 (I)
Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll, 1889 (E)
The New Silk Roads- Peter Frankopan, 2018 (*24)
The Battle of Forever - A.E. Van Vogt, 1973 (*)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, 1991 (*24)
BOOKS READ IN 2024
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, 1991 (*)
Primacy of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1964 (*)
The New Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan, 2018 (*)
Metamagical Themas - Douglas R. Höfstadter, 1985 (I)
The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuściński, 1998/2001 (*)
Letter From Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr., 1963/2018 (*)
Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell, 1945/2018 (*)
New York City in 1979 - Kathy Acker, 1981 (*)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson, 2007/2009 (I)
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami, 1982/1989 (*)
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(ALMOST) ALL OF MY MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLANET EARTH
ALONE
26/04/2020 'The Ballad of Jean-Paul' (credited as Noah Sebastian Selfridge): 3 track EP dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre
10/01/2021 'Solitary Splattings From Lonely Larry and Noah No-Mates' (credited as Noah Sebastian Selfridge): compilation of singles from myself and Tom "Larry Legs" Jones
31/03/2023 performance at Other Echoes #15 in 101 Social Margate
03/06/2023 (AWARD WINNING!) performance at Penny Theatre Open Mic as Britney Speared (drums and vocals inspired by Ms. Spears) and Britney Spoons (percussive spoon accompaniment to guitarist James Kemp)
09/06-10/06/2023 performance of 'The Big Massive Great Big Long' in Eel art gallery, Margate: a 24 hour drumming endurance performance
AS THE SHASTIK CRET MENAGERIE
22/08/2021 'Anti-Boringity': 7 track LP dealing with boring problems
27/05/2022 'Pocket Sardine': 19 track LP exploring sound as a social activity
20/08/2023 stream on The Rudder 'MATERIA', video piece composed using in-camera-editing
19/10/2023 performance at Free Range #258, four compositions/improvisations by Tim Long, William Burroughs, Toby Bula-Edge and myself
AS THE BROTHERS BULA
13/07/2020 'When I Logged ON' (credited as Noah Sebastian Selfridge and Prof. Tim): 5 track EP
01/01/2021 'Lo-Band OST' (credited as Noah Sebastian Selfridge and Prof. Tim): 5 tracks written for the film 'Lo-Band', written and directed by the Brothers Bula
28/12/2021 'Tsar Bom Bap Live at the Shasm Quarters' (credited as Tsar Bom Bap and Alub Srehtorb): 3 track LP of improvisations recorded in early 2021
22/02/2022 'U.S. of American Music' (credited as The Wilson-Bula Blues Band): 6 selected improvisations from a session in Feb 2022 with David "Logan" Wilson III
27/10/2022 performance at Free Range #240
08/04/2023 'Musique Belgique' (credited as De Trompetkoning Zonnekeyn en de Gebroeders Bula): 7 selected improvisations from a session in Dec 2022 with Benjamin Zonnekeyn
22/09/2023 performance at Bexhill Coronation Bandstand
30/09/2023 'Mustard Heaven': 12 track LP featuring complete recordings of performances on 27/10/2022 and 22/09/2023
AS THE MYSTIC SHED
21/12/2018 'Welcome to the Furniture Department': 5 track EP
07/12/2020 'Tinker's Alley': 5 improvisational offcuts from session in Medway Historic Dockyard, Nov 2020
27/08/2022 'The Inner Mystique of the Shakked: Live in Trago Basement': 9 track live album recorded in Whistle Trago, Hastings
30/12/2023 Performance at The Brass (formerly The Brass Monkey) in Hastings, on its closing night, alongside Harper, Girth and Harry Moon and the Cardboard Rocket
25/01/2024 Performance at Green Door Store (Brighton) alongside Thieves and Kitchen Lovers
27/01/2024 Performance at The Piper (St. Leonards-On-Sea) as part of all day prog festival
WITH WILLIAM BURROUGHS
21/12/2023 Performance at The Ballroom (Canterbury) for The Crash of Moons Club as 'Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club'
11/02/2024 Performance at The Pig (Hastings) as part of Sonics experimental music showcase at Fat Tuesday