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Ryan Adams to release book, tour UK

Sobered-up troubadour Ryan Adams is to release a book and tour the UK.

DiS was surprised this morning to dip into our RSS reader and discover that Ryan Adams, has posted a blog about his first book.

One wonders whether this book will just be one long scathing attack on Courtney Love (which could probably run for three hundred pages...). However, we suspect it'll be a little like Bukowski's 'Post Office', but about a guy who plays guitar, gets drunk, and falls off of stages.

Anyway, here's the blog he posted:

"here’s something - it’s selfish, but inter-cardinal related so……

i woke up today to a great email from my bosses at AKASHIC BOOKS……

INFINITY BLUES- (“domestic-release” working cover)….wow….i guess this dream is coming true…..my grandparents, who taught me to write, and type and dream, i am so proud of all your hard work today, even if this is a long long sad book but some funny too, just like those black and white movies in the heat of the eastern seaboard- rolling through the windows of our home…..i am so humbled and so PROUD to be an AKASHIC BOOKS author……

man, this is just crazy, like when i saw the first test pressing of the first 7inch record i was on…..

i feel like i will be able to say i left a little of my heart here, for when i am gone, maybe there will be comfort or safety in there, for people i will never know, for our generations never passing...

i have to maybe go take a nap now. bye. xx"

Also if you didn't know he's on tour in the UK in November with The Cardinals:

8 Dublin, Ambassador Theatre
10 Manchester Academy
11 Newcastle Academy
13 Leeds Academy
14 Edinburgh, Picture House
16 Cambridge, Corn Exchange
17 Birmingham Academy
19 Brighton Dome
20 Brixton Academy
22 Southampton Guildhall

DiScuss: what do you reckon the book will be like? Will he now start releasing six books a year and one good album every two? Can anyone make out whether the third paragraph is from the publishers? Do you think the whole book will suffer from a lack of capitalization and end each chapter with two x's? Ever had that buzz of your first 7inch being pressed? Might giving an album away with a book be a good way to ensure his fans buy it?

Unreadable

I love this guy. But can hardly be bothered to read the ramblings he occasionally posts as they are so incomprehensible.

A full length book? No thanks.

i imagine

this will be very entertaining.

He can be extremely articulate when he wants to be. and he's a witty fucker .

hopefully it's not coke-fuelled amblings about cheeto's..

he's just copying

Adam Gnade

Yeah, i completely agree...

...wh

Yeah, i completely agree...

...wh

Christ this guy never stops

Unfortunately I'll almost certainly be buying this because he fascinates me. I agree, though scatterbrained, his blog contains the odd amazing idea that you can't believe he just throws away on a form like that.

Been re-listening to loadsa his stuff lately and been blown away by Jacksonville City Nights after thinking it was well 'meh'.

Easy Tiger though, the odd track aside just sounds so tired - he seems insanely revitalised at the mo, so hoping his work is too.

Ryan's response:

(Stick with it)

p.s.
the cover is a fraction of a piece of my art.

i made BOTH covers

yes, BOTH

the one everyone will have access to later

but not the SPECIAL ONE

the one i can’t even begin to tell you about.

either way,

I just wanted to contribute to my culture. Don’t buy it if you don’t want to.

But it’s no tell all

it’s not “i was wasted, blah blah blah”

it’s five long fucking chapters about how one person found himself

by losing himself

maybe

and also

about beauty

and

endless endless fascinations

because

i side with the dreamers

for

they have the best questions.

what book did you write “Drowned In Sound” employee.

what charities do you champion.

when was the last time you did something brave

something sweet

something open

ON THIS SIDE

is sharing

so

go tear down the fucking world

us dreamers,

we’re invisible to you

for your ignorant rage

and

we will rebuild it

as you lean exhausted against the wall of time

for it broke your face

as you forgot

the way through a thing

is a gesture of kindness

and

a listening and a please

or thank you

otherwise

you are a metal door

loud

with hollow projections playing to no one

in an empty space

take the walk


Drowned in Sound.....
hey,

thanks for the pre-coverage of my first book.

no. sorry. there is not one entry that has anything to do with substance abuse.

YOUR JOB is to make people like me, just a guy who makes shit, be a train-wreck, or others….it sells your paper, brings people to your blog.

but guess what,

i have been painting, and writing fiction and poetry since i was a child.

and for the record; do you know what- i didn’t have to dignify your pre-write up with a response but I am. Wanna know why?

because, you have NO IDEA….no clue what you are talking about. or what kind of handle i have on my own idea’s, my own language flow.

and yours….

yours…is to imply I would waste my time writing about being drunk ( i find it funny when i am belittled to a “drunk”, i drank sure, but was I like attending the only bar on Earth…..did the person who wrote this pre-ramble, did they get smashed this week or last? I don’t know- it’s not my business….

but i did grow up, so to speak, in public….

and my lessons were unfortunate at times and my job had a stage on the end of it- that or a plumber…..a plumber, a job i enjoyed. but i loved music.

i hardly think i took or did anything other people tried in their twenties.

but a book about drinking, and some woman i don’t even know….

sorry charlie.

and by the way,

be careful

i am a quick and sharp study

and those words you don’t know about yet

they might burn your eyes

for your hands will be shaking

if you have a heart left

seemingly your soul is stuffed into blurbs

where you off handedly judge people you do not know.

i am all about kindness

but, with all due respect-

whoever you are at that awful ridiculous faction of yours,

there is a pier….you should go for a walk

water can be very healing,

buckle-up kids

This is one of the most hillarious things

i've ever read on here. Thank you to everyone involved.

wow you guys

know a lot about journalism.
what, you're not journalists?
then what do you know about writing content that's readable and entertaining and informative in a small amount of space?
oh, proclamations of "shame" really make you come across as some finger waggling malcontent.

^

hello ryan!

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