RE: (TV) Iggy

[bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM]

San Francisco is a great place. I live and Oakland, tho...and prefer it.

Regards,

Micah 



-----Original Message-----
From: Per Rosén [mailto:per_m_rosen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:32 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Iggy


Wow! City Lights, is it still there? On my US trip back in 1987 I was there.

I bought a cheap paperback novel just to get a City Lights paperbag to put 
on my wall. SF was a real cool place!


>From: secretX@webtv.net
>Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: (TV) Iggy
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 23:10:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>I've known Iggy a long time. His door has never "swung both ways"!! Iggy
>was always strictly heterosexual, much to David's chagrin, but David
>said he was happy to settle for just being around Iggy's primitive
>energy. After Iggy moved to Berlin he came back to the US to tour and
>when I saw him he was reading a book about Kerouac and Casady. One or
>both of those men flirted with bisexuality, but still I don't think Iggy
>was interested in trying it. He picked up the book at City Lights,
>legendary beatnik hangout which specializes in books by Ginsberg,
>Burroughs, etc. It was near Iggy's hotel. By the way, when Tom first saw
>City Lights he was surprised by how small it was. He put it down. "This
>place is nothing."  Maybe he was comparing it to NYC's Strand ("Eight
>Miles of Books" shouts the ad). I thought Tom was missing the point. I
>was offended. I'd heard that Tom had a "superior attitude", but to put
>down an earnest little bookstore like City Lights? I guess he meant
>well. He was trying to point out to me how I should leave San Francisco
>and "see the world". Maybe he was subliminally pointing out that "bigger
>is better". It's true that Iggy's not the biggest guy, but he was
>exciting and empathetic.
>
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