Re: (TV) TV Reading List

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 4:00 PM -0400 8/24/01, Dan Jones wrote:
> I'm kind of low on ideas about what books to read at the moment and 
> I get a bit tetchy if I don't have anything to work my way through.

Two recent reads: Anthony Bourdain's _Kitchen Confidential_, which is 
a hoot, and even mentions Hell and TV as selections on his daily mix 
tape.  And Neil Baldwin's _Man Ray: American Artist_, the biography 
of my fave painter/photographer/filmmaker (_L'itoile de mer_ and 
_Emak Bakia_, of course, are part of the film soundtracks shows).

> I mean books that we know Verlaine, Hell, Lloyd have read and like.

As far as any of them _liking_ those two books, I dunno.  Hell 
obviously likes Lautreamont's _Maldaror_, but...I dunno.  Didn't do 
it for me.  (Philistine, I know...)  Props too to Eric G. for 
pointing this out as well.

I have some Perec (_Species of Spaces and other pieces_), Ed Ruscha 
(_They Called Her Styrene_), and the new James Tate lined up, though. 
Talking Heads were apparently Ruscha fans, having used his _Sand in 
the Vaseline_ painting for the cover of the collection of the same 
name.  And James Tate apparently digs David (Silver Jews) Berman's 
collection _Actual Air_, which I haven't picked up yet.

And I really dug _Our Band Could Be Your Life_ by...Michael Azzrad? 
Something like that.  Just came out in hardback, good cross-section 
of a sample of the 80s indie band culture.

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Maurice Rickard
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