RE: The Wayback Machine / RE: (TV) Tomspotting

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

He'd never work at The Strand now because he wouldn't want to have to interact with the public 

(Unlees you're saying he works in administration hidden in back-rooms.  : > ).)

Remember, not too long ago he had enough money to buy a condo in NYC; 
I think you underestimate the number of sources/streams of income  he has (not just royalties).
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On 
> Behalf Of Phil Obbard
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: The Wayback Machine / RE: (TV) Tomspotting
> 
> I would not be surprised if Tom works at the Strand. How much 
> money do we think 
> he's making from his records, seriously? 
> 
> Aside from royalties for Bowie's cover of "Kingdom Come", has any 
> Verlaine/Television record ever made money? If it took 
> Richard Hell's BLANK 
> GENERATION until 1996 to break "even" (and to have made 
> roughly $20,000 in 
> royalties by 2000, or about $5k/year, only some of which goes 
> to the artist) how 
> much can Verlaine have made from records over the years? 
> 
> Which leaves touring as his main source of income -- not much 
> there, either, 
> unless he's make $20K or more from each appearance. 
> 
> I guess he could be living frugally. But he could also be 
> picking up hours (and 
> new reading material) at the Strand. 
> 
> --Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net>
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Sent: Mon, November 1, 2010 9:54:29 AM
> Subject: The Wayback Machine / RE: (TV) Tomspotting
> 
> Hi Jesse,
> 
> Regarding:  
> > know if Tom by any > chance _works_ at the Strand? Seems 
> unlikely, but it's my 
> 
> > impression a lot of > artists and musicians have worked at 
> the Strand for a 
> >long 
> >
> > time - and Tom has to 
> 
> According to Ms. Secret X (from quite a while back) and a 
> couple of old
> magazineinterviews/articles, Tom worked at The Strand 
> Bookstore in the early-mid 
> 70s.
> 
> I think it's unlikely he works there now.
> 
> And given his notorious frugal lifestyle I  think he's able 
> to live comfortably 
> making a living
> 'being Tom Verlaine' as Michael Carlucci once put it.
> 
> Leo
> 
> PS:  He 's also supposed to have once worked (again from Ms. 
> Secret X, and again 
> in early - mid
> 1970s)  on the docks loading crates of  bananas onto trucks.  
> 
> 
> 
> "He did what we all do.  
> He went about his dull routine 
> as if all the days in the world 
> were still to come".
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On 
> > Behalf Of Jesse Hochstadt
> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 8:16 PM
> > To: TV list
> > Subject: (TV) Tomspotting
> > 
> > This may be par for the course in NY, but having recently 
> > returned after 15 
> > years living elsewhere, thought I'd mention it: I saw Tom 
> > outside the Strand 
> > Bookstore the other day when I was waiting to get in to sell 
> > some books. I'm 99% 
> > sure it was him: I saw him recently play at Galapagos as part 
> > of the DUMBO Arts 
> > Festival, and so I have a pretty good image of what he looks 
> > like nowadays. He 
> > was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, and plain black 
> > shoes, and was going 
> > through the $1 book racks. At one point he was chatting in a 
> > friendly fashion 
> > with one of the Strand employees. The only thing I could hear 
> > him say was some 
> > reference to a guy who "owns a large chain of steakhouses" - 
> > seriously.
> > 
> > At first Tom looked like he was going through the books very 
> > systematically, 
> > lifting a bunch of books at once and moving them over into an 
> > adjacent column 
> > when, I assumed, he'd finished thumbing through them. But 
> > after a while it 
> > seemed to me that he was re-racking the books. Does anyone 
> > know if Tom by any 
> > chance _works_ at the Strand? Seems unlikely, but it's my 
> > impression a lot of 
> > artists and musicians have worked at the Strand for a long 
> > time - and Tom has to 
> > make money somehow when he's not recording his customary 
> > three albums a year and 
> > going on tours of Latin America, Europe and Japan with huge 
> > light shows and 
> > dazzling pyrotechnics.
> > 
> > Anyway, by the time I got out of the Strand he was nowhere 
> to be seen.
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