https://rb.gy/1mvqok “‘You’re so smart!’ she said accusingly, ‘I never understood it! Why would someone so smart be fixated on pop music?’” That’s what Percy’s mother tells her. My mother went to see my shrink to complain all I wanted to do was buy records and go to concerts, couldn’t I get on the right track? […]

“Earth to Moon”: https://shorturl.at/8Fvqk I spent all afternoon finishing this book. I hadn’t planned to, I hadn’t planned on finishing it all. I tried a couple of pages a few weeks back and the style…let’s just say the writing did have a style, and it was interior dialogue, somewhat choppy, and this was not the […]

“Hollywood’s Eve – Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.”: https://shorturl.at/edrI7 1 I wish this was a movie, for if it was I’d tell you to run out and see it immediately. And although there might ultimately be a flick, it could never capture Eve completely. I know, I know, you’re burned out on […]

https://shorturl.at/4Xolz 1 I devoured this book. I bought my first issue of “Rolling Stone” at a newsstand right by the Columbia campus in December 1969. If I remember correctly, it was the issue with Mick Jagger on the cover, with a full explication of the Altamont debacle. This was manna from heaven, this was everything […]