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The Moon Zappa Book

“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 […]

The Eve Babitz Book

“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 […]

Astral Weeks: A Secret History Of 1968

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 […]

Shred Sisters

https://t.ly/vi5fH I loved this book! I got it from the library a couple of months ago and read the first page and gave up. I’d just finished another book, and it’s oftentimes difficult to get into a new one. The tone is different, in so many books you have to get halfway through to get […]