The personal anecdote you told in the latest "Ask Greil" about "If You Could Read My Mind" was terrific! I doubt that you would ever want to write a memoir, but if you ever did, focusing it around your experiences of personal listenings to records, songs, performances, etc would be wonderful. Of course, you kind of already do that anyway...
Crazy, fantastic personal story and reminiscence in your Gordon Lightfoot piece! Very well written-- cinematic and definitely takes you there. So weird, and yet, in today's world, it almost seems benign and non-threatening and kind of sweet. Thanks for that.
Very wise words on James M. Cain. As much as I've liked his books - and Mildred Pierce is a great American novel - the movies have a different way of colonizing your brain.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who loved the Gordon Lightfoot story. I always wondered how that record wound up in "Treasure Island," which is not to say I didn't think it merited inclusion. It's been my favorite song of his for many years.
The personal anecdote you told in the latest "Ask Greil" about "If You Could Read My Mind" was terrific! I doubt that you would ever want to write a memoir, but if you ever did, focusing it around your experiences of personal listenings to records, songs, performances, etc would be wonderful. Of course, you kind of already do that anyway...
Also two chords, I think:
Road Runner by
the Modern Lovers
"State Trooper" might take the cake. It came to mind right after I hit "Send."
Crazy, fantastic personal story and reminiscence in your Gordon Lightfoot piece! Very well written-- cinematic and definitely takes you there. So weird, and yet, in today's world, it almost seems benign and non-threatening and kind of sweet. Thanks for that.
Love love love the Monte Rio story. Thank you so much for sharing that one, Greil.
Very wise words on James M. Cain. As much as I've liked his books - and Mildred Pierce is a great American novel - the movies have a different way of colonizing your brain.
That vignette about "If You Could Read My Mind" was why I read and will continue to read everything Marcus writes.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who loved the Gordon Lightfoot story. I always wondered how that record wound up in "Treasure Island," which is not to say I didn't think it merited inclusion. It's been my favorite song of his for many years.