I persuaded my dear friend Ruth to listen to Johnny Thunders. I am not going to try and sell her on Royal Trux, it might be a step too far. Royal Trux are an on again off again band that ran from the late ’80s until very recently consisting of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty […]
MoreGoodnight from me..Lover you shoulda come over playing in the background and the end to a day that coulda gone better really. You can trust Jeff to make things feel even more nostalgic and tender than they even are, that waver in his voice and that sad whine of the guitar, and the heartfelt sadness….It […]
MoreI never really thought it through when I climbed into Beastie, back in LA, back in 2015. I didn’t really think about any of it. I didn’t think about boots, or sensible clothes, or water canteens, or propane. I didn’t think about levelling blocks, or food stocks, or bears or cougar or falling branches in […]
MoreI started at Carolyn Cassady’s introduction and read: He is known to have hit women, but I’m sure they asked for it, and that it was a sexual turn-on, as some have confessed to me. Here I am, bubbling over with barely contained fury. Hitting someone is never a sexual turn on, come on guys […]
MoreMy favorite old wreck is alive. Discharged from hospital, living purely on spite and whiskey, and the ability to torture me with a telephone. I lost my temper. One thing he can’t do is bullshit me like he manages to bullshit people who haven’t been there. It is always tomorrow that they will sober up, […]
MoreIf you don’t look down in San Francisco It can be unfortunate for you If you don’t look where you Are putting your foot From time to time Stepping into another’s misfortune Or discarded fragments Of sin sharp and dangerous Discarded emissions Disregarded admissions Of guilt or weakness Fragility or shame If you don’t look […]
MoreSo…yeah…what happens when you put traumatized me in a room with someone who spent a long time as a worker in the penal system, and is shouting and exerting their dominance over a room of traumatized homeless people in a shelter, making sure his respect is insured and understood, instead of realizing this is a […]
MoreMy father abused me and my mother was complicit. I don’t have family. I did ask for help now and then, I told them I was being hurt. I am no contact with them, have been for decades. They are vile, racist, right wing, fuckheads and I hope they are miserable. I don’t want much. […]
MoreMy little Tokyo apartment might have been home, but it was rarely a refuge, hardly ever the safest place I could be. A few times he would be sent off for a few days, a week even, to China, or some other part of Japan, somewhere else, to do business with people in some important […]
MoreI walked far too far today, about ten miles or so, which is too much for me right now, all things considering…So it’s goodnight from me, I’ve a couple of aspirin and a date with netflix…and Townes Van Zandt at the Old Quarter. This is the absolute best recording of Townes I’ve heard – no […]
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