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andre agassi - Open

It's an insane autobiography of the Tennis players life with some of the strangest passages I've seen in a memoir. Truly fascinating even if you don't care about tennis.

@jrpaperstack

Nov 13, 2024

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Hollywood Tell-Alls

It's important to do your homework when entering a new line of work so I've been reading books like Monster by John Gregory Dunne, about the years-long process of writing Up Close & Personal with Joan Didion and a slew of producers, and You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again—the title a send-up of the bestselling You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again (next on my list)—which I purchased on audiocassette and chronicles three high-class hookers blabbing on their celebrity clientele. The Kid Stays In The Picture is read by a very gravelly Bob Evans on audiobook: a must. Michael Ovitz's memoir was involuntarily funny because he's such a liar. I even read Disney War, a book about Michael Eisner's reign of terror at the Walt Disney Company. Now I'm on Tinderbox, which is a newly released oral history of HBO. I think it's good to be familiar with everything that can and has gone wrong in the movie and TV business so you can adjust your expectations and remain cautiously optimistic.

@patrik-sandberg

STAFF

Mar 3, 2022

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‘my life’ by marc chagall

pure poetry autobiography written by the painter marc chagall who was a cancer man like me. his description of his mother practically made me cry for the first time in months. also lots of bitchy ranting about trends in art in his day. some favorite lines: “But my art, I thought, is perhaps a wild art, a blazing quicksilver, a blue soul flashing on my canvases” p 110 and “I didn’t hesitate to darken my eyes a little, to redden my lips lightly, though there was no need for it and yes, yes… I wanted to please those girls on the river side” p 69 ok it’s actually hard to pull single lines from this thing bc the long form is so good. just get the damn book it was like $6 shipped on abe books or whatever and it has prints of etchings he made specifically for the project. a real page turner u could finish in one sitting easily

@starkeyf

Nov 6, 2024

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Plastikman - Sheet One (1993)

I have been listening to this album a good amount recently when I want to get in the zone and get some work done. Makes me feel like I am Cereal from the movie Hackers typing away on my MacBook Air. Not only is it full of slow-build-slappers (eg Plasticine), there is also a cool legend around the album - Sam from Ghostly actually told me about it. The original layout for the album artwork was perforated to look like a sheet of LSD tabs and it was so realistic looking that, and I cannot confirm or deny this, supposedly a man in Texas was arrested during a traffic stop because he had a copy of Sheet One on the passenger seat.

@bijan

Apr 13, 2021

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The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual (2010)

Frankies 457 Spuntino is my absolute favorite restaurant in New York. Over the last 5 years, this has been where Bae-Z and I have gone to celebrate almost every birthday and significant life/career event. The vibes are cozy af, the food is comforting af and most importantly it is consistent af. This cookbook delivers too - it has all the greatest hits from the restaurant and the recipes are easy and straightforward enough that anyone can do them. If my kitchen is on fire, this is the cookbook I am grabbing. My favorite dishes are the Fennel, Celery Root, Parsley & Red Onion Salad, Cavatelli with Sausage & Browned Sage Butter and the Pork Braciola Marinara.

@bijan

Apr 13, 2021

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Insides - Euphoria (1993)

My buddy Zack just put me on this album because ur boi loves him some 1990s ambient/dream pop type beats and this certainly scratched the itch. Fave tracks: Skin Divers, Distractions, Darling Effect. I love the artwork as well - it is by The Senate who did a lot of artwork for Everything But The Girl (who is always in heavy rotation at Intramural HQ) in the early 90s.

@bijan

Apr 13, 2021