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Just Kids and Always crashing the same car
Been on huge memoir kick as I’m currently writing book in the first person. Going to list two here and save this list to come back to. Always Crashing The Same Car by Matthew Specktor is great book about the guy himself whom I knew nothing about and artistic desperation and ambition focused in Los Angeles. It runs through many stories of The well known and not well known. He would actually be a great person on this app. The other is the opposite in tone. Just Kids by Patti Smith. A delightful more hopeful and romantic read about similar subject that just makes you feel great to be an artist and like you’re doing everything right. New York and rock n roll heavy. A lot on the Chelsea hotel.
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@meat_stevens
Jan 23, 2024
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@mitra
maybe I should have said I didn’t like him as a narrator, too much about his hollywood life/problems that came off as affected - I would have preferred less about him and more about the subjects.
Jan 30, 2024
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@meat_stevens
Oh Wow great rec! Looking to buy it now. Loved the Zevon chapter. Why don’t you like Specktor as a person?
Jan 30, 2024
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@mitra
bought always crashing for the warren zevon chapter, love stories about LA but I think I don’t like Spektor as a person. my la isn’t sons of studio folks lamenting his divorce in a weho apartment. zevon chapter (and all the other vignettes) were fire though. if you like la stories, i suggest the all night menu editions. sam sweet lives up to his name.
Jan 30, 2024
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