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| Peter Walker |
Posted - 07/31/2005 : 10:41:07
A feature where celebrities detail their day in terms of popular culture consumption. Apols if alreaady posted, etc....
Frank Black: The Pixies' Mr Big
Morning: It's my job to drive the kids to school, so we listen to CDs I've burned for them on the way. I'm educating them into my kind of music - Leadbelly, Townes van Zandt, Neil Young. They always groan and go "Oh Charles (his real name), do we have to listen to this one again?" They want to listen to Weird Al Yankovic.
Noon: Mostly I read non-fiction. I just read "Cod" by Mark Kurlansky. It's all about the cod industry, how the Basques controlled all the cod about 800 years ago, and how it all went wrong during the 70s with the Cod War. I like to read musical biographies too. I'm halfway through "Can You Feel The Slience?", an enormously thick Van Morrison biography by Clinton Heylin. It's heavy on trivia - who he was working with, recording dates and so on. That's the stuff I like. I'm not so curious about an author's questionable take on the personal aspects of a musician's life.
Night: I rent out arthouse films. I just read this book about (troubled German director) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, so I hired out Fassbinder's "Love Is Colder Than Death". It's kind of a gangster film, but it's not really plot driven - just two characters and a white wall. My girlfriend groaned all the way through. Not the kind of thing she wanted to watch at 10 at night. |
| 10 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| darwin |
Posted - 08/05/2005 : 17:18:54
quote:
Originally posted by frank_black_francis
I read that Cod book a few years ago....its amazing how much world history is tied to a fish. Kurlansky also wrote the History of Salt....which is apparently good, but I cant find it.
Cod is a good book, but a whole book industry of how the world has been changed by X (not the band) has popped up.
I've heard Salt goes a bit off the deep end as far as claiming everything is shaped by salt. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/05/2005 : 16:36:39
Actually, I agree with the kids. Weird Al is cool.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 20:07:27
cool, thanks floop! :) will have to check it out. |
| floop |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 19:58:18
it's not scary. it's just absurd, the way it plays out (on film). i'm not going to give it away obvioulsy..
ps. Frank, if you're reading this, have you seen LE SAMOURI? |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 19:55:21
is it really scary?? it sounds that way?? i don't like scary  |
| floop |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 19:54:18
LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH is awesome. got to see that at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.. that's probably one of craziest endings to a film i've ever seen. and one of the funniest
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 19:43:24
I have a thing for salt and have been intrigued to read the history of salt. hopefully one day i will curl up in a bookstore and check it out.
wow... frank is cool onstage and off! (... ok we knew this already.) |
| frank_black_francis |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 14:54:28
I read that Cod book a few years ago....its amazing how much world history is tied to a fish. Kurlansky also wrote the History of Salt....which is apparently good, but I cant find it. |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 12:07:53
Interesting! |
| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 05:40:11
Oh Charles! Look for "Querelle" by Fassbinder from a novel by Jean Genet, but close your eyes and listen to the soundtrack by Peer Raben & David Ambach only which is a pure Jewel...
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