I’ve become marginally obsessed with the 33 1/3 series, despite the fact that none of their authors seem to be headed to Los Angeles. People, I’m here for you. So I drive a little Honda now — it gets me around as well as when I used to jam econo.
Stick with me for this musical interlude. Enjoy a few nuggets from Largehearted Boy’s booknotes: James P. Othmer recommends Cake’s cover of “I Will Survive”; Min Jin Lee’s list includes “And She Was” by The Talking Heads; and Kara Zuaro is all over Okkervil River’s “Listening to Otis Redding At Home During Christmas.”
About this last: Kara Zuaro has written (compiled?) an indie rock cookbook — I Like Food, Food Tastes Good — featuring recipes from Devenra Banhardt, Calexico, Death Cab for Cutie and Eric Bachmann, who fronted Archers of Loaf and does the killer backing vocals on Spoon’s “I Turn My Camera On.” If you’re thinking you might have seen this on the internet, nope: the book is a whole different creature than the old but still charming cooking with rock stars website.
Another semi-obsession is the WFMU arts-n-culture show The Speakeasy. The June 11 show began with the director and DP of the Chet Baker biopic Let’s Get Lost (Bruce Weber and Jeff Preiss, respectively) and ended with an entirely unconnected interview with author Tom Bissell. Now that’s some music and books for ya.
