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Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
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Don Michael, a one-armed pianist who played and recorded with Erskine Hawkins in the mid-1940s.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Paul Humphrey was a session drummer who worked with everyone from Jimmy Smith and Charles Mingus to Frank Zappa and Marvin Gaye. He was also the drummer for Lawrence Welk’s TV show in the late seventies, and his children would sometimes appear with him on the show. Sound familiar?
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
From an interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace in 1996.
DFW: Oh—the reason why I think you oughta do a book about TV, is this problem is not gonna go away. I don’t know about you, but in ten or fifteen years, we’re gonna have virtual reality pornography. Now, if I don’t develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
These were his people. Failed artists. Rejected musicians and writers. Part-time idealists and closet visionaries. As a young man, he’d been an idealist in a corrupt world. It was no surprise that he’d turned out equally as corrupt, just a new and different form of corrupt.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
Ricardo Villalobos’s Heike (Mood Mix) kicked