Art-- Ed Ruscha, Adolph Menzel....of course Jack Pierson Road Trips--favorite highways are I-10, I-40 and I-20, and the PCH south of Long Beach. Also Route 2 west of Boston is a nice drive.
Plays--Pillowman, Bed (off-Bway).
Music
The Only Ones are still the greatest living rock and roll band. Hands down. If they'd only written and recorded, say, "River of No Return" and "Oh Lucinda" they'd have a solid place in rock history. No wonder they are purported to be Paul Westerberg's favorite band! They took 20 years off and have come back with music that's relevant to today. Also love the Go-Betweens, but since Grant died who knows if they'll ever play again. (Missed seeing Robert Forster playing solo in Berlin October '08. I was in Berlin that night, but neglected to check the gig-listings....oh well.)
Tommy Keene. Loved 80's Boston punk, especially The Girls and La Peste, but can't imagine listening to them today....
Movies
"Winter Passing," with Zooey Deschanel, Ed Harris and Will Farrell. Written and directed brilliantly by Adam Rapp. "Frozen River" "24 Hour Party People;" "Fat Girl," a recent French film. Anything with Mark Ruffalo, especially "We Don't Live Here Anymore." "Touch of Evil" "Bring It On" "The Visitor" "Sunset Boulevard."
Most French new-wave films I find unwatchable. Ditto Cassavettes. Worst movie of recent times? Abel Ferrera's "The Funeral" It's on my all-time worst list with "Enchanted April."
Books
I prefer reading to most other activities; it's in my top three with sex and travel. Recently read Hilda Lessways--Arnold Bennett DeNiro's Game--by Rawi Hage (a 2007 novel set in Lebanon during the civil war there--really good!) Ulysses--James Joyce (okay, I might have skipped 20 or 30 lines here and there....) Brian Moore I'm liking a lot. Read 3 by him, and happily he must have 20 other novels.
Reading a lot of non-fiction, like Digital Nonlinear Film-Editing....
Terry Southern--Candy and The Magic Christian
Wilton Barnhardt--Emma Who Saved My Life Bolt Risk--Ann Wood
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwiter by Vargas Llosa
The Batchelors by Henry De Montherlant Theodore Dreiser--The Genius The Financier and The Titan Edna O'Brien--Girls In Their Married Bliss My Dreams In The Street, by Kim Addonizio.
Bad Haircut and Other Stories, by Tom Perrota also Little Children and The Wishbones (Perrotta's "Joe College" was only so-so)
"Against the Grain", by J.K. Huysmans
Spring 2009 read Clancy Martin's "How To Sell." Recommended.
"Women", by Bukowski
"Martin Eden," by Jack London "Festival" by J.B. Priestly
"Dylan Thomas in America," by John Malcolm Brinnin
Orwell's "Keep The Aspidistra Flying" "The Sacred and Profane Love Machine," by Iris Murdoch
"The Bell Jar" "Inside Daisy Clover," by Gavin Lambert. Also his "The Slide Area." February 2009 reading A Rage To Live by John O'Hara and leafing through The Journals of Dan Eldon.
"Sweat: The Fleshtones Story" by Joe Bonomo.
"Classic Rock Albums-The Who Meaty, Beaty Big And Bouncy" by John Perry, guitarist for The Only Ones. Interesting minutiae, and wry turns of phrase: "...a nicely calculated piece of media tickling...."
Heroes
Peter Perrett, John Perry, Mike Kellie, Alan Mair.
Tims Used Books's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
Framingham
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
Children:
Someday
Education:
Some college
Tims Used Books's Schools
Framingham State College
Framingham, MA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: English
Clubs: Gatepost
About me: I've owned used six used-bookstores since 1989. Two have been successful. The others failed.
Before that I managed a few minor-league rock bands around Boston, later worked for a concert-promoter who brought Gregory Isaacs, The Slits, The Mighty Diamonds to Boston.
Still later I organized an art gallery. Sold some people's paintings and photos--enjoyed that, didn't enjoy the egos. In 2008 I revived Against The Grain Gallery, selling paintings by a young Provincetown artist named Cameron Castro.
I have bookshops currently open in Hyannis and Provincetown, USA. It's fun there in the summer, when you never know who'll walk through the door. Poets, writers, movie-types, many vagrants and tanned people. It's fun. Come visit!
I enjoyed Tim's blog about the Only Ones- and agreed with it. I'm also a fan. So true about the need for something with substance in the music scene and the Only Ones are just the band to provide it. Tim what were the venues in Spain like, were the gigs well attended and did the locals know the songs like the crowds seem to at the UK gigs?
Curtains For You: The other day I noticed I had two Only Ones tracks on my iPod, y'know, from those compilations they sometimes hand out with magazines, Mojo or Rolling Stone, I assume. // Anyway: very cool. Thanks for recomendation.
Another Girl, Another Planet: It's actually from Uncut. However, something else I came across was a map of Beirut (!); any idea what I shall do with that?
Maybe I can go to our local book shop, Chatwin's, and see whether they swap it for a map of Provincetown?
