Verlaine // Television

[Benny Bunter]

Feel bad for derailing now so I'll post this for the TV fans, well worth a read. Very early (pre Marquee Moon) gossipy interview that's just come to light for the first time.

Souvenir From a Dream: Memories of Tom Verlaine | Trouser Press

In late 1975, two Trouser Press writers brought Tom Verlaine of the then-unsigned band Television up to their apartment for an interview. This hour-long conversation has never previously been published. Here, it is accompanied by an introductory essay by the novelist Bruce Bauman as well as audio cl

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[linebaugh]

I do what version does with COTD. I like the thread

 

[Leo]

 

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James Wolcott | Remembering Tom Verlaine

I was standing on the uptown side of the subway platform when I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders, pressing as if...

www.lrb.co.uk

My Memories of Tom Verlaine

Hanging Out at Strand Bookstore

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Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

Every bookstore has regulars, but no bookstore has such a wide and eccentric cast of recurring characters as New York’s Strand. To work there, as I did for one memorable year, is to know them: the …

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Nice sunny late afternoon.