"Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Russian parties, Circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St John’s wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and night clubs, in windmills and swimming-baths, tea parties at school where one ate muffins and meringues and tinned crab, parties at Oxford where one drank brown sherry and smoked Turkish cigarettes, dull dances in London and comic dances in Scotland and disgusting dances in Paris – all that succession and repetition of massed humanity … Those vile bodies.."
-excerpt from the book I just finished, Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh.


I also just read Alabama Wildman by Thurston Moore which was unlike anything I'd ever read before. Its the poetic journal of Moore's life leading up to his success as a guitarist and singer for the group, Sonic Youth. Moore's poetry and journal entries tell the story of a nineteen year old kid, new to the East Village punk rock scene, trying to be a rockstar and eventually succeeding. Moore's description of playing CBGB's circa 1978 and his poignant, intimate vignette on the death of Sid Vicious are reason alone to read this cult classic.