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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 29, 2023

 

Tosh's Journal: August 29, 2023

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Labels: Donald Richie, Harry Smith, Japan, Les Sewing Sisters, Roland Barthes, Substack, Tosh Berman

Sunday, August 27, 2023

My Thoughts on Captain Beefheart

 


My Thoughts on Captain Beefheart

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Labels: Captain Beefheart, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Don Van Vliet, Substack, Tosh Berman

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Ariane: A Russian Girl by Claude Anet (NYRB)

 


Ariane: A Russian Girl" by Claude Anet (NYRB)

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Labels: 20th Century French Literature, Ariane: A Russian Girl, Billy Wilder, Claude Anet, Jean Schopter, Love in the Afternoon, New York Review of Books, NYRB, Substack, Tosh Berman, Vladimir Nabokov

Friday, August 25, 2023

The August 25 Birthday Dinner

 


The August 25 Birthday Dinner

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Labels: Elvis Costello, Martin Amis, Sean Connery, Substack, The August 25 Birthday Dinner Club, Tim Burton, Tosh Berman

Thursday, August 24, 2023

I'Am...I Walk by Tosh Berman (Tosh's Journal: August 24, 2023)

 


I'Am... I Walk by Tosh Berman

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Labels: Amy's Pad Thai, Substack, Tosh Berman, Tosh's Journal, Unsalted Peanuts, walking

Monday, August 21, 2023

Tosh Berman on The British Casuals (Tosh's Journal: August 21, 2023)

 


Tosh Berman on The British Casuals

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Labels: 1960s British Pop Music, Ann Quin, Berg, Bill Price, Psych-Pop, Substack, The British Casuals, The Casuals, Tosh Berman

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Hurricane Hilary Meets Sally Bowles (Tosh's Journal: August 20, 2023)

 


Hurricane Hilary Meets Sally Bowles (Tosh's Journal: August 20, 2023)



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Labels: Cabaret, Charles Henri Ford, Christopher Isherwood, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Hurricane Hilary, Jean Ross, Peter van Eyck, Ruth Ford, Sally Bowles, The Wages of Fear, Tosh Berman

Friday, August 18, 2023

A Frame of a Memory (Tosh's Journal: August 18, 2023)

 


A Frame of a Memory (Tosh's Journal: August 18, 2023)

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Labels: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ann Quin, Julio Cortázar, Shirley Berman, Substack, Tosh Berman, Tosh's Journal August 18 2023

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 16, 2023 (I look like Jean Cocteau, Peter Sellers, and a bit of me)

 


Tosh's Journal: August 16, 2023

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Labels: Ego, Identity, Jean Cocteau, Peter Sellers, Substack, Tosh Berman, Tosh's Journal, Tosh's Journal August 16 2023

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 15, 2023

 


Tosh's Journal: August 15, 2023

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Labels: All Fires the Fire, dental care, Dental Issues, Everything Goes Wrong, Julio Cortázar, Seijun Suzuki, Substack, Tosh Berman

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 13, 2023

 


Tosh's Journal: August 13, 2023

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Friday, August 11, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 11, 2023 (Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Proust, and The Doors)

 


Tosh's Journal: August 11, 2023



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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 9, 2023

 


Tosh's Journal: August 9, 2023

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Monday, August 7, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 7, 2023 (Writing a Script, and reading Chantal Akerman's "My Mother Laughs")

 


Tosh's Journal: August 7, 2023

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Saturday, August 5, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 5, 2023

 


Tosh's Journal: August 5, 2023

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Friday, August 4, 2023

Jacques Tati Swings! by Tosh Berman

 


Jacques Tati Swings! by Tosh Berman

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Labels: Album Review, Born Bad Records, Forced Exposure, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tati Swings!, Substack, Tosh Berman

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 2, 2023 (B.E.F.)

 


Tosh's Journal: August 2, 2023 (B.E.F.)

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Favorite Books at the Moment

  • “Another Ventriloquist” by Adam Penn Gilders (J &L Books)
  • “Curl” by T.O.Bobe (Wakefield Press)
  • “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventues in Filmland” by Duke Haney
  • “Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words” by Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa (Oxford University Press)
  • “Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne” by Roland Topor (Atlas Press)
  • “I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s” by Peter McGough (Pantheon Books)
  • “In Black and White” by Junichiro Tanizaki (Columbia University Press)
  • “Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings” by Glenn O’Brien (ZE Books)
  • “Life for Sale” by Yukio Mishima (Penguin Classics)
  • “Mac’s Problem” by Enrique Vila-Matas (New Directions)
  • “Nada” by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
  • “Punk Rock is Cool for the End of the World” by Ed Smith
  • “Rebel Rebel” & “Ashes to Ashes” by Chris O’Leary
  • “The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories” by Raymond Roussel (Song Cave)
  • “The Artificial Silk Girl” by Irmgard Deun (Penguin Classics)
  • “The Man Without Talent” by Yoshiharu Tsuge (NYRB)
  • “The Orchid Stories” by Kenward Elmslie (Song Cave)
  • “The Sundays of Jean Dézert” by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (Wakefield Press)
  • “Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays” by Tom McCarthy (NYRB)
  • “When I Was a Wolf: Outlaw Takes on Fables and Fairy Tales” by Shuji Terayama (Kurodahan Press)
  • “Year of the Monkey” by Patti Smith (Knopf)

Favorite Blogs

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Tosh's favorite recordings while working in its office

  • Annette Peacock - “I’m The One” (Future Days Recordings) Reissue, 2016
  • Daevid Allen - “Banana Moon” (Get Back) Reissue, 1999
  • David Bowie - “Mercury Demos” (Parlophone) 2019
  • Extended Organ - “Vibe” (Important Records) 2019
  • Giles, Giles and Fripp - “The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp” (Cherry Red) Reissue, 2013
  • Henry Cowell - “The Piano Music of Henry Cowell” (Folkways Records) 1963
  • Jean-Pierre Melville - “Bandes Originales 1956-1963” (Jeanne Dielman) 2018
  • Kenny Graham and his Satellites - “Moondog and Suncat (Trunk Records) 2010
  • Lesley Gore - “Boys, Boys, Boys” (Mercury) 1964
  • Manfred Mann - “Soul of Mann (Instrumentals) - (Umbrella)
  • Mark Hollis - “Mark Hollis” (Universal) 2011
  • Matthew Edwards and The Unfortunates - “The Birmingham Poets” (December Square) 2019
  • Mortimer - “Mortimer” (Philips) 1968
  • Sparks - “Gratuitous Sax & Seseless Violins” (BMG) 2019
  • Talk Talk - “Spirit of Eden” (Parlophone)
  • The Graham Bond Organization - “The Sound of 65” b/w “There’s A Bond Between Us” (Edsel Records)
  • The Soft Machine “Jet-Propelled Photographs” (Replay) Reissue, 2018
  • Twice as Much - “Own Up” (Outline Records) 1982

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