Sunday, April 28, 2013

Tosh Berman reads and signs "Sparks-Tastic" at Book Soup April 29

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Ladies and Gentlemen (and anyone else) of Los Angeles, I will be doing a reading/signing/chit-chat for my book "Sparks-Tastic" ...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

The Latest L'écume des jours Coming Attraction

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Another and more recent preview of Michel Gondry's cinematic production of Boris Vian's classic "L'écume des jours.  My p...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

"Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London" by Tosh Berman

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ISBN: 9780983925583 $14.00 Published by A Barnacle Book (Distribution by Publishers Group West) Publication Date: May 14, 2013 ...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

PORTLAND: Tosh Berman reads and signs "Sparks-Tastic" at Powell's Bookstore in Portland

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO : Tosh Berman reads and signs "Sparks-Tastic" at the great City Lights Bookstore

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Monday, April 15, 2013

USA: Poetry, Frank O'Hara (1966)

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Amazing footage of the great poet Frank O'Hara.  Interview, poetry reading, etc.
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Television /Ork's Loft 1974

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Television with Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd, Billy Ficca and Tom Verlaine. Recorded at Terry Ork's loft sometime in 1974.    Excellent...

Tosh Berman Reads and Signs "Sparks-Tastic" Stories Books in Echo Park (Los Angeles) April 23

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"Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting" by Brett Milano

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Obsessions really tells what a person is, and there is nothing more beautiful than a person who collects books or in this case vinyl. ...
Friday, April 12, 2013

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A great interview with Gilles Verlant, the author of "Gainsbourg" (TamTam Books) by DJ Pangburn for the website Death and Tax...

"Sparks-Tastic" by Tosh Berman (in my hands)

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Richard Hell's Memoir "I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp"

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The beauty of the memoir is not only the writer's life, but also the placement of the story.   For me Richard Hell's great bo...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

A Review of Sparks' "Two Hands One Mouth" album

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Sparks keep on re-inventing themselves by looking back and then going forward. Here they look at their classic material w...

Sparks U.S. Tour

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Sparks on tour starting tonight in San Francisco. The remarkable and always wonderful Sparks will be doing their long-awaited ...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

"Stone Free" by Andrew Loog Oldham

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I'm totally obsessed with music in all its forms, and I think one of the great relationships on this planet is the one between the...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Interview with Gainsbourg's biographer Gilles Verlant

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Yours truly with Gilles Verlant on his fantastic biography on Serge Gainsbourg. Hear ye, hear ye: New Litcast now out featuring Be...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

"Sparks-Tastic" West Coast Reading Tour April 2013

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In 2008,   Tosh Berman —author and publisher of TamTam Books—got on a plane with a single motive: “Sparks Spectacular.” It had been a...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

"Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through The Films of Buster Keaton

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Probably one of the most obsessive books ever. John Bengtson located every location Buster Keaton shot his films on, and re-photographed...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

David Bowie's "The Next Day" Vinyl

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I  think most of us by now has had heard David Bowie's "The Next Day."  What strikes me, after the hype and firework lik...

Morrissey Hollywood High School March 2, 2013 (one song)

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I was near the front at this particular show.  When in the end he threw his shirt into the audience, it seemed like the shirt was floating...