Thursday, October 31, 2019

"Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn" by Brett Anderson

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ISBN: 978-14087111842 I avoided Suede in the early years because I was turned off by their image for some reason. Sort of second-generat...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

"The Man Without Talent" by Yoshiharu Tsuge; Translated and Introduction by Ryan Holmberg (New York Review Comics)

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ISBN: 978-1-68137-443-7 I'm always fascinated by people who want to disappear in literature.  Yoshiharu Tsuge, the ultimate cult ma...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

"Life for Sale" by Yukio Mishima; translated by Stephen Dodd (Penguin Classic)

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ISBN: 978-0-241-33314-3 I think I read everything that is translated into English by Yukio Mishima.  Recently three more works came out...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 23 (Tribute to Diana Dors, and happy birthday t...

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 23 When I was living in London in the late 1970s, I was invited to go to an “adult” party at Diana Dors’s hous...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 22 (Oscar Wilde + Tosh + Lord Alfred Douglas)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 22 The love of my life is Bosie. I always felt nervous coming out in such a fashion and then allowing myself t...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 21 (Alfred Nobel, Edogawa Rampo & Lux Interior)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 21 Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, and he blew up my world. I had dreams every night for a whole year of obtain...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 20 (Tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 20 The films I make are easily misunderstood. “I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever notic...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 19 (Crazy Cats, Tokyo Japan)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 19 I’m alone. There is not anyone here. To feel alone is a high. Human beings, by their nature, are social anim...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 18 (Lee Harvey Oswald, Shinbashi, Lotte Lenya)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 18 “To exist to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” I keep that ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 17 (Montgomery Clift, Nathanael West, & Miss Lo...

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TOSH'S JOURNAL October 17 I’m drinking coffee here at the Meguro headquarters and reading the letters sent to Miss Lonelyhearts. S...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Tosh's Journal: October 15 (Kato, Michel Foucault, S.S. Van Dine, & P.G....

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 15 “The Voice of love seemed to call me, but it was the wrong number.” That seems to happen a lot in my life, ...

Book Musik: "Year of the Monkey" by Patti Smith

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Tosh and Kimley discuss  Year of the Monkey  by Patti Smith. As a punk rock icon, she rocked our impressionable teenage souls and now sh...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 14 (Pooh the Bear, Cliff Richard & The Shadows,...

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 14 “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter th...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 13 (Lenny Bruce & Emil Cioran)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 13 “I’ve invented nothing; I’ve simply been the secretary of my sensations.” As I walk around Asakusa, I found...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 12 (Doc Savage & Aleister Crowley)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 12 The voice of Aiwass came upon me as I about to fall asleep. It finds out about me when I’m either in the mo...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 5 (On James Bond's Dr. No)

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 5 “Dr. No” was not only the first James Bond film, but the first film after my dad took me to see after forcin...

Fashion Forward: The Sounds of Los Angeles' Visionary Les Sewing Sisters by Keith Walsh

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Photo by Stevo Rood (ARood Photo) Here's an interview with my wife Lun*na Menoh about her Les Sewing Sisters' project: fash...

Frontier Cabin from "TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World"

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Thanks to Gregory Fullerton for finding the original ad that suckered me (and my dad) into buying a log cabin when I was a very small b...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Tosh's Journal - October 4 (A plea for supporting Tosh Berman for a Nobe...

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TOSH’S JOURNAL October 4 “I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.” I have to tell ya, I’m at the end of my ...

"A Short Treatise Inviting The Reader To Discover The Subtle Art of Go" by Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, and Jacques Roubaud (Wakefield Press)

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The Asian game GO is sometimes thought of like a brother/sister to Chess. Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, and Jacques Roubaud think that...