Much remains to be asked and said audio life a memoir, By Thurston Moore. A conversation with the founder and guitarist of Sonic Youth did not exhaust the stories that resonate in the book, its characters and its landscape. This reading is a kinetic experience: we are running at high speed, through time and space, only, in the final chapters, we begin to slow down. The final, stunning silence is right there, at the door, on the last two pages. So a road trip, around and inside the lights and sounds of songs. Road runner, road runner, sang (still sings?) Jonathan Richman and his contemporary fans. Ah, yes, music, rock, punk, records, books, concerts. And the people, the people: father George, mother Eleanor, brother Jane, eternal friend since adolescence Harold. But also Lou, Patty, Iggy, Joey, Tom, Glenn, Jenny, Lydia, and of course Kim, Richard, Lee, Steve, Kurt. And many, many others. A flying kaleidoscope beyond any traditional memoir.
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