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Tom Verlaine died and I had to read Patti Smith while spinning Marquee Moon.
(Yes, he's in it.)
As are so many others. A Book of Days is essentially that most pointless of printed books: an instagram feed put down on paper. Each day, a photo or a drawing or an image of some kind, and a short caption. Mostly either people Patti admires, or loves, or misses, or pictures of things she's found on her travels. Brief notes that are sometimes clichéd, and sometimes cut right through to something.
Few people could pull this off. Patti Smith, mostly, does. Despite the format - 366 days - it really works better read cover to cover, turning it - like many of her best songs, if not quite as effectively - into a celebration of influence, of how grounding in everything from simple household objects to mad poets can help …
Tom Verlaine died and I had to read Patti Smith while spinning Marquee Moon.
(Yes, he's in it.)
As are so many others. A Book of Days is essentially that most pointless of printed books: an instagram feed put down on paper. Each day, a photo or a drawing or an image of some kind, and a short caption. Mostly either people Patti admires, or loves, or misses, or pictures of things she's found on her travels. Brief notes that are sometimes clichéd, and sometimes cut right through to something.
Few people could pull this off. Patti Smith, mostly, does. Despite the format - 366 days - it really works better read cover to cover, turning it - like many of her best songs, if not quite as effectively - into a celebration of influence, of how grounding in everything from simple household objects to mad poets can help you fly.
Or something. Sorry. I can't write about Patti Smith drily.
Now go read her eulogy to Tom. And put on Marquee Moon.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/he-was-tom-verlaine