Björn recenserade A drink with Shane MacGowan av Shane MacGowan
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- A GENIUS MAIMED!!! Tragic! A tragic figure!
- A tragic genius, yeah.
- Yeah!
- You haven't got that yet?
You obviously need a certain interest in the man. 360 pages of unedited dialogue between Shane and his partner, with her trying to get him to talk about his life and him going on endless foulmouthed tangents that veer from the pathetic to the almost depressingly sharp - depressingly because this is post-career, this is after a ton of drink and drugs, and he's still in there but just... getting access to it can't be easy. She stayed with him. And he tries, past all the slurs and the slagging off of people he's supposed to mend fences with, he catches himself and checks himself constantly. And the way he describes music, the punk scene, growing up, the bitterness over career choices, the half-finished songs scrawled on the back …
- A GENIUS MAIMED!!! Tragic! A tragic figure!
- A tragic genius, yeah.
- Yeah!
- You haven't got that yet?
You obviously need a certain interest in the man. 360 pages of unedited dialogue between Shane and his partner, with her trying to get him to talk about his life and him going on endless foulmouthed tangents that veer from the pathetic to the almost depressingly sharp - depressingly because this is post-career, this is after a ton of drink and drugs, and he's still in there but just... getting access to it can't be easy. She stayed with him. And he tries, past all the slurs and the slagging off of people he's supposed to mend fences with, he catches himself and checks himself constantly. And the way he describes music, the punk scene, growing up, the bitterness over career choices, the half-finished songs scrawled on the back of papers...
And God is in his heaven, and Billy's down by the bay.