By James Marshall - - After nearly twenty years of being Please Kill Me’s bad guy, James Williamson finally wants to clear the air. I talked to him on the eve of the release of his first solo album Re/Licked....
We Will Fall: The Death and Rise of The Stooges
Death, its the greatest career move of them all. Ask Elvis, or Jacko. But Iggy did ‘em one better; he’s the onl...
Johnny’s First Cigarette by Nick Tosches
illustrated by Lisa Marie-Moyen
French translation by Heloise Esquie
Vagabonde, 2014
This book arrived with...
Nice Guys Don’t Work In Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Businessby Curtis Harrington (Drag City, paper, 272 pp.).
Review by James Marshall
Fans of esoteric film trash will be delighted to know that before passing director Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) left us with this dirt-filled and conversationally written volume about his five decades in Hollywood and beyond.
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So there I was, August of 2003, at the Roseland Ballroom, where a grandfather that I never knew once worked as a bouncer, and there they were onstage– The Stoog...