Thought about postpoing this until the economic situation was fixed but then changed my mind

By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs, Westbergesque | Comments (2)

The Village Voice’s Sound of the City blog has a new Q&A with Laurie Lindeen and includes this gem:
Was there anything you included that upon reflection you’d have preferred to leave out?
When I got the final edits, I got a long letter from my editor saying something like either you develop the characters of your father and Paul or leave them out—of course, those are my two most complex, confusing relationships. I’m so naïve sometimes…some people focused on the 10 out of 321 pages Paul appears and decided the book was about bagging a rock god. I thought I left plenty of red flags in there? I do regret the things that my very private mom found difficult to see in print, but I’d still leave them in.

Ted Barron the photographer who took the picture of Our Man Paul and Alex Chilton featured in the liner notes for the re-issued Pleased to Meet Me talks about the night the picture was taken.

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Read more | Comments (2) | | September 25th, 2008

Video Tuesday — Addicted to the Covers

By Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video | Comments (0)

One of these weeks I’ll stop posting covers, but I wouldn’t count on that happening any time soon. Alex Chilton is one of my favorite songs to sing, I am not sure why.

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Read more | Comments (0) | | January 29th, 2008