#gillian mccain

[eternal--returned]

TOM BAKER: I sat with Andy Warhol and his entourage at a long table near the stage. Pam Courson, Morrison's girlfriend, sat alongside me and was very excited. She said to me, "Jim's really up for tonight's show. Forget that shit at Gazzari's, now you're going to see the real Jim Morrison." When I saw them at Gazzar's, the club on Sunset Strip, Jim was high on LSD and staggering drunk. His performance was unspectacular, except for one moment—while stumbling through a song early in the set, he suddenly let out with a deep-throated, bloodcurdling scream. Pam was furious with him and kept telling me I wasn't seeing him at his best. I told her he was a good guy, but he should keep his day job. But when he finished the show at Ondine's, I sat there stunned. I looked over at Pamela. She leaned toward me and said, "I told you so." Afterwards, the Doors gave a party in a club to celebrate their success. When it was over, Jim and I stood talking at the bottom of the stairs that led up to Forty-sixth Street. It was late, and the area was full of various cops and creeps. Suddenly, Morrison started throwing empty glasses up the stairs. I grabbed him by the arm and yelled, "What the fuck are you doing, for Christ's sake?" He ignored me and threw another glass up the stairs, simultaneously letting out one of his bloodcurdling screams. I expected a small army of cops to come charging down. After one final glass and one final scream, Jim turned and was gone. I was frustrated because I wanted to tell him that finally I had met someone who was truly possessed.

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain ֍ Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

Edmund Teske ֍ Pamela Courson & Jim Morrison (c. 1969)

[cruelmiracles]

JOHN CALE: I hated Joan Baez and Dylan—every song was a fucking question!

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain ǁ Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

[veryslowreader]

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

The O.C.: "The Father Knows Best"

[stevepotterwrites]

“ But I mean, Patti at that Stooges thing– she was totally elevated, you know? I don’t know if she thought rock & roll was gonna be the form, but Patti knew she was gonna be a star in one way or another, and I certainly knew that too. The minute I saw her do the rock & roll thing; I could see this is it man! Her poems fit perfectly, and she evokes such rock & roll type archetypes, like Joan of Arc and stuff in her poems. I’ve been rereading some of her poems when that book from Norton came out, and I mean, those are early poems– there’s some really great lines in there! “

[suspirocotidiano]

Às vezes a arte é incompatível com relacionamentos (...) porque, quando você está criando arte, existe um certo egoísmo envolvido. Às vezes acho que os músicos ou artistas não deveriam nem pensar em ter um relacionamento permanente até estarem com trinta e tantos anos, porque até lá os relacionamentos sempre estarão em segundo plano em relação à arte. Artistas não são os melhores parentes.

Mate-me Por Favor – Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain

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Jess Mariano: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Sweet Dreams: The Story Of The New Romantics by Dylan Jones

Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker

A Light that Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths by Tony Fletcher

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

1984 by George Orwell

Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 by Phil Marcade

Emma by Jane Austen

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

[antigonenikk]

Excerpts about Lou Reed from Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

[wheretheeternalare]

2023 reading list :) bolded means i liked it

Companion Piece by Ali Smith Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy Sayers Howards End by E. M. Forster The Raincoats by Jenn Pelly The Martian by Andy Weir The Minuteman Murder by Jane Langton The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco A Mercy by Toni Morrison Kindred by Octavia Butler Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige Transformer by Ezra Furman Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Still Life by Louise Penny The Best American Short Stories 2020 ed. Curtis Sittenfeld I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer by Bob Gruen A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews Island Zombie: Iceland Writings by Roni Horn There But For The by Ali Smith The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice For All by Shon Faye The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Esther Newton Bellies by Nicola Dinan A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake Girlfriends by Emily Zhou Decolonize Drag by Kareem Khubchandani Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie by Michael Bracewell Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

[theamericanfriend1977]

tagged by @sciencefiction-doublefeature to share what i've been reading lately!

- last read: dean & me: a love story by jerry lewis

similar to the phil ochs biographies i've read, i finished this in a about a day. it's definitely worth the read for anybody interested in their partnership and some of what jerry shares is pretty devastating, there's no doubt about just how much he loved dean

- currently reading: despair by vladimir nabokov / please kill me by legs mcneil and gillian mccain

rainer werner fassbinder directed an adaptation of despair which i absolutely love, and after reading lolita, i had to pick up despair. i think the way nabokov writes is incredible.

i've been bringing please kill me as a read on my commute to work, it's an oral history of early punk. it's pretty interesting!

- upcoming reads: complete works of arthur rimbaud / revolutionary suicide by huey newton

arthur rimbaud was phil ochs' favorite poet and named the kitten he got his daughter at a flea market after him. and of course bob dylan was also influenced by rimbaud and references him directly in you're gonna make me lonesome when you go. and i've been meaning to read more poetry so i'm excited to get into his works!

and i've been pretty behind on political literature so hopefully i can get back into the swing of reading more regularly again because i've been meaning to read revolutionary suicide for years now. most of my recent reads have been about the war on terror but the 60s interest me just as much and revolutionary suicide is such a critical read.

tagging @beefonethousand @commodorepuddingpop @rothfaux @theknifeofdunwall if any of you are interested in sharing your latest reads etc :^)

[eternal--returned]

LOU REED: The old sound was alcoholic. The tradition was finally broken. The music is sex and drugs and happy. And happy is the joke the music understands best. Ultrasonic sounds on records to cause frontal lobotomies. Hey, don't be afraid. You'd better take drugs and learn to love PLASTIC. All different kinds of plastic—pliable, rigid, colored, colorful, nonattached plastic.

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain ֍ Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

[cruelmiracles]

LOU REED: They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland County then to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page seventeen and have to go right back to page one again.

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain ǁ Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

[inquisitiveheretic]

do you have any music book recs? (love your blog btw)

thank youuuu here's a couple favs of mine:

subculture: the meaning of style - dick hebdige

please kill me: the uncensored oral history of punk - legs mcneil & gillian mccain

england's dreaming: anarchy, sex pistols, punk rock, & beyond - jon savage

a little devil in america: notes in praise of black performance - hanif abdurraqib

girls to the front: the true story of the riot grrrl revolution - sara marcus

[ashtray-girl]

you don't like lou reed? 🫨

i don't mind him musically, but as a person... not particularly lmao i think i was influenced by reading "please kill me" by gillian mccain & legs mcneil 😅

[suspirocotidiano]

Porque rock & roll tem a ver com perder o controle. O negócio não é se sentar no seu lugar e compreender tudo o que acontece. O negócio é ter uma experiência caótica.

Mate-me Por Favor – Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain

[makotoscoffee]

@orlaite tagged me to share either 9 of my favorite books OR my to-read list for the year, but I don't really have 9 FAVORITE books, nor a TBR list, so I'll just give some book thoughts! 😎 (Favorite is a strong word for me...)

These are my 3 favorite books, period. All non-fiction and very different from each other. 1) Party of One, by Dave Holmes. This is my absolute favorite book. It's his memoir, he worked on MTV in the 2000s and he's an amazing storyteller. I've heard the audio-book probably 4+ times and read it on paper. Dave has impeccable taste in everything and a very interesting life full of fun stories. 2) Please Kill Me: The oral history of punk, by Gillian McCain & Legs McNeil. It's exactly what the title says and idk how many times I've read this (as you can see, my original copy is beat TF up, but I also have the pretty anniversary edition.) I hold this book close to my heart❤️ Fun fact: I discovered it in middle school and it was my first time thrifting a book! 3) Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks. It's also exactly what the title promises, it's a book exploring the science of hallucinations. But it also has Oliver's personal thoughts and perspectives! I hesitated a little bit on including it (because I think I've only heard the audio-book once or twice), but I used to call it my favorite, so I put it here❤️

The last book I read was Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin. I was already a fan of James but hadn't actually read any of his work, but I liked it a lot (however, it didn't really change my life much. But I'm happy I read it and I LOVE this cover.) I started reading Miss Major Speaks a couple of days ago! Perfect for Black History Month and it's so important to get trans history straight from the SOURCE.

Next up are two books that I enjoy thematically. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess; the Kubrick movie is obviously one of my favorite movies of all time, and I really enjoyed the book's themes and metaphors. Next is Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. The Frankenstein archetype/structure is probably my favorite storytelling trope (shocker *coughs* Rocky Horror *coughs*) . I never finished it, but I really enjoyed the Creature's volume. And how gorgeous is this cover art choice!

My only solid "TBR" for this year is Man-made Woman, by Ciara Cremin. Don't think I need to elaborate much... And of course I have to read the Mylène books Sira gave me for Christmas!!

And finally, a book @orlaite herself gifted me😎❤️

I tag: @tiredeyes1975

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Rory Gilmore: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

1984 by George Orwell

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Stalking Shakespeare by Lee Durkee

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg