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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: fletcher munson on September 13, 2009, 09:41:30 PM
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http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9245_Jim_Carroll_Dead_at_59
That "people who died" song is really good. Also, liked reading The Basketball Diaries as a teen.
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I just heard this news as well. It's quite upsetting to me. I've been a fan of his poetry and music for a loooooooooong time, mid-teens I think (pre-Basketball Diaries movie, I add to sound cooler). I was just listening to the song "Lorraine" about an hour before I heard the news. Weird. :'(
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTP7cPvpgiA[/youtube]
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I shot this at Coney Island High in 1998. Jim was a guest of Lenny Kaye whose birthday was being celebrated that night.
Back in the day, I would always see Jim Carroll show up at Johnny Thunders gigs and Johnny would show up at Jims gigs as well.
Great songwriter and author, Jim will be missed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iBWU6Y3PmU[/youtube]
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Completely unfamiliar with any of his work not related to The Basketball Diaries, but that was a lot of awesome for a kid from Arkansas. He had a lot to do with shaping my aesthetic, even if it was in ways I later had to resist. Thank you, sir, and I hope you are at rest.
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saw JC do a reading at McCabes Guitar Shop wherein he read from an alleged letter that he found in a recording studio from Tupac to a German fan who had sent him nude photographs. The only line I recall was "I defended your titties!"
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BB Diaries was great. Unlike the horrible movie. I liked the Book of Nods too and I know I have a copy of Praying Mantis in the attic which I bought not knowing that it was spoken word but still loved it. Sad to see him go.
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I think I actually like The Downtown Diaries more than The Basketball Diaries.
I may be alone in this, though.
Man, strange - I think iTunes knew something was up - this song just came on shuffle:
Work Not Play
The bell rings . . .
It's a decade past my decadence
My beast wears rings and he's waiting
In the shadows of my hesitations, my silent
Hesitations . . . Each image is so clear;
It seems I have no hands
The gestures of the air confuse all my demands
And the beast hears the bell; he comes
Out of the shadows. He rips apart the shadows . . .
And he says:
This is work and not play
And he says:
There's always more than one way . . .
This is work not play
I see the ghosts of my childhood . . .
Dressed in blue, they trail me in the night
They drive these cars with real upholstery
They trail me until . . . here comes the night
She was standing, standing on the balcony
Her black, black eyes folded over her eyelids
Like sheets on motel beds . . .
She must be eatin' reds
This place is filled with mirrors
It echoes what she said
And she said:
I need a judgement day
And she said:
I know there's more than one way,
But I want my judgment day . . .
To sleep without dreams
So distant from the mirror
Imitating clarity, disguising
All the terror . . . I heard a thousand bells
From a thousand old cathedrals
They rang . . . I haven't heard them since
A decade past my decadence
The beast hears the bell
He comes out of the shadows
I'm cursed to be a singer
A singer of the flames
A thinker of a fire
And a son without a name
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Loved Basketball Diaries, and really love Praying Mantis.
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as a teenager i remember reading Basketball Diaries and being petrified and intrigued with the culture that comes with living outside of the suburbs. i was fourteen.
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as a teenager i remember reading Basketball Diaries and being petrified and intrigued with the culture that comes with living outside of the suburbs. i was fourteen.
I felt this way about Superfudge.
Wait.
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I'll remember you Jim Carroll, if just as the man talking over "Live at Max's Kansas City."
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I'll remember you Jim Carroll, if just as the man talking over "Live at Max's Kansas City."
Pernod
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I'll remember you Jim Carroll, if just as the man talking over "Live at Max's Kansas City."
You know, I was going to post the same thing. But I was afraid it might be in poor taste.
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I'll remember you Jim Carroll, if just as the man talking over "Live at Max's Kansas City."
You know, I was going to post the same thing. But I was afraid it might be in poor taste.
Never had it.
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Poor bastard.
Sounds like a lot of us read Basketball Diaries & loved it - it's weird that a book such as this became something of a Catcher in the Rye for kids born roughly around the same time as all of us, given the depiction of a rough urban existence for such a tender young thing.