Megan's review
Black Postcards: A Musical Romance
by Dean Wareham (Goodreads author!)
Megan's review
Black Postcards: A Musical Romance by Dean Wareham (Goodreads author!)
Megan's review
rating:
Liz Phair reviewed this memoir by Galaxie 500/Luna frontman Dean Wareham for the NY Times Sunday Book Review. ("I was flying into Chicago at night .....And I was pretending that I was in a Galaxie 500 video.") It's a good exercise in early '90s nostalgia but his writing is not terribly revealing and did not move me. I found the most remarkable thing to be Wareham's perfect recall of what music was playing during every significant and insignificant moment in his life. He gives the reader a playlist of songs for boring adolescent days at home, a college car trip, various post-show parties, and the moment he realized he was in love with his bass player. That last one happened to be a Papas Fritas song written by my childhood into high school friend Tony Goddess. (As I said lots of early 90's nostalgia). This is a great book to read with your Itunes open.
