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I will list here (in the name of mindless listism) all the books/music/films mentioned in BPB tour diary. Then I might read/listen to one or two of them. It is my duty. It is not healthy - I know...but what am I to do?

Books

Go to the Widowmaker by James Jones (who also wrote Thin Red Line)
"book on John Cassavetes" ??
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
"book on June Carter Cash (???)"
Lefty Frizzell: The Honky-Tonk Life of Country Music's Greatest Singer - Daniel Cooper
Erotic Tales of Old Russia - Aleksandr Afansev
Surfing Indonesia - Leonard Lueras
The New Johnny Cash - C.P. Conn
Sister Of The Road - B. Bertha and Dr. B. Reitman
More Terrible Than Death - R. Kirk
Al-Jazerra - M El-Nawawy and A. Iskandar
Appointment At Sammara - J. O’Hara
Frightful Fairy Tales - D. Darcy
HI LO HAPPY PAPPY - Ricky Feather (??)
The Sexiest Man Alive : A Biography of Warren Beatty - Ellis Amburn
Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings - Knut Hamsun
The killing of Idi Amin - Leslie Watkins
"two McCarthy books" (Cormac McCarthy?)
Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story 2
Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story
You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
Somebody's Done For (David Goodis? )

Music

Soul Rush - Nicolai Dunger
Country Grammar - Nelly
I've Seen It All (duet with Thom Yorke from Bjork's album Selma Songs
Brewster McCloud s/t- John Phillips
Bahamas 1935: Chanteys & Anthems from Andros & Cat - Alan Lomax
Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1 - Alan Lomax (??Scottish Alan Lomax)
John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
Mia Doi Todd
DFA
?? The Rapture
Les Brown
Cat Power - You Are Free
Cat Power - Myra Lee
Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz
Michael Hurley - Long Journey
"33" - Red
The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas
There Won't Be Anymore - Charlie Rich
"Subbulakshmi live" - M.S. Subbulakshmi - M.S. Subbulakshmi?)
Going Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard
Out Among the Stars - Merle Haggard
The Lobster (song from Fairport Convention's 1st album - 'Fairport Convention [1st]')

Films

Lovestreams (John Cassavetes)
Supervixens (Russ Meyer)
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (Russ Meyer)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
"Hunted" (??)
"It All Started Today" (??) Ça commence aujourd'hui
Brewster McCloud
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Animal Crackers
Beautiful Mind
Thirteen
Spun
Duck Soup
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Capturing The Friedmans
Irréversible
"movie about Clint Eastwood"
"PIRATES movie" ( Pirates of the Caribbean?)

Misc

Re-Bop Records where he records a version 'Lonely Financial Zone' (presumably the Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers song) for this childern's record label

Eamonn said @ 06/08/2003 11:02 AM GMT

So BPB has played 2 shows with Bjork so far, he's certianly getting a reaction (mostly very negative) on Bjork's website. it's all talk of "this old guy", "redneck type", "who doesn't wash". In the Hollywood Bowl the 15000 strong crowd were booing him, he said "one more song"
Audience: "Nooo" Him "Yeah you wish" and played a few more. Way to go.

It sounds like he is being deliberately obtuse, playing on a large stage with an only an autoharp, definitely not bringing his music to the audience. As he said in the diary the tour was mostly "with an eye and ear directed at the stage and behind; not at the audience for once". He's not going to cross over based on this tour, which is the way he wants it (and in truth is the best way for him to be).

The US audiences do sound a bit whiny, if it's not BPB, it's the seats, or smoking or people standing up.

Eamonn said @ 15/08/2003 11:12 AM GMT

Hey I got 2 questions anwered by BPB on his tour diary site
"q:Is it true that Henriqe Prince was included in that 93 tour on the basis of a street busking performance?
A: yes.
q:What is he up to now?
a: no idea."

This of course rocks!

Eamonn said @ 25/08/2003 03:43 PM GMT

On 05/08/2003 eamonn said: "It's that wacky Bonny Prince Billy again"