tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-31441079360056405422008-03-26T23:56:00.000Z2008-03-26T23:56:00.000ZI think Berio's glasses are even cooler than Miles' because Luciano's are tinted prescriptions. Nice. Love Miles' three-piece suit, too.<BR/><BR/>Two other books by the prolific Barry Miles that I like: his Paul McCartney bio and his book on Pink Floyd. The Macca book is a little strident about it, but it makes the oft-negelected point that Paul was really the avant-garde Beatle; John was always suspicious of arty sorts and while Paul was living in St. Johns Wood and mingling with Berio and Stockhausen and the like, John and the others were living the stockbroker life out in Weybridge and Esher. Paul's tape piece <I>Carnival of Light</I> pre-dates <I>Revolution 9</I> by a year.<BR/><BR/>The Floyd book is really good too but really sad, because the disintegration of Syd Barrett is central to that telling. If I could travel back in time I'd go to two places: Vienna ca. 1900-August 1914 and London ca. 1964-early 1967.<BR/><BR/>Happy birthday, Mr. Boulez. I think I'll listen to <I>Repons</I> tonight to celebrate. I wish he'd come back here to Los Angeles to conduct at Disney Hall, but it seems he's winding down his conducting career.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the reminder, Pliable, though I'm sure there's some who wish Boulez had never been born.Henry Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.com