Since I don't feel like being (particularly) hypergraphic today, I'd like to share a couple of links that may be fun for people interested in The Complete Linda Lovelace or my work in general.
"Throat," by Robert Rosen, mentions my recent Whole Lotta Lovelace Deep Throat 40th Anniversary Blow-Out reading at 2A. Rosen is the author of Beaver Street, from which he will read Saturday, June 16, here.
In honor of said anniversary, I added a home rehearsal recording of me reading the first entry in the first chapter of The Complete Linda Lovelace—about "Gulp!", Al Goldstein's review of Deep Throat in Screw magazine—to my Soundcloud page.
Btw, folks who attended that reading got a gift bag containing a Whole Lotta Lovelace VIP Access laminate with QR codes that take them to, among other things, a private, friends-only Soundcloud page with more rare recordings. (If you got one and don't have a smartphone, get someone to scan it for you. I know QR codes can be tricky, but they're worth it.) Similar laminates are available in very limited quantities and only to those who attend a Whole Lotta Lovelace event.
"Throat" also includes a link to Matthew Flamm's article "A Demimonde in Twilight," which ran a little over 10 years ago in The New York Times. It features interviews with Rosen, Dian Hanson, Neil Wexler and myself, among others. My mother is still proud.
My recent Hate Speech Radio interview is available—for free—on iTunes! You can get it here:
Finally, my friend Judy McGuire's latest, The Official Book of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll Lists, is available here. I'm one of many, many contributors including Coco, Theo Kogen and NY1's Pat Kiernan; the illustrations are by the criminally talented Cliff Mott. My list is "Eric Danville's Five Favorite Songs About Lenny Bruce" (of course). I'll be joining loads and loads of said contributors performing our pieces at the book release party, an oh-so-special stop on the Whole Lotta Lovelace Tour about which you can read more here.
Aloha.
I'd like to take a few minutes to show my gratitude to everyone who helped make the Whole Lotta Lovelace Deep Throat 40th Anniversary Blow-Out at 2A a huge success!
So, to my lovely girlfriend Victoria who acted as hostess; guitar/ drinkslinger extraordinaire Tom Clark who booked the gig; my audio engineer James Sasser; the rockin' & rollin' Mo Goldner and Charlene McPherson (aka Sad Bastards), who kept the night going and everyone else, whether you were there in person or there in spirit, Thank You so much!
If you weren't able to attend, the reading was recorded on high-quality, state-of-the-art and, yes, quite expensive equipment for release as an audiobook/ live album—think Frampton Comes Alive without the cutesy cover, or The Song Remains the Same without the overdubs—when The Complete Linda Lovelace is reissued in September. I should have some rough clips up in the next few days.
News about the next stop on the Whole Lotta Lovelace tour can be found here.
As Led Zeppelin did in Copenhagen before their legendary Knebworth shows, so did I perform a secret warm-up gig before the first stop on the Whole Lotta Lovelace Tour.
On Sunday, May 20, I was the guest on Hate Speech Radio, hosted by stand-up comedian (and stand-up gal) Heather Height and her devilishly charming husband David M. Harris. Thanks to the wonderful public transportation system linking the Lower East Side with the nether ye of Brooklyn, I arrive at 51:51 of a 3:03:39 show.
Shades of Jimmy Page!
5 + 1 + 5 + 1 = 12; 1 + 2 = 3
3 x 3 = 9; + 3 = 12; 1 + 2 = 3; 3 + 9 = 12; 1 + 2 = 3
Now that we've established that 1 + 2 = 3, you should know that this matters because 3 is my lucky number.
Anyway, I had a great time with them talking about, among other things, Heather's status as cougar, marijuana, the Black Sabbath/Bill Ward debacle, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor, the forthcoming Linda Lovelace movie, Hollywood's treatment of writers in general and a whole lot of other funny, funny shit you can hear by clicking, homophonically enough, here.
