Richard Hell – Page 3 – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Afternoon Bites: Sarah McCarry Talks Guillotine, Christgau on Richard Hell, Aaron Gilbreath on Jazz, Mary Robison, and More

March 13, 2013 No Comments

Adam Thirlwell talked with The Story of My Purity author Fransesco Pacifico. “I wanted to put out chapbooks that are as beautiful as the ideas inside them.” Sarah McCarry talked about her Guillotine project with City Lights. Robert Christgau on Richard Hell’s music — and his memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. Jay Walker’s library is stunning to behold. “The hippity-hop of Kelly’s piano, Mobley’s round, lush tone, and Blakey’s buoyant shuffle—if you want a glimpse into a happy soul, […]

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Andrew W.K., Murder Ballads, Chandler and Hitchcock, and More

November 26, 2012 No Comments

Your tax dollars at work: the State Department is sending Andrew W.K. to the Middle East to promote peace. We’re entirely behind this idea, for what it’s worth. (Update: apparently, the trip is off.) Mara Tatar on Philip Pullman’s retold fairy tales. Ta-Nehisi Coates examines Raymond Chandler, Alfred Hitchcock, and misogyny. Dylan Nice chatted with The Collagist. Gabrielle Gantz on Sina Grace’s Not My Bag. Pete Astor is interviewed about his forthcoming Richard Hell-centric 33 1/3. Juliana Nash’s murder ballad playlist. […]

Film

Richard Hell Talks Robert Bresson at BAM

May 2, 2012 1 Comment

At a screening of Robert Bresson’s 1977 film The Devil, Probably, part of BAM’s series Bresson, Richard Hell brought both his punk lineage and his knowledge of film history to open a discussion of the film. Yet Hell wasn’t simply there to extol the virtues of The Devil, Probably; instead, his take on the film was an unorthodox one, both laudatory and — at times — brutally honest about its flaws. For a film with a focus on uncomfortable moments […]

Books, music

Richard Hell Acting Like an Asshole is Still Cooler Than You Acting Normal

March 23, 2010 No Comments

Let me add one last thing to this ponderous (sorry!) interview. Namely that I’m really gratified by the reception of Destiny Street Repaired altogether. It might have sounded like I was being pretty cutting about the reviewers, but actually I feel great about the record’s reception. The proportion of positive to negative has been about 50/50 or maybe 60/40 in favor, but, seriously, the positive reviews have been so much more intelligent and accurate than the negative ones (I mean […]

Books, music

Richard Hell Revisits Blank Generation

January 28, 2010 No Comments

What has always fascinated me about Richard Hell is his reluctance to revisit those days in bands like The Heartbreakers, Television, and especially, The Voidoids. While many of his colleagues from the old CBGB and “77 punk” scene are more than happy to do a few reunions for whatever reason (strapped for cash, revisiting past glory, etc.), Hell keeps on insisting that those days are behind him, and he just wants to concentrate on his writing — something I have […]