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Title:
Porcelain : a memoir
Author:
Moby author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
Physical Description:
406 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Summary:
From Moby, one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, comes a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success. It's about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it's over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. --

An iconic musician, Moby provides a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success. He traces his life as a DJ in the New York club scene; discusses the wretched (yet somehow hilarious) excesses of success; and explores how his passion for his music has steered him through some very rough seas.
Language:
English
Contents:
Parking lot, 1976. The future -- Dirty Mecca, 1989-1990. One hundred square feet ; Vegan cookies ; Night moves ; Hands in the air ; Garbage-filled shaftway ; Goat-skin bucket ; Tic-tac-toe with a chicken ; L train conductor ; Orange sodium light ; Quarters on needles ; Bloody skateboard wheels ; Wet socks on the radiator ; Smeared black magic marker -- Moby Go!, 1990-1992. Yams ; Crossed arms ; Silver radio ; Black lacquer ; Baby food ; Giant loop of keys ; Thin gray curtains ; Brown floral bedspread ; Lights through the trees ; Yellow hard hat ; Trillions of miles -- Distortion, 1992-1995. Beanbag chairs ; Plywood dance floor ; Sunburn ; Monochromatic strobes ; Juniper bush ; Biology textbook ; Dental floss ; Lemon zinger ; Cracks between the floorboards ; Dust motes ; Snakes in cages -- Alcohol enthusiast, 1995-1997. Thousands of leather jackets ; A mullet the size of a poodle ; Neon-green muppet monster fur ; Ants and thumbnails ; PVC bodysuit ; Rose-colored lights ; Wet sweater ; Sugarcane fields ; Acoustic foam ; Cheetos on the casino floor ; Orange jacket ; Condensation on freezing glass ; Dark water ; Eighteen inches of mud ; Stagnant green water -- The rave's progress, 1997-1999. Oak trees ; Wedding reception ; Rain on the skylights ; Windowless bedroom ; Chair with cigarette burns ; Melting pools of snow ; Beige Camry.
ISBN:
9781594206429
Format :
Book