Porcelain
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Moby
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781594206429
Subjects: Musicians; Turntablists; Biography; Disc jockeys
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Parking lot, 1976. The future; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.