Porcelain: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B014QKIDIA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 495 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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A viewer said Beautiful, messy and raw. Achingly sublime one moment; gritty, messy and raw the next. When Moby leaves us an unfinished piece at the end, it's because he himself — like his music — is an evolving work in progress. Up to that point, we are introduced to a young man who c. "Hard to like at first. Vulnerable and authentic." according to Mike Koenigs. I've followed Moby for years. I loved listening to him in the 90s. Then as he got popular, I continued to enjoyed his music. This isn't a happy book to read. Moby isn't happy. At least he doesn't seem to be happy when he shares his life storyBut it's raw. R. An amazing read. Thank you Moby. CS If you're reading this, chances are you've heard some of Moby's music. Most people probably recognize him by his best selling album "Play". I'm personally a pretty big fan of his so I pre-ordered this book with disregard as to whether or not Mr. Moby could
. Moby is a singer-songwriter, musician, DJ, and photographer. His records have sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic called him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early '90s." He lives in Los Angeles
his deep belief in luck. And Moby tells this tale of his youth—his search for meaning and music—with gorgeous clarity, comedy, and compassion. Porcelain also serves as a history of downtown New York of a certain time, a New York that doesn't really exist anymore, but I was very happy to reencounter it here through Moby's particular and fascinating lens.” —Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir! “This is one of the funniest and most accessible books you'll ever read about an erstwhile Christian/alcoholic vegan electronic music maker. At the same time, it offers a perfect freeze-frame of downtown New York in the Dinkins to early Giuliani
But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes hilarious, excess and proved all too fleeting. At once bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you’re on your own, betting on yourself, but have no idea how the story ends, and so you live with the honest dread that you’re one false step from being thrown out on your face. Not without drama, he found his way. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. Moby’s voice resonates with honesty, wit, and, above all, an unshakable passion for his music that steered him through some very rough seas. 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