Life | 
pickThe story of a singular life but also music history, British history, cultural history, drug history.
Pros: Respect for, sharing and collaboration with musicians.
Cons: Casual misogyny, and yet love for women, less about sex than affection, mother issues? (She didn't seem overly affectionate.) Not certain how great a husband or father he's been, and the language occasionally reveals his membership in an earlier generation. 1/?
It was very like a drug...I could kick smack. I couldn't kick music.
Being a bear of very little brain at the moment, I‘ve gone for a book that‘s in the house, reported to be a really good read, and I‘m not invested enough in to be horribly disappointed if they all turn out to be despicable characters!
Plus a matching song, (The Stones - It‘s Only Rock‘n‘Roll) which had a truly horrible single cover.
#titlesAndTunes #SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll
pick#JoyousJanuary #WeekendReading #BookNookBuddies2022
Very informative & pleasantly enjoyable!
pickGreat recipe for Shepherds Pie within. “Don‘t be touching my Shepherds Pie,” Keith growls between gigs. Says that despite Mick‘s huge hands ;-) he‘s got a tiny “todger.” Keith is one of a kind...Thank God.
pickKeith freaking Richards, what a legend!
Not only does he have a way with lyrics but storytelling as well.
He seems like such a genuine and good guy
“This is the life. Believe it or not I haven‘t forgotten any of it.”
#nonfictionnovember
I struggle with getting in an adult -sized share of nonfiction, so am alternating every other book this month.
Big life, big book, big challenge for me.
1. Chex Mix sweet and salty
2. No, just can't find the time for them as I don't drive much
3. Turkey available EVERYWHERE! And, reading the tagged book.
4. Proudly, none
5. Teal, aqua
#friyayintro
@howjessreads
Went to the Library to pick up my reserve. Lo and behold, a “buy one get one free”coupon for the Library Book Store was being offered for Library Week! How could I refuse? #libraryweek
Keith Richards‘ autobiography was surprising/unsurprising in its content and in its readability. I was fascinated and hooked - one of the favorite books I read the year it came out. Plus, he‘s a huge lover of libraries, so he‘ll always have a soft spot with me! #LustForLife #MarchIntoThe70s
#kindledeal heads up! I don't consider myself a Stones fan, so I wouldn't normally go for this memoir. However, the fact that in a recent interview with The Strand bookstore, Michiko Kakutani ranked it #5 out of the top seven best books she has ever reviewed, has more than piqued my interest.
My FIL is in town from Colorado so there‘s not much reading going on, but we‘ve been talking books a lot. He‘s a big reader, too. He recommended the tagged book so on the #TBR it goes! Anyone read it?
#booksandbrews #readharder #cheers
Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can bear. It's impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were.
Great songs write themselves. You're just being led by the nose, or the ears. The skill is not to interfere with it too much. Ignore intelligence, ignore everything; just follow it where it takes you.
Mick's album was called She's the Boss, which said it all. I've never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It's like Mein Kampf. Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.
Why do you do that to yourself? I don‘t know. I still don‘t know. Your skin crawling, your guts churning, you can‘t stop your limbs from jerking and moving about, and you‘re throwing up and shitting at the same time, and shit‘s coming out your nose and your eyes, and the first time that happens for real, that‘s when a reasonable man says, “I‘m hooked.” But even that doesn‘t stop a reasonable man from going back on it.
I can‘t imagine what other people think cold turkey is like. It is fucking awful. On the scale of things, it‘s better than having your leg blown off in the trenches...better than starving to death. But you don‘t want to go there. The whole body turns itself inside out and rejects itself for 3 days. You know in 3 days it‘s going to calm down. It‘s going to be the longest 3 days in your life, and you wonder why you‘re doing this to yourself...
The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place...but they all pass by and don't see you. There's no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible...That's hell.
What is it that makes you want to write songs? ...you want to stretch yourself into other people‘s hearts. You want to plant yourself there...It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases... A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
1. One to four times a month, always on Saturday. Usually more for my 10 yr old. It's a small one, but has a decent children's section.
2 NYPL and/or Keith Richards' private library
3. None currently, but I often do request books from other branches.
4. Probably around 11 or 12.
#trivialthursday (a day late) @GarthRanzz
1. I read Keith Richards‘ bio, Life, when it first came out and LOVED it. That man has lived.
2. Eddie Vedder & Pearl Jam ❤️❤️
3. I obviously love every Pearl Jam experience I have. However, Bruce Springsteen, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Garth Brooks are concert experiences that blew my mind.
4. No idea- there are so many. But Indifference by Pearl Jam is way up there.
#manicmonday
@JoScho
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Tomorrow I will surpass 300 miles so far this year!
#audiowalk
#800in2018
#marchingfor90
#overdrive
#marchinbooks #autobiography I loved this memoir. I listened to the audiobook (highly recommend) When I saw the prompt of (auto)biography I immediately thought of the story he tells of the impala #auto that were in when they were pulled over in Arkansas.
pickNever expected to love this book, but I did. An interesting ride, love his honesty and sense of humor. I don't have much experience in music, and I was never a Stones fan, yet they've been around my whole life. Quite an education.
Slow beginning, but then it gets interesting. I'm really not a big Stones fan, but I have to say I'm enjoying Keith's antics, philosophies and honesty. He's a reader, and this book is well written. It's a jolly good romp, thus far.
My plan for September is to get through all my library reads. #tbr #mostanticipated #septembermostanticipated #fallintobooks #autumnreads #awesomeautumnbooks @RealLifeReading @Tiffy_Reads @Jess7
Very much get the sense of an honest recounting because of the 'warts and all' vibes, as much as there are regrets and justifications mixed in. 6d
Richards does occasionally toss out a 'don't recommend, don't try this at home' but he also gets pretty detailed about various drug shenanigans, more casual than contrite. Glad to hear he's off it now. 6d
The audiobook was an interesting experience, because there are long chunks of solid deadpan reading by Johnny Depp, then a very lively, lengthy section of what appear to be the most rollicking years by Joe Hurley, more Depp and an end cap from Richards himself, where he wraps up with more recent events. 6d
⚠️animal death, domestic abuse, 6d