(TV) Extract from Just Kids - Tom/Patti

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

Extract from Just Kids:


...............The band had a ragged edge, the music erratic, angular, 
and emotional. I liked everything about them, their spasmodic movements, 
the drummer's jazz flourishes, their disjointed, orgasmic musical 
structures. I felt a kinship with the alien guitarist on the right. He 
was tall, with straw-colored hair, and his long graceful fingers wrapped 
around the neck of his guitar as if to strangle it.

Tom Verlaine had definitely read A Season in Hell.

In between sets Tom and I did not talk of poetry but of the woods of New 
Jersey, the deserted beaches of Delaware, and flying saucers hovering in 
the western skies. It turned out that we were raised 20 minutes from one 
another, listened to the same records, watched the same cartoons, and 
both loved the Arabian Nights. The break over, Television returned to 
the stage. Richard Lloyd picked up his guitar and fingered the opening 
phrase of "Marquee Moon."

It was a world away from the Ziegfeld. The absence of glamour made it 
seem all the more familiar, a place that we could call our own. As the 
band played on, you could hear the whack of the pool cue hitting the 
balls, the saluki barking, bottles clinking, the sounds of a scene 
emerging. Though no one knew it, the stars were aligning, the angels 
were calling.

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