Sinister: Pop Books Up

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A book that is quite bad is BACHELOR KISSES. The thing
is, you see the book and think - oh, that must be a
well-known phrase, then. But then you read the book
and the narrator talks about listening to the
Go-Betweens; and the author is from Brisbane. And you
think - oh.

The relative badness of the book does not affect the
excellence of the record, of course. I wanted to buy
the book for the Cookie, to encourage him to read. A
bit like Actor Ross Kemp doing his bit for literacy.
But the book was only available as part of a set of
other bad books. Sorry, Cookie.

This reminds me: does the B&S Go-Betweens song really
exist, or did someone make it up to get Cookie all
excited? 

A book that is quite good is Paul Muldoon's POEMS
1968-1998. The reason it is quite good is to be found
on pp. 370 and 414.

On p.370 we find the lines

"she was now deeply into Lloyd Cole
[...]
Lloyd 'King' Cole, she'd dubbed him...".

And on p.414, amidst a series of references to pop
music, we find a reference to LLOYD COLE AND THE
COMMOTIONS: EASY PIECES.

My editor doesn't care for Muldoon. I daresay that
that's understandable. But we can forgive him
something, I think, for these Lloyd Cole references.


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