Music scene bashes and flirtation exercises. Men and women couple and uncouple rather than having conversations. Maybe it's the way it was and is but it's rather callously described.. Coitus is rather sloppy and unsatisfactory for all concerned parties.
Kip goes back to his parents for Christmas and leaps around his bedroom to The Stooges. There's a little bit more wit and vivacity in this section making the pursuits of the central characters seem like a bit more actual fun rather than just bad faith, There's constant jockeying for position mind between the players on the music scene which sounds rather wearing..Music journalists come across largely as scavengers. Vultures or wild dogs feeding on bands either positively or critically to make a name for themselves.
Kip bumps into Mina again in a recording studio cutting her new single. A Nico song which is appropriate as she seems like a mini Nico essentially in the way she's portrayed.The party scene that Kip frequents flirts with junkie chic. The pin up boys seem to be Johnny Thunders, Nick Cave and Nick Kent. People talk a lot of drooled nonesense and pose in leather clothing. The kind of thing which maybe has its lure when you're young but is obviously slightly dangerous potentially.
You get Kit's glowing review of Mina's debut album La Ronde. The prose is a marriage of Kent's and Hoskyn's own.It's packed choc a bloc with film, musical and literary reference points. Pretentious perhaps. But everything which made the music press such an education at the time. It makes you hunt things down. Kirkeggard and Rilke get namedropped and it makes you want to read them and develop an opinion. The book is getting into its stride here for me. Delving a bit deeper. Also showing a bit more heart.
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