easter eggs
FaceBook served me up a Memory this morning, from this day last year. I usually don't pay too much attention to these Memories, but this one is pertinent because it was the cover image of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, and I'm currently reading this very book, so it's something of a coincidence it should appear. I can see in the post that I was very excited by the thought of its publication, and the excitement has proven justified. I am loving the book. It's the best book on music and being in a band that I've ever read. Utopia Avenue is the band's name. They are British, and struggling to make it on the 60s music scene. Mark Bolan, David Bowie, and Brian Jones make cameo appearances as do Alan Ginsberg, Sandy Denny, Keith Moon and many others. I thought Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, about a 70s American band, was a good read but this knocks that into a cocked hat. What it's also really good at, and this shouldn't be surprising comin...