We asked Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller to guest edit magnetmagazine.com this week, and he pawned it off on a bunch of his famous friends: other musicians, actors, writers and comedians. Well played, Rhett. But you can’t hide behind a self-titled solo album. Rhett Miller (Shout! Factory), a Beatlesque beauty featuring Jon Brion, is out this week.
Pamela Des Barres is more than the world’s most famous groupie. She is an author of multiple books, including her masterpiece I’m With The Band. She currently writes articles for online and print publications and teaches in Los Angeles. And she still throws a pretty mean party. Pamela DesBarres recommends:
Together Through Time by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan‘s Together Through Time is brilliant in every way, but I’m totally hung up on the last song, “It’s All Good.” Perfect irony from the master of ironics. (I know there is no such word, but there should be.) I will never be able to hear someone utter that blase toss-out phrase again without pondering the genius of Bob.
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
Once again poring through one of my top 10 books of all time: Walt Whitman‘s Leaves Of Grass. Talk about setting the bar and smashing through it! One of the first to be banned in Boston, daring to talk about the glory of sexuality and sensuality when women were covered in layers and layers of fabric from head to toe, seeing God in a blade of grass. Uncle Walt is my man.
Intervention
Yikes. Intervention is an almost-too-true-to-life, hideously compelling drama coming to me weekly from a safe place on my comfy leopard-print couch. I always hope for the best for these addicted souls but actually have to peek through my fingers at the end of the show when the outcome is usually relapse. Speaking of relapse: I am addicted to Eminem’s ballsy, naughty, wicked, tortured admission on his brand-new musical offering.
Traveling
My son Nick is here from Tokyo, where he has lived for four years, and we are flying off to Orlando tomorrow to cavort with the Mouse and his Goofy pals. It’s all good … ha ha ha.
