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How to Prepare for the Past - by Brian Cullman (Paperback)

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  • Writer and musician Brian Cullman's rapturous evocation of life in the bike lane, before the world was digital, when music was everything and magic was everywhere, encompassing friendships with Lester Bangs, Nick Drake, Big Joe Turner, Tim Hardin, and Paul Bowles.
  • Author(s): Brian Cullman
  • 256 Pages
  • Music, Essays

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Writer and musician Brian Cullman's rapturous evocation of life in the bike lane, before the world was digital, when music was everything and magic was everywhere, encompassing friendships with Lester Bangs, Nick Drake, Big Joe Turner, Tim Hardin, and Paul Bowles.

When people asked Brian Cullman his favourite song, he would say the radio.

It was all one sound. It was all one song: the drums and the words, the words without words, the rhythm and the static and the joy and amplified tears.

TV was a clunky box in the corner, nothing but images on a screen telling the same story over and over. The stories were old and small, over before they began. Yesterday's gossip and twice cold toast. They gave him nothing.

But Smokey Robinson crying like a flower with a hangover, The Ronettes, so carnivorous & tender, the sound of eternity in bed with the night: this was love and death and a ticket to places the buses don't go. These were the dreams of the dead, the regrets of the living, stolen prayers from the broken church where God & The Devil relax after work and trade places. He went to sleep to it, woke up to it. The idiot announcers and jingles and calls from New Jersey, the news and guitars, all one. He wanted to walk in it, dance in it.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Music
Sub-Genre: Essays
Publisher: ZE Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Brian Cullman
Language: English
Street Date: April 28, 2026
TCIN: 1006462519
UPC: 9798988670100
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-2000
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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