Week of 19/1/13: Autobiography

Prompt: Discuss what images appear in your mind as you read & how the author helped create those images.
Pages read: 102-270

*If you don't know who I'm talking about, read last week's blog.  You're too lazy to read that?  Then don't bother reading this, ugh.*

Morrissey, obviously the author of his own autobiography, goes into great detail about places like Manchester and the office at Rough Trade Records.  When he talks (and talks and talks and talks and talks and whines and moans and then makes some really humorous point) about his hometown of Manchester, I can vividly picture what it looks like.  Manchester seems a lot like Chicago actually (the people and it's economical state), except it seems a bit rainier and perhaps smaller.  Morrissey discusses in detail Manchester's drab, desolated schools in the 60's and 70's.  I picture white/pale green corridors that are empty, save for nuns running down them chasing after children (and their innocence).

When Moz (that's a popular shortening of his name, because you know, who needs to write things out anymore) talks about the Smiths recording sessions, I can picture these British rockers sitting around, bickering, and playing around the guitar and piano.  Morrissey's voice throughout the book, and from my prior knowledge about him, helps me imagine him whining through the session.  Which seems like it happened a lot.  Most of the time?  All of the time.  I do like that visual though, because they are great musicians/artists so it was really interesting to hear about their process of writing songs.

Finally, and wow, I'm really uninspired right now.  So as for this boring piece of writing: Deal with it!     To start again: One of my favorite scenes in this book is when Morrissey and David Bowie go to a restaurant together.  Now if you're wondering how that went, with both of their unique and bold personalities. When he describes the dialogue and the look on Bowie's face when he says a few things, I start to laugh, imagining that scene.  So I guess as you can see, this book, however annoying it may be to read, has some really interesting writing in it, and some scenes are actually quite humorous.