Sitemap - 2023 - The World of Tosh Berman

December 31, 2023

THE COUNTERFORCE

The Velvet Underground - Live at Max's Kansas City (Cotillion, 1970/2016)

In The Zone

Throw Me Tomorrow

1. Beyond the Zero

My Questionable Reading Habits

Artforum by César Aira (New Directions)

"Brian" by Jeremy Cooper (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023)

Keith Relf: Shapes in my Mind (Epic, 1966)

My Favorite Films in 2023

The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle by Philippe Soupault

Boris Vian Music

Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

My Favorite Albums in 2023

"The Strange World of Willie Seabrook" by Marjorie Worthington (Spurl Editions, 2017/1966)

My Favorite Books in 2023

Rotting in the Sun directed by Sebastián Silva (2023)

Our Strangers: Stories by Lydia Davis

Cockney Rebel Through My Ears

J.A. Seazer/Tenjosaijiki/Shuiji Terayama

Oh No Kyoto (But Oh Yes)

Shinjuku Bar Life and "Hit Parade of Tears" by Izumi Suzuki

Phil Manzanera/Andy Mackay - AM PM

Already Seen

The Albums I Bought in Tokyo

Now and Then - The Beatles

Nakano

Asakusa Dori (Avenue

Tsukasa

Harajuku 2023

Jimbocho

Space is the Place

Scugnizzoi Life

The Human Menagerie

The Golden Years

Anxiety and Panic

Prince of Bohemia in Japan

My Kyoto

Inside A Home in Kyoto

Les Sewing Sisters in Osaka

Danshiyaku

I Tour, Therefore, I Exist

First Day of The Tour

The Day Before the Tour

The Ginza Is My Beat

Ozawa Sighting

I Love Showa-era, but Showa-era Doesn’t Love Me.

Shibuya Saved My Life

Anxiety Attack in Tokyo and I'm Fine

Precious Coffee Moments in the Japanese Arcade

My Furniture is a Self Portrait of Who I am

Shimizuike Park

Les Sewing Sisters Japan Home Tour: Part One

The Sidewinders (RCA, 1972)

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) by Wes Anderson

Waiting...

A Public Note To My Readers

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn

Winter Boys - September September

The More Extreme The Contrast, The Fuller The Life

Cafe Hoang Thi Along The Danube River

My Fascination with Lee Miller

Anna Biller and Julio Cortázar

Death Valley

The Agents of Destruction (Prose Poem)

The Selling of One's Personal History

In Likeness

"Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" by John Szwed (FSG, 2023)

ebay Is My Memory

How I Wish I Can Be Harry Smith

Captain Beefheart

Ariane: A Russian Girl by Claude Anet (NYRB)

I'Am...I Walk

The British Casuals - Hour World (Mainstream, 1969)

Hurricane Hilary Meets Sally Bowles

A Frame of a Memory

Tosh's Journal: August 16, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 15, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 13, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 11, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 9, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 7, 2023

Tosh's Journal: August 5, 2023

Jacques Tati Swing! (2023, Born Bad Records)

Tosh's Journal: August 2, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 31, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 29, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 27, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 26, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 24, 2023

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

Tosh's Journal: July 21, 2023

Reflecting on Sparks at the Hollywood Bowl, July 16, 2023

Disneylandia

Tosh's Journal: July 16, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 14, 2023

Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller (Verso, 2023)

Night Music by Theodor W. Adorno (Seagull Books)

Tosh's Journal: July 10, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 9, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 7, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 5, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 4, 2023

Tosh's Journal: July 3, 2023

Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight by Mitch Sisskind (The Song Cave)

Tosh's Journal: July 1, 2023

"Masculine, Feminine, Neuter" and Other Writings on Literature by Roland Barthes

Sparks-Tastic by Tosh Berman (10th Anniversary)

Colin Newman: Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish (1981, 4AD)

The Sundays of Jean Dézert by Jean de Ville de Mirmont (Wakefield Press)

"Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil Young (2012)

"Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson"

"The Criminal Child and Other Essays by Jean Genet (NYRB)

Mud - Mud's Greatest Hits (RAK, 1975)

The Misfits: A Film by John Huston, 1961

What Just Happened by Richard Hell (Winter Editions, 2023)

Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini (Ecco, 2010)

Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir by Alexandra Auder (Viking, 2023)

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic, 1971)

Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret (NYRB)

The Herd - "Lookin Thru You" Vinyl, Album, U.S., 1968 (Fontana)

The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)

Daughters of Darkness: a Film by Harry Kümel, (1971, Belgium)

Iggy and the Stooges - Rare Power (Columbia/Legacy, 2018)

The Beatles - "Help" (1965)

In Search of Lost Time: In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - A Graphic Novel

KEN JACOBS UP THE ILLUSION April 15 – November 26, 2023, Broadway Windows Gallery

Sparks - "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte" (Island, 2023)

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, A Graphic Novel

"The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and History of Pedestrianism" by Geoff Nicholson (Riverhead, 2008)

"Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals" by John Wieners

Chop Suey and the Pool With Two Figures

The Certainty of Reading Wittgenstein in Detroit

"The Beat Scene" Photographs by Burt Glinn (Reel Art Press, RAP)

"The 120 Days of Sodom" by The Marquis de Sade (Penguin, 2016)

"I Read The News Today, Oh Boy: Biography of Tara Browne by Paul Howard

David Bowie: "Ouvrez Le Chien" (ISO Records, 2020)

"No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker," Edited by Rob Young

World Standard -"World Standard" (Non-Standard, 1985)

The Man Without Talent" by Yoshiharu Tsuge; Translated and Introduction by Ryan Holmberg (New York Review Comics)

Duncan Hannah's "20th Century Boy

"What it Means To Write About Art" by Jarrett Earnest

Vanilla Fudge (Atco, 1967)

Andy Warhol's Screen Test

History of British Rock (Sire Records, 1974)

The Beatles - "Beatles for Sale" (Parlophone, 1964)

Jeff Beck: "Love is Blue"

How To Be A Brit by George Mikes

"Sodom and Gomorrah" by Marcel Proust, Translated by John Sturrock (Penguin, 2005)

High Buildings Low Morals by Rob Baker

Lou Reed

John Cale New York in the 1960s on Tosh Talks

"Zettel" by Ludwig Wittgenstein Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe & G.H. von Wright (University of California Press)

Minima Moralia: Reflections On A Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno

The Guermantes Way (Part 3 of "In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust

"Misia: The Life of Misia Sert" a biography by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale (Knopf, 1980)

Tony Duvert's "District" & "Odd Jobs" (Wakefield Press)

Affinities: on Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon

When I Was Old: Simenon on Simenon by Georges Simenon

Bobby Womack - "The Bravest Man In The Universe (XL Recordings, 2012)

"Letters to His Neighbor" by Marcel Proust

The Punishments of Hell by Robert Desnos

Paul Bowles on Music

The Beatles -A Hard Day's Night, 1963

"In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" (Book 2 of "In Search of Lost Time"

"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors" by Ian Penman (Semiotext<e>)

Duras/Godard Dialogues (The Film Desk)

The Beatles - With The Beatles (1963)

The Beatles: Please Please Me

The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker by Jack Skelley, Semiotex(e)

Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 (New York Review of Books: NYRB)

"Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966 - 1973" Edited by Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn (the University of California Press)

"The Thief of Talent" by Pierre Reverdy & Translated by Ian Seed (Wakefield Press)

Marylou is Into Noir, and I'm Turning Blue

Unica Zürn

Royston Ellis, The British Poet

ANICET or the PANORAMA by Louis Aragon (Atlas Books)

"How To Be A Man: A Guide to Style and Behavior for the Modern Gentleman" by Glenn O'Brien (Rizzoli, 2011)

David and Jonathan

"Swann's Way," Book 1 of "In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust (Translated by Lydia Davis)

David Bowie's Record Collection

David Bowie's Art Collection

Singing in the Rain (For Tom Neal)

Jet Harris: Besame Mucho

Osamu Dazai's "The Flowers of Buffoonery"

Wittgenstein: Lectures & Conversations

Swing Slow - Miharu Koshi & Harry Hosono Jr. (Speedstar, 1996/2021)

Lun*na Menoh and Tosh Berman at TOTAH in NYC

Eva Hesse

The Rolling Stones - "Necrophilia"

"Me," Who Cares?

"The History of Rock/1967" by Uncut Magazine

"Signs and Images" by Roland Barthes

Wayne Fontana (MGM, 1967)

Antonin Artaud by David A. Shafer (Reaktion Books)

February 29

Tosh in Tokyo (Again)

"Paris Vagabond" by Jean-Paul Clébert (NYRB)

"The Mysterious Underground Men" by Osamu Tezuka

The Homosexual World of Boyd McDonald

Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1981 Album "Left Handed Dream"

Wallace Berman (February 18, 1926 - February 18, 1976)

"The Crippled Giant: A Literary Relationship with Louis-Ferdinand Céline" by Milton Hindus (Routledge, June 30, 1997)

Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze (NYRB)

The "Decca Originals" Compilations

"West of Eden: An American Place" by Jean Stein

The Other Paris by Lucy Sante

In Love by Alfred Hayes (NYRB)

The Dave Clark Five vs. The Beatles

Tosh Berman on "Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell"

No. 21: Tosh Recommends...

I Had a Perfectly Wonderful Evening, But This Wasn’t It

"Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff" and "Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics"

"The History Of Rock: 1966" by the Editors of Uncut Magazine

"Francis Carco: The Career of a Literary Bohemian" by Seymour S. Weiner (Columbia University Press, 1952, O.P.)

No. 20: Tosh Recommends... Joe Berardi, Martin Margiela, and Sally Potter

Tom Verlaine

Annette Peacock: "I'm The One" (RCA Records, 1972)

Sketch Show (Yukihiro Takahashi & Haruomi Hosono): "Audio Sponge" (Cutting Edge, 2022/2002)

Charles Addams

Reflections on One's Body

Tosh's Discotheque, Volume 1

The Purpose of Bathing

Don Quixote Revisited

Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie"

Flowers of Boredom

Tosh Berman's Children Songs and Stories

" THE LOST ALBUM - A Visual History Of 1950's Britain" By Basil Hyman

No. 19: Tosh Recommends...

The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out!

Jun Togawa

The Beethoven Soul - "The Beethoven Soul" (Vinyl, 1967) Dot Records