Tosh Talks Podcast - with Tosh Berman & his Guest Jeff Mizushima

Tosh talks to filmmaker Jeff Mizushima about the different mediums in film viewing.

Tosh Talks Podcast - with Tosh Berman & His Guest Jeff Mizushima

Tosh Berman reads a chapter from his memoir "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights) regarding his meeting as a 9-year-old with iconic artist Marcel Duchamp.  Photograph by Julian Wasser, at the Pasadena Museum's opening for the Duchamp retrospective, curated by Walter Hopps.

Tosh Talks Podcast: Meeting Marcel Duchamp When I was 9 Years Old

Two books (volumes) by Chris O'Leary that covers every song David Bowie released, as well as obscure b-sides, and recordings not released.  Remarkable information which makes these books essential to the Bowie Library.

Tosh Talks Podcast: Songs of David Bowie by Chris O'Leary on Tosh Talks

I think of "The Deep" as a dance.  Either in a living room party setting or just one person dancing in front of a full-length mirror.  Should be on a 45rpm single with a white sleeve.  And played on a portable record player somewhere in the corner of that bedroom.  The bedroom wall should have images of Hayley Mills and The Dave Clark Five.

The Deep

Tosh Berman discusses the book "When I Was a Wolf by Terayama Shūji. Published by Kurodahan Press (https://www.kurodahan.com/wp/e/) Also chats about Yukio Mishima, Osamu Dazai, and Japanese literature.

Tosh Talks Podcast:  Terayama Shūji June 3, 2019

Over the years I have spent a lot of time in Tokyo, a city that really grabbed my imagination, and it is also a city that makes me sad whenever I leave it.  Not only for the people there (I have family there) but also the architecture, the smells, the seasons, and of course the bars.  This is a sad piece of a man leaving a city that he's in love with.

Sayonara Tokyo

Roppongi is a nightclub district in Tokyo.  In the 60's and 70's it was really something else.  The last ten or so twenty years it has been the playground for rich foreigners (mostly Europeans and Americans) to taste the nightlife of Tokyo.  Many bars, many bars, and ... many bars.  A piece of music I put together for Roppongi, Tokyo.

Roppongi Hell

In Vienna, a place I never been to, but read about, and this I imagine is the theme song to the city.  Overly dramatic, overly romantic, overly sexual, ... overly nice.   I put this piece together with those thoughts in my head.  Probably on the thin line between chaos and order - but more likely, and knowing me, chaos.

The Mad Dancers of That World

I am lost.  The first taste of sake is like the last.  Always good.  Looking into the clear liquid one would think it was water, but alas, its poetry in liquid.  A taste of life that's life being taken on another level.  This piece of music is the soundtrack to that feeling.

A Cup Of Water Is No Sake

A piece of music that i put together that is a tribute to the Beach Boys' drummer Dennis Wilson.  

Dennis Wilson

Whenever i am in Manhattan I feel blue.  Walking around (but not on or in) Time Square, I walk with no sense of aim or direction.  I enjoy watching people going to the theater, and knowing that maybe they will see something that will touch them.  I am walking, but I feel like I am low-flying the streets.  Also sadness over comes me when I am walking around West 52nd or West 53rd Street.   Knowing that there are no more jazz clubs there anymore.    - Tosh Berman

Flying Over Manhattan

Tosh Berman is a writer and publisher.  He recently wrote TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World (City Lights Books)

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