RIP - Jim Carroll
I know I’m late but I took a few days off the web.
I read The Basketball Diaries when I was 12 years old. I read it because I had seen in a movie magazine that someone might be making a movie of it and I was obsessed with movies and all things NYC so it seemed like a good fit.
I don’t want to say it changed my life, because I don’t think that is true, but it did point me in a few directions, in terms of bands I ended up checking out and authors and poetry I ended up reading. I think these were paths I was already on and the book and it’s sequel gave me a few good leads. But man, thanks for those leads.
