“Making this album was like heart surgery, I was desperate, in pain, and poured my heart into electronic music that slammed harder than any drug I could find,” she wrote.
“I fell apart after I released this album. Thank you for celebrating something that once felt like destruction,” she added. “We always believed it was ahead of its time. Years later turns out, sometimes, artists know. And so do little monsters. Paws up.”
Last week, DJ White Shadow, who produced many of the songs on the album, revealed he had contacted Gaga about a petition from fans calling for a sequel to the album, which currently has over 39,000 signatures.
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Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company
“This is a love story and I apologise; it was inadvertent. But I want it clearly understood from the start that I don’t expect it to turn out well.” So begins
Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz‘s legendary memoir of sex, love, and adventure in 1970s California.
A true child of Los Angeles, Babitz’s stories are buffeted along by the hot Santa Ana winds, perfumed by bougainvillaea, and backlit by the pink-purple sunsets of Southern California. As a graduate of Hollywood High and the godfather of Igor Stravinsky, Babitz takes her inspiration from the high life (and low life) of the city‘s rich cultural milieu and its hedonistic, counter-cultural scenes. Encompassing three-day binges in the Chateau Marmont, misadventures in Palm Springs, and many restorative bloody marys at Musso & Frank’s, Babitz is a picaresque heroine posing nude with Marcel Duchamp, and moving in circles among the likes of Joan Didion, Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha,