mutterings and ravings no. 12
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:47:45 -0800
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From: Harry Nudel <nudel-soho@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: m&r..r.johson, h.s., & Mrs. Viacom, pt 2
When we left off dr.n. was drifting down the congo..and fnd two of
the rarest Burton items, no mention in the Bibliography, pub. by missionary
press..in edition of 10..etc...etc..ins. et.
I met Mrs Viacom thru two upper East Side decorators, who I just thot
were two more guys who owed me $330 for six months..turns out they were the
Sister Parrish BB their day top of the line two guys who owed $330..they
ring bell and Voila is Mrs Viacom who is moving from 30 rooms on C.P.E. to
I swear 60 rooms on C.P.E..and needs book 'em to fill up shelves..who Not
DR.n...he's so quaint..so I sit them down in the dust for a while and
lecture 'em on my cash flow problems..they buy some & promise to buy
more...search for box..my how high lass' i'm muttering &we bring it down to
the chauffeur...
I russle up some more meaningles leather (May Heritage Forgive
Me) and taxi up to the castle.a whole wing of a bldng...i take the service
elevator..tho i'm never quite certain of my place..above or below Media
czars....I bribe the decorators with a book...Mrs. Viacom...& the boys
argue who's paying..like all enormously rich people she never has any
money...the boys have just bt lunch and the 100 work men tinkering around
the new place..i put a book on the Lib. Shelve and am told something like
it's a special wood found in the congo..and I can't do it...
This is my moment to suck up to the real rich..and it's not that i
don;t want to..i sure do..i want my book published (MR & Mrs Viacom own
Knopf, op etc etc..) but i have nothing to say...i do tell the black cab
driver on the way down..that i used to drive just like him and common
folk.but i'm in a better racket now..
Oh where we...ah Basquait..the missing link..who I remember would
sit with S..(who sells L.P. next to my books) when the sun shineth and was
hay to be made on Soho sunny culture sts....him and 1,000 other 20 year
olds like him that i've seen over 20 yrs..S endlessly trying to teach
em..but this one suicided himself..and ended up making 3 million dollars
for someone...his father dumping his collages into dumpster,,more
junk...more million dollar mistakes..
So two yrs later i pick an idiotic fight with the decorators (not
only didn't buy book but damaged it messenger back way down)..but I read
about them in the Times..A.R....which reminds me..always reminds me..of
times past..and the guywho counterfeited Basquiat and still owes me
money...another day...another hour..the flower of memory and all the
days...Drn.
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