NOTES ON JOURNALS

notes

Warhol's Tape Recorder.

Warhol in From A to B and Back Again (1975) describes getting married to his first tape recorder (which he calls his 'wife') in 1964:

The acquisition of my tape recorder really finished whatever emotional life I might have had, but I was glad to see it go. Nothing ever was a problem again, because a problem just meant a good tape, and when a problem transforms itself into a good tape it's not a problem any more. An interesting problem was an interesting tape. Everyone knew that and performed for the tape. You couldn't tell which problems were real and which were exaggerated for the tape. Better yet, the people tellling you the problems couldn't decide any more if they were really having problems or if they were just performing.

references

Brett, Simon. ed.

The Faber Book of Diaries. 1987. *

Blythe, Ronald. ed.

The Penguin Book of Diaries. 1989. *

Mallon, Thomas

A Book of One's Own: People and their Dairies.

Introduction to the writings of more than 100 diarists.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A Writer's Notebook. 1949. *

Weston, Edward

The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Mexico California.

urls

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