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Porcelain : a memoir / Moby

By: Moby [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, [2016]Description: ix, 499 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780571321490 (paperback).Subject(s): Moby | Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography | Disc jockeysDDC classification: 782.4216609
Contents:
Parking lot, 1976. The future -- Dirty Mecca, 1989-1990. One hundred square feet -- Vegan cookies -- Night moves -- Hands in the air -- Garbage-filled shaftway ; Goat-skin bucket -- Tic-tac-toe with a chicken -- L train conductor -- Orange sodium light -- Quarters on needles -- Bloody skateboard wheels -- Wet socks on the radiator -- Smeared black magic marker -- Moby Go!, 1990-1992. Yams -- Crossed arms -- Silver radio -- Black lacquer -- Baby food -- Giant loop of keys -- Thin gray curtains -- Brown floral bedspread -- Lights through the trees -- Yellow hard hat -- Trillions of miles -- Distortion, 1992-1995. Beanbag chairs -- Plywood dance floor -- Sunburn -- Monochromatic strobes -- Juniper bush -- Biology textbook -- Dental floss -- Lemon zinger -- Cracks between the floorboards -- Dust motes -- Snakes in cages -- Alcohol enthusiast, 1995-1997. Thousands of leather jackets -- A mullet the size of a poodle -- Neon-green muppet monster fur -- Ants and thumbnails -- PVC bodysuit -- Rose-colored lights -- Wet sweater -- Sugarcane fields -- Acoustic foam -- Cheetos on the casino floor -- Orange jacket -- Condensation on freezing glass -- Dark water -- Eighteen inches of mud -- Stagnant green water -- The rave's progress, 1997-1999. Oak trees -- Wedding reception -- Rain on the skylights -- Windowless bedroom -- Chair with cigarette burns -- Melting pools of snow -- Beige Camry
Holdings
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General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 782.4216609 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00208466
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York City. In a scene popular chiefly among working-class African-Americans and Latinos, Moby - a poor, skinny, white Christian, vegan and teetotaller - looked like he would never make it. By the late nineties, contemplating the end of his music career, he released what he assumed would be his swansong, Play , which went on to become a multi-million-selling album, opening up an astonishing new phase in his life. Porcelain is an unfailingly honest, funny and brilliantly written memoir about making it, losing it, loving it, hating it and everything in between.

Parking lot, 1976. The future -- Dirty Mecca, 1989-1990. One hundred square feet -- Vegan cookies -- Night moves -- Hands in the air -- Garbage-filled shaftway ; Goat-skin bucket -- Tic-tac-toe with a chicken -- L train conductor -- Orange sodium light -- Quarters on needles -- Bloody skateboard wheels -- Wet socks on the radiator -- Smeared black magic marker -- Moby Go!, 1990-1992. Yams -- Crossed arms -- Silver radio -- Black lacquer -- Baby food -- Giant loop of keys -- Thin gray curtains -- Brown floral bedspread -- Lights through the trees -- Yellow hard hat -- Trillions of miles -- Distortion, 1992-1995. Beanbag chairs -- Plywood dance floor -- Sunburn -- Monochromatic strobes -- Juniper bush -- Biology textbook -- Dental floss -- Lemon zinger -- Cracks between the floorboards -- Dust motes -- Snakes in cages -- Alcohol enthusiast, 1995-1997. Thousands of leather jackets -- A mullet the size of a poodle -- Neon-green muppet monster fur -- Ants and thumbnails -- PVC bodysuit -- Rose-colored lights -- Wet sweater -- Sugarcane fields -- Acoustic foam -- Cheetos on the casino floor -- Orange jacket -- Condensation on freezing glass -- Dark water -- Eighteen inches of mud -- Stagnant green water -- The rave's progress, 1997-1999. Oak trees -- Wedding reception -- Rain on the skylights -- Windowless bedroom -- Chair with cigarette burns -- Melting pools of snow -- Beige Camry

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Moby was born in Harlem in 1965. He is a singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer.