How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time by Cullman, Brian
How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time by Cullman, Brian

How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time

Writer and musician Brian Cullman's rapturous evocation of life in the bike lane, before the world was...
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Author: Brian Cullman
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Language: English
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How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time by Cullman, Brian

How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time

$26.40
How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time by Cullman, Brian

How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time

$26.40
Author: Brian Cullman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Writer and musician Brian Cullman's rapturous evocation of life in the bike lane, before the world was digital, when music was everything and magic was everywhere, encompassing friendships with Lester Bangs, Nick Drake, Big Joe Turner, Tim Hardin, and Paul Bowles.

When people asked Brian Cullman his favourite song, he would say the radio.

It was all one sound. It was all one song: the drums and the words, the words without words, the rhythm and the static and the joy and amplified tears.

TV was a clunky box in the corner, nothing but images on a screen telling the same story over and over. The stories were old and small, over before they began. Yesterday's gossip and twice cold toast. They gave him nothing.

But Smokey Robinson crying like a flower with a hangover, The Ronettes, so carnivorous & tender, the sound of eternity in bed with the night: this was love and death and a ticket to places the buses don't go. These were the dreams of the dead, the regrets of the living, stolen prayers from the broken church where God & The Devil relax after work and trade places. He went to sleep to it, woke up to it. The idiot announcers and jingles and calls from New Jersey, the news and guitars, all one. He wanted to walk in it, dance in it.



Author: Brian Cullman
Publisher: ZE Books
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9798988670100

About the Author
Cullman, Brian: -

Brian Cullman is a writer and musician based in New York and in France. He has written extensively for The Paris Review, Antaeus, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice and has won the ASCAP/Deems Taylor award for excellence in music journalism three times. He has three solo albums on Sunnyside and is currently a member of Lisbon-based group Rua Das Pretas. He lives in NYC.

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