Read: Just Kids by Patti Smith

I started this book over a year ago and finally finished from where I left off, almost 1/4 of the book to the end. Just Kids is poetry. I'm probably going to have to read it again since I can't remember everything, but also because it's just the kind of book you'd want to read over again.

After reading the book I lay in bed with headphones on and listened to her first recorded album, Horses, 1975.

I don't think I'd want to have heard this album before I did. Having been to New York to the place she writes about, seeking out Hotel Chelsea with my partner, having skateboarded at Redondo Beach, having read the book before and after visiting - it creates a certain kind of fondness for the album that wouldn't have existed otherwise for me.

After that album I listened to a few others: the Memorial Song for Robert, and my favorite, the Jackson song, a lullaby for her son.

I'll forever have her writing in my mind, the visual while recording live, Richard playing the last chords, Robert had fallen asleep and Fred, her husband, standing alone weeping.