Jim Carroll: 1949-2009
He just wanted to be pure, he wrote, at the end of the definitive book about being a teenage drug addict and prostitute. He hung around with Andy Warhol and Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. He started a band on a whim and got discovered by Keith Richards. Leonardo DiCaprio played him in a movie. On Friday, Jim Carroll became a person who died.
I know I'm getting old when someone like this dies and I think "they just don't make 'em like they used to anymore." I can't imagine that any of the kids today will ever, ever approach the subversive brilliance of Jim Carroll. I know I'm wrong but everything about him, his life, his New York, his work, seems a product of a bygone era.
"The Basketball Diaries" was one of those books your best friend compelled you to buy and read, which you did for a few pages, and now regret putting down all these years later.
Agreed with both of you. the only person i can rad over and over and over