Henry Baum lives in L.A. and is a musician and writer. His novel, North of Sunset, was winner of the Hollywood Book Festival Grand Prize 2006, and his first novel The Golden Calf (Rebel Inc / Soft Skull) will be reissued by Another Sky Press in Spring 2008. He has published in Identity Theory, Storyglossia, Scarecrow, Purple Prose, Les Episodes and—writing as sex worker Shirley Shave—the Best Sex Writing 2005. His story ‘Thirteen Mississippi’ can be read in 3:AM London, New York, Paris. Henry has recently been listening to:
1. ‘Yes We Can’
“I’ve been totally obsessed with the U.S. election. I’m for Obama but I kind of hate this song. Shows where my head’s at.”
2. ‘Aces High,’ — Iron Maiden
“John McCain has this horribly overblown campaign commercial where he quotes Winston Churchill. Reminded me of this Iron Maiden song that begins with the same quote. Still better than ‘Yes We Can.’
3. ‘Come On,’ — Ash Tree
“My own song. Finished it this week. Heard here.”
4. ‘Twisted,’ — Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
“My dad had a performance of his play about shrinks at a party. He needed me to mix this song overlapped with some party chatter.”
5. ‘String Quartet Op. 51,’ — Brahms
“Bought cheap someone’s old iPod with her songs on it.”
First posted: Monday, March 24th, 2008.
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