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Stephen Shore / Little Brown Mem

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His work is Nabokovian for me: Exposing so much, and yet leaving so
much room for your imagination to roam and do what it will."

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I don't like Stephen Shore. He used to be good but not anymore—I mean he's fine, but look at his instagram, for example. I don't think he's a bad person, and I don't think it's so bad at all that he takes bad pictures that I don't like because honestly, if I were in my seventies, I would probably rather have a cocktail or watch baseball than take a photograph. Especially in such a time consuming way; and I respect the process I just don't really understand it anymore. But hey, that's just me. I can't speak for him. Stephen Shore, Stephen shore, Stephen Shore, Stephen Shore walking. Stephen Shore talking. Stephen Shore looks at the clock. Stephen Shore's not got that much time. Stephen Shore. Is it really such a crime?

Stephen Shore is friends with [WILLIAM EGGLESTON] [WHO IS SAID TO BE] a pill, but he's fun to be around. They always paint the town.

Stephen Shore he's friends with Bill [the pill], but he's fun to be around. They always paint the town.

It's fun to sing a song. In a song you can't go wrong. Watch out.

Once I saw Stephen Shore speak in Los Angeles, California, at the photography conference. He said, "Little Brown Mem lived in a cave. Little Brown Mem had a friend named Dave."

"Dave?" I said.

"Little Brown Mem walked to the beach in the sand. Little Brown Mem didn't have any hands."

I coughed.

I coughed again, the air was thick in Los Angeles because of the pollution, the cars, the airplanes. What is happening to us? I can't imagine the Earth has very long left and you know, I went to a movie last week and when the film was over, I left the theatre and an older, fanatical man (the type who sees movies late and alone) told me not to have any children, because everything was going to be over soon—2050 at the latest—he had gone to Stanford, and he was writing a book about it. "Iit's probably better not to subject kids to all of that," he said. "If you know what I mean." "Yeah," I said. "I do."

"Little Brown Mem," Stephen Shore said. "Little Brown Mem. Little Brown Mem. Little Brown Mem! Little Brown Mem walked through the street looking for something nice to eat."

Stephen got off the stage and walked over to the piano.

"Something wrong?" I said.

Stephen Shore sat down on the bench, looked at me and began to play.

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from Hamnet's Br​æ​d, released February 7, 2015

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