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when i moved to sweden...way way back the 8th of january 1980 (my god is it really that long ago) i could cook and egg ONLY if there was someone behind me to tell me how to do it
my idea of making food was to put a piece of meat in the oven...turn the oven on as hot as it got...and have a good bottle of ketchup next to me

the food in sweden in 1980 ...made my cooking look exotic.
boiled cod in egg sauce...pork chops with diareah sauce...goddamned BLOODPUDDING!! one day i will tell you more of my feelings about blood pudding...not now

we walk in a straight circle here

in trying to describe this store i usually say that it is pretty much only stuff that really moves me in one way or another.
not all the stuff is my favorite stuff...not all the stuff do i really like
but it's stuff that in some way or another deserves to be on my shelves here...
i really mean it my friends...with this store i really do hope to get out the stuff that you just cannot find at other places. if it seems interesting and not morally wrong...too terribly morally wrong...then i will try to stock it

turkeys made with love

i been in sweden too long
no i haven't
but i have been here long enough to start forgetting things
like thanksgiving
we don't have thanksgiving here
swedes got nada to be thankful for?
anyhows...thinkin of turkeys today
larrys corner kinda turkeys
ed wood, and wing
don't know bout you
but here at larrys corner...given the choice between something done badly...but with heart....and something done with the only goal being a profit....well bub..just look at what we stock here

saying "pancakes" once a day might be good for your mental well being....then again....

too much good stuff here
it's about time i started showing you some of the collection

i know what's here
but maybe you are new here
maybe you are new and need some guiding around
for the next few days, weeks, months....hopefully years..i will give you a small taste of everything but the coffee and brownies we have here
come visit and you get coffee and brownies too

few weeks ago i got a new book from a daring new book company in good old göteborg
sphinx förlag
remember that name
de vågar
må ni tro!!

it's my karma and i'll cry if i want to

i am starting to get a panic
and when larry panics
the world gets to share his panic
so cmon people....let's do the panic!
sorry for being so banal...but i am really getting scared about the future
i never thought i would become old fashioned...but it is happening
i am already starting to miss the good old days
even the bad ones
just feels like we are moving much too fast for our own good
when i moved to sweden...what i liked most about this place...was the influence that ferdinand the bull...tjuren ferdinand ...had on this place

true love is found in the bathroom and the new dreamers cd among other things

baba always leaves the toilet cover up
i used to always leave it down
her way of thinking is...let the smells come out and get dilluted with the air
my way of thinking was to hide the smells
i went crazy at first
i want my poo smells hidden and forgotten!!!
if we didn't really love each other..this could've turned into an arguement
but before i could get angry
i realized something
at night...during one of my many pee visits
it is really damn nice and time saving..to not have to use that extra motion to lift the cover
i can sleepily sit and pee
and go happily back to sleep

trying to get henry darger, wing, japanese pop and lovers concerto all in the same blog and not succeeding

i don't really like coca cola so terribly much....and after 20 something years of hacking my lungs out i am a very anti cig person
but i can't help it
the thought of coca cola and cigs....makes me think of good innocent music
don't know why....but to me....great music isn't cocaine or lsd or southern comfort
it's coca cola and cigs
i am stuck on 60s music lately. the innocent stuff
lotta girl groups, happy pop and stuff
am going for the worlds record for listening to THE TOYS singing LOVERS CONCERTO
all i can see is three happy girls given the chance of their life to record a song

italy: my baba and irma

don't really know why...but i have always had a close friend who has come from italy.
we werent friends for more than a few weeks when we were in kindergarten but
tony otino has stuck with me
a name like that...it's gotta stick
then came tony arciero, debbie acquisti, daniel stigedahl
ok...daniel is swedish but we met cause he was studying italien and came to my library to ask how to say ketchup in italien
always something italien
when i opened the store...i found IRMA
it was love at first listen
i wrote to IRMA and asked if i could sell their music in my store

wilson picketts girlfriend worked at my fathers drugstore and that makes me someone special

i come from detroit
when you come from detroit....you just don't have alot to be proud of
those times i feel the need of being proud of coming from detroit
i think of music
and music
and music
and i think of cary
i havent lived in detroit in a long time now, so i don't know so many people living there.
most have fled the ship
but there is always the music...and there is always cary
cary owns my mecca. he owns a store called the book beat just outside of detroit. thebookbeat.com if you want..tell him larry sent you
the book beat is the older wiser brother of larrys corner.

different is the new same?

don't know bout you
but i love contrasts
the bigger the contrast
the more i like
if you ever see me and baba walking together
you will see contrast
shawn phillips and bob flanagan
now there is contrast
and yet..i see similarities
sometimes...not always but sometimes
contrast is the closest thing to being one and the same
just from totally different ends of the spectrum
shawn phillips has been my musical guru since i was 13
i still don't understand why he was never elected god
i really never found an artist that was so important to the people he reached

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