Ben Apatoff

@bapatoff.bsky.social

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Author of Body Count (33⅓) and Metallica: The $24.95 Book. Working on a biography of Local H for J-Card Press, scheduled for 2027.

Cooper, a David Bowie-eyed tabby, peering up from a desk chair.
-Tom Waits said, "Recording is so permanent, it's maddening." "He doesn't record enough. He should record everything, so everything becomes maddening and then he can deal with it. That's how I dealt with it."
If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? I met him several years ago and was surprised at his knowledge of contemporary poetry, so I think he would be best left to his own devices.
The Boxing Movie Podcast, discussing The Great White Hype
Ice-T as Detective Scotty Appleton in New Jack City.
30% off Bloomsbury books.
Ice-T photo by Mark Seliger, 1992.
"Part of the 33 1/3 series. I love these books...of the 30 or more that I've read, this is one of the best. I was 16 in 1991 when the whole 'Cop Killer' thing was blowing up, and this book really does a great job of taking you back to that time and reminds you of what a huge controversy it was. Body Count and Ice-T just had brass balls. They were under tremendous pressure to pull the song off the album, which they eventually did...but Ice-T's just cool as f*ck, and this was a great reminder of why. He was interviewed for the book along with the other members of Body Count."
Debbie was invited to the Saturday Night Live fortieth-anniversary show. It was NBC's most watched non-sports event, with twenty-three million viewers. Everybody in showbiz, from Rihanna to Prince to Christopher Walken, was at this thing. When I talked to Debbie the next day and asked how it was, she said, "You can't imagine what a skank Sarah Palin is in person." That was her takeaway.
Body Count (33 1/3).
Album artwork for Kendrick Lamar's Damn.
Rob Sheffield on Paul McCartney
Joni Mitchell Blue LP, among others
Harriet M. Dog
Pack Up the Cats, by Local H
Mile End Kicks review by Ben Apatoff
Body Count (33 1/3)
Miles Davis' grave in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Bob Dylan on listening to Ice-T, Public Enemy and more in the 1980s.
Metallica: The $24.95 Book
Body Count 33 1/3
Fugazzi's steakhouse
The queen of my heart.
Gibby Haynes and me.
"One of the greatest influencers of all time, Raphael (1483-1520)..."
Kim's Video at the Alamo Drafthouse
33 1/3 bookshelves at Rough Trade, NYC.
33 1/3 books at Strand
Metallica: The $24.95 Book
Body Count (33 1/3) book
A Crenshaw High School pitcher/future Mets star.
Katherine Turman, Ben Apatoff, Ernie C
Text from Mom: "Do you know the band 311?"
Metallica: The $24.95 Book
The John Waters Restrooms, All Gender
Frank Zappa statute
Letting Ollie North have it in NME, 1992.
Text from an old acquaintance: "Let me know how the new Rob Zombie album is when you get it"
Metallica: The $24.95 Book
Robert Duvall.
Signed Ice-T photo at my desk.
$5 PBR at the Hank's Saloon movie
Scott Lucas of Local H rockin' a Dolly shirt, Shutterstock, 2021.
Fermented spliff roaches?
Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles.
The Wipers, looking surly.
Newly-acquired Robyn ticket for Brooklyn Paramount.
Kevin McCallister in his brother Buzz's room with an Ice-T poster.
33 1/3 shelves at the Strand Bookstore.
Metallica: The $24.95 Book
Pee-wee Herman, Rodney Dangerfield, David Lee Roth
@3313books.bsky.social
Neil Young speaking out on Ice-T and "Cop Killer in Musician magazine, 1993.
Rob Sheffield, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Appetite for Destruction
Norm Macdonald Halloween costume