Liner Notes

"Poetry. Part lyric essay, part annotated checklist, Andy Mister's LINER NOTES is a meditation on alienation and pop culture, a memoir about forgetting and trying not to forget. Beginning with the Beach Boy's unfinished masterpiece Smile, Mister describes a world populated by ghosts adrift on a sea of drug use, boredom and popular entertainment. In unadorned prose, Mister traces his relationship to the obsessive collection of ephemera and the coterminous feelings of isolation and loss. Like an iPod on shuffle, details of constantly changing urban landscapes mix with song lyrics, and with…