Lamplight Drivel

I heard Peter Wolf discussing his 2025 memoir Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses on Marc Maron's podcast.  The longtime vocalist/front man of the J. Geils Band seemed to have an almost  FORREST GUMP like life experience, serendipitous encounters with many celebrities and those destined to be.  At age ten, he sat next to Marilyn Monroe in a movie theater.  In college, he became roommates with an art student named David Lynch.  As Wolf states, he did not want to pen a kiss and tell autobiography.  Rather, a collection of essays that can be read in any order.  Vignettes about his connections to many iconic musicians, actors, writers, and other notables.   I ordered the book from Amazon that day. Peter Wolf is a natural storyteller.  He said as much to Maron.  How he held court at many a party, relaying highly entertaining recollections of brushes with greatness, or at least with Interesting People....