I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound
A Memoir

Unless I missed it, Mike Doughty never explains specifically what "I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound" means or is referring to, but I think it's inferred plainly by the recurring phrase "The world was absolutely new" which he sets up in a brief anecdote about John Cage in the chapter "Absolutely New.......more

Mike Doughty can be a real *&%#. But he is honest and occasionally hilarious about his penchant for being a *&%#. In the intro to this book, he admits that it was thrown together half-heartedly and last minute. And you can certainly tell at points. But... it just works. I am a sucker for memoirs in fl......more

If you read this as a fan of Mike Doughy's/Soul Coughing's songs, don't expect a traditional rock-star memoir detailing the ins and outs of that crazy life. What Doughty has compiled here is a collection of memory fragments and anecdotes, often fuzzy, which bounce around between years and have littl......more

Memory isn't linear. BS Johnson exploited this in the most creative way in "The Unfortunates" where all the chapters were individually stapled and thrown in a box intended to be read in any order. Doughty doesn't go quite that far but his second memoir is a collection of stories (some as short as a......more

I loved this collection of anecdotes and vignettes about the author's life, from growing up to being in Soul Coughing to touring as a solo musician. But I get the impression we wouldn't get along, and sometimes he uses big words when a regular one would suffice. Also, I feel like you could open this......more