“The book is called ‘Porcelain’ for three reasons,” Moby said. That’s precisely where he came up with “Porcelain” - a book title with multiple meanings. “Halfway through the book, I go to the other extreme of being this crazy, dysfunctional drunk.” Soon, his lifestyle shifted entirely in the bohemian, hedonistic direction. … At night I would be DJing at raves and sex clubs, but then during the day I’d be teaching Bible studies.” “For the first half of the book, I’m this sober Christian in degenerate, crack-addled, gang-violent New York. “I was part of the rave scene and club scene, but I was also a sober Christian,” Moby said. The theme of the book plays upon a unique moral juxtaposition. And somehow the collective response of anyone in their twenties living south of Fourteenth Street was to ignore the despair and the fear and to go dancing until five a.m.” Every night people were dying on the streets and New York City was literally setting itself on fire: landlords had learned that it was cheaper to burn down empty tenements than to pay taxes on them. The drugs were sold by roommates of the people making clothes and records. The clothes were made by friends of the people making records. When both of these goals came true, Moby had an eye-opening experience:īOOK EXCERPT: “The record stores were owned by the people who made and played the records. I didn’t have running water, I didn’t have a bathroom and all I wanted in life was to get a record deal and to be able to DJ in New York.” In 1989, I was living in an abandoned factory and I was making $3,000 a year. … were on food stamps and welfare, so it was really odd being dirt poor in what is arguably one of the wealthiest places in the world.”Īfter these formative years, we reach the time explored most heavily in the book, Moby’s young adulthood as he left his humble roots and dove headfirst into New York’s wild music scene. I was born in Harlem, then at some point in childhood, my mom moved us back to Darien, Connecticut … one of the most affluent places on the planet. “I was the only child of a single parent. “Socioeconomically, I had a very strange childhood,” he said. Growing up in Harlem then Connecticut, Moby’s shifting environment helped inform his worldview.
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