#50 - Mikel Jollett on HOLLYWOOD PARK

The Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett chats with Trey Elling about HOLLYWOOD PARK: A MEMOIR, including:

• Escaping a cult he'd spent the first five years of his life in (01:03).
• Using different literary voices from childhood to adulthood (08:48).
• An introduction to his dad (11:21).
• The music that resonated with him as a kid (30:30).
• A chat with dad at Hollywood Park that helped a teenaged Mikel get it together (40:17).
• Receiving invaluable advice from The Cure's Robert Smith about "normal" (49:09).
• The last of many life-changing conversations between father and son (52:43).

And at the end of the interview, we play the title track off of the corresponding album to the book, also called HOLLYWOOD PARK.