What's on Moss Perricone's Shelf?

Moss Perricone is a Brooklyn-based television writer, actor, and stand-up comedian. A co-producer and executive story editor for HBO Max’s Velma and The Other Two, Moss is here to dish about all the items currently on his shelf.

[On the fragrance, Jeux de peau by Serge Lutens]

Smells like bread and honey. Their flagship store in Paris is the most beautiful store of anything in the world. It's so gorgeous. Check it out.

[On the album Have One on Me by Joanna Newsom]

I think it's the best album ever made. It's so good. To be working and then to have “Go Long” play, I’m like, well I gotta spend eight minutes just listening to this.

[On the book Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini]

This is the Codex Seraphinianus. It's a fake encyclopedia written by this Italian architect in the 1980s. It's written in a made-up language, and it's supposed to recreate being a child not being able to read and picking up an encyclopedia. It is very consistent, like there is a feeling of internal logic. So, you always feel like you're on the cusp of understanding. I love that. It's so fun. To come home drunk and just flip through this thing is like the most fun thing ever.

[On A Magazine Curated by Yohji Yamamoto]

This is a magazine called A Magazine Curated By, and basically every issue they pick a different fashion house or designer to take over the magazine and curate it. This one is really good. It’s this guy Yoshi Yamamoto, and it’s filled with interviews and writing and really good photography. They’re hard to find, but if you're ever in London there's a place called Idea Limited and if you message them on Instagram, they'll let you come in and spend the day there. And they'll make you tea and it's just really the best thing ever. You should totally do it.

[On his lamp by Oscar Picallo]

This is a lamp by Oscar Picallo he is an Italian lamp maker. He makes these like squiggly lamps and he's super young too-I think he must be like 25 or something. When I was in college, I emailed him asking if I could buy him a drink and he never responded.

[On the book The Wilder Shores of Gastronomy: Twenty Years of Food Writing by Alan Davidson]

It's an anthology of all the best cooking writing from this old cooking magazine called PPC. There's some crazy stuff in here. I just read a really good piece about making rattlesnake soup. And it's crazy. The way they do it is they catch a bunch of rattlesnakes and then they put them in a room and turn down the temperature. And when you turn down the temperature, all the snakes fall asleep. Hundreds of snakes. And then somebody just comes in and cuts all their heads off. It's so interesting. They talk about where they get their snakes from and it's this company called Dale's Exotic Meats. So I looked it up because I wanted to buy something from him, and I forgot the magazine (it’s so old) but he got in so much trouble in the 80s. Like you can't sell lion, and that's what he's doing.

[On the film Talk to Her]

I just re-watched this movie called Talk to Her. It’s this Al Moldavar movie from 2002. I really think it's the best movie ever made. It's so good. This is one where it's two men who fall in love with women in comas. So it's fun to read the Letterboxd reviews because it'll be a bunch of five star reviews and then one review that's like “this is the most heinous thing I've ever seen. Why would somebody do this?” But I think it's incredible. I think it's so good.

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