Excerpted from Roy Trakin’s column, Trakin Care of Business, in HITS Daily Double (www.hitsdailydouble.com), Thursday January 25, 2007: TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: Last King of Scotland, Extras, 24, Harvey Kubernik 4. Harvey Kubernik, Hollywood Shack Job (University of New Mexico Press): The indefatigable Kubernik is an L.A. factotum, a Fairfax High alum and one-time A&R exec for MCA Records, where he shepherded Tom Petty’s first album through the system, an invaluable resource for all things Angeleno. As the West Coast correspondent for Melody Maker at the same time I served a similar role in N.Y., Kubernik was the first person I befriended when I made the cross-country journey more than 20 years ago, and he welcomed this Noo Yawk refugee with open arms. His latest tome is the successor to This Is Rebel Music, offering, as only Harvey can, a comprehensive overview of the ongoing, symbiotic relationship between rock and the movies, Hollywood style. In typical Kubernik fashion, the book is separated into extensive Q&As with a variety of idiosyncratic, unsung heroes (D.A. Pennebaker, Andrew Loog Oldham, Melvin van Peebles, Kim Fowley, Stephen Wooley and Harry E. Northup) as well as some that boast more name recognition (Robbie Robertson, Steven Van Zandt and Chris Columbus, Ice Cube, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jim Jarmusch and Baz Luhrmann). Of course, I’m not entirely objective, since there’s a chapter devoted to me, but reading Kubernik’s flights of free association memories is like sitting on a bar stool listening to someone who was there. Sure, they could be edited, but when he gets up a good head of steam, HK’s lyrical flow rivals that of the finest rappers. Only he could segue from The Association to the Monkees to Laura Nyro to Sammy Davis Jr. to Timi Yuro to Bob Dylan to Pinky Lee, Pee Wee Reese and Doodles Weaver, and that's just in the acknowledgments. The man's a fount of west coast pop culture knowledge and he tosses it back at us with all due respect...and love. Roy Trakin has been Sr. Editor of "HITS" magazine for many years. He is a major media player in the industry, and - along with Bud Scoppa - has a music blog/newsletter/website that is funded by Sony, called www.musicsnobs.com. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "Media Whores," on KLSX 97.1 L.A. (www.971freefm.com), with David Adelson, 5-7 p.m. (PT) / 8-10 p.m. (ET), available as a live stream.