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snurriI can't even process this shit anymore.
On top of the creeping fascism, the Twins got swept by the Tigers, thereby all but killing any post-season hopes. I guess the margin of hope is what's making me take the one as hard as the other.
Have begun typing in the legal-pad scribbled 1st draft of the succession novel (AKA Five Kingdoms Fall AKA The Order of the Pelican AKA I Suck At Titles). It does not suck as badly as I had feared, which is nice.
I finished a YA book which made me cranky and started The Boys On the Bus, which is kind of awesome in a retro, yeah-politics-and-journalism-were-fucked-thirty-years-ago-too kind of way. I wish I had a scanner so I could post the cover of my (used) copy, since I can't find it on the 'net. It's got a similar pop-art sensibility to some of those trashy '60's novels Paul DiFillipo talks about over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
theinferior4, and it's far superior to the Ralph Steadman cover they've got on the more recent printing. Sorry, but it's true.
That's probably it until I read Book Seven--going to be avoiding potential spoilers, so I probably won't be around for the next 48 hours or so. If you want some actual content, check out this Secret City excerpt I posted earlier in the week.
On top of the creeping fascism, the Twins got swept by the Tigers, thereby all but killing any post-season hopes. I guess the margin of hope is what's making me take the one as hard as the other.
Have begun typing in the legal-pad scribbled 1st draft of the succession novel (AKA Five Kingdoms Fall AKA The Order of the Pelican AKA I Suck At Titles). It does not suck as badly as I had feared, which is nice.
I finished a YA book which made me cranky and started The Boys On the Bus, which is kind of awesome in a retro, yeah-politics-and-journalism-were-fucked-thirty-years-ago-too kind of way. I wish I had a scanner so I could post the cover of my (used) copy, since I can't find it on the 'net. It's got a similar pop-art sensibility to some of those trashy '60's novels Paul DiFillipo talks about over at
theinferior4, and it's far superior to the Ralph Steadman cover they've got on the more recent printing. Sorry, but it's true.That's probably it until I read Book Seven--going to be avoiding potential spoilers, so I probably won't be around for the next 48 hours or so. If you want some actual content, check out this Secret City excerpt I posted earlier in the week.
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Date: 2007-07-21 03:41 am (UTC)But you're also a music guy, so allow me to recommend a book to take your mind of it all: Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds.
http://www.amazon.com/Rip-Up-Start-Again-1978-1984/dp/0143036726/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9481092-3225748?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184988978&sr=1-1
Fascinating stuff about. Especially the tales of woe and intrigue at each of the indendent studios and labels. Manchester in particular had some crazy stuff going on.
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Date: 2007-07-21 04:47 am (UTC)Yeah, the Twins. They won tonight, so Yay! But if they don't pull off a miracle this year, what will happen next year is anyone's guess, with Hunter and Santana looking for new contracts . . .
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Date: 2007-07-21 05:11 am (UTC)Anyway...it's a good read. I loved the chapters on Cleveland and Akron cause I grew up in the 'burbs of Cleveland. I thought I knew All About Devo, e.g., but I learned some stuff from this book.
I also couldn't help see all these parallels to indy presses over the years in our little genre...the ones who are just in it for a buck and to get Big, next to the ones for whom the Art is Political, next to the Party Boys, and so on.
But, like, you can ignore that part if you want.
I haven't read Please Kill Me, but I'll look for it next.
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Date: 2007-07-22 04:02 pm (UTC)