I forgot to stop at Powells so this was kinda the only choice left to me from the PDX news stand. It has the word “pirate” in the title and right below it is the sentence: “Crichton’s ultimate adventure.” Ooh, that sounds great.
Well, seventy pages in I can tell you that it’s pretty goofy. It reads like a book for kids but with pummelings and daggery. This book also seems to have an abundance of wenching. Oh well, at least the swashbuckling is gonna commence any page now…
The Wolfmen are Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou, of Adam and the Ants, Onassid, Sinead O’Connor and tons more awesome music. Their second album, Married to the Eiffel Tower, mixed by Courtney Taylor Taylor (I know that guy), will be out in early 2011.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I’m in the South eagerly awaiting the big feast. All the kinfolk are sittin around watching FOX news. Ya know, I had nearly forgotten how to hate, be small or even get petty and mean about other people whom I don’t even know. But now thanks to only fifteen minutes in front of the TV, I have high blood pressure and am ready to torture and/or kill complete strangers.
Wow, I feel so dark and creepy right now, like my insides have been defiled. I need to lay down in a field of daisies.
Cryin’ out loud. Now I know where psychos, rapists, and serial killers go to get jacked up for visiting some evil upon the good and the innocent.
Here is a movie review: Addams Family Values: It’s not a perfect movie, but on Thanksgiving Day it sure did cure the evil sickness that was put in me by accidentally watching 15 minutes of FOX News.
Courtney’s collaboration with The Wolfmen yields another single with the release of “Marilyn Monroe (Wam Bam JFK)” next Monday, November 29th. I’ll have the links for you to buy next Monday. What, you think I have all the answers right this minute?
Our wonderful day at the Moog factory. Naturally they have an all-Moog studio there. We jammed for about an hour and they recorded and filmed some of it. We also did an all-Moog per-version of “Green” which will heretofor be known as “Greener Than Green.” I think it might be awesome. We’ll see.
Now for the gig: well…speechless. Okay, no. Actually a religious experience for a lot of people. Including us. Besides being in love with this town, we are deeply in true love with this venue, The Orange Peel.
Asheville. Wow. I think I need to buy this guitar…. before someone does who takes it a little too seriously.
That circuit board sitting on the desk is Zia’s keyboard. Really. We’re at Moog HQ and they’re tricking out its little guts for her.
This band Hopewell is amazing. Giant two-drummer thing going on with art school vaguely jonestowny other thing. They’re very Janes Addiction-y too. Would make the most badass movie soundtrack ever.
Well now if you’re a writer who aspires to be clever I can tell you firsthand that “The Gunseller” will most likely make you want to quit. It did in my case.
This guy’s control over his effusive cleverness is uncommon to say the least. I laugh out loud around twice a page. And I don’t mean the nauseating little abbreviation that people put next to the equally nauseating sideways smiley face when they’ve texted you something that they feel is inappropriate, completely not-funny or both. I actually mean that I actually laugh out loud.
Incidentally, the plot just happens to rock as hard as a Ludlum novel (which of course he wryly alludes to early on) and not once do you feel like you’re reading a “first novel”. If you’ve read “Don’t Point That Thing at Me” and dug it, this is quite similar and I feel that it’s just as good.
“Soon I Will Be Invincible” has a great first couple pages but quickly becomes quite the opposite. This book makes me want to write the book that the cover makes me wish that he wrote. The story is basically a comic book story very similar to X-Men but told from the point of view of one of the supervillains and includes his entire life story. This isn’t a novel idea in the world of graphic novels but it apparently is novel in the world of novel novels.
The guy is a good writer but I can’t help thinking that his editor could or should have made this book a more consistently enjoyable experience for me but just working a little bit harder. I struggled through some Mojave Desert dryness and gave up for a while. I’ll letcha know if it gets any better when I try it again.
Okay then, Minneapolis. That beer is called Surly Darkness and it’s made about three miles from the club we just played. Had a great show too.
Wisconsin……cheeses christ!
The cheese store is called Fromagination and wow is it spectacular. I’m having a bowl of red pepper/tomato soup into which I have had them grate some St Pauline capri.
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