"this is what you get" - girl falls in love with rock star who barely notices her. (status: complete - an agent is looking at this)
"everything is perfect" - girl punk rocker and guy heavy metaller fall in love and make strange and new music. also, she unearths deep secrets from her family's past. (status: first draft complete, it is resting so i can look at it again with new eyes)
"not named yet" - girl singer-songwriter with difficult family past yet upbeat fortitude meets guy singer-songwriter with death obsession. (status: about 50 pages, a little of each story, new and just developing)
one day, maybe i'll consider novels without rock music in them. i guess this all has to get out of my system. the best part of this is picking the soundtrack to each scene as i write. i discovered that in 1996 there was a secret radiohead show at the troubadour. the set list is online, and so i created a playlist from it, and was able to play that over and over as i wrote a scene of my heroine attending this secret show and discovering real music finally (she moves from the spice girls to radiohead in the course of one summer).
on itunes right now: "how to disappear completely" so fucking beautiful ..... "i'm not here, this isn't happening."
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
always read a good book
and this is one i particularly enjoyed.
radiohead. welcome to the machine. ok computer and the death of the classic album. by tim footman.
i finished it recently. i think i will read it again.
Monday, April 16, 2007
web withdrawal
oh wow! i just went 4 days without internet access at my house. i had actual withdrawal symptoms, like i was kicking coffee or heroin. well, coffee anyway. it's a long story - suffice it to say i thought i would change phone services for a better deal, only to find that the new and old phone service companies took their sweet time about making the change, but only AFTER disconnecting my phone line.
I discovered that i "can" pay $6 an hour at starbucks for internet access (to verizon) or $24 an hour at kinko's! I could not find free wi-fi. you know why? because i didn't have internet access to look for it!! suddenly, i found out how much i use internet for, beyond blogging, buying music and checking on the radiohead messageboard.
i also worried, during my 4 days, that radiohead would not only announce the release of LP7, but also tour dates, and sell tickets and be all sold out before i could even get online. i'm paranoid. a paranoid humanoid.
phew. for a minute there, i lost myself. i'm okay now. internet is up and running, radiohead didn't make any announcements (and just when will they??) and i managed to keep my email under control with a couple of trips to starbucks ($12 worth of email).
on itunes right now: Trickster. one of my all-time favorite radiohead songs cuz i love coyotes and ravens, and coyotes and ravens are tricksters and there you go.
I discovered that i "can" pay $6 an hour at starbucks for internet access (to verizon) or $24 an hour at kinko's! I could not find free wi-fi. you know why? because i didn't have internet access to look for it!! suddenly, i found out how much i use internet for, beyond blogging, buying music and checking on the radiohead messageboard.
i also worried, during my 4 days, that radiohead would not only announce the release of LP7, but also tour dates, and sell tickets and be all sold out before i could even get online. i'm paranoid. a paranoid humanoid.
phew. for a minute there, i lost myself. i'm okay now. internet is up and running, radiohead didn't make any announcements (and just when will they??) and i managed to keep my email under control with a couple of trips to starbucks ($12 worth of email).
on itunes right now: Trickster. one of my all-time favorite radiohead songs cuz i love coyotes and ravens, and coyotes and ravens are tricksters and there you go.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
so i had this idea.....
people write all kinds of things. books, editorials, funny articles. i often feel like i have nothing to write about (except fiction - i can make stuff up just like that!), because i just look at the internet all day.
then i thought, i could write an article about all the radiohead fans on the internet who are so anxiously awaiting the new album. a lot of these fans are quite funny. sarcastic. emotional. and interesting. so could i make an article out of this? i could at least try.
on itunes right now: ooops! not radiohead! it's muse with "starlight."
planning the summer -- got tickets to lollapalooza in chicago - three days of great music! and then japan in late august... august will be a travelin' month.
then i thought, i could write an article about all the radiohead fans on the internet who are so anxiously awaiting the new album. a lot of these fans are quite funny. sarcastic. emotional. and interesting. so could i make an article out of this? i could at least try.
on itunes right now: ooops! not radiohead! it's muse with "starlight."
planning the summer -- got tickets to lollapalooza in chicago - three days of great music! and then japan in late august... august will be a travelin' month.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
the boringest post of all time.
hmmm, wow. missed my birthday and the first days of april and everything! and for no good reason. i'm being lazy. i'm always lazy in the spring. energetic in the fall. sigh.
going to see MUSE tonight. i hear they are really really great in concert, but i don't know that much about them or that many of their songs, so .....
why am i here today? i should be writing. i have so many good ideas. but no spirit to actually do them. so this is a dull post, a nothing post. don't read it. it will numb your brain.
going to see MUSE tonight. i hear they are really really great in concert, but i don't know that much about them or that many of their songs, so .....
why am i here today? i should be writing. i have so many good ideas. but no spirit to actually do them. so this is a dull post, a nothing post. don't read it. it will numb your brain.
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