Sunday, 25 March 2012
beach sloth talked about broz ii men here. hehe, thanx beachy.
if u have read broz ii men and u have a blog plz feel free to write a review. even if u don't like it.
i found out what the word 'pica' meant yesterday while doing this maternity module thing i'm doing. just reread laurens' ebook with new meaning to the title. haha i'm such a dumbass.
yesterday i went to a party with laurens and at one point i put laurens coat on and put his beers in my bag and said i was going to the toilet and went to the front door and waited for laurens to come to the front door and then we left.
i just recorded myself typing this then deleted the evidence.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Sunday, 18 March 2012
BROZ II MEN THE EBOOK!!!!!!
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Things that came in the post recently
Wikipedia-style Plot Summary of Armageddon (1998 film) by David Fishkind
What is it: self explanatory title on double-sided strip of card.
What I thought: think at first I was skeptical about how it'd work and manage to not just be a verbatim copy of the actual Wikipedia plot entry for Armageddon, but Fishkind 'pulls it out the bag', so to speak. Is that the phrase? Seems weird typing it. Parodying the style to describe an actual film is used to good effect. There's a good joke type thing at the end where the author remembers, after referring to it as a meteor up until this point that it might actually be an asteroid. I don't mind telling you that without SPOILER ALERT because this sucker is SOLD OUT!
http://www.americasfunniesthomevideos.no/
Cheque from musicmagpie.co.uk
What is it: ~£153 cheque you cash at the bank.
What I thought: who the fuck listens to CDs anymore?
Thursday, 8 March 2012
honestly, i just wanted to make a pdf, but i've been meaning to put it all into a word doc for sometime now anyway. it was written around the same time i wrote something else, in 2009. i had just started writing stories and i guess i wanted to have some variety to my output. so, i wrote this story about a 19 year old girl, told from her perspective and everything. i guess there's an authentic naivety to it. i like that phrase. especially in this context as it makes an excuse seem like a compliment.
i wrote a 3000 word version, which i showed to my then-girlfriend who said she wanted to read more. so i wrote more. i didn't know what to do with it so i published it as a blog. thanks to everyone that read it at the time. and by 'everyone' i mean red and dj. pretty sure it was just you guys.
people talk about their first attempts at something longer than a short story and i always feel like i want to read that. but they also always say they deleted it. maybe it's for the best. maybe what i am doing now is a mistake. it's true, i have doubts. i have doubts about people wanting to read 99 pages, short though they are, in a pdf document. but it seems inevitable i will always have doubts. about everything. all the time.
the only edits i made when making this was the last chapter - 25. i deleted it. the rest is there in it's original form. i couldn't bear to read all of it myself.
Mozart Plays the Violin - 99 page pdf
i wrote a 3000 word version, which i showed to my then-girlfriend who said she wanted to read more. so i wrote more. i didn't know what to do with it so i published it as a blog. thanks to everyone that read it at the time. and by 'everyone' i mean red and dj. pretty sure it was just you guys.
people talk about their first attempts at something longer than a short story and i always feel like i want to read that. but they also always say they deleted it. maybe it's for the best. maybe what i am doing now is a mistake. it's true, i have doubts. i have doubts about people wanting to read 99 pages, short though they are, in a pdf document. but it seems inevitable i will always have doubts. about everything. all the time.
the only edits i made when making this was the last chapter - 25. i deleted it. the rest is there in it's original form. i couldn't bear to read all of it myself.
Mozart Plays the Violin - 99 page pdf
Monday, 5 March 2012
Saturday, 3 March 2012
novels i've finished recently
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson
what is it: 180 page novel
what i thought: yeah, it was funny, accessible etc. i guess this is like the most famous metafictional novel maybe? it's v self-aware of itself as a novel, to the point where the main character is having conversations with the author about how the novel is progressing. they talk about novels in general. i'm gonna paraphrase a bit here:
'Who wants long novels anyway? Why spend all your time for a month reading a thousand-page novel when you can have a comparable aesthetic experience in the theatre or cinema? The writing of a long novel was relevant to a society which no longer exists. The novel should try simply to be Funny, Brutalist, and Short.'
feel like this novel achieves it's aims.
Everything's Fine by Socrates Adams
what is it: 188 page novel
what i thought: i think this novel exceeded my expectations. i'm a fan of socrates' writings, from his pangur ban party ebook and other stuff i've read online by him. this novel made me laugh out loud a lot. it reminded me of when i lived on my own and ate a lot of porridge. if you don't like this book you're a dick.
Friday, 2 March 2012
things i've been reading
'Cat' by Alice May Connolly
what is it: ~28 page A5 zine featuring some poems and short stories.
what i thought: this is one of the best zines i've read in a while. nice variety in content. i keep on picking it up and dipping in and out of it. one of my favourite poems is one about the Dalai Lama (and the Christchurch earthquakes (?)) near the middle. the second half of the zine kind of follows a format of v short poems on the left hand page and longer stuff on the right. one of the pages just says 'your topless is giving me an anxiety attack'. feel like i would like to read a 20-page "american short story"-type thing by alice and also a ~90 page poem collection. no pressure alice, just sayin.
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
what is it: ~200 page book on writing fiction.
what i thought: tbh i'm still very much in the middle of reading this atm. feel like i keep on having these revelations while reading this and have probably thought 'why didn't i read this three years ago?' about once every three pages. kinda wish i'd bought this instead of taking that creative writing class with all those middle-aged women where i didn't really learn anything and my tutor said my writing style was "like looking through a window without any curtains". anyway, i guess i'd recommend this book. maybe it depends on where you are as your 'development as a writer' idk. comment if you disagree. or don't. idc.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
an excellent life
laurens and i have written a collaborative effort of over 50 poems and short fictions. it will be released by picador in 2013.
we just signed on the dotted line.
sometimes i think about the meaningful relationships
i could have with the girls in ads
on mediafire and pirate bay
like, meaningful, plutonic. they seem relatable.
i will be reading at 'the old market' on 14th march (i think) and 1st april at the next any persan halp me.
more info on the latter closer to the time.
i hope you are all well.
we just signed on the dotted line.
sometimes i think about the meaningful relationships
i could have with the girls in ads
on mediafire and pirate bay
like, meaningful, plutonic. they seem relatable.
i will be reading at 'the old market' on 14th march (i think) and 1st april at the next any persan halp me.
more info on the latter closer to the time.
i hope you are all well.
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