November 23, 2006
Where have I been?
Around, I guess. But not blogging. For shame!
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I read a novel the other day. It doesn’t happen often. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Easily one of the most creative, inventive, fast-paced and fun novels I have ever read, while still subtly being about stuff. Awesome. (Probably essential for anyone who wants to get where cyberpunk came from, too.)
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Been doing a bit as a film extra lately. Sitting around in bars, going through and eating garbage, and, unexpectedly, my first on-screen kiss.
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Liking writing, and making music, at the moment. Ideas aplenty.
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The middle east descends slightly futher into chaos. Fisk on Lebanon spinning into civil war, and Juan Cole on everything in Iraq and the middle east, if you can handle knowing too much.
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Grant Morrison’s Seaguy is pretty good evidence that he’s still taking lots of drugs and writing whatever comes into his head. Fun.
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And just for some “what the hey?”, A man who was stopped for a routine traffic violation somehow managed to shoot himself in the back of the head while handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser, cops said.
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I mean to be available for extra-ing, but am finding myself stupid busy. Such is life, I suppose.
Lebanon is upsetting me. I visited not long after the “Cedar Revolution” and remember the positive atmosphere fondly. Fucking Syria. And fucking Moscow, too, while I’m at it.
Reading Seaguy as it came out was wonderful. Having to wait a whole month between issues, longer actually because it was late, was great to let the love grow. I love that comic so hard it pokes me in the eye.