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Five for the road.
Apr. 13th, 2009 01:04 am1) I went to the AGO today for the first time in...fifteen years? While we did a lot of cracking wise about what is Art and what is Not Art, I realized very starkly how it feels to walk into the short fiction scene without having done the requisite background reading. Art of any kind is a conversation. It's hard to find a good line to get in on, especially when you're seeing snippets and excerpts only.
2) I finally looked up the lyrics to The Slip tonight. It is...a small brilliance of an album. Also, people on lyrics sites are extremely literal readers and think everything has to do with sex and drugs and biographical interpretation, but that's why they won't get a story out of this and I will.
3) When I am rich and famous (or just rich) the first thing I will get is a bathtub that is both long enough and deep enough. Other tall people will know exactly what I mean here.
4) I plan to have no comment on whatever's going down at Amazon until I am in possession of more facts. Not conjecture, not theory, not pattern-matching, not "well so-and-so said they said", but facts. It's only so damn easy to troll the internet because it jumps every time a stick's waved its way, you know. Keep your shoes on, folks.
5) I am actively revising Above again. Yes, I would rather put out my own eyes (with a grapefruit spoon!) than do so. I'm losing that...sense of coherence of the text. But I had a dream two nights ago where [Redacted], Agent of Man's Desiring, sent me a letter at work asking to see the full manuscript, because I'd been talking about it so much and she was interested. And I was so excited I couldn't get a thing done.
I want this. I haven't felt like I want this lately because I have, honestly, been too tired and stressed out to give much of a crap about anything. But I want this, and maybe I needed to be reminded of that.
So I will just have to make that work, won't I?
2) I finally looked up the lyrics to The Slip tonight. It is...a small brilliance of an album. Also, people on lyrics sites are extremely literal readers and think everything has to do with sex and drugs and biographical interpretation, but that's why they won't get a story out of this and I will.
3) When I am rich and famous (or just rich) the first thing I will get is a bathtub that is both long enough and deep enough. Other tall people will know exactly what I mean here.
4) I plan to have no comment on whatever's going down at Amazon until I am in possession of more facts. Not conjecture, not theory, not pattern-matching, not "well so-and-so said they said", but facts. It's only so damn easy to troll the internet because it jumps every time a stick's waved its way, you know. Keep your shoes on, folks.
5) I am actively revising Above again. Yes, I would rather put out my own eyes (with a grapefruit spoon!) than do so. I'm losing that...sense of coherence of the text. But I had a dream two nights ago where [Redacted], Agent of Man's Desiring, sent me a letter at work asking to see the full manuscript, because I'd been talking about it so much and she was interested. And I was so excited I couldn't get a thing done.
I want this. I haven't felt like I want this lately because I have, honestly, been too tired and stressed out to give much of a crap about anything. But I want this, and maybe I needed to be reminded of that.
So I will just have to make that work, won't I?
