Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


JZ - Nov 09, 2007 1:10:36 pm PST #6750 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Interrupting the weird murder talk to say:

The Hecubook officially has a cover!


Jon B. - Nov 09, 2007 1:22:35 pm PST #6751 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Awww, the entire Zmayhem clan is listed on the back!


Hayden - Nov 09, 2007 4:01:16 pm PST #6752 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Excellent!

I wrote the ending to my draft today that feels like the right one, and starting going through it again from the beginning. I think I'm a week at most out from sending it to Continuum.


erikaj - Nov 09, 2007 4:07:49 pm PST #6753 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

You go, bunk. We're still heng mai when you're famous, right? Hec, congratulations. (I believe that the Waits "Down in The Hole" was the last music beloved Wire producer Robert Colesberry heard on the planet.)


chrismg - Nov 09, 2007 8:29:45 pm PST #6754 of 10003
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Hey, guys, a couple questions about "Hallelujah". I wasn't too impressed with the Jeff Buckley or k.d.lang versions, and I'm not sure I want to buy a whole alblum for the Rufus Wainwright. Does anyone have a version you think is clearly superior. Also, I'd swear I've heard a version with an extra line that goes:

I couldn't tell you which it was, the holy or the broken Hallelujah.

Am I crazy, or just from a parallel universe?

Oh, are there any other Shoji Meguro fans here?


Hayden - Nov 09, 2007 10:55:44 pm PST #6755 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Chris: Leonard Cohen.

Erika: When I'm the worst-selling 33 1/3 author ever, you can always tell folks that you knew me back when I had some promise.


Sue - Nov 10, 2007 3:55:38 am PST #6756 of 10003
hip deep in pie

I couldn't tell you which it was, the holy or the broken Hallelujah.

I'm sure I read an article a few years back that talked about all the different versions of the song and how the different artists had monkeyed with the lyrics.

I'm a fan of the John Cale version.

I have to say, there needs to be a moratorium on using that song during montages on TV shows. I wonder if we can insert that into negotiations in the writers strike?


Jon B. - Nov 10, 2007 5:07:39 am PST #6757 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Lenny Cohen or John Cale for me as well.


sumi - Nov 10, 2007 7:58:29 am PST #6758 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Wasn't there a link to the various Hallelujah versions over in the comedy thread? Something to do with Ugly Betty?


erikaj - Nov 10, 2007 9:00:31 am PST #6759 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

You got it, bunk.