Check out the very cool cover for Michael Chabon's Maps and Legends.
Or check it out IN ACTION with soundtrack provided by my band here:
Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.
Willow ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
lisah - Apr 18, 2008 10:09:20 am PDT #5516 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
sumi - Apr 18, 2008 10:11:24 am PDT #5517 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
It's a book AND a toy.
lisah - Apr 18, 2008 10:12:21 am PDT #5518 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
It's a book AND a toy.
And an earworm giver!
amych - Apr 18, 2008 10:21:54 am PDT #5519 of 28344
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's also an awesome book! On the inside, I mean.
DavidS - Apr 18, 2008 6:44:39 pm PDT #5520 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Give 'em time, man. There's a certain degree of 33 1/3 oversaturation at this point.
That's definitely true. I should go get some publicity tips from Kim; she's a genius at that stuff.
sumi - Apr 18, 2008 6:54:48 pm PDT #5521 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, it's pretty overwhelming how many books there are in the series.
Atropa - Apr 18, 2008 7:24:55 pm PDT #5522 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hec, have you contacted the folks at Sepiachord? [link] I know I mentioned the book to my friend who runs the site, but it was during a big event, so he might have forgotten.
DavidS - Apr 18, 2008 8:00:48 pm PDT #5523 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, it's pretty overwhelming how many books there are in the series.
Here's an insider tip: Start with my book, and then go to Corwood's.
Other ones I particularly like:
Neutral Milk Hotel by Kim Cooper (really a very moving book for anybody that ever liked any kind of indie rock)
Low - Bowie: really well researched and written.
Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice: a perfect little novella about teenagers discovering the Smiths in the 80s.
Dusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes: First book in the series. Kind of quirky but I referred back to this one more than any other while writing my book. Very free ranging and smart, plus interviews with Jerry Wexler.
Ones that look really good:
Led Zeppelin - Erik Davis: He's my neighbor and he's really cool and he writes for Arthur and he gets into all that mystical Zep stuff.
Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices - He interviewed all the major contributors.
Village Green - Kinks: Their #2 seller. Great mix of inside stuff and analysis for Kinks fans.
DavidS - Apr 18, 2008 8:01:25 pm PDT #5524 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, have you contacted the folks at Sepiachord?
I haven't, but if you think they're pimpworthy I will.
Atropa - Apr 18, 2008 8:03:40 pm PDT #5525 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I haven't, but if you think they're pimpworthy I will.
Yes, very much so. They've been introducing a lot of people to all sorts of new music, and I know that bunches of people in the steampunk subculture/genre check Sepiachord on a regular basis.