Hmm, it still sounds relatively interesting, even if it's not not super-charged, high-energy, jet-setting.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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Steph L. - Mar 07, 2003 7:16:04 pm PST #778 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 7:19:57 pm PST #779 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Well, it isn't boring (the writing and illness parts are rather, um, all consuming), but I have to say, everything since the fall of democracy seems to have happened in extremes. No grey zones at chez Grabien.
Speaking of which, I managed to write a couple of pages in the third book of the series I'm working on, while we were posting. I was feeling guilty because I'd spent so much time on Amanda this week - Needfire is now 22 pages and will likely top 12 or 13K words when done.
And I wish to hell my publisher would get back to me. I really have reached the "don't open your morning email without first chanting a mantra for Publisher Love" stage.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 8:46:31 pm PST #780 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
(I've read The Volcano Lover & In America, which was, what, published in 2001?)
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 8:50:21 pm PST #781 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Don't know, Rebecca - I do recall it as quite recent.
Ms. Havisham - Mar 07, 2003 10:08:24 pm PST #782 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Curiously, in the original script he says Thomas Pynchon's novels are pretentious crap, which is a much less defensible position.
I suppose Bret Easton Ellis doesn't pre-date the movie? Damn. Because he would be perfect.
bwahahaha... Ellis graduated from Bennington just a few years before I got there, and the place was all abuzz about him. So I picked up American Psycho.
Boy was that a waste of my time. Maybe it's just as well I didn't get into any writing courses there...
DavidS - Mar 08, 2003 5:09:43 am PST #783 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Crash Davis is exactly the kind of man to keep a tattered copy of "Gravity's Rainbow" in his locker.
Great call, Deb. Love Rock and Roll Circus. Marianne looks like a pretty petal there (hard knowing she's on the verge of a heroin addiction that's about to eat fifteen years of her life).
Of course, The Who totally steal that show. At the height of their powers, fucking around and absolutely certain that they're the best rock and roll band on earth. And they're right.
amych - Mar 08, 2003 8:03:56 am PST #784 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
t looks at backlog of natter messages
t looks at Bull Durham DVD
t looks at dishes in the sink
t realizes that one of these things will not happen today
deborah grabien - Mar 08, 2003 10:29:20 am PST #785 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2003 11:47:42 am PST #786 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Crash Davis is exactly the kind of man to keep a tattered copy of "Gravity's Rainbow" in his locker.
After I read this conversation, I read a new Spider-Man comic I picked up yesterday. In it, Peter Parker (Spider-Man, for those who might not know) was going through a box of things that belonged to his dead father, who was a big science genius. Among the papers and journals was a copy of "Gravity's Rainbow." I did a big double-take.
deborah grabien - Mar 08, 2003 11:48:53 am PST #787 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
heh. How cool is that?
Question, though: I can't do the timing on that in my head. If Spiderman premiered in 1962, and "GR" came out sometime in the early seventies (I remember there was a huge fuss because it won the Pulitzer and the wankers on the committee overturned the judge's decision because they couldn't understand a word of it, and there was no Pulitzer for literature that year) - well, wait. Timing? When did his father die?