'The Killer In Me'
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.
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Credit goes to JZ too, who took a red pencil to the entire manuscript. Not making any textual changes, but wrangling the errant "its/it's" and wacky comma abuse. That was before I had to go edit for content and rewrite the run-on sentences and cut for length while maintaining style and meaning.
She did note that the Buffistas, as a group, produced remarkably clean prose.
She did note that the Buffistas, as a group, produced remarkably clean prose.
I think this is the One True Common Trait (besides kinda liking Buffy) that all Buffistas might share.
Go Hec! Go contributors and Go JZ! That's great feedback.
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Da Vinci Code, watch out: we're going straight to the top! (I know there's no money, but we'll get some groupies, right?)
Willie Nelson's cover of "September Song" popped up on my player right before I got Kim's email & it reminded me of Lou's great cover on Hal Willner's Kurt Weill tribute Lost in the Stars (much better than his cover of the same song on Willner's second Weill tribute, September Songs). So of course I started wondering if George Russell recorded it, too, giving me the "Lost in the Grooves" hat trick, but alas I found no evidence of any Weill in his discography. I doubt that there's more than a couple degrees of separation, though. (His buddies Miles & Gil Evans did a killer version of "My Ship" on Miles Ahead that was perhaps their finest collaboration.)
(I know there's no money, but we'll get some groupies, right?)
Oh sure, you know Greil pulls the birds.
I love Lost in the Stars - probably my favorite of the Willner projects. Though I did like the sheer wackiness of Mingus/Partch, and listen to the Nino Rota a lot too. Stay Awake has lots of good stuff too, particularly Tom Waits and The Replacements and Los Lobos. Plus, Ken Nordine!
I think this is the One True Common Trait (besides kinda liking Buffy) that all Buffistas might share.
I am the exception to the rule. I have very intuitive grammar...and I happen to be queen of the comma splice.
I'm with Sue.
Except that I'm not sure what a comma splice is.
Right on - the publisher loves the cover sketch by the artist we picked to do the interior illustrations. As Deb will attest - you don't usually get much input on the cover.
Book is tentatively scheduled for November. Our artist, Tom Neely, will be busting his hump to make a full color cover for the April 10th catalog. Once it's in the catalog, it goes up on Amazon. Then it feels real.
I'm very excited to read it, Hec!
I am the exception to the rule.
I'm with Sue.
And Sue and sumi prove once again that the One True Common Trait amongst Buffistas is that they all share no common traits (again, cept that Buffy show maybe).
Except that I'm not sure what a comma splice is.
A comma splice is two main clauses linked by a comma. (ex: The wind was cold, they decided not to walk.) You can usually fix them by throwing a conjunction after the comma or just making them two sentences. I know you didn't ask. But I haven't edited anything in days and I was feeling some grammar withdrawal.
ION - did all emusic users know that once you've downloaded something you can download it again and again and it doesn't count against your monthly total? Very handy considering how much stuff I have lost off my hard drive since I opened my account.
downloading entire belle and sebastian catalog again right now...