I make notes on second draft while a rat terrier shakes uncontrollably in my lap, and the sky rumbles above.
I don’t know what traumatized her so, but man, poor girl.
We love you, Sofi. Sorry about the weather.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 1349 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Pebble In The Sky, Isaac Asimov
Comics: WildCats Adventures 3-4, WildC.A.T.S. 17, Grifter: One Shot 1
Music: First Ditch Effort, NOFXIt’s been a while since I watched this. I forgot how uncomfortably disturbing it was; the perfect metaphorical encapsulation of America’s insanity, then and now.
Everything sick and venal about America, the glorification of guns and violence, of racism and corruption.
It is America, in its most unsettled base.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 740 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Call For The Dead, John Le Carre
Comics: WildCats Adventures 1-2, WildC.A.T.S. 15-16
Music: Firestarter, The ProdigyI just wish I knew what they were.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 2259 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Call For The Dead, John Le Carre
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. 11-14
Music: FireCracker Lounge, SublimeI wish, but I don’t feel like I could ever open up to a therapist.
I like the show though.
Harrison Ford is one of my spirit animals (we share a birthday… Patrick Stewart as well, which is equally cool).
(Also Julius Caesar and Cheech, so you know, pretty good crew.)
Target: 1500 words
Written: 1421 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Call For The Dead, John Le Carre
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. 7-10
Music: Fire Water Burn, Bloodhound GangMy horoscope told me I might have difficulty with a woman in my life today.
Apparently, that was a typo.
I think they might have meant all the women in my life.
Jesus, what a day.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 711 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Liza Of Lambeth, W. Somerset Maugham (well, that got way better toward the end, but I'm still confused, if he punches her in the before they did it the first time, why was she in love with him?)
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. 5-6, WildC.A.T.S. Sourcebook 2, WildC.A.T.S. Trilogy 3
Music: Fire - Jericho, The ProdigyIt’s weird what a massive burden having a clear to do list on a regular basis can do for one.
Portugal (and subsequent crushing depression) really put me far back; being able to do some of the things I’ve pushed off from day to day feels really good. Like more relaxed.
Getting ahead.
Progressing.
Progress, not product, am I right? (First draft done.)
Target: 1500 words
Written: 2674 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Liza Of Lambeth, W. Somerset Maugham
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. 0, WildC.A.T.S. Trilogy 1-2, WildC.A.T.S. Sourcebook 1
Music: Fingertips, They Might Be GiantsI never actually knew what that meant. Is she built like Andre the Giant?
Or prime Arnold?
Weird choice of words.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 922 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Planets, Jonathan Norton (oh, and Sagan)
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. 1-4
Music: The Final Solution - Outcesticide III, NirvanaI alone am sad.
I alone have a blank face, twisted in agony.
Sorry. Quoting Tao in reverse.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 2010 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Planets, Carl Sagan (inspired by the return of Artemis II, watched the whole thing last night)
Comics: Team 7 v4 5-8
Music: The Final Countdown, EuropeOr another fine mess.
You decide.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 894 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: One Hour After Midnight, Hermann Hesse
Comics: Team 7 v4 1-4
Music: Figure 8, Elliott SmithYou know how when your favourite artists love something, you kind of assume that because you’re into their work, you’d also be into the stuff that inspired them?
Like if Foo Fighters said they were into the Clash and the Ramones, I’d be like, I feel that, man.
That doesn’t always work. For example, I understand why Kurt Cobain would be into the Vaselines or David Bowie, but I will never understand the Meat Puppets.
The same, apparently, is true of Steve Aylett. I found him because multiple authors I was into said he was so good and groundbreaking and awesome.
Yeah.
I don’t get it.
The Crime Studio is an entire book, essentially written in the style of Luis telling his heist story in Ant-Man. And while that can be a funny bit over the course of a minute or three in a two hour movie, it’s annoying as fuck over a hundred and fifty pages (while simultaneously having the gall to slag Updike, Amis and Delillo – dude, you’re not better. This is college kid trying on an 80s movie punk persona and thinking he’s somehow managed the depth of James O’Barr, while really only succeeding in pretentious amateurishness posing as rebel pastiche. Who’s pretentious now, motherfucker? That’s right. Pastiche).
So, sorry, authors whose work I respect and adore. In this one, we don’t agree. Thumbs down.
Target: 1500 words
Written: 449 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Crime Studio, Steven Aylett
Comics: Gen 13 v4 37-39, Team 7 v4 0
Music: Fight For Your Mind, Ben Harper