While I understand the delightful buzz of a good review or the surprised elation at hearing that someone you’ve just met is aware and appreciative of your work, I’ve never fully understood how sensitive some people can be regarding their work.
I have a love of pulp, be it fiction, art, cinema, music… Pulp is mediocre, but […]
Appreciation
by Alex F. Vance on 16. Jan, 2006 in Blog
Things I have that I didn’t have in 2005
by Alex F. Vance on 12. Jan, 2006 in Blog
- New credit card (nice colors).
– Extra yera of age (free).
– Soot on my kitchen ceiling (microwave mishap).
– Dent in my living-room ceiling (champagne cork-popping mishap — not mine).
– War of the Worlds DVD (2-disc edition, birthday present — yay boyfriend).
– A freezeburn above my left ankle (torpedo-shaped, caused by a friend spraying compresed air […]
Resolutions!
by Alex F. Vance on 01. Jan, 2006 in Blog
1. Stay classy.
2. Enjoy my new age — I’ve always preferred odd-numbered years, and this one’s a second power! Yay!
3. Never again make home-made cakes with cake mix and put them in the microwave/hot air oven combo for an hour — on microwave, instead of hot air, then open all the windows in the entire […]
Ruined.
by Alex F. Vance on 31. Dec, 2005 in BDB
I just recorded over half an hour of steamy ghey lovin’ twixt an American fox and a semi-Aussie wolf and fucking Garageband crashes on me and it’s all gone, irretrievable.
I still love Mac, but grrr!
Emancipate the analogue!
by Alex F. Vance on 31. Dec, 2005 in Articles, Blog
So, I was recording Chapter 4 of the audiobook of kyellgold’s novel ‘Volle’ (why yes, I am a sensationally multi-talented Renaissance Wuff, how nice of you to say so) and I was shuffling some of the pages of the script I’d prepared. Kyell had sent me the text version of the novel and after […]
Take on me…
by Alex F. Vance on 30. Dec, 2005 in Blog
So, at Ches & Wolfie’s Annual Interfestum Gastroblast (dinner), much superrlative food and excellent company was to be had. Oh, and remember my rancid musing about singing and the public shame surrounding same? Ches broke out two mics and plugged them into the new PS2 the off-key but highly impassioned voices of our Gang howling […]
III bestond nog niet…">Hilversum III bestond nog niet…
by Alex F. Vance on 29. Dec, 2005 in Articles, Blog
Video killed the radio show, but you know what radio killed? Singing, whistling, and quality buskers. Much that once was was lost, for none now live who remember it — a time when construction yards rang with crude, poorly-sung ditties, when butchers wheezed entire arias with all the skill of a practiced lip-flautist and when […]
Dirt Herding.
by Alex F. Vance on 24. Dec, 2005 in Blog
Of late, my goal’s been to make money and I’ve really been putting my education and my writerly sensibilities to work, breaking my back in factories and raking leaves and such. The latter got me a cold–yay cold!–and the former got my hands covered in bruises and wounds. When I came home at night […]
Updatism
by Alex F. Vance on 21. Dec, 2005 in Blog
So, I went to a wedding confirmation ceremony where the bride’s relatives turned out to be the Von Trapps, only, you know, without the morally suspect Third Reich connotations. I’ve been negotiating various thoroughly exciting things with the good people of Sofawolf Press, which is one of the reasons why progress has been slow on […]
Cerebral cinema.
by Alex F. Vance on 05. Dec, 2005 in Blog
I had a dream related to the action-adventure genre of Hollywood cinema. It began very cinematically, following a number of events whose significance now escapes me, but at the time was crucial to the dream’s plot. Someone committed suicide, which turned out to be the first symptom of a vast supernatural plot. Much of this […]
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