Still stalking Neil Gaiman
This book has a completely awesome cover: 17-year-old Jaime Lannister seated on the iron throne after killing King Aerys. Definitely the coolest ASOIAF art I've seen.
I am so excited about the new book. Someone posted a list of chapters and, dude, look at all the Jaime! Plus the two new POVs are completely awesome. (Don't click that link if you're avoiding spoilers.)
Brienne! She's awesome! And we'll get to hear her POV on the whole Jaime thing from the previous book! :)
And Cersei! I'm sure we'll hear plenty of her POV on Jaime, too. Lots of Jaime in this book!
Pleeeeeease don't let Jaime die. I am character-monogamous within my fandom obsessions, so that would really suck.
Martin is signing at the Astor Place B&N on November 15. I can't wait. :)
Oh yeah, the Raymond Watts thing. It's a remastered re-release of Pigmartyr with three new songs. Yay!!! New songs!!! And the album definitely needed to be remastered. And a proper U.S. release is a good thing, and Metropolis is supposed to be a decent label. So I'm happy. Now, who do I pray to for a Pig tour?
Tonight is the Neil Gaiman signing at the Union Square B&N. This will be my third day in a row seeing Neil Gaiman. Did I mention that I'm not actually a Neil Gaiman fan? He's interesting enough, though; I'm not bored. And it's kind of weird to watch the True Fans who care So Much about the experience. I've been there, so it's interesting to see that from the outside.
Last night I went with chenanceou, jaydk, and coraline to see Gaiman interview Susanna Clarke (who is apparently a famous author, but yeah, her book sounded pretty boring to me....) It was an interesting interview, though. And some semi-famous actress read part of the book aloud--an excellent reading, but the book seemed likely to bore me to tears. (I know, I have no taste, terribly proletariat, blah blah blah, I don't care. :P) Afterward we went to some dessert place that jaydk loves--the four of us plus this girl that we'd met the previous night. It was fun to hang out.
Apparently it's a thing now to get library books signed by the author, then to return the books to library circulation. Interesting.
Anyway. I'm going to get lunch now, and maybe to peek in over at the B&N to see if people are lining up already. (It's right by my office.)
Right now, there's people at the north side of Union Square waiting for Neil Gaiman, and people at the south waiting for Fiona Apple. This place is getting so trendy--I have to factor five extra minutes into my walk home to account for the Whole Foods block, between University and Broadway, which is now as congested as Times Square. Damn slow people, peering in shop windows or selling junk, never looking where they're going. One day I am going to snap and punch the guy who is always out there blowing bubbles into my face.
I am so excited about the new book. Someone posted a list of chapters and, dude, look at all the Jaime! Plus the two new POVs are completely awesome. (Don't click that link if you're avoiding spoilers.)
Brienne! She's awesome! And we'll get to hear her POV on the whole Jaime thing from the previous book! :)
And Cersei! I'm sure we'll hear plenty of her POV on Jaime, too. Lots of Jaime in this book!
Pleeeeeease don't let Jaime die. I am character-monogamous within my fandom obsessions, so that would really suck.
Martin is signing at the Astor Place B&N on November 15. I can't wait. :)
Oh yeah, the Raymond Watts thing. It's a remastered re-release of Pigmartyr with three new songs. Yay!!! New songs!!! And the album definitely needed to be remastered. And a proper U.S. release is a good thing, and Metropolis is supposed to be a decent label. So I'm happy. Now, who do I pray to for a Pig tour?
Tonight is the Neil Gaiman signing at the Union Square B&N. This will be my third day in a row seeing Neil Gaiman. Did I mention that I'm not actually a Neil Gaiman fan? He's interesting enough, though; I'm not bored. And it's kind of weird to watch the True Fans who care So Much about the experience. I've been there, so it's interesting to see that from the outside.
Last night I went with chenanceou, jaydk, and coraline to see Gaiman interview Susanna Clarke (who is apparently a famous author, but yeah, her book sounded pretty boring to me....) It was an interesting interview, though. And some semi-famous actress read part of the book aloud--an excellent reading, but the book seemed likely to bore me to tears. (I know, I have no taste, terribly proletariat, blah blah blah, I don't care. :P) Afterward we went to some dessert place that jaydk loves--the four of us plus this girl that we'd met the previous night. It was fun to hang out.
Apparently it's a thing now to get library books signed by the author, then to return the books to library circulation. Interesting.
Anyway. I'm going to get lunch now, and maybe to peek in over at the B&N to see if people are lining up already. (It's right by my office.)
Right now, there's people at the north side of Union Square waiting for Neil Gaiman, and people at the south waiting for Fiona Apple. This place is getting so trendy--I have to factor five extra minutes into my walk home to account for the Whole Foods block, between University and Broadway, which is now as congested as Times Square. Damn slow people, peering in shop windows or selling junk, never looking where they're going. One day I am going to snap and punch the guy who is always out there blowing bubbles into my face.