This entry is a grab-bag of excellent things! To begin with, I have amazing arty things that a gorgeously awesome fanperson named Jessica has made. Jessica wrote to me and said 'hey, I make wee sculpture people and I want to do some Wolf House ones, k?' And I wrote back and said 'jklsajfklsajdla'. And then today these pictures were in my inbox:

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Rant by Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favourite books. I don't know what to call it, genre-wise. It's not really speculative fiction and it's not really sci-fi, but I love it as an excellent example of how weird and unexpected speculative and sci-fi fiction can be. It's gross and it's smart and it's transgressive and it's subversive and it's funny ( Read more... )

Soundwave Revolution have screwed up my order and sent me four tickets (and charged my credit card for four tickets) to the Melbourne date, rather than the two I asked for ( Read more... )

Ugh, you guys, I hate Soundwave. Not as much as I hate the Big Day Out, but Soundwave is absolutely second on the list. Basically, I don't care how fucking great you treat journalists (and they are basically perfect in that regard, credit where credit is due) if you treat your patrons like such shit that there are literally busloads of kids being ( Read more... )

Some photos from yesterdaaaaaaay. I love my friends and I love this city and I love that dumb band and ugh.

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This batch of photos from the last couple of days is less varied than the last lot, as I didn't think that interludes on an interstate bus or at a Milwaukee IHOP would be of all that much interest. So it's just some silly band I saw again or whatever. I kind of love them a lot and forever.

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Survivalism
by Mary
Rating: General
Summary: Saverin is usually third or fourth on the S.C.A.R.E.C.R.O.W lists that Korse himself is often first or second place on.

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You can make very valid arguments for why Rolling Stone is no longer relevant, but I'd be lying if I said that it isn't still The Dream for me as a music journalist (or 'music journalist', if you like, since most of my journalism time in the last two years has been taken up with interviewing people about things like balancing the cultural, social, ( Read more... )

Erinna and I were planning to stop off in Denver on our way to Chicago this April, on account of the fact that I feel my life requires a second interlude involving a 28-foot mural of a snow-dusted alpine forestAlas, Erinna is now unable to make the Denver leg of the journey, which leaves me uncertain as to whether or not I should make the detour ( Read more... )

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