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(Probably) No More Crossposting to LJ from gordsellar.com
UPDATE (later that same day):
For those who still want to track my blog via LJ: you can do that over at the LJ syndication of my blog that was kindly set up by asakiyume: it's at http://gordsellar.livejournal.com/.
Note, however, that I won't be likely to see comments on these posts: if you want to comment, it's best to do so over at my blog!
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Heathern and Terraplane, by Jack Womack
I’ve just read Jack Womack’s second and third novels (both of books set in his “Dryco” series) back-to-back. Longtime readers will note that I lauded the first novel in the series (in terms of series timeline) with lavish praise back in 2012. I also read the Womack’s first novel, Ambient, and it made a strong impression on me at the time, but that ( Read more... ) -
Finished! Trine 2
I normally don’t post about computer games, and think of the “Gaming” section of my blog as being about tabletop RPGs. However, both Mrs. Jiwaku and I have enjoyed Frozenbyte‘s Trine 2 quite a bit, so I’m going to make an exception:
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One More Composition: "When She Dreams of Moonlight" (1994)
I’ve added another composition to my Music page: it’s an underwhelming score, in fact a royal mess, but I figured it was worth notating in Musescore for the practice, as well as to capture the way I thought about music and composing in 1994, about halfway through my formal music studies. I suppose you could call it my attempt to compose “Third ( Read more... ) -
Musical Sketches
So, I’ve just posted some sketches for the soundtrack I was working on in early March for my wife’s film project-that is, 대리전/”The Proxy War”. I won’t be doing any more work on the sketches till we have a rough cut, but I figured it might interest some people. This film is SF, comedic but also action, and yet in a lot of ways it’s conceived as ( Read more... ) -
When It Rains
One thing that happens when you get busy trying to write a novel or two is that short story publications slow down, so I haven’t had a lot of publication announcements to make recently, but when it rains, it pours. (As I’m about to rediscover when the rainy season strikes us again here in Saigon.)
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Alain de Botton is a...
Well, I haven’t actually read him, so I don’t know, but Fisun Güner makes a pretty good argument that at least when it comes to art and art appreciation, he’s “a moron.”
Güner’s harsh, but understandably so: there’s always someone out there who’s ready to explain to people who do get art, and celebrate it, why they’re doing it all wrong because ( Read more... ) -
Sopranoed! WX5ed! Fluted! But... Argh!
Okay, I officially have enough music gear to keep me busy for years to come… but I can’t use all of it.
I managed to pick up my Selmer soprano saxophone, my Yamaha flute, and the Yamaha WX5 wind controller my friend Mark received for me in Seoul… and I also have on hand a bunch of tenor and soprano sax reeds my friend Joe picked up for me in the ( Read more... ) -
The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch
When I read Thomas M. Disch’s 334 back in grad school, I found it didn’t make much of an impression on me, beyond its unremitting and overwhelming grimness. Perhaps the bleak grimness of graduate school distracted me from its finer points? I’m not sure, but I can say that the cruelty and bleakness of The Genocides has definitely made an impression ( Read more... ) -
Asia's First Steampunk Art Exhibition
Well, we’re back from our trip to Korea. Many missions were accomplished, though the visit was too short to see everyone I would have liked to. I focused on seeing the people who probably won’t be in Korea next time I’m there, as those folks are always harder to see again later.
While I was in Korea, I was lucky enough to have a chance to see what ( Read more... )