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More Misconstrue Updates
Here are yet more of my recent blog posts at http://misconstrue.wordpress.com.
Exploring my fascination with the concept of the elusive “rock novel,” I’ve written a number of blog entries about them:
The Great American Rock Novel: My explanation for why most rock novels just aren’t that good. The best thing about this post is the photo from Rock ‘n’ ( Read more... ) -
Misconstrue Updates
Here are my recent blog posts at http://misconstrue.wordpress.com
A review of the song "All the Tea in China," from the 1980 Ghosts album by Susan Jacks, is mostly about the Magnetic Fields.
Punk and the Bay City Rollers. Were the tartan bubble-gummers the godfathers of punk? This is glimpse of me allowing myself to become confused.
Freakin' Jonathan ( Read more... ) -
Been Gone So Long It Still Looks Like Up to Me
I've been making blog posts on Wordpress but don't want to neglect this corner of the world. Here are some updates. Do check out the story about the car race across Mexico.
SFSU in Fiction
Until I learn otherwise, I’m convinced Jokerman 8 is the first published novel set at San Francisco State University. Includes a stirring excerpt of what life on ( Read more... ) -
Introducing Happy Talk
[I enjoy this far too much. Putting together descriptions of my novel-in-search-of-a-publisher. Here's the first draft of a 160-word synopsis.]
HAPPY TALK, a novel
By Richard Melo
Gun-slinging American student nurses and boozy-New York-playwrights-turned-educational-filmmakers find themselves stuck in the Haiti of 1955 as part of a government ( Read more... ) -
The French Detective
There is a man who turns up in my neighborhood during social events, whether it's a block party or Halloween or whatnot. I don't think he's a neighbor but rather a friend or brother of a neighbor, but then again, I just don't know! He's just that mysterious ( Read more... ) -
How many space operas can you name?
For a new novel, I am researching a certain type of movie that I can only describe as 1970s Rock n' Roll Space Operas (often with amusement parks, haunted houses, and masked superheroes)
Here's the list I have so far, but if you can think of others please list them in the comment box:
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Phantom of the Paradise
- KISS Meets the ( Read more... )
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Lost chapter from a lost book
[Here is a chapter from a book I was writing in the mid 1990s. When I see it now, I can remember what I was thinking and what I was going for. It still makes me cringe. --RM]
III. Coca-Cola ™
Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, ( Read more... ) -
Beatles for sale
We had a yard sale over the weekend, and on a whim, I decided to put out a bunch of old albums, a dollar a pop. Before I knew it, I had sold more than 100 records to at least 15 different people. Mostly, they were 80s postpunk/powerpop and 60s rock. I just sat there on the steps, and when someone was looking at an album, I would tell some crazy ( Read more... ) -
Opening my own mattress store?
Sure, why not? Then again, not for me so much. It's nice to see the mattress industry flourishing, though it's a shame there aren't waterbed stores in every strip mall like there were back in the 1980s. If I have a change of heart and decide to open my own mattress shop, I am torn between two different store names ( Read more... )