Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    

What a coincidence!  I saw Spider-Man last night, too!

I loved it.
  

    
Dan and Linda,  I'm going to see it tonight (er . . . tomorrow
morning). I'm going more for the new Elfman score than anything else,
but I've heard very good things about the film. Elfman scores make me
absolutely giddy with delight. They do something to me, "something that
simply mystifies me, tell me why should it be, they have the power to
hypnoti-" oops. I've been singing random bits of songs too much lately.
It's a good sign of relieved stress, but it drives Megan crazy . . .
must... control... inner... soundtrack...

Everyone,  thank you, so much, for your "whoohoo"s and "that rocks"s
and the hugs and everything else. You are all the bee's knees. I owe
everyone a round of their preferred beverage at the pub of their
choice, or a suitable substitution of said token of my appreciation --
your choice. You are all darling people.
  

    
". . . do do that voodoo that you do so well, oh you do something to
me that nobody else could do . . ."

...must... ....exercise.... ...restraint...
  

    
Maure the soundtrack totally rocks but so did the movie. Even though I
seriously thought there was a riot in the works due to a broken
projector and a lot of punk kids trying to impress the teeny bopers in
tiny t-shirts that were with them.

I lije comic movies even bad one but this one is what they are
supposed to be.

Tracey
  

    
Tracey,  I completely agree -- it did rock. The movie is so fun. I
want to see it again.
  

    
318 - Mary - thanks, I don't know what's going around, other than
mortality, but there seems to be rather a lot of it these days. Richard
Cowper, Colin Middleton Murry, just died as well -- lovely, sweet,
urbane man, who wrote better fiction than people seemed to notice.

Dan -- Lafferty dialogue isn't like anyone else's. But it's worth
looking at the way he constructs it in something like "In Our Block" --
it's all perfectly speakable...

Paige -- Michelle is right, although I'm a bit behind...  I love your
approach to writing and music (mine is the other way around, but I see
just how it works).

And yes, ideas often come when you have no time to write them, rather
than when you're sitting staring into space going "I need an idea". I
think this is because ideas form from other stuff, and staring into
space rarely provides it.

Maure (a fine name: derivative of Maureen, is it not?) I'm pleased
everything worked out okay for your brother.

DanW -- the April archives were gone, so I e-mailed the people who fix
that stuff and they did something and now everything except October
has gone. How odd...

mary -- never saw the travel desk... I hope she went to Harpers and
got a Coraline proof...

Michelle-- as soon as I know what's going to happen, I will post it
here or on the blogger. Honest.

Erynn, often when things go wonky it's not the wonky thing that's
going wonky. Which is to say if the characters are clamming up and
getting unhelpful, it may well be that just before that the plot
stopped being something that worked organically with the characters,
for example. 

Maure - inner soundtracks are odd things. As a boy I noticed that,
lost on the London Undergorund, I was singing "Help!"
  

    
Neil - oddly enough, April came back just long enough for me to get
the quote I was looking for. I didn't realize it had buggered off with
the rest of non-October months. Very odd. The person I wanted to show
it to was duly amused. She had heard rumors of the K/S stuff, but that
was about it.

btw, welcome back, albeit briefly, from under your mountain of work.
Have a biscuit.
  

    
Neil,  You're absolutely right -- how did you know from what it was
derived?? And thank you for being pleased. I am too. As for inner
soundtracks, have you ever noticed that they seem to erupt verbally at
the most inopportune moments, thus giving the game away? No? Oh.
Neither have I. 
  

    
Email from Jouni:

Dan -- Hang on, hang on! (starts to sketch furiously, then suddenly stops)
Waitaminute! You're makin' fun of me, right?

Jouni
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
Jouni - I'd never make fun of you... but I do enjoy having fun with
you. *grin*
  

    
I have a 15-year-old cousin who loves to write but hates to read (a
lifestyle that simply leaves me baffled). So, to drag her over to the
dark side, I took her to the book store this weekend, sat her down in
front of the Gaiman shelf and explained why reading is cool. Next thing
you know she's reading "Vampire Sestina" and "Nicholas Was" out loud
and jabbering excitedly over the twists in each piece. I could just
feel her sense of wonder growing. 

There's hope yet... :-)

Jade Walker
  

    
Jade - that's a fabulous story...

Neil - re: blog entry and Rock Bottom Remainders. I'm not sure which
I'm more sorry I didn't see... you playing the kazoo to Louie Louie or
Amy Tan flogging people. It sounds like a delightfully surreal
performance.
  

    

Hey!  <kkg> here on the WELL started the Rock Bottom Remainders!
  

    
I was messing around on whatsbetter.com, and a picture of Delirium came up.
I had to decide whether she or sofa painting art instructor Bob Ross was
"better".  I gave it to Delirium.

She's doing well in the rankings.  Tori Amos is doing even better.
  

    
Martha - *tsk,tsk* Without Bob Ross, I would never know of "fluffy
trees" or the enourmous cumulative effect they can have on a landscape
painting... :p Honestly though, I always felt sure that Bob lived most
of the time in Deliriums domain.

To my great delight I just found out that Warner released a great new
2-disc DVD set of the BBC Hitchhikers Guide miniseries. What
particularly caught my eye was the apparently excellent tribute
documentary to Mr. Adams. It's pretty steep at $34.99 at Amazon but
what the hell, food is overrated anyway.
  

    
Shawn- $34.99 isn't *too* bad considering what you get. I'm excited.
All I have is a worn out VHS copy that was taped by my dad in the 80's,
commercials and all. A DVD copy would be much, much better. I'll have
to see if anyone besides Amazon is carrying it. 

Neil-you are a busy, busy bee! And I second what Danw said about the
kazoo and suchlike. Tee-hee!

My story is going more smoothly now. Probably because I started
another one, so of course the former's plot continues to develop
quickly. But mostly, I've been working too much. I always thought it
would be cool to live directly above a restaurant. Now I do. Working
there is very convenient because I don't have to drive or walk
anywhere. TOO convenient sometimes. I'm always the first person they
call when someone calls off. If I don't answer my phone, they come up
and knock on the door for hours. There's no getting away. It's good
because I need the money, but it's also bad because I need more writing
and sleeping time. *sigh* It will all balance out one of these days. 

Jade- my husband is like that. I'll never really understand it.
But--he does read a lot of Neil. That's about it though. 
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
DanGuy: I haven't read it, but I had the opening chapter of Satanic
Verses read to me on a car trip... that has to do with airplanes... (or
rather, falling out of them... which might no be what you're looking
for)

Neil: It just occurred to me... you're now part of the Rock Bottom
Remainders! They can list you on their site as "Kazoo player"!

re: Hitchhiker's TV series. - I always had a hard time with the TV
show, because Trillian went from being a brilliant brunette in the
books to a blonde bimbette in the show. I had an extremely difficult
time watching it, and never saw the whole series.
  

    
If anyone is interested, the poem I wrote for Jouni's challenge is
here:
http://www.eurydiceunderground.com/teaparty.html

It's been a really messed up week, and it's only . . . er . . . what
day is today anyway? Tuesday? Wednesday? Sometimes, it's frustrating to
have no awareness of time.
  

    <scribbled by dfowlkes Tue 3 Jul 12 10:14>
  

    
Maure: What can I say, but... you rock!
  

    
DanGuy -- no Brilliant sugestions for what to read I'm afraid. Jon
Ronson's THEM is a wonderful book, if it's out in the US yet.

Am thrilled people are buying American Gods in paperback.

Stagewalker -- when I was a very young man (23?) I was at a party held
by Pan for Douglas Adams, and bumped into Sandra Dickenson, who played
Trillian. We chatted for a minute and then I actually said "Oh. You
really do talk like that," which has to be one of the single stupidest
things I've ever said, right up there with asking my Dutch publisher,
on a walk back from the restaurant to the hotel what the red lights
over the doors meant. ("It's the red light district," he explained.)
  

    
Maure -- good going....
  

    
Dan, Neil,  thank you. Nice of you to say.

I like triplets. Trip-el-et, trip-el-et, trip-el-et. I wish more
people used triplets. I don't think the Spiderman score sounds like
Batman at all. Maybe I'm listening too hard. I hear some Planet of the
Apes, and it's loaded with Elfman signatures (weird chord progressions,
crazy time signatures, synth percussion, and a chorus), but it's much
lighter than anything in the Batman score. Maybe . . . er, most likely 
. . . I'm just a fangirl. This has nothing to do with anything here.
Move on, move on.