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Okay, yes. What day is it? Tuesday? New album release day? Got it. Perhaps I shall do some mp3 shopping after I post this.
This past weekend I finally treated myself to having an actual weekend! That is, where I didn't head back into Spare Oom to work on stuff. Sure, I did a wee bit of TPoB revision, but other than that, it was a matter of just enjoying the day. Saturday we headed over to the de Young to check out the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit (Emm: "Come on, Georgia. You're not fooling anyone, you know."), as well as a neat mini-exhibit of photography and artwork based on the building of the Bay Bridge. They just opened another exhibit of abstract expressionism, but that'll be around for a bit longer so we'll check that out at a later time.
After the museum we headed over to Green Apple Books on Clement (who got a sweet write-up in Publisher's Weekly this past issue due to them winning PW's Best Indie Bookstore), where we spent mumbletymumble dollars on books for California Bookstore Day, including a really cool signed lithograph from Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret--a book, I should add, that I discovered in that very store. [Seriously, go buy the book. It's absolutely lovely, and well worthy of its Caldecott.] I'm so grateful we have such an excellent bookstore in our neighborhood...if any of you decide to come to San Francisco, let us know and we'll bring you there--you won't be let down, but you may leave with significantly less money in your pocket!
Also, Emm and I have started watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey on Netflix streaming the last few days. It's a phenomenal 15-part documentary by Irish film writer Mark Cousins, well worth checking out. In a way it feels like a sped-up overview of my years at Emerson as a film student, only better--it doesn't just hit on American or even UK cinema, but touches upon film in other countries--China, India, Brazil, Japan, and so on. Each episode is right about an hour long, so if you're into this sort of thing and like geeking out over creative filmmaking, it's well worth the time.
[Start Old Man Complaint Segment] In other news, my sciatica seems to have disappeared for the most part. A few muscles are a little sore for some reason, but other than that I'm no longer hobbling around like an ancient old man. Still taking it slower than usual, though, because I know it sneaks back at the most inopportune moments, especially when I think it's healed. [/End Old Man Complaint Segment]
And WRITING! Yay, I am full-blown WRITING again! Yes, I'm still working on the last couple dozen chapters of the TPoB revision on my tablet, but this past Tuesday I put my foot down and put Walk in Silence on the front burner. Over the past week I've been fashioning out a detailed outline of twenty or so chapters with all the points I want to hit. This is especially working out well, as a lot of this part of the book has been sort-of written already in the form of various LJ blog entries over the years. I'm doing it this way because in reading those blog entries, I keep finding moments I'd wanted to add to the entry after it's been posted, and building up this outline will assist to that. The music side of the book will come next, in which I'll add specific songs/albums/bands that I want to talk about and insert them almost-chronologically. [I say "almost" because the book actually starts in 1986, jumps back in time, and then moves forward again in a linear fashion.] I've hit a few thousand words over the course of the last week, which is small beans so far, but once I actually get the text going, the word count should rise accordingly.
Can you tell I'm really looking forward to writing this book? :D
This past weekend I finally treated myself to having an actual weekend! That is, where I didn't head back into Spare Oom to work on stuff. Sure, I did a wee bit of TPoB revision, but other than that, it was a matter of just enjoying the day. Saturday we headed over to the de Young to check out the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit (Emm: "Come on, Georgia. You're not fooling anyone, you know."), as well as a neat mini-exhibit of photography and artwork based on the building of the Bay Bridge. They just opened another exhibit of abstract expressionism, but that'll be around for a bit longer so we'll check that out at a later time.
After the museum we headed over to Green Apple Books on Clement (who got a sweet write-up in Publisher's Weekly this past issue due to them winning PW's Best Indie Bookstore), where we spent mumbletymumble dollars on books for California Bookstore Day, including a really cool signed lithograph from Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret--a book, I should add, that I discovered in that very store. [Seriously, go buy the book. It's absolutely lovely, and well worthy of its Caldecott.] I'm so grateful we have such an excellent bookstore in our neighborhood...if any of you decide to come to San Francisco, let us know and we'll bring you there--you won't be let down, but you may leave with significantly less money in your pocket!
Also, Emm and I have started watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey on Netflix streaming the last few days. It's a phenomenal 15-part documentary by Irish film writer Mark Cousins, well worth checking out. In a way it feels like a sped-up overview of my years at Emerson as a film student, only better--it doesn't just hit on American or even UK cinema, but touches upon film in other countries--China, India, Brazil, Japan, and so on. Each episode is right about an hour long, so if you're into this sort of thing and like geeking out over creative filmmaking, it's well worth the time.
[Start Old Man Complaint Segment] In other news, my sciatica seems to have disappeared for the most part. A few muscles are a little sore for some reason, but other than that I'm no longer hobbling around like an ancient old man. Still taking it slower than usual, though, because I know it sneaks back at the most inopportune moments, especially when I think it's healed. [/End Old Man Complaint Segment]
And WRITING! Yay, I am full-blown WRITING again! Yes, I'm still working on the last couple dozen chapters of the TPoB revision on my tablet, but this past Tuesday I put my foot down and put Walk in Silence on the front burner. Over the past week I've been fashioning out a detailed outline of twenty or so chapters with all the points I want to hit. This is especially working out well, as a lot of this part of the book has been sort-of written already in the form of various LJ blog entries over the years. I'm doing it this way because in reading those blog entries, I keep finding moments I'd wanted to add to the entry after it's been posted, and building up this outline will assist to that. The music side of the book will come next, in which I'll add specific songs/albums/bands that I want to talk about and insert them almost-chronologically. [I say "almost" because the book actually starts in 1986, jumps back in time, and then moves forward again in a linear fashion.] I've hit a few thousand words over the course of the last week, which is small beans so far, but once I actually get the text going, the word count should rise accordingly.
Can you tell I'm really looking forward to writing this book? :D
