“Get along…”

It’s just past noon, and I haven’t really started my writing day yet. I shouldn’t complain; now’s about the time I started yesterday, and I got done everything I’d planned to get done. Trouble is, I set my bar a little low during the break. It’s time to pick it up a tad, I think. Not that the time’s been completely wasted, seeing as I’ve been scouring teh Intartubes for snippets from the Daptone Records catalog.

Still though, Gunny says that it’s time to work, so that’s what I’m going to do. Time to turn off the soul (music) and put on some stuff I can work to…

Not All Remakes Suck

IMO, it looks like Cassandra Wilson (goddess that she is) may no longer have the market cornered on brand new takes on old songs…

“What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by The Bad Plus

(This has been a test of SeeqPod. Had this been an actual post about certain songs, you would have been inundated with snarky commentary.)

Because Reading Is Fundamental

11/19-11/25

I was lucky to have gotten this much reading in, what with the holiday travel and all.

  • Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, “The Young Wife’s Tale”
  • J.G. Ballard, “Deep End”
  • Ryan Boudinot, “Drugs and Toys”
  • Ryan Boudinot, “Contaminant”
  • Kelly Link, “Lull”
  • J.G. Ballard, “The Overloaded Man”

11/26-12/2

  • Ryan Boudinot, the remainder of his collection The Littlest Hitler
  • M. Rickert, “Don’t Ask”
  • Stuart Dybek, “Farwell”
  • S.L. Gilbow, “Who Brought Tulips to the Moon?”
  • J.G. Ballard, “Billennium”
  • Stuart Dybek, “Chopin in Winter”

I think I made some decent headway with things I’ve purchased over the Thanksgiving holiday, used and new. The stories from Gilbow and Rickert are from the December ’07 issue of F&SF–I’ve accepted the fact that I’ll buy just about anything with M. Rickert’s name on it, including whatever collection “Don’t Ask” might end up in. Sort of like I keep downloading buying all those greatest hits compilations that the band Chicago keeps putting out.