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1) The conscious desire for acclaim
2) The desire to resort to technical cunning
3) The desire to display one's skills
4) The desire to overawe the reader
5) The desire to play a passive role
6) The desire to rid oneself of any of the above
Number six is the bitch, isn't it? From the seventeenth-century osho Yagyu Tajima no Kami; originally written about swordfighting. Found in Richard Cohen's By The Sword, a book I am enjoying immensely. I adjusted the temptations slightly for the writing life (replacing victory with acclaim, and opponent with reader).
It has been a long and unpleasant week. To console myself, I daydream of convincing Glenn Barr to paint comic covers for me. Barr's art is like what happens when Jet Girl and Foxy Brown go for a night on the Mai Tais, and I love it more every day. But for the near future* it looks like this is the closest I will get: his (and others') Lowbrow Art skins for iPods. I covet these to a degree I probably shouldn't disclose in public.
*Although you never know. Anything can happen on Planet Alex, and usually does.
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ARCHIVES: October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007
& FOR HER NEXT TRICKS:
KAT & MOUSE 2
January 2007
ISBN-10: 1598165496
$5.99 / All Ages
AGENT BOO 2
January 2007
ISBN-10: 1598168037
$4.99 / All Ages
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RECENTLY:
MESSIAH COMPLEX 1
October 2006
ISBN-10: 2731617667
EUR12,90 / Teen
AGENT BOO 1
Sept 2006
ISBN-10: 1598168029
ISBN-13: 9781598168020
$4.99 / All Ages
KAT & MOUSE 1
July 2006
ISBN-10: 1598165488
ISBN-13: 9781598165487
$5.99 / All Ages
SMOKE
December 2005
ISBN-10: 193323928X
$24.99 / Teen
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Brief Loves:
Music: Berlin Cabaret Songs
Film: Chetyre (4)
Book: Camera Lucida
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Friends & Conspirators:
Kieron Gillen
Alasdair Watson
Evil Genius
Paul O'Brien
Jonny Nagl
Chad Michael Ward
The Graf von Sarll
Delirium des Anges
Jeremy Love
Frazer Irving
Antony Johnston
Tristan Crane
Laurenn McCubbin
Dan Evans
Farel Dalrymple
Brendan McFeely
Warren Ellis
Dean Haspiel
Brian Wood
Igor Kordey
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Flipron
Tiny Dog Records
Admired Strangers:
Bob Mould
Popbitch
Revenant Records
Grand Central Records
Tom Phillips
The Starn Brothers
The Real Tuesday Weld
Misty's Big Adventure
The Earlies
Menlo Park
Akira the Don
Coop
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Musical Exotica:
Planet Xtabay
Poison To The Mind