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20.3.06 PSA: Life is grand, and other things

PSA 1: FILM. Show And Tell Week draws to a close with the soft-launch of my new film & music video website, Lot 49 Films. Go, peruse. My very talented team of collaborators and I are looking to do a couple more freebie / £500 budget music videos for indie bands to build up our showreels. So if you know anyone who is signed to a label and wants a top-notch if slightly mad and artsy video, tell them to get in touch. We're very good at digital aftereffects as well, so we can do some pretty amazing things in live action. I keep vaguely threatening Jesse from Flipron that once we finish the Raindrops video, I'm going to do a Ray Harryhausen monster-movie video for them. Meanwhile, have a couple Angel Girl images from Ryan's Raindrops video sketches:

PSA 2: KAT & MOUSE. As the more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed from the top right "her next trick" section of my website, the debut date for Book 1 of Kat & Mouse has been moved from May to July. This is purely to allow even more of Tokyopop's considerable marketing might to be thrown behind my little book, and it has even more chance of being racked in the Young Readers section of the bookshop as well as the Graphic Novel section. But on the other hand, there is no more pathetic creature than a writer who doesn't have a book coming out, and the wait until July may just kill me. I know I've been working; I've been writing nearly nonstop since Smoke came out. But I don't have any books out soon, and it burns. Don't introduce rationality into this conversation; it has no place.

PSA 3: KEN TYNAN EXPLAINS: "To be great, at least in England, you have to write a big book... I've skimmed, I burned up the moment, I spent my life writing to deadline. A performer with a flair for words... That's all." I have realised I will not get over my sense of inferiority that I have not attempted the Big Book. I don't know what I intend to do about it, but it's nice to know that I'm not the only one with that particular chip on my shoulder.

PSA 4: HELLO ORANGE COUNTY. My new friends in that area, who have been echoing some of my posts on their Xanga blogs, might enjoy this old one or that old one, or any of these.

PSA 5: COPLAND! Cranking up the second-to-last movement of Appalachian Spring to window-rattling levels of volume results in a feeling of life being a very, very grand thing indeed, albeit in a slightly Clockwork Orange kind of way. (That would also suggest that Appalachian Spring is the Yankee version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which is probably accurate.) In any case: long live people named Alex, and brain-meltingly loud classical music.

( 12:25 PM )

1 Comments:

This may not be relevant to the matter of your post, but it is of utmost importance.

From Dan's site:
In other news, due to popular demand, apparently Phantasmagory will have twelve year old 1920’s-type gothic lolitas. I love you, Alex!

GODDAMNIT, WHAT DID I TELL YOU HUH. WHAT DID I FUCKING SAY.

Your only option now is to make them lesbians and save face. Do it.

By Saitou, at 5:20 PM