Lyz had one of her stories printed in a recent issue of Glasses Glasses. She’s probably the wittiest writer I know (just read the first section of dialogue) and someday she’s going to publish a wildly successful novel. Congrats Lyz even though this happened like two months ago!
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday. Basically, you go to your local shop and they have a ton of free books published by Marvel and DC specifically for this day to promote the movie adaptations of their big releases this summer. (Expect there to be a lot of Wolverine this year.) But there’s also going to be one for Love & Rockets as well as a lot of other indie stuff. Lots of stores will open their bargin bins for free to clear out inventory so you can revisit of that Image series that you thought was so cool when you were ten and discover that it was complete storytelling crap.
I hope that the guy in the Thor costume who was running up and down Harvard Ave. in all his Norse mythology glory is back this year.
Someday, I will read this book. Also, I didn’t realize until moments ago that though Brighton is called “Enfield”, Allston retains its name and is mentioned frequently throughout the novel. All 1,079 pages of it.
American Analog Set - “Make It Take It”
Though they’ve been broken up for almost four years The American Analog Set just released Hard to Find: Singles and Unreleased, 2000-2005 (GET IT?) a new digital-only rarities compilation. According to their site, this track was never released or even played live:
The basic parts were recorded in the Spring of 2002 in Austin, TX. The recording was completed in Brooklyn, NY in the Fall of 2002.
We never played it live. In fact, the song was a late addition to the “Promise Of Love” sessions and still a work in progress when we left on tour for the Summer of 2002. Upon completion, it was decided that it didn’t make sense on “Promise Of Love,” but that it would make a great companion to “Hard To Find” on a 7” single. However, the 7” never happened and so the song and this recording was shelved.
Jess and I walked into a bar in Park Slope that had the Red Sox-Yankees game on. When the bartender saw that I had a Massachusetts license he said, “HAHA, I guess I should cover up this YANKEES tattoo then, HAHA.” Two seconds later Youkilis hit a walk-off homer and he shut off the television.
from: Abramian, Matthew
date: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM
subject: Sonic the burgerhog is coming to new england
mailed-by: gmail.com
Sonic is opening up in peabody, ma sometime in august…first one in new england apparently. I propose a trip out there in order to satisfy our gluttonous urges on tasty chili cheese coneys, supersonic burgers, and java chillers.
http://thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2009/04/17/news/news13.txt
A pictorial inventory of the twenty-first Time Capsule, Warhol’s amazing vanity project:
This serial work, spanning a thirty-year period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, consists of 610 standard sized cardboard boxes, which Warhol, beginning in 1974, filled, sealed and sent to storage. Warhol used these boxes to manage the bewildering quantity of material that routinely passed through his life. Photographs, newspapers and magazines, fan letters, business and personal correspondence, art work, source images for art-work, books, exhibition catalogues, and telephone messages, along with objects and countless examples of ephemera, such as announcements for poetry readings and dinner invitations, were placed on an almost daily basis into a box kept conveniently next to his desk.
