4 posts tagged “book”
My copies of Things to Keep the Living Alive came yesterday! :) I'm really happy with how they came out. Everything is just as I imagined, and the print quality is exquisite. I want to order more to pitch to local bookstores.
YACHT is going to be playing a show in New York City (his first in the US in months) at St. Mark's Church on December 5th!! Very exciting. (In more gig news, my friend's band The Ivy League is going to be playing with Anamanaguchi at Don Hill's on November 24th. It'll be a fun night.)
I can't even manage to write comprehensible paragraphs with interesting sentence structure any more. Whatever. It's a blog.
EDIT: The ISBN is up, and the book is officially available for purchase. :)
That's right: I actually finished the book. I'm just as surprised as anyone-- I started it over a year ago because I was bored, and finished it today under the stress of time constraints and looming college applications. But I'm extremely happy with the product that it has evolved into, and am proud to have it up for sale. I bought an ISBN this afternoon (who knew they were so expensive???), so the barcode that I need to sell the book "for realsies" is going to arrive tomorrow and allow me to put the finishing touch on Things to Keep the Living Alive.
Exciting! Tell your friends and pet hippopotamuses (especially the latter-- water-dwelling mammals are really my target audience here).
I've realized a few things in the past couple weeks that I've been in school:
-Setting two alarms, no matter how far away they are from my bed, is not going to do anything but make me get up when they ring, turn them off, and go back to sleep. I've been late three times already (although I've technically only been marked down for it once).
-Having a monotonous physics teacher is not good
-Said monotonous physics teacher looking and sounding a bit like Edward Norton more than makes up for that
-I need to purchase a time turner so that I can get everything done on time. We're doing The Laramie Project for the fall drama and I was given four parts, two of which make up an almost four page block in which I am the only person speaking.
-I'm a mess.
I'm not sure if I mentioned this earlier, but I'm taking an Italian class at the local community college (You can't spell "success" without UCC!) because I couldn't fit it into my schedule at school. Community college is, really, a whole other world. I'm used to sitting in AP and honors classes with kids my age who could surely out-intellectualize the people in my Italian class in their sleep (I'm not trying to be an elitist bitch or anything-- it's admirable that people want to get an education in any setting, I'm just not used to being the smartest person in a room full of adults). But if anything, the three hours that I have to spend sitting in a cold room re-learning level one Italian in a purportedly "advanced" Italian class are worth it for the people I see when I'm walking along the hallways to class. I counted:
I finally finished the book, and am planning to print it through Lulu.com (and hopefully sell some copies on Amazon, if they end up being good enough). It's called Things to Keep the Living Alive (there's a sub-title, too, but it makes little sense and I'll probably end up getting rid of it [it's (or, little bear eats some hibiscus jam), for those of you who are interested) and consists of quotes, small poems, and photographs. The best way to describe the concept of the book is that it is some sort of an instruction guide, but I feel that that phrase doesn't exactly encapsulate everything the book has. It's the type of book you'd be handed if you just had your memory wiped and needed to re-learn everything about the world. It's a little hard to explain, but I think it'll make sense when it comes out.
- One girl trying (but failing, luckily for her) to be Amy Winehouse
- Five girls in identical 50% spandex, 50% cotton faux-denim pants
- Three nervous middle-aged men who were older than their professors
- Ten non-professionals trying to come off as professionals
- Two professionals trying to come off as non-professionals
- Fourteen cigarettes in approximately ten hands and four mouths
- One professor being trailed by three students
- Eight thousand pairs of heels that made their wearers visibly uncomfortable
- Zero people who appeared to be my age
I've been considering getting a domain name and running this blog myself, but I'm not sure how much work that's going to entail. Hmm.
And just because I really don't want to study math, here's a list of songs I've been really into lately:
You can see what music I'm playing at my lastfm, here.
- Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John (I don't care if it's overplayed! I've loved it ever since I caught it on New York Noise)
- The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (Ted Leo being ballad-y; it's a nice change from their usual stuff)
- I Will - The Beatles (I can't even describe how much I love the Beatles)
- Hell Yes - Beck
- Anything by Andrew Bird or Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire-- they have beautiful instrumental work and fantastic lyrics
- John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - Sufjan Stevens
- Conquest - The White Stripes (I can't pass up a chance to crank up this song and scream COOONQUEEEEST at the top of my lungs on the drive to school; I used to do this with Dimension by Wolfmother last year and get glares from tired soccer moms. It's priceless.)
- The Noise - Regina Spektor
- Tom Waits' album Rain Dogs (One of, if not the, best albums I've ever heard. As a package, it's impeccable.)
- I'm Set Free - The Velvet Underground
Charline
I've been working on a book of photos and writing for about a year now (with, let's say, an eleven-month break). It's about half done, but I'm not sure where I can find a place to print it. In any case, here's a preview of some pages:
