Journal

Starlight

Short Story

I’ve started work on a short story. I can’t remember if I said down here that I was working on one about a week ago, but if I did then that one is scrapped because it didn’t look as if it would work. This new one appears to be doing fine so far, although having not written anything for what must be three months now, it all feels a little like dragging myself through a swamp. But don’t get me wrong—there definitely is a sense of joy. I’m definitely glad to be back in business.

The story is temporarily named Distant Star (I realise there is a Roberto Bolaño book of the same name but it was not intentional). It is I suppose nothing too new for me. It’s not exactly something I haven’t tried before. Yet it’s nice to be doing something like that again after all this time and I’m so far quite happy with the way it’s going. I’ve got about a thousand words down, and it all looks like it could be fine. I actually have no idea where it’s going to go, but at least it looks like it’ll turn out okay.

Irregularities

Project things are just… not turning out the way that you’d expect them to, but then again I guess they never do. As such it looks like a long day ahead for me today, and I might have to push away an appointment that I had arranged for earlier. Gah. That’s the way it goes, as the song will tell you. I really just want to do okay here and get this over with, though we’re not even past the halfway line at this point in time.

Animated Hazards Of Love

“And so: we Decemberists are pleased to announce the official release of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between the band and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria — each of whom have created an animation to accompany a section of the music.  At Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on October 19, The Decemberists will perform the entire piece synchronized with the animation, as well as an additional second set of older and newer material. A limited presale will be underway Wednesday at 10am PST at http://decemberists.tickets.musictoday.com/Decemberists/calendar.aspx.  General tickets will go on sale this Friday, September 18.”

[via The Decemberists]

I am more than a little sad that I’ll not be able to attend it. I hope there’s a DVD or the like, though. I’m fairly sure that it’d be great.

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