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Name: Dave
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Los Angeles
Birthday: 9/25/1977
Gender: Male
Interests: My favorite things in the world are my wife and daughter (Emma and Claire). I love stories, whether they be books, movies, comics, or something else. Homegrown on sci-fi and fantasy, music (especially U2!), and bonfires on the beach.
Expertise: Writing. Eating. Sleeping. (And I don't think I've ever been so thankful to sleep through the night)
Occupation: Writer
Industry: Engineering
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
1/17/2006
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| For all of you reading, I'm going to be switching my blog permanently over to http://krylyr.livejournal.com. It will pretty much be the same thing I'm doing here, with a tad more emphasis on writing. I'm keeping this account, mostly because I still like reading everyone else blogs and I want to keep in touch with what's happening at the World's End. I hope to see you there, too. | | |
| Last Respects is up at Apex Online and my, oh, my, does it look good on their site, if I do say so myself. Check it out.
I was talking to another writer friend last week about writing playlists. Usually, I create playlists on my ipod when I'm working on a story -- some good mood music for when I'm writing. But I realized today that I had not created a playlist for Last Respects. So I thought it might be fun to hear from everyone what songs *you* would put on the Last Respects Soundtrack. Thoughts?
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| Bruce Springsteen's Magic completely kicks ass. It's totally different than the last 3 albums he's put out (which were all totally different from each other). And with the exception of Radio Nowhere (far from my favorite song on the new album), this collection is more reminiscient of the Boss's Glory Days sound, when he was recording stuff like Dancing in the Dark, Born in the USA, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Thunder Road, Born to Run, and the River.
And Emma also kicks ass. While I was driving down to Conjecture on Saturday, she scored us tickets to see the Boss later on this month when he comes to LA. What better way to spend a night in late October than listening to Bruce sing about Magic? | | |
| This weekend was pretty busy, but also pretty freaking cool. Saturday, I got to go down to Conjecture and see Zak Jarvis and Sharon Mok be panelists! I also got to see Larry Niven, Tim Pratt Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekhout, Sherwood Smith, Howard Hendrix, and Shaun Farrell (whose podcast I've just added to my subscriptions). It was great to briefly meet some of them but I almost always feel like such a goober at these kinds of things because I'm such an introvert with people I don't know very well, but I'm really glad I went.
Tim, Heather, and Greg put on a killer collaborative ABC reading where they'd divvied up the alphabet and written pieces of flash SF/F to go with each every letter. There were faires shitting shimmering coffee beans, dream shrinks fighting off nightmares, and an apocalyptic time-travelling road-trip in Effingham (I think Effingham). It was one of the most entertaining and amusing readings I've seen in a while (although Greg's bits were often kind of depressing -- except for the one about the sandwiches).
One of the most interesting things was the pixel-stained technopeasantry panel with most of the above, but specifically Howard Hendrix. I'd never seen or read anything by Hendrix aside from his rant earlier this year, and so I was surprsised and pleased by how sharp and thoughtful he was, that he was completely willing to put himself out there on such a panel, and that he was willing to discuss what his rant was really about, even though I'm still pretty sure I don't agree with him. It was nice of him to apologize for calling people webscabs. Now I gotta find the Hendrix/Sigler debate...
Finally, I got to hook up with Mur Lafferty and Evan Goer Sunday, which was also killer and more than a little nostalgic for me. It's been almost exacly a year since I saw them last at VP, and I was really happy I got to spend a couple of hours catching up and hearing what they were up to. | | |
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