I'm...
reading...
Bad news and good news...
Incomprehensibly, the Pan Macmillan edition (left) of Gail's excellent debut novel Black Mirror is now out of print.
The good news is that it will be back on the streets on June 1 thanks to Random House Australia. It will be a Vintage Books imprint, cover image above. More here.
listening to...
The newie from the lush and likable School of Seven Bells. It's called Alpinisms. For a limited time you can (freely and legally) download 'Half Asleep'. The song, which reminds me a bit of The Other Two circa Super Highways, has been getting a beating, rather belatedly, on Rage.
If right-clicking (or alt-clicking for you Garden of Edeners) (or should that be Gardeners of Eden?) (nah) on this link doesn't work, go to Triple J's newfreemusic and scroll down the list and DIY. It's a site worth bookmarking. The updates are sporadic, but the music is varied and often bloody brilliant.
watching...
Back to the heart-stopping days of Series 5 here. In case it isn't legible, that's "[MI5 are back]" on the cover, not MIB... though you could be forgiven...
And, last but not least, I'm...
twittering...
The experiment begins.
Just as this blog is about as unbloggy as it's possible to get -- this post and my very occasional mogblogging excepted! -- my twittering will be news/reviews/recommendations rather than "I'm on the bog"... more ticker-tape than parade. [As you can see, I'm a natural at pithy little aphorisms!]
It's pitched at Melbourne readers, for now. You'll find me at: MelbourneArts.
Bad news and good news...Incomprehensibly, the Pan Macmillan edition (left) of Gail's excellent debut novel Black Mirror is now out of print.
The good news is that it will be back on the streets on June 1 thanks to Random House Australia. It will be a Vintage Books imprint, cover image above. More here.
listening to...
The newie from the lush and likable School of Seven Bells. It's called Alpinisms. For a limited time you can (freely and legally) download 'Half Asleep'. The song, which reminds me a bit of The Other Two circa Super Highways, has been getting a beating, rather belatedly, on Rage.
If right-clicking (or alt-clicking for you Garden of Edeners) (or should that be Gardeners of Eden?) (nah) on this link doesn't work, go to Triple J's newfreemusic and scroll down the list and DIY. It's a site worth bookmarking. The updates are sporadic, but the music is varied and often bloody brilliant.
watching...
Back to the heart-stopping days of Series 5 here. In case it isn't legible, that's "[MI5 are back]" on the cover, not MIB... though you could be forgiven...
And, last but not least, I'm...
twittering...
The experiment begins.
Just as this blog is about as unbloggy as it's possible to get -- this post and my very occasional mogblogging excepted! -- my twittering will be news/reviews/recommendations rather than "I'm on the bog"... more ticker-tape than parade. [As you can see, I'm a natural at pithy little aphorisms!]
It's pitched at Melbourne readers, for now. You'll find me at: MelbourneArts.
posted by Chris Boyd at 12:21 PM
7 Comments:
Pfft. Just got told the other day that a lot of publishing news comes out on Twitter too.
I cannot twitter, I am already naturally twittery enough without introducing mechanical stimuli. It would be quite mad.
(THinking further about this - try talking to four kids for over twenty years, one communicating atypically, and see how Twitter grabs you after that. I HAZ ALREADY DONE IT and want to talk in complete sentences for the rest of my life please. Except whilst texting, of course.)
*sational*
Pleased to see you have an RSS feed on it though.
O brave new world, that has such twitting in it! Onya, Chris. I'll witness with interest. But I don't think tweeting is for me, either. It's like the Facebook thing on speed.
Thank-you, Alison, for not saying "that has such twits in it."
And G&T, if twitting was *all* done in lolkitteh speek, the world would be a better place.
P.S. RSS largely feed beyond my control (and entirely beyond my comprehension!) (No, wait, it's the other way round!)
There's a poet who blogs in lolspeak and his name is David Prater.
Is this the Spooks series about to screen on the ABC?
Actually, no. The promos I've seen are for Spooks 6, the series before this latest DVD release. Pathetic, hey?
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