Questions
by Will
Answer any or all:
- I want a better profile pic for my twitter. What should I do?
- In the book version of Let The Right One In, the vampire Eli describes once meeting an older vampire and asking why there weren’t more of them? The older vampire answers, and then points at Eli’s chest and coyly suggests something I do not understand. Explain that.
- Is it harder and harder to feel like one knows the current music scene, or is it just something all aging hipsters like myself feel?
- Is it okay if I describe myself as an aging hipster?
- I have eight unspoken for ISBNs and I’m going to use them to publish books by me and my friends. No question here, but if you have suggestions for books I’d like to hear.
- Could it be that the reason the dBs never got any bigger was the lead vocals were never really that powerful, despite the great song writing and arranging?
- You know that very sweet video some teenager made which is just footage of a girl sheepishly walking around a 7-11? And you know how lots of people crapped their pants over it? Am I a dick for thinking that that video is good MOSTLY because it had the good sense to put a good song underneath the footage and that we SHOULD be complimenting the music?
- Anyone know a simpler way to record a podcast than how I’m doing it? I do this: shotgun mikes into a mixer through RCA cables into the “line in” input of a Mac Book Pro into Garage Band. Export as .aiff, edit with Final Cut Pro, export as .aif and use iTunes to change to an mp3. Phew!
- How does Ricky J do anything that he does? Especially the History of Cup and Balls?
- Will we all live to see America be as wonderful as it could be? Or at least to experience hoverboards? How about food pills? Food pills! Food pills!
- Will someone ever dig up a piece of paper that resolves once and for all: who Shakespeare was addressing his sonnets to, what happened to Amelia Earheart, or what Kurt Cobain’s next album would have sounded like?
- What is the scariest short story I could read?
- Will I ever successfully do a Scottish accent on stage? What if I do not wish to put any work or concentration into this task?
- Will I ever live in another city?
- I know I’d prefer invisibility to flying, but how about phasing vs. turning to steel? Emotionally they are similar.
- Will I see Marvel Comics make an original roster of superheros that eclipses the Kirby pantheon? Not that I have anything against the Kirby pantheon, but forty years is a long time to base a company on re-runs.
- Farting, body odor or nose hairs? Which is worse and why?
- That’s it!
Comments
Is it okay if I describe myself as an aging hipster?
-Only if you own all the original Pavement 7″es.
Anyone know a simpler way to record a podcast than how I’m doing it? I do this: shotgun mikes into a mixer through RCA cables into the “line in” input of a Mac Book Pro into Garage Band. Export as .aiff, edit with Final Cut Pro, export as .aif and use iTunes to change to an mp3. Phew!
-USB condenser mic into Garage Band, export directly into iTunes, change into an mp3 there.
Will we all live to see America be as wonderful as it could be? Or at least to experience hoverboards? How about food pills? Food pills! Food pills!
-No.
What is the scariest short story I could read?
-Almost anything by Brian Evenson
Will I see Marvel Comics make an original roster of superheros that eclipses the Kirby pantheon? Not that I have anything against the Kirby pantheon, but forty years is a long time to base a company on re-runs.
-Runaways?
Make sure you pick a twitter avatar that doesn’t take up so much memory that it freaks out mobile phone apps. A small file, I guess.
I’ve written a great book and may have trouble getting it published. Where did you find these ISBN’s? Did someone leave them behind in a cab?
Ricky Jay practices a ton. He’s somewhere practicing right now. I count researching as practicing, because god knows he does that too.
Think Scrooge McDuck.
That 7-11 video is the exact same video that every art kid coming up in the HD era either has made or will make when they get their first camera with a focus wheel. Seriously, in college I saw a hundred videos exactly like that one, and they all had a Sigur Ros or Iron & Wine song under them. Good for that kid for getting started early, I guess, but let’s just let this one go and hope he makes something interesting in the future.
Oh god, am I a curmudgeon?
Q: What is the scariest short story I could read?
A: I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison.
Q: Will I see Marvel Comics make an original roster of superheros that eclipses the Kirby pantheon? Not that I have anything against the Kirby pantheon, but forty years is a long time to base a company on re-runs.
A: Consider Kirby a small speck of inspiration for a publishing company that puts out 90% filler anyways. Sure they had more cartoons when we were kids, but seriously, just read DC. Marvel is done. Disney-done.
Q: Anyone know a simpler way to record a podcast than how I’m doing it? I do this: shotgun mikes into a mixer through RCA cables into the “line in” input of a Mac Book Pro into Garage Band. Export as .aiff, edit with Final Cut Pro, export as .aif and use iTunes to change to an mp3. Phew!
A: You could just do the editing in Garage Band. It was largely built with the intention of editing podcasts.
Q: Is it okay if I describe myself as an aging hipster?
A: I think by definition, hipsters can’t self-label. So I suppose it would be ultra-hipster if you did. Go for it.
Q: Farting, body odor or nose hairs? Which is worse and why?
A: Body odor, as it is constant and unavoidable. Nose hairs are difficult to spot from more than a couple feet away, and farting is rarely a constant problem.
Q: Will we all live to see America be as wonderful as it could be? Or at least to experience hoverboards? How about food pills? Food pills! Food pills!
A: http://2010book.tumblr.com/post/310745454/cover
book idea: Shannon O’Neill’s short stories / dream journal / neological obscenities
Memoirs by the Nights Of Our Lives heavy hitters.
Neil Casey, Boy Mortician: Some Career Highlights (graphic novel)
* I have eight unspoken for ISBNs and I’m going to use them to publish books by me and my friends. No question here, but if you have suggestions for books I’d like to hear.
A collected-anecdotal history of the UCBT.
A biography of Bob Ross.
An anthology entitled “Aging Hipsters.”
* How does Ricky J do anything that he does? Especially the History of Cup and Balls?
Ours is not to question, just to enjoy and marvel.
* What is the scariest short story I could read?
The Cask of Amontillado.
* Will I ever successfully do a Scottish accent on stage? What if I do not wish to put any work or concentration into this task?
No. Everyone’s entitled to have their own accent blind spots.
* Farting, body odor or nose hairs? Which is worse and why?
Body odor. It’s the only thing that will make me leave a cab.