Hope everyone is having a great 2011 so far!  Anyway, this blog is on hiatus for the next few months as I work on my next novel and some other projects (including some new releases from my alter ego Charles Douglas--just visit www.brokenhorse.co.uk if you're bored/curious/want to hear some indie rock music).  As always, just send me an email at ( Read more... )

watching: ENTER THE VOID (amazing--incredibly trippy and disturbing film by Gaspar Noe), LOOKING FOR ERIC, NEVER FOREVER
listening: The Strugglers, Big Moe/DJ Screw, Band of Horses, The xx, Animal Collective, Abe Vigoda, Trans Am
reading: BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA by Sean Wilentz

watching: THE KILLER INSIDE ME, ROCKET SCIENCE, YEAR OF THE DRAGON
listening: Prince, Beck, Strugglers, Billy & Mariah Benson, Pixies
reading: FREEDOM

watching: Clash of the Titans, Inception, Winter's Bone
listening: Anne Bacheley, Mudhoney, Violent Femmes, Best Coast, Spookey Ruben, Neil Young
reading: Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records

watching: Brooklyn's Finest, Hot Tub Time Machine, Toe to Toe
listening: Camera Obscura, Art Brut, Luna, Animal Collective, Pixies, Jody Wildgoose, High on Fire, Spacemen 3
reading: Imperial Bedrooms
writing: nonfiction book
editing: next YA book
eating: breakfast jack from Jack in the Box, yeah!

watching: Zardoz (hilarious--as trippy and insane as I always heard it was)
listening: Lou Reed, Ultra Vivid Scene, Strugglers, Trash Talk, Trans Am, Galaxie 500, Art Brut, Pixies
re-reading: the best parts of Julian Cope's Repossessed

watching: Green Zone
listening to: The Teardrop Explodes, Kevin Tihista, Jesus & Mary Chain, Bjork, Unrest, Chairlift, Strugglers
reading: Repossessed by Julian Cope
eating: samosas.... yum

watching: SHUTTER ISLAND (excellent)
listening: Wavves, Dirty Projectors, VU, Strugglers, Manish Kalvakota, Ratatat, Long Winters
reading: HEAD ON by Julian Cope

Let's see, I haven't posted here in a while.... what have I been up to?  who knows, haha.  Ok, so i've been working on my fifth novel (still revising), and watching a bunch of movies, most recently THE COLLECTOR and ART & COPY (great doc about the ad industry). That's about it for now...

watching: The Yes Men Fix the World (documentary about two saboteurs who pose as corporate spokesmen--pretty funny), Sherlock Holmes, Dancing Across Borders, Women in Trouble
listening: the Guided by Voices marathon continues, plus Alex Chilton, The Long Winters, Dirty Projectors, The xx, Girls, Strugglers, Lou Reed
reading: Born to Run by ( Read more... )