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PICNIC IN THE RUINS from Counterpoint Press. Pater Familias. Novelist. Professor of Creative Writing and Film. Repped by: Sobel/Weber.
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The idea is just coming together. I'm likely to post here about it as assignments come together.
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I went to a cotillion in college, which was my villain origin story.
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I love the image of a slasher having to swap batteries mid-slash.
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I sniffle and sleep, and the spiders file in.
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All of the spiders probably.
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This is the greatest thing possible.
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I love that phrase "itinerant mentalist"
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Also, I hate waiting but I would love reading this with my son.
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That's really cool.
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Emma. It's so Sophoclean.
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Just listened to side 1. So rich and wonderful.
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Phew. It'll only take a million years. Sort of like boarding a plane.
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My apologies for the blanket statement. I get flummoxed on these roads, mostly with this airport, which appears to have been built by casino designers.
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So true. Also, this idea of aligning learning to what someone is already interested in keeps that person from discovering something they didn't yet have an interest in. It hampers curiosity and discovery.
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I would go to see that.
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I that red bat armor is better than all the Batsuits combined.
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On a new project and I just cracked 1300 words. It's true!
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*nods, then shakes head*
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Oh Amber. I just stared into the distance for a long while on your behalf.
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It was in the 40s this morning. Mid 90s Friday.
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I had that thought then looked around and others have said it too. There's Chet Atkins Mark. And JJ Cale Mark and The Boss Mark and of course Mark Knopfler Mark.
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Just listened to it straight through and I was overcome by how much Making Movies was Mark Knopfler's Bruce Springsteen record. Jimmy Iovine producing. Roy Bittan on piano. The feeling is all through it. It's also a peek at where things would go.
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I loved Wim Wenders's Perfect Days.
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Perfect image.
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Alina, this so amazing. I love re-reading that song through your ears. A highschool girlfriend—mother from France, father from Morocco—and I shared a love for Making Movies. I have so much to say about what's happening in my head right now.
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I get the split. I'm going to have to try to make something.
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What a sad and beautiful story.
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📌
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I am so in.
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Now I want a T-shirt that says don't tread on me with ouroboros instead of the other snake.
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*Nods head*
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Both and...
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I'm a writer, my daughter an illustrator, my son a musician, my wife an art education professor. We're all stunned by the people who apparently don't want to make art but don't want their lack of desire to stop them from having made art. Or something, idk.
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This is a solid and important take. Thank you.
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California plates, tho.
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Ruh-Roh — she's on to us.
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But it's from the era and they just don't make them like that anymore. I know I'm not helping, but maybe I am.
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I was literally just tidying up the front room and found a copy of THIS IS HAPPINESS under some things. The sentences are so beautiful.
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Right? Part of me thinks some people (tech bros) want gain without pain. They wish they could be artists, and they don't realize the Muses don't visit machines.