Short Post and a Song #152: YAAAAAAAAAY

Your regular Short Post programming is being interrupted this Sunday because hey guys, guess what? My young-adult dystopian novel, VIABLE, is now available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon! You can buy it here. 

Look at it there, looking all book-like. Pretty cool to see after nearly eight years working on the bastard.

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"Crystallize" by Lindsey Stirling

Whenever I imagine VIABLE as a movie I imagine someone like Lindsey Stirling as Baine. At thirty-one Stirling is a tad too old to play sixteen, and I have no idea if she can act, but her skill with the violin and the physicality she brings to her playing would just suit Baine's character so well.

Short Post and a Song #151: The Pixar lamp makes a small but memorable cameo in Season 3.

Steve Miller Dan: Is there anything you wanna watch?

Me: Have you maybe changed your mind about Friday Night Lights?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Dan: [laughs] No.

Me: But it’s not about football! It’s about the—

The Time Traveler's Dan: I know, I know, it’s about the—

Me: —characters.

The Danulator: —lights.

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"Hash Pipe" by Weezer

After many, many years I am very grateful to say that I can finally listen to Weezer again. When the Green Album came out I fell in love with the band's sound. Once I discovered that Weezer had done even more amazing music seven years earlier, I entered a phase of heavy Weezer listening that stretched from middle school well into college.

It took a while, but eventually I managed to kill all the Weezer songs I'd loved best by playing them over, and over, and over, sucking the soul out of them with no thought to my future self's happiness. And so I've spent several years only listening to "Buddy Holly" or "Island in the Sun" in cars and restaurants, bored by what had once been some of my most favorite songs.

But then the other day I was able to randomly hear "Hash Pipe" and both A) enjoy it, and B) not immediately realize what song it was. When I did figure out the song I went on a Weezer listening spree and all my old favorites welcomed me back with open arms. It was a beautiful experience, one I hope you'll all eventually find with bands you've murdered for yourselves.

This happened right in the nick of time, since I have been on the lookout for angsty, angry music as inspiration for my Rebel rewrite, and it doesn't get much more "just try to fuck with me and I will kick you in the face with my angsty teenage combat boot" than this song's bass line.