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I'm editing my next novel.
I think it is edit #3.
Or maybe edit #4
or more.

I am alternating between
liking it
and thinking that it's a
a hunk o'junk.

Deadline September.
Breakdown October.
Publication spring 2012.
Wish me luck.

Sometimes writing
feels
like
this.

(Somewhere in Scotland, last month, photo by Adelle.)

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(From Dangerousminds.net)

"I run the underworld, guy."

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Hip-hop and festivals: an awkward relationship

When they get it right, rappers can rival stadium rock acts. But a mere gust of wind can expose how few MCs can hack festivals.

It's all about bass and beats. Nothing tops the feeling of a heavy, booming bass line reverberating through the soil and up your legs, alongside a syncopated drum line amplified through speakers the size of houses. Both are synonymous with festivals, and few genres deliver these as well as hip-hop.

Yet, often, when rap acts appear at festivals, all you get is bass and beats; it's almost as if the MCs needn't bother turning up. Read on...

I wrote a big article
on Kate Bush for
Classic Rock's
Prog magazine.

"Out now."

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From Young Dirty Bastard to Wolfgang Van Halen, musical offspring are following in their rock star folks' footsteps. Read on...

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Grot Talk

I interviewed New York-based author Robert Rosen for Bizarre magazine about his time as a smut-peddler working deep in America's grot media (ie. writing and editing over 100 porno titles in the genre's 1980s heyday) and also his new book Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography.

You can read the article here - just click the scans to see them full size...

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