MZD [4&5/9?]
Two more mp3s of MZD! I am almost done with this series! The next one up is a hugely long one, so I may put up some Tori Amos files in the meantime. The first mp3 today is very short, which I didn’t realize. The second is about Danny Elfman, and the amount of work that went into laying out the pages of Only Revolutions.
MZD- Only Revolutions Book Signing
Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, recently embarked on a book tour to promote the paperback version of Only Revolutions.
Before he began reading parts of Only Revolutions, MZD decided to start with a passage from HoL which he felt indicated the beginnings of the ideas for Only Revolutions.
He didn’t have a copy of HoL on him, so instead of taking one of the new bookstore copies, he marked mine up instead.
I’m pretty sure it’s page 399, but since I lent it out to a friend, I can’t check.
The mp3 of the book reading will be up shortly.
From the Archives: Tori Amos- Summer of Sin, Holmdel, NJ
Here’s a video of a rather infamous Tori Amos show in Holmdel, NJ, during the Summer of Sin tour in 2005. The microphones cut off at the beginning of Father Lucifer. While Tori tried to get herself back together, the microphones cut out again and again.
The video’s a bit shaky, since I was shooting from all the way back on the lawn. Thankfully, the PNC Bank Arts Center has huge video screens so you actually are able to see Tori’s facial reaction to all of this.
Hopefully nothing like this will happen during her new tour for American Doll Posse, which began last night in Albany. I will be at both Boston shows, DC, and Plat VIP for Chicago. Expect more videos and photos.
The transcription of the video is below the cut.
Randall Munroe, xkcd [4&5&6/6]
So the last few bits and pieces are finally up. They’re pretty short, because like I said, by the end of the day I felt terrible about taking up so much time and space.
Here we go!
Randall Munroe, xkcd [3/6]
Yet another Randall Munroe mp3. This one is a lot harder to make out at the end because I backed up a bit. I felt kind of bad about standing RIGHT next to him all the time with a mic in his face because first of all, it’s creepy, and second, other people wanted to get near him.
Just to clarify, it starts with him talking about police and permits again, and ends with him signing an iPhone on the screen (but not really).
This mp3 has my favorite line yelled by some guy in the crowd–
“Great, we’ve been hacked in real life.”
new mp3s tomorrow
I’ve been a bit busy the past two days travelling from Boston to New Jersey. Public transportation is not friendly to internet access. I managed to transcribe the last three worthwhile mp3s of Randall Munroe. They will be up tomorrow after I get out of work. I’ll upload the rest untranscribed as crowd noise. They’re not really worth going through to pull out single lines, but if you want to get an idea of the atmosphere, they’re pretty helpful.
After I’m done with these, I plan on doing MZD, and then maybe some old footage of Bruce Campbell or Tori Amos.
Thanks for reading!
quick note–
If you haven’t already read it, my article about the meetup can be found here on the website for Journalism Students’ Online News Service (JSONS).
It’s nearly broken 500 page views, while every other article is hovering around 50. This makes me really excited, and my editor somewhat confused.
Also, I know it gives me a different last name. Name changes are terrible and time-consuming, but rest assured, I did in fact write that article, and transcribe these mp3s.
Thanks for reading.
