Showing posts with label joe hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joe hill. Show all posts

Friday, 26 July 2013

WRONG IN THE HEARTLAND

She said it's good to see you back in a bar band, baby
I said it's great to see you're still in the bars
- The Hold Steady, Barfruit Blues

Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room there'll be a radio playing
And you'll hear me sing this song
- Bruce Springsteen, Bobby Jean

My first sin was the fear that made me old
- The Gaslight Anthem, The Navesink Blues

In a flash of psychological insight, uncommon for a girl of thirteen, Vic saw that soon enough she would recall all of her trips across the bridge as the fantasies of a very imaginative child and nothing more. Things that had been real . . . would eventually feel like nothing more than daydreams. Without her bike to take her on occasional trips across the Shorter Way, it would be impossible to maintain her belief in a covered bridge that flicked in and out of existence.
- Joe Hill, NOS4A2

You said, I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
I wait for the click, I wait but it doesn't kick in
- The National, City Middle

At 11:32 A.M., Mann passed the truck.
- Richard Matheson, Duel


Raising a glass to Chris Knox, Chris Bateman and Tom Denney, fellow travellers through the Great American Night.


Saturday, 1 June 2013

BEHIND THE VANITY PLATE

Celebrating Joe Hill, finest of writers, and his latest novel NOS4A2, a genuine masterpiece. The slightest of photostories perhaps, but you get the picture.



LEARNING TO SCARE WITH THE BEST OF 'EM
Me and Joe Hill, at Foyles on Tuesday 28th May 2013

WHAT ARE THEY GIVIN' ME?
Joe Hill recreates a Beastie Boys cover, without even trying

Yes, this one

I'M A DOCTOR JIM, NOT A BOOK REVIEWER
Joe Hill was surprised we were at Foyles listening to him when we could have been at a cinema watching the awesome new Star Trek movie

A MESSAGE FROM THE LIBRARIAN
Stamped Here, Iowa

GETTING THE POLAR EXPRESS TO CHRISTMASLAND
Was going here, thanks to Chris Van Allsburg

But ended up here, thanks to Gabriel Rodriguez

Joe Hill explains why

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

WIZARD AND GLASS

OUR IN-HOUSE PRE-COGS DECIDE WHAT OBSESSION-INSPIRING ITEMS 2013 HAS IN STORE FOR WRONG NUMBER



STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS




NOS4A2 by JOE HILL




JOYLAND by STEPHEN KING




JOSS WHEDON doing MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING




DOCTOR WHO'S 5OTH ANNIVERSARY




THE FRINGE FINALE aided by SEPTEMBER'S NOTEBOOK



UPSTREAM COLOR, the follow-up to PRIMER



GAME OF THRONES SEASON 3



AND MUCH MORE BESIDES...