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My Record Day 2009 haul

Ashes of American Flags, the new DVD from Wilco (which comes with a free download of mp3s of the songs featured in the movie, a nice bonus)

The Dukes of Stratosphear "25 O'Clock" and "Psonic Psunspot" reissues, which are very handsomely packaged with a wealth of liner notes written by the band members themselves

Derek Trucks Band live EP "Already Live" yay jam rock

My Morning Jacket "Celebracion de la Cuidad Natal" double 10" EP album (fortunately with bonus CD, since I don't yet have a turntable)

Bad Company's first two albums remastered, because I feel like I can't get enough of their good lovin' gone bad

All told, I injected $120 into the local Berkeley indie rock economy

Tangle of cables

My nomination for piece of modern art most reminiscent of my room at home.

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High end trader bob

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My favorite work so far

Titled "installation in progress"

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"no coke, only kalkalash"

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Cab ride

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JFK

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Bands that have songs with the same name on their debut album

Inspired by @capndesign's tweet:

http://twitter.com/capndesign/status/1413475391

Built to Spill
Metal Church
Living in a Box
Talk Talk
Imperial Teen
Bad Company

Close but no cigar:

The Clash "Clash City Rockers"
Cracker "(This is) Cracker Soul"
Big Country "(In a) Big Country"

Can you think of any others?

Evenglow

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The serialization of 1989 A Novel has begun

I’ve started serializing 1989 A Novel, which some of you may remember I posted excerpts from to Vox about a year ago. This novel, which I’ve been writing on and off for the past thirteen years, is set during the titular year in a seaside college town named Santa Zita, which bears a suspiciously close resemblance to Santa Cruz, CA, where I attended college. I’d love to be able to that it’s not a semi-autobiographical coming of age novel, but... that would be a lie.

The first scene of the novel, “The Worst Way to Wake Up” was posted on Sunday night and can be accessed via the following Universal Resource Locator:

http://fozboot.typepad.com/notes-for-a-future-novel/2009/03/0101-tim-is-woken-up-by-todd-and-helen-romping.html

As I promised two weeks ago, my plan is to post extracts from the novel scene by scene until it’s done. That will be easier during Part I, which is mostly written, but will get harder later this year.

I don’t have a precise schedule for posting, but I’m going to try to do it every weekend, probably on Sunday. So if you’re interested in reading along, please subscribe to the RSS feed for my writing blog:

http://fozboot.typepad.com/notes-for-a-future-novel/atom.xml

Or you can follow me on Twitter, since posting announcements will also appear there:

http://twitter.com/djchall