I am participating in NaNoWriMo 2010. I just decided this, and I have the vaguest of ideas for a book, and I really need to flesh out an outline, but I’m having trouble getting the thoughts into an outline this second, and I’m glad my copy of Call of Duty is not in the house, because this is typically the point where I’d switch on the PS3 and spend the next three hours “thinking about my outline”. This is a story I’ve gone back and forth on for the last year, and reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch earlier this year made me realize I totally need to do it. So I’ll get there. I have two days to start an outline, or at least have enough of an outline that I can start typing on Monday.
So yeah, that probably means I won’t be updating on here much for a month. I’m sure both of you readers will be okay. If not, there’s a thousand old posts here. And if you get really desperate, you could always go read a book.
I’ve been listening to Sabbath’s Master of Reality on repeat for the last couple of days. I think it’s one of their best albums, and for whatever reason, you can’t get it on iTunes. You can in the UK, but you can’t buy music in the UK iTunes store if you have a US account. I realized I did not have a copy of this on CD, and it was missing from my iTunes library, even though I am certain I had a CD of it in the mid-90s when I went on this Black Sabbath fit of purchasing and bought everything of theirs I could find. (I think this was around the time I had my first root canal and got Vicodin. I also think this was around the time I was interviewing someone for a tech writing position, and the whole thing went south, so I started asking them trivia questions about Black Sabbath.) Anyway, I got a copy of it – it was re-released in the UK a couple of years ago with more bonus tracks than original tracks, which is great if you want to hear a version of “Orchid” where Tony Iommi starts the track by coughing and then counting in, but maybe that’s a bit obsessive if you’re just a stoner rock fan who wants to hear “Sweet Leaf” because it’s been covered by 84,238 other bands, who probably all think it’s pretty damn original when they decide to cover it. Probably the hardest part of assembling a Sabbath tribute album is 90% of the tracks submitted are covers of “Sweet Leaf.”
Okay, I really need to do at least a token amount of work on this outline.