What's New Archive, January 03 - November, 2004
July 24, 2004
I have got to get internet access at home again. Sheesh. Anyhoo: I've all but put the finishing touches on my latest web design project for a lovely former professor of mine. If'n yer interested, check it out at plpub.com (Pretty Lady Publishing). Also, the website for my band, Aporia, is lookin' pretty good over at aporia.agog.net. We even have a new record out, and it's damn snazzy!
Otherwise, I'm off to re-conquer the East Coast in about a week, and then it's time to buckle down and finish "An Absence of Myth," which is now in its 16th chapter. Oh and P.S. I GRADUATED!
February 22, 2004
*dusts off the ol' website* Been awhile! A brand new short story is posted for your reading pleasure (it's fairly graphic though, so be forewarned): Follow the link to "Parenthetical".
In the meantime, work continues on my many other web projects: Pretty Lady Publishing (creators of fine, original musicals), SOA-Watch Madison, and eventually, Heartless Bitch Entertainment (party-throwers straight outta Chicago).
That is all.
December 15, 2003
Madness and cheese. Seriously. But new things! Please to be enjoying new poems: "crossing places and thresholds", and "Love Song for No One".
Also, a new short/novella-length story is in progress and methinks I shall begin posting sections of it as it's written. Stay tuned and all that.
November 22, 2003
Well, our run of "A Midsummer Nights Dream" is about to come to a smashing end, and all-in-all I have to say it's been one of our better shows. Lots of praise from lots of people, which is always a nice bonus, but more importantly much quality time (and some more insanity inducing time, but ah well) spent with quality people. Anyhoo, I've posted some pictures of our more crazy backstage exploits over at the picture gallery pages: Midsummers!
Also, my band's website is getting more and more smoothed out, PLUS you can now access mp3s of some of our songs there. Oh and our new album is printed and ready for distribution, which is very fabulous. aporia.agog.net
October 13, 2003
Workworkwork. A very wise friend of mine suggested to me today that "All work and no play makes Emily a Communist." I shall have to take his word on that, and start getting out more. I mean, for heaven's sake, we can't have things getting all blockish and gray around these parts, now can we? Lord knows communists have absolutely no sense of style.
In any case, there are new things up at ye olde site (I do so enjoy archaic/trendy spellings), and I should encourage you to have a look around, for some of these changes are stylistic. There are, however, quite a few content additions:
For one, I've created the proto-version of my band's very own website. It can be found at its own agog nook, aporia.agog.net, Aporia being the name of the band (butofcourse).
For two, there are four new poems up at the poetry corner (and a new banner, too!). They are: "Shoplifting At the Generation Gap", "Dynamic Tension", "We Have Family In...", and "Words Meaning Less". Actually, the newest one is from April of this year...so really they're just new to you, my dear, imaginary readers.
Sadly, it's slow going on the novel as of lates, but I promise to spank myself back into gear (doesn't take much persuasion) and get crackin' again...well, as soon as the current show has finished its run, anyway. Think late November. I shall mark the occassion of my birthday by writing again, eh?
September 11, 2003
Two years ago, I was living in the House of Shit, glued to the picture box, shaking my head at the gas station across the street jacking up gas prices for the line of cars that waited. Two years ago the weather was clearer--less hazy than today. Two years ago there was hope of peace in the Middle East, good relations between the U.S and Them. Today I destroyed my picture box.
My band, still unnamed, has some rough recordings up at mp3.com/justin_woodward. Go check 'em out!
Also, it is very lovely when musicians unexpectedly sign your guestbook, thanking you for playing their music on your radio show. Alice Bierhorst is one such lovely artist. She makes good music.
Oh and, between co-editing the campus paper, class work, and staging a bloodless coup to take over the school lit mag, I've been busy. Please be patient. :)
August 29, 2003
Classes have begun. This means that I see my beloved home/bed for a total of only 6-8 hours a day, and my computer even less. But things have been happening, regardless:
1) I may soon be co-editor of the college's paper, "On the Edge".
2) The Non-Violence conference fast approaches, and the website is regularly updated at agog.net/batgirl/peacefulworld/. Also, Justin and I (my current band-with-no-name) will be playing a set at said conference on the night of September 19. We've been playing all over this great city, and should soon have a full album out on CD and on mp3. Currently, you can check out his solo stuff at artists.mp3s.com/artists/481/justin_woodward.html.
3) I have a new computer chair that is not made of metal, and has padding!
August 4, 2003
Busy, busy, busy (Vonnegut hasn't copyright that, has he?). Well, I'm proud to say that I've gotten a whole bucketful of things done this summer. One of them being officially designing and publishing my first ever "professional" website. People keep telling me it's a "professional" website, but I can't help but think them a little daft. Maybe the idea of me being at all "professional" is just going to take a while to settle in.
In any case, the good ol' Edgewood Theatre Department now has their very own website. Thanks to the immeasurable contributions and tutelage of my favorite Steve, the site is up and running, with only a few minor touch-ups required. edgereg.edgewood.edu/theatre is the place!
And then it snowballed, and I volunteered by web savvy services yet again, to another very worthy cause. As a member of the planning committee for a fairly large nonviolence/SOAW conference being hosted at my college, I whipped together this little beauty for the occassion: agog.net/batgirl/peacefulworld. Should be good times.
And now that the director of the Theatre Department has seen my handywork and seems to be mostly impressed (big sigh of relief), he's asked me to start work on a website for his production company. Hell, I didn't even know the man had a production company, but hey, live an' learn.
So the moral of the story is: forsake the light of day, and ye shall succeed in business without really trying. No wait, the moral of the story is: I'm only up to chapter 14 of "An Absence of Myth" because I've been working on so many other projects. Grumble. But I have started writing again, so hopefully things will continue along at an acceptable pace. In the meantime, please enjoy this fun link! CRAZY GO NUTS!
June 6, 2003
So, many things have come and gone and some will never leave, much like a bad rash. But happily, one of my short stories won the Edgewood College Writing Awards, which scored me $100 which I promptly went out and spent on booze and strippers (what kind of writer would I be if I did anything else?). The piece that won, if'n yer curious, was "A Life Androgynous". Who knew.
In other news, I'm thinking of doing a complete overhaul on the site. It's time for some serious change, methinks, so be on the look-out for something (hopefully) slicker and easier to navigate. In the meantime, please to be checking out a new and very lovely endeavour that I am involved in: "Aporia".
Oh yeah and, moved January thru December 2002 What's New updates to the What's New Archives.
March 30, 2003
OH MY GOD! (You killed Kenny?) I met Tori Amos! And I got to interview her, too. Oh yeah, she hugged me. That was pretty cool as well. I'll be posting a full transcript of the interview (it was way peachy) plus my own color commentary on the experience sometime soon, never fear.
Oh yeah and the whole of my old punk band's (Milk) album is now availible in mp3 format: Go check it out. :)
March 18, 2003
Welcome to the strange and wonderful land of the blog! Of the mythical, fictional blog no less! Yes, yes, I have graciously offered my writing services to a lovely collective of fellow Bards who have concocted this zany scheme involving the web blogs of Xena and Gabrielle. Yes, that Xena and Gabrielle. Personally, I'll be playing the parts of Ephiny and Hercules. What's that you say? Why yes! I am quite versatile, thank you! (never mind that I'm also a huge dork)
Xena's Blog and Gabrielle's Blog
March 12, 2003
A strange little girl, as one member of the Holy Trinity o' Musique would say (well, if it were a song)--a short piece of prose added to the stories section:
"A Life Androgynous"
I'm in the driver's seat of the bus, everyone's packed into the handbasket, and we're just waiting for the word to go.
January 13, 2003
Ah, a new year, a new chance to make fools of ourselves! Many things have happened, are happening, and will happen...and well, I like it that way. If only our government would get its head out of its collective arse. One can dream, eh?
Anyway, new things: "The Myth of the Pax Americana As It Relates To Impending War With Iraq" is a little sum-sum I've whipped together over yonder in the "thoughts" section. It's all in-depth and full of righteous indignation. Just my style.
The XX Review, as in the actual show, has found a new home for the spring semester, Thursday nights from Midnight til 2AM. Ah, at last! I can play songs with naughty words in them!
Much re-vamping and additives have been seen 'round these here parts o' the web. Check it out!
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