Spent yesterday afternoon in a CBC work room in Toronto while a producer banged together my piece for Outfront. My producer is an ex-pat Scot, I'm of Black Irish descent, so we had a...lively...relationship. When we weren't arguing about what he was cutting from the piece, he did introduce me to a new band--Porcupine Tree--and encouraged me to read Master and Commander. What we came up with in the end is actually quite good, I think. Now it's off to the executive producer. Yay!
Train ride home was a trial. If it wasn't the boozy grandmother reading very loudly to her grandchild, it was the guffawing middle aged woman who just broke into hysterics at whatever her male companion said. I thought for crying out loud, just bang each other so you can get onto the business of bitching about what an asshole he is to your friends. When I finally collapsed onto my couch, there was not a more relieved man in Ontario.
So home today, working on the novel. Since so much of it deals with music, I'm blasting the house with the same. Here, then, is a small sample of what Canada's next great unread novel is being written to:
There's this.
this.
this
Just to mellow things out.
2 comments:
Allow me to push you towards the Aubrey-Maturin adventures, found in the O'Brian novels. Grand adventure in uncharted realms, plus plenty of toasted cheese, flagons of wine and rum, sword fights by the dozen, and more naval lingo than you ever thought you would learn. This a series I read over and over. And the fact that history and real life creeps in makes it all the more entertaining.
Great music choices. Maybe the novel should come with a soundtrack?
Glad you liked the music. I've never heard of Porcupine Tree, but Mother Innnernet tells me that Alex Lifeson plays on the latest album, they've been around since 87, and I can't believe I missed them. And it took a man in his fifties to tell me about them.
The same man was just as enthusiastic about the Aubrey-Maturin novels as you are, David. Outside of the PT recommendation, it was the only time he looked away from the soundboard. He said he's read them all three times through, and that he was sorry to have introduced me to them, since they would now take up a very large part of my life.
So now you recommend them. Guess I'll be hitting Chapters tomorrow now...
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