My buddy Austin and I find movies for each other. Or we used to. Back when we actually had time to do things like watch movies and then share them with each other.
(The best moment is when, on the same day, we each picked out Donnie Darko for the other one. Unbeknownst to the other. [...]
Out there in the spotlight/You’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy/You try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body/Like the music that you play
Later in the evening/As you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers/Ringin’ in your head
You smoke the day’s last cigarette,/Rememberin’ what she said
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I should start by [...]
I spent the last few days at Berea College, digging through the Appalachian Feuds special collections. There was some good information there. It’s mostly filler material, the backdrop information for the story. But I have 200 pages of material coming to me.
The drive down was spectacular. While some folks complain about the flatlands of Indiana, [...]
I’ve been in the special collections section of the Berea College archives. Until recently, this school had a large number of files associated with my family and the 100-year feud in Southern Kentucky. Apparently those files are now in Manchester, the County Seat.
Still, I found some interesting tidbits in the New York Times:
From April [...]
I’m currently working on a book, a memoir really, about my family.
It’s one of several projects I have going at the moment, and I’m not entirely sure how I am going to pull all these off. But I’m never quite sure how I’m going to pull anything off. I just keep putting on foot in [...]
Thing 2: Some of us are trying to raise kids here, and we’ve got plenty of cultural self-loathing to fight already, thanks.
– comment from Techno-Files, or Why I Learned to Hate the Coast
There’s a certain Appalachian small townie-ness that has come to the Web, a place built on instant communication, community and conversation. It’s subversive.
I [...]
I’m a few weeks behind on my vlog about Pitching a Book.
My ruminations on the agent’s response to my book proposal (hint: it was a great response), storytelling and Quentin Tarantino.
I’ll be chronicling my adventures writing my book So Far Appalachia. Also, I will be lobbying to have John Cusack play me in the movie (and if I can work it out, maybe meet with Diablo Cody — you know, just cause I love her words.)
I’ve put together a podcast reading of my book proposal for those of you who would rather not read.
All I ask is that you give me feedback. Good, mean feedback.
