YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #134: MY SECRET BEAUTY ROUTINE

Good morning, Internet.

Liz Phair will share her beauty secrets with you now.

Yes.

Don’t knock it til you try it,

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I’M READING AS FAST AS I CAN (AUGUST 2012 EDITION)

Burning my way through the “to read” pile for yr entertainment.

JUST FINISHED

Dracula Lives! by Joshua R Reynolds

Once again I am in a position where I get to review a book written by someone who actually reads this blog (in this case Joshua Reynolds, though I’m not 100% sure he’s still on LJ). As the title might suggest, it’s a pulp-action horror tale starring Jonas Cream, a sort of freelance British agent mixed up in a plot to retrieve a McGuffin that, it turns out, will resurrect Dracula. It’s a decent story, fast-paced to the point where you get two extended action sequences every chapter. There’s also a lot of quipping. I liked it, though my only real complaint is that with something like five or six different parties fighting over the McGuffin, it gets difficult to keep track of who works for who even before the plot twists start kicking in – at least for me.

JUST STARTED

To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis

In my quest to try and find more female authors to read, Connie Willis gets name-dropped a lot, and I think I actually read one of her early books, Water Witch, back in the 80s, but I don’t remember much about it. Anyway, I thought I’d give this time travel tale a go, even though it involves a lot of Victorian England, which is usually something that makes me turn away. On the other hand, it’s also influenced by classic British comedy, so I’ll take a chance.

( RECENTLY: Asimov! Stark! Ellroy! Pirates! Scientists! )

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dEFROG ON 45 #38: WORKING ON MYSTERIES WITHOUT ANY CLUES

One of the interesting things about listening to music when yr a kid is the lack of context. You just react to the song itself without knowing anything about the history of the artist or band. Sometimes they don’t have much history at all, of course. Sometimes they have far more history than you’d suspect.

Like Bob Seger.

I liked “Night Moves” a lot when I first heard it on the radio. And of course I had no idea who Seger was, or the fact that he started in Detroit in the early 60s. I just thought the song sounded cool.

Still, it didn’t really make me much of a Seger fan. Or maybe it did, but pretty much every song he released after this got so much airplay that I got tired of hearing him. Hey, “Turn The Page” is a really song, but when you hear it four times a day for most of high school, the shine wears off.

Anyway, I still like this one – maybe because it's been long enough since the last time I heard it. Or maybe because it's all about having sex in the back seat of a car – an all-American activity I'd recommend to anyone. 

And I speak from experience, yo.

FUN FACT: The video for this was made in 1994, almost 20 years after the single was released.

Notice the CMT logo. Because this apparently counts as country music now. (Kind of like how Boston now counts as Soft Rock.)

If you click through to the YouTube site, notice also the adult-content warning.

Also, in case you were wondering, yes that IS Daphne Zuniga and that guy from Friends.

In the back seat,

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