SHAMELESS
Here is a selection of the colors in which SATURN is now available, alongside commentary with what movie I was watching when I learned that these covers existed, basically:
1) Red: I am pretty sure that I watched The Skin I Live In the same night that I received these (it was very rainy), which is potentially appropriate because that movie is all about masks, costumed invaders, abuses of the ultra-rich, dastardly medical procedures, and Marisa Paredes (so often does life become an erotic thriller). (Did you ever see The Flower of My Secret? It is EXCELLENT.)
("gory," "blood" version);
2) Silver: when I saw these, I think I was reading
The Dream of Doctor Bantam
, by Jeanne Thornton, which is a book that I love and which I would recommend to virtually any reader. Here are no. 2-6 on the itemized list of “things that I loved about this book,” as written enthusiastically in an email to its author (no. 1 was incomprehensible even to me):
2. the sentence on p. 91 in which Julie wraps herself up with a sheet "like a human pita";3. the canoe scene, specifically on the rocks;4. when Julie bums a cigarette from the 'patch-and-hemp' kid and thinks, "I do not want to take this cigarette from this person. I hate this person. I despise this person for his weakness," and then takes it anyway;5. when Patrice asks Julie if she's proud of her for being the youngest Unbound;6. the whole freaking opening scene, pants, ihop and all.
Holistically, it kinda reminds me of a World/Inferno Friendship Society song.
(my mother's favorite version of the cover, because it's "less gory" and "less clear what is going on");
3) Green: I don't remember what I was doing here. Do you?
(Speaking of which, I would like to point that there is a Beach Boys song (pt. 2 of "California Saga"), which includes the very traditionally un-Beach Boys-like lyric: "spilled down the hill, a wagon-load of bodies lay scattered.")
(I call this the "poor little greenie" version, Spork: "Slime and Gilded Blood Edition," which is somewhat more ornate);
4) Blue: I think I saw these on the same day as was released the full cover of David James Keaton's The Last Projector , which comes out Halloween of this year and will probably be the best book about movies ever written. (If you have ever read this blog, you have read of DJK - he wrote a zombie novella, a short story collection called Fish Bites Cop! whose decorative murders rival Nick Cave, and is the subject of an 8,000-word interview that remains unpublished, where the topic that takes up the most space is the physical consistency of blood across several movie-decades.)
(Spork: "summer bluez"; I prefer "cosmic").
*SATURN has gotten a pretty exciting amount of attention lately - I'll spare you all the grisly details here (you can check the special SATURN tab above for links to pretty much everything including reviews in The Rumpus and NANO Fiction; clicking virtually anywhere on this blog will send you places to buy it), but I am very grateful to everyone who's bought it thus far. If you've done so, let me know what you think! I may have a special surprise for you.
Have a pleasant night (watch a movie you fruitcake),Simon
1) Red: I am pretty sure that I watched The Skin I Live In the same night that I received these (it was very rainy), which is potentially appropriate because that movie is all about masks, costumed invaders, abuses of the ultra-rich, dastardly medical procedures, and Marisa Paredes (so often does life become an erotic thriller). (Did you ever see The Flower of My Secret? It is EXCELLENT.)("gory," "blood" version);
2) Silver: when I saw these, I think I was reading
The Dream of Doctor Bantam
, by Jeanne Thornton, which is a book that I love and which I would recommend to virtually any reader. Here are no. 2-6 on the itemized list of “things that I loved about this book,” as written enthusiastically in an email to its author (no. 1 was incomprehensible even to me):2. the sentence on p. 91 in which Julie wraps herself up with a sheet "like a human pita";3. the canoe scene, specifically on the rocks;4. when Julie bums a cigarette from the 'patch-and-hemp' kid and thinks, "I do not want to take this cigarette from this person. I hate this person. I despise this person for his weakness," and then takes it anyway;5. when Patrice asks Julie if she's proud of her for being the youngest Unbound;6. the whole freaking opening scene, pants, ihop and all.
Holistically, it kinda reminds me of a World/Inferno Friendship Society song.
(my mother's favorite version of the cover, because it's "less gory" and "less clear what is going on");
3) Green: I don't remember what I was doing here. Do you? (Speaking of which, I would like to point that there is a Beach Boys song (pt. 2 of "California Saga"), which includes the very traditionally un-Beach Boys-like lyric: "spilled down the hill, a wagon-load of bodies lay scattered.")
(I call this the "poor little greenie" version, Spork: "Slime and Gilded Blood Edition," which is somewhat more ornate);
4) Blue: I think I saw these on the same day as was released the full cover of David James Keaton's The Last Projector , which comes out Halloween of this year and will probably be the best book about movies ever written. (If you have ever read this blog, you have read of DJK - he wrote a zombie novella, a short story collection called Fish Bites Cop! whose decorative murders rival Nick Cave, and is the subject of an 8,000-word interview that remains unpublished, where the topic that takes up the most space is the physical consistency of blood across several movie-decades.)
(Spork: "summer bluez"; I prefer "cosmic").
*SATURN has gotten a pretty exciting amount of attention lately - I'll spare you all the grisly details here (you can check the special SATURN tab above for links to pretty much everything including reviews in The Rumpus and NANO Fiction; clicking virtually anywhere on this blog will send you places to buy it), but I am very grateful to everyone who's bought it thus far. If you've done so, let me know what you think! I may have a special surprise for you.
Have a pleasant night (watch a movie you fruitcake),Simon
Published on August 14, 2014 18:54
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