Observations on a Monday:
There it is, my new atv, knew it was going happen eventually, can I ever say no? I lasted over a year resisting. I see it as a fine pit bike at the track, right? Will tow Big Red back to the pits when she conks out on me...Told Dan I wanted scenic trails, not boring dune seas. I certainly loved my snowmobile growing up, live in AZ, you ride sand instead of snow right?
Got Neil on CFOX to mention it as Chris Murphy's b-day today on nooner. Then he played Matt Good...ok...
Dan lured me to ride to Arizona City with him on Saturday to pick up his camaro. I am excited that he is finally going to build his car. I wanted to stay home and write but he tugged me in by promising Cracker Barrel, gotta love the restaurant with yummy food and shopping too.Which btw, I got a lot of Christmas shopping done this weekend. (not at Cracker barrel)
Last night I watched the last NHRA race of the season in Pomona, sad the season is over. It was a race full of drama, plenty of me yelling at the TV. Was so bummed that Dick LaHaie is retiring. It will be a bummer not seeing Claudia at the races when they are in AZ. Jeggy retired too, not expecting that one. Funny thing about that was I missed him saying it because I was drawn into reading this harlequin romance.
So let me tell you about this book versus what I am doing. I had grocery shopped and picked it up for two reasons, to see if what I am writing borders on harlequin and second, it was about a girl radio DJ. First of all, I have never read one of these in my life..so I was seriously laughing out loud. I mean I haven't laughed this much in ages..Admittedly I was amusing myself but seriously...How come they can't cuss in it but using the word cock is ok? Holy crap... By chapter two our radio girl is in bed with the radio afternoon guy. He tells her his dad died and he's from California and she thinks, oh...he's opening up so much to me, I'll screw him... I'm over 150,000 words and my main guy is still spilling all his neurosis and they finally had some awkward version of intimacy...hello am I not supposed to write about real life here???? So I decided I could easily write Harlequins, it's so ridiculous...wonder how much they make? It's slutting for writers, isn't it? Does this mean my main character can't cuss?
Oh I was thinking my novel is not the first time I was inspired by a band to write a story about them. Back in college, here at ASU, I wrote an A short story for my fiction class about two girls going to school at York in TO who both go out to a bar, fall for two different guys. The story chronicled how each dealt with these guys they met, one with happy ending, one tragic ending. The one girl met the lead singer of Tall New Buildings. I knew very little about the band, just had seen the video for "Breaking her walls" and was charmed by their singer. So I wrote a story with him in it..not him obviously but a character fashioned after an image I conjured by the video. Funny thing about him is that not too long ago I found out what ever happened to him...occasionally I go on ebay looking to see if Tall New Buildings ever put out an album and I couldn't understand why it said Moxy Fruvious in the title on ebay. Turns out Jean from TNB is Jian from Moxy Fruvous...It was a huge discovery because not only is he now a famous broadcast journalist for CBC entertainment stuff...but worse......I saw Moxy Fruvous...and didn't know it was him....(was probably looking for Robin at the club) So yep, Jian was the first musician I built a fictional story around..although I think in the story he morphed into Mark Holmes.
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