Episode 4: I Wrote Some Stuff

Books discussed on this episode

Titles by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Raven

Titles by Rebecca Brown

• The Gifts of the Body

• Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

• The Dogs

• The Terrible Girls

• You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe

You’ve read this essay of Rebecca’s about squirrels

• Right?

Rebecca Brown with one of her many squirrel friends. Artwork by Kathryn Rathke

Titles by Edmund White

• The Humble Lover

• Genet: A Biography

• A Boy’s Own Story, the novel that made him famous

• A Boy’s Own Story, the graphic-novel adaption

• Also recommended: Hotel de Dream, a novel about the writer Stephen Crane; Skinned Alive, a book of short stories; The Burning Library, a book of essays; The Beautiful Room Is Empty, which ends with an eyewitness account of the Stonewall Riots; the memoir My Lives

Titles by Mary Shelley

• Frankenstein

Book clubs

• Want to join the Frankenstein book club? Just buy a ticket

Podcasts

• The Geneology Detective about Moby’s ancestry

• By the way, here’s Jake’s fake biography of Moby from a book club talent show

Seaplanes

• Kenmore Air, baby!

This is where seaplanes take off and land in Victoria, BC. The ride to Lake Union in Seattle takes 30 minutes. Photo by the Frizzler

New music

• “Sitting” by TJ Mack (a character created and performed by Brian Jordan Alvarez)

  • Original version — no instrumentals

  • Covers:

    • Alt Hays version

    • Purser version

    • Josh Mac version

Here’s another cover we didn’t mention, but it’s deeply peaceful:

“I Wrote Some Stuff” — calling all musicians and remixers!

• Please listen to the end of the podcast, when Frizzelle is talking about the song he hears in his head after a day of writing

• It’s called “I Wrote Some Stuff”

• It needs drums

• And beeps and boops and flourishes

• And/or remixes

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