I’m happy! Why, you ask?
Well, first these books came in the mail:
Danette Haworth’s fantastic and sweet middle-grade debut, Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning, which I’ve already read and love loved LOVED, C.K. Kelly Martin’s much anticipated–and for good reason–debut, I Know It’s Over (I’m about halfway in and there’s some absolutely incredible voice going on in these pages, WOW), and Felicia Sullivan’s stops-your-breath, gut-wrenching memoir The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here, which I’m also about halfway through (and the writing is sucker-punch amazing).
The temptation to start a Book & Ghosting Hunting Club is HUGE, let me tell you.
Anyway, even better: all three of these very talented women have agreed to interviews on this here blog. I’m so excited about it I can’t even tell you. Just put on your anticipation hats, please. It’s going to be so hard to ask them questions that do not have the words ‘bb,’ ‘zombies,’ and ‘volcanoes’ in them (professionalism? What is this?), but I shall try my best.
So that made me happy x 2, and THEN my piano got tuned, which made me even happier, since it’s been about a year and I love my piano. My big resolution is to master this song:
(I really love the score, but The Piano is not my most favourite movie in the world, to be honest. I was at a very impressionable age when I saw it and nobody warned me Harvey Keitel would appear naked in it, rubbing down a piano with the clothes he should have been wearing.
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And it’s not that it Harvey Keitel was naked, it’s I just don’t think pianos are for naked polishing sessions PERIOD, is all. Maybe floors and POSSIBLY guitars, but NEVER pianos. So if you have been considering inviting me over to your naked piano polishing party maybe you’d better just forget about it, fyi.)
Speaking of music but never again of naked piano polishing, Brad Sucks’s new CD came in the mail and it’s great, so between all the books and music, basically my mail situation has been MADE OF WIN this week. What about it could leave me UNhappy?
Exactly.
And THEN, I talked to my publicist from St. Martin’s Press on the phone for the first time ever on Wednesday and that was all kinds of awesome. Now I like to casually tell people that I have a publicist when they least suspect it and when it is not relevant to our conversations at all because unlike all the other times I would do that, now when I do, it’s the TRUTH. Even though I still can’t really believe it’s true.
And that made me happy too.
And thus concludes this blog entry.
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WOW! I am blushing. BLUSHING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some day I am going to trick you into being interviewed on my blog and we are going to talk about nothing but bb (as soon as I find out what that stands for), zombies, and volcanoes.
I know a LOT about zombies, so it should be pretty hawesome.
I recall not really caring for that movie when I first saw it, but your description has me wondering why I don’t even remember that scene!
Huzzah for everything except naked Harvey Keitel, because nobody needs that.
Was going to write something else but my driving instructor just arrived and scared the Jebus out of me, so I shall get back to you on that…whatever it was.
Felicia: Finished it tonight! I LOVED IT. I so cannot wait to interview you.
Annika: Hee–bb is what I call all my friends. It’s like the internets ‘baby’ but better because it’s not actually ‘baby’. So if I was like, “how you doing, bb?” The bb would be you. It is a ~*term of endearment*~. Oh my God. One day we should just have a big long discussion about zombies, record it and force it on the world. I twould be amazing.
S: I hope that scene was in there and I didn’t imagine it because it was really disturbing and has stuck with me all these years! Be grateful you can’t. It was just wrong on so many levels.
Briony: … NOW I AM SO CURIOUS ABOUT WHATEVER YOU WERE GOING TO SAY. SO CRUEL! But Huzzah!
Dude, I was JUST writing my e-mail draft to you about how that’s my favourite movie score ever because the music means so much to me personally, so this is kind of awesome. Especially because that song is my favourite of them all.
OMG, Courtney. I sent you an email this morning. You rock harder than anyone’s mama.
Also, because I actually adore the movie The Piano as well as the score — and I’m clearly going to have to write you about this now — I can vouch for the existence of the Naked Piano Polishing scene. Which is a lot easier to handle if you’re prepared for it, as I was (thanks, Roger Ebert). Heh.
A: Serendipity! And also I AM GLAD THAT SCENE EXISTED. I was really starting to freak out that I had imagined it and then I was like omfg what is wrong with me. Heh.
Felicia: Aw! Hee–be sending you questions soon!! Can’t wait for your answers!!
A nakid piano polishing scene? Yikes! Either I didn’t see the Piano or I blocked that part out of my mind…
I am SO out of touch out of my daily element!! Tapped into some neighbors Wifi JUST to get my Courtney fix!!
I have never seen The Piano at all, but now I’m not sure I should…isn’t naked pianoness kind of gratuitous and um…a thinly veiled excuse to show ol’ Harvey’s arse?
BTW, got together this weekend with some much-missed HS friends who I scarred long ago with DEAD ALIVE. YOU MUST sees it!!! Perhaps you know it under it’s other name, BRAINDEAD? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) Either way, they all agreed you could not be a self-respecting zombie-buff and NOT have seen it. ;)
Darn…you were at top of my list for naked piano polishing party
Angela: IT WAS INDEED THERE.
Emily: Yay for Wifi!!! I think the naked piano polishing was totally gratuitous and it upset me. It still TO THIS DAY upsets me. And I really haven’t seen Dead Alive/Brain Dead. I FEEL SO ASHAMED! *sobs with shame*
Daisy: Ok, I would make an exception there but that is it. ;)
This is truly a frightening entry because the guy who tunes my piano is easily 85 years old. I’ll never look at him the same again…
Becca: ROFL!!!!!!