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onsdag 26 september 2012

St Dominic's Preview

I'd been working on this song about the scene going down in Belfast. And I wasn't sure what I was writing but the central image seemed to be this church called St Dominic's where people were gathering to pray or hear a mass for peace in Northern Ireland. A few weeks later I was playing at a gig in Reno, Nevada. I picked up a newspaper, and there in front of me was an announcement about a mass for peace in Belfast to be said the next day at St Dominic's Church in San Francisco. Totally blew me out. Like I'd never even heard of a St Dominic's Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Dominic's_Preview_(song)

Hey Gyp

torsdag 6 september 2012

Tidigt tv-minne

Jag var nio, tio år, högst elva, bodde i Malmö, Ribersborg, Nicoloviusgatan.
 

onsdag 5 september 2012

Rendez-vous

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2488&artikel=5230740

Rendez-vous

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2488&artikel=5230740

Raymond Chandler

“… [As a young man] I couldn’t write fiction to save my life. I couldn’t get a character in or out of a room. I couldn’t even get his hat off. I learned to write fiction by a method which I have recommended to other young struggling writers I tried to help, but no soap. Everything they did had to be for sale. What I did was take a novelette, I think it was by [Erle Stanley] Gardner, and make a detailed synopsis of it. From this synopsis I wrote the story, then compared it with the original to see where he, Gardner, had got an effect and I had got nothing. I did this over and over with the same story. I think I did learn a great deal that way. My first novelette for Black Mask took me five months to write and I got $180 for it. …”

http://chrisroutledge.co.uk/2009/01/16/raymond-chandlers-advice-to-writers/