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New On the pod

Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
Dead Can Dance - Selections From North America 2005
Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser
Halo 2 - Volume 2
Mattias IA Eklundh - Freak Guitar: The Road Less Traveled
Midnight Blue - Take The Money And Run
Mr. Mister – Live USA August 1986 (Live Recording)
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Soul Sirkus - Soul SirkUS 2005.04.05 (Live Recording)
Joe Stump – Night of the Living Shred
Vertical Horizon - 08/05/05 @ 930 Club in Washington DC (Live Recording)

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Audiobook: The Best of Fantasy & Sci-Fi Magazine (Listening Now)

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Quick Audiobook Review:

Kevin Brockmeier - The Brief History of the Dead: A really cool book about the living, the dead and the end of the world...and how they relate to each other. It’s based on the premise that there are two stages of death, the first being that when we die we exist on another plane as long as someone alive still remembers us and the second begins when we pass out of human memory.

B&N.com: The Brief History of the Dead

David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas: This is one of, if not the, most ambitious book I have ever listened to or read. This book is actually six individual stories woven into an expansive narrative that encompasses all of the characters in the stories. The book spans an enormous timeline that begins with a ship sailing toward an early San Francisco and ends in a future populated with clones and massive corporations. Each section of the Audiobook was read by different people, including Scott Brick, a personal favorite, adding an individual voice to each of the characters. It’s a really wild read.

B&N.com: Cloud Atlas

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Christopher Moore: Author

I know I mentioned him before, but I just finished reading Christopher Moore’s first book, Practical Demonkeeping and the book that came before A Dirty Job, The Stupidest Angel. If you have a slightly twisted sense of humor, or for some reason want to develop one, read his stuff. He’s just funny, no two ways about it.

Christopher Moore

B&N.com: Practical Demonkeeping

Christopher Moore
Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
B&N.com: Stupidest Angel:
A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

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Other Stuff: Part i

There’s a new On the pod.net podcast up over at Pod-O-Matic that you can check out. I posted it on Saturday (05/13/06).

Other Stuff: Part ii

Well, if you’ve been looking around you might have noticed some of the changes to www.onthepod.net. I’ve been busy updating some of the links for the page and adding new ones. I’ve also been working on the On the pod.net Myspace page @ www.myspace.com/onthepod and trying to make it look a little more like this one.

The Myspace thing is a little weird but I’ve managed to add a bunch of friends that may or may not be people I really respect in some form or another…and no, I don’t mean the girls with the pseudo-porn sites that keep asking for add’s. If you end up there, check them out…I think the list is kind of impressive. (Small and easy for anybody to do, but impressive)

Other Stuff: Part iii

In other non-On the pod.net news, but news I want to share none the less, yours truly was actually “hired” by Krista Camputaro, owner of Sogno, Boutique of Dreams to write music for a fashion show on June 10th as part of the Audubon Arts On The Edge Festival in New Haven, CT. The opportunity came along out of the blue and it’s just something I never thought of doing before. It’s actually going very well, but I am seriously crunched for time with the project happening so soon. Still, it’s very cool to be writing again and I can’t wait to see how it turns out, not just the music, but the whole thing.

If you’ll be in the area and want to check out the fashion show, as I said before it will take place on June, 10th 2006, which is also the kickoff day of the New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas, so there will be lots to see in the area.

The show itself will happen in front of Sogno, Boutique of Dreams which is located at 83B Audubon Street in New Haven, CT. It will begin at 4:00 p.m. and run somewhere between 40 & 50 minutes.