SMALL SPACE BIG LIFE YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

Earlier this year, Heidi and I started a YouTube channel as a place to share our travel videos. It's been rewarding and a lot of fun, and we hope to vlog more frequently next year.

This is a highlight clips from some of the amazing things we got to see and do this year. If you want to see more, check out our YouTube channel SMALL SPACE BIG LIFE.

PREVIEWS AVAILABLE

Just so yinz know, free previews of THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK are up and waiting to be read.

Here's the one at Amazon.com. If you don't have a Kindle, download the free Kindle Reader software on the right hand side of the page below the sample. It's basically a Kindle app for your PC.

And here's the CreateSpace preview. This is where the print version of the book will end up.

Kerouac's Thirty Essentials for Spontaneous Prose

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Every writer should know these. But some are more essential than others.

Be in love with your life

I think one of my philosophies has always been that it's easier to write when you have a wealth of experiences to pull from. Maybe it was my way of justifying a perceived sense of inferiority when I started hanging out with people who had received undergrad degrees in English or lit. (Telling myself Hemingway was great because of the life he lived rather than the degrees he'd received.)

Even if it's not true, it's a hell of a good way to live. Making a life for yourself rather than living what was given to you. Not sure if I've succeeded, but I'm working on it. Music, travel, friends, food and drink, sipping Jameson on my front porch and strumming my guitar, watching the sun rise over the Atlantic or the Alps or the Alleghenies. I've always believed I had to have the life I wanted before I ever got published and became wildly successful. Because no matter what, I'll always have a life I love.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

Haiku, lyrics, photo captions, texts. All of these are acceptable. Who says it all has to be straight prose?

Believe in the holy contour of life

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's all we really are. Accept and live like you know you're not going to see tomorrow.

You're a Genius all the time

Damn straight, I am. It's just that not everybody's going to realize it. But they will. Hell, yeah, they will.

WILCO, 2009.05.29 Festival Territorios, Sevilla, Spain

This is a little Christmas present for everybody I didn't get anything for. The show is one I listen to a lot because of the good sound quality, and it's a nice sampler of one of my favorite bands.

Wilco has been called an American Radiohead, but I'm not sure that label fits. Radiohead is Oxford, Wilco is community college. And I think Wilco doesn't take themselves so seriously. They started back in the 90s as an alt-country band--another label that doesn't apply to the band in 2010. At best, Jeff Tweedy's a songwriter who isn't afraid to put a little too much of himself out there, Neil Young for those of us who graduated high school to the sounds of NEVERMIND and BADMOTORFINGER. His lyrics are full of clever cynicism and muffled optimism--things aren't great but at least I'm not dead. He's the kind of guy who'll yell at people in the audience for talking during a song--which I think is awesome.

The band takes liberties with our conceptions of what a rock band should be. Even though we don't hear a lot of it in this show (probably because it's a short set to a foreign audience) the band let a song build layer by layer. Acoustic, rock, alt-country, electronica, traditional... Guitarist Nels Cline isn't afraid to let a squeal of electronic jibberish wail over a delicately strumming acoustic guitar. (see: I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART) Somehow it fits.

Wilco, to me, is a lot like Gorgonzola. I couldn't conceive of liking it ten years ago. Now I can't get enough of it.

Only criticism of this show--the DJs are annoying as poop on your shoe.

Check them out at http://www.wilcoworld.net/

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WILCO

www.wilcoweb.com

Live 2009.05.29
Festival Territorios
Sevilla, Spain

RNE3 FM Broadcast


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LINEAGE

Analog FM >> [PC >>] Goldwave (WAV) >> dBpowerAMP (FLAC - lowest compression, level 0) >> DIME

As usual with RNE3, this broadcast includes annoying comments from DJs that don't stop even when Jeff has started singing (i.e. "Walken") - I've kept those comments as separate tracks.
The sound is better than the Black Crowes' show I uploaded a couple of weeks ago. Sample included (see comments)


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SETLIST

Wilco (The Song)
Handshake Drugs
One Wing
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
A Shot in the Arm
At Least That's What You Said
You Are My Face
Bull Black Nova
Jesus, etc
Impossible Germany
You Never Know
Hate It Here
Walken
I'm the Man Who Loves You
Spiders (Kidsmoke)

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T.R.T.: 1h. 22' 28" (WinAMP)
31 Tracks - 15 songs

Tracks 01, 03, 05...= DJ comments

1. Wilco - TS01 (0:04)
2. Wilco - TS02 - Wilco (The Song) (2:58)
3. Wilco - TS03 (0:26)
4. Wilco - TS04 - Handshake Drugs (5:35)
5. Wilco - TS05 (0:45)
6. Wilco - TS06 - One Wing (3:28)
7. Wilco - TS07 (0:31)
8. Wilco - TS08 - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (5:51)
9. Wilco - TS09 (0:22)
10. Wilco - TS10 - A Shot in the Arm (4:19)
11. Wilco - TS11 (0:31)
12. Wilco - TS12 - At Least That's What You Said (4:57)
13. Wilco - TS13 (0:46)
14. Wilco - TS14 - You Are My Face (4:11)
15. Wilco - TS15 (0:28)
16. Wilco - TS16 - Bull Black Nova (5:40)
17. Wilco - TS17 (0:35)
18. Wilco - TS18 - Jesus, etc (3:50)
19. Wilco - TS19 (0:28)
20. Wilco - TS20 - Impossible Germany (5:53)
21. Wilco - TS21 (0:32)
22. Wilco - TS22 - You Never Know (4:03)
23. Wilco - TS23 (0:39)
24. Wilco - TS24 - Hate It Here (4:18)
25. Wilco - TS25 (0:41)
26. Wilco - TS26 - Walken (4:20)
27. Wilco - TS27 (0:42)
28. Wilco - TS28 - I'm the Man Who Loves You (3:49)
29. Wilco - TS29 (0:26)
30. Wilco - TS30 - Spiders (Kidsmoke) (10:54)
31. Wilco - TS31 (0:26)


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DON'T DISTRIBUTE THIS AS MP3 or ~
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RADIOHEAD, Victoria Park, Cheshire, Warrington, England 10/02/2000

Here's a sweet-sounding show from the month KID A was released. 1999 was a tough year for the group-the success of OK COMPUTER brought a lot of unwanted attention. Some in Britain called saw KID A as a chance to fail in order to wipe the slate clean, calling the record a "commercial suicide note" and "intentionally difficult".

Thom Yorke denied all the hype, saying, "I was really, really amazed at how badly [Kid A] was being viewed ... because the music's not that hard to grasp. We're not trying to be difficult ... We're actually trying to communicate but somewhere along the line, we just seemed to piss off a lot of people ... What we're doing isn't that radical."

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Radiohead, Victoria Park, Cheshire, Warrington, England 10/02/00
SBD>FM>?>CDR>SHN

Disc 1
01. The National Anthem
02. Morning Bell
03. Airbag
04. Karma Police
05. In Limbo
06. Optimistic
07. Paranoid Android
08. Permanent Daylight
09. Egyptian Song
10. Street Spirit
11. Climbing Up The Walls
12. Dollars And Cents
13. Talk Show Host
14. Lucky
15. Idiotheque


Disc 2
01. Just
02. Everything In Its Right Place
03. Exit Music (For A Film)
04. The Thief
05. The Bends
06. How To Disappear Completely
07. Motion Picture Soundtrack
08. My Iron Lung

A few from Austria for Christmas...

I'm always amazed by how many pictures I haven't posted here. So here are a few from Salzburg that remind me of winter. Even though we visited in July, the cold air from the Alps made a jacket necessary. Heidi had to buy a pair of Kniestrümpfe in Königssee before going into Berchtesgaden National Park.

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

Joe Konrath's Resolutions for Writers. Konrath'd better watch himself, or his blog is going to be seen as the Bible of ePublishing, if it isn't already.

WILLIE NELSON with LEON RUSSELL 04/01/1979 CAPITOL THEATER, PASSAIC, NJ

Been listening to this amazing show for the last few weeks. The sound is amazing--just enough break-up to remind you this is vintage. The sound of the guitar blows my mind. "Crazy...twang, twang, twang... Crazy for feeling, so lonely..."

Willie Nelson with Leon Russell 4/1/79 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ
source: FM reel master taped by Jerry Moore
lineage: wnew simulcast>10.5" reel @ 7.5 ips, dolby b technics rs-1506>teac an-180>hd-p2 24/96> cd wave>adobe 2.0 16/44>flac reel (ampex) baked, transferred & seeded by Rob Berger

disc one: 59:56
01: dj intro
02: Whiskey River>
03: Stay All Night
04: Funny How Time Slips Away>
05: Crazy
06: Night Life
07: If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
08: Sweet Memories
09: Bloody Mary Morning
10: Gotta Get Drunk>
11: Shotgun Willie
12: Time Of The Preacher>
13: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
14: The Red Headed Stranger
15: Instrumental
16: Heartbreak Hotel
17: Trouble In Mind
18: A Song For You

disc two: 65:07
01: Come In My Kitchen
02: Detour
03: Will The Circle Be Unbroken
04: Amazing Grace
05: Land Of Uncloudy Skies
06: Instrumental
07: One For My Baby And One For The Road
08: Blue Skies
09: Georgia On My Mind
10: All Of Me
11: Stardust
12: Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys>
13: Take Back The Weed>
14: Willie & Waylon>
15: Whiskey River>
16: Instrumental encores:
17: Good Hearted Woman
18: Sioux City Sue
19: White Lightning
20: One Night Of Love
21: Truck Drivin' Man>
22: Whiskey River//(outro instrumental missing)
notes: a mandatory download situation

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