HeyJaredThe Counterforce
Tons of music recommendations, plus books, comics, comedy, art, and films from Aug Stone
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Tonight (Tonight) (opens the original)
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Many years ago I was working on a novel that would explore - amongst other things - the fun idea that what if stuff like there being three songs in the Top 10 in 1985 called The Power Of Love or that the tune that bumped Bohemian Rhapsody off the number one spot in the UK charts was Mamma Mia, its title sung in the very song it was replacing, well what if these represented some sort of mass music industry conspiracy? It was a lot of fun to write when I was working on it, back in the days before
Printers Row Recap (opens the original)
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The Counterforce No. 82 (opens the original)
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End of May 2023 and I’m invited down to Georgia for two signings at Posman Books, the Atlanta store and the one in Alpharetta. It’s a 15 hour drive so I arrange a reading at the rad Epilogue bookshop in Chapel Hill, giving me a good excuse to hang with Rick, Emma, & Jane for a few days. Even breaking it up, that’s a long time in the car, so per usual I’ve loaded up on audiobooks. Early on in the drive I decide I want to revisit Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, for my third time through. And OMG I LOVE I
The Counterforce No. 81 (opens the original)
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It’s been a while. How you been? I’ve started a couple of these since the last one but life has been very busy. & I did three release shows for his new Rainbow Road poetry collection. An excellent book that I highly recommend. The poems hit you right in the heart and spiritual solar plexus and I was psyched to read my favourite one when and I went on WPKN to promote the Connecticut show. New Jersey, CT, and Brooklyn, all thre
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