The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged, it’s now time to see if you can dance.
Or so the saying goes. The launch party for
Apocalypse, more than one copy sold, is tomorrow, Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Also known as the date that appears in all the posters. And various promotional material.
The venue, food and drink is organised, most importantly. Should be fun, am wondering how insanely I should dress, and am tempted to walk down High Street to a fancy dress shop and scope out the costumes.
Hair of course is another matter, and a complex regime has been put into place to make sure it’s just right for the night (or at least not terrible). I’m sure you all care so much. Clothes and dress was a special consideration before Monday’s interview with Misha Adair from Channel 31’s
Yartz program (more info about when it’s on will come later, as it comes to hand, and follow twitter.com/TheRuffStuff for updates). Opted not to go as Lady GaGa, or any of the suggestions that came back to me via Twitter.
But clothes and hair aside, what to say? Am thinking about things to say in a speech, some jokes, thankyous, etc. But also, which parts do I read?
Well, the thought is to do a couple of complete chapters. Shorter ones, that may or may not be connected to anything important. Rather than just extracts of plot and dramatic slash melodramatic moments.
The shortlist of chapters under consideration at the moment is:
The end
Meanwhile on Planet X
A note from our sponsors
Profit of doom
Observations of a drunken olive (an alternative theory)
Or, if I was in the mood to completely mess with the crowd’s minds:
Peaceful alien interlude music
Omnipotent, omniscient, omnivorous
The shark and the sardine (radio edit)
There may be a few combinations. What will be read out, most definitely, is
A life in the day of and the poem at the start of
6:06am, June 6, 2666. Hopefully it will be timed so that that last part will be last, and will take place at 9.09pm on 9.9.2009. Spooky.
ALSO
While I’ve finally motivated myself to tell you all about goings on since the book was written, the interview with
Yartz should be mentioned. First thing Monday morning on a week off work may not have been the best time for it, but between Misha’s easy-going style and my love of this little passion project, I managed to say a few intelligent things. He asked some thoughtful questions, and in parts there were serious discussions even though a lot of Apocalypse is (quite deliberately) absurd. Walked away feeling like I should have told more jokes to sell a comedy book, but on the bright side I think it’ll show there’s some thought behind the insanity of calling the main characters Dark Chocolate, Anyway and Withnoname. And Misha picked up on the self-hating devil, which was one of the parts I truly loved writing. (No that I hated any of it, but as I told @YartzC31 as they’re known on Twitter, when writing for a living there are times when it is the last thing you want to do in your spare time. Hence the haphazard updating of blogs.)
There will be further news on when I’ll be on, but of course watch
Yartz Monday nights at 10pm, or the repeat on Thursday 11.30pm. Not only because it’s a good show, but chances are you will learn something. And let’s be honest, it’s not like any other station has anything good on at that time on Monday nights, so lately it has filled in a gap between
Flight of the Conchords and
Boston Legal.
Now, it's time for me to stop being a human being, and start being a human being a human doing. Or something.
