In Defense of Hobo Johnson
Why I am co-writing his memoir
Aaron Carnes | In Defense of . . .
Ska Defender, Obsessive Music Analyzer, Weird Fiction Writer, Death Music Aficionado
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Prozac fundamentally altered how I listen to music
Now I'm relearning how to enjoy music
The intro/1st chapter of my novel (Rough!)
I reluctantly share...
The Music in my novel
I want to focus on the tunes
I started the 2nd draft of my novel!
It took a while, but I'm back on
1st draft of my novel complete!
A conversation with Amy Bee
Not done but almost done
I hit 62,000 words in my novel and feeling pretty burnt out. So close...this will be my last update until I'm ACTUALLY finished with my 1st draft. So will probably be in 2 weeks.
57,000 words on my new book
Also Shane Moss, Survivor and Zombie Trains
Book fatigue
and the Beach Boys love you
Book update: I hit 51,000 words
Plus, my wife, Amy Bee, tells a story about me.
Fast Drafting
Don't think don't think don't think
The absurd placement of music
or how ridiculous I can be with music placement as a device in my novel-in-the-works
How In Defense of Ska taught me to be a writer
A conversation with Amy Bee
Getting High for the First Time
AKA the worst couple of months of my life
Little Black Book of Death audio update
the first of many posts...
Music To Die To
A weird non fiction book that got turned into a weird novel
It's time to write a new book. This time without so much ska
Writing is (not) fun
There’s Nothing Sacred About Pop Music, And That’s a Good Thing.
There’s a crucial difference that separates pop music from all other genres, a critical reason why people love to hate it and hate to love it, and that reason is: pop adheres to nothing but what sounds good in your ears.
How The Cure Played a Part in Creating the In Defense of Ska Podcast
On this week’s IDOS episode, I interviewed my co-host Adam Davis and a few of his Omnigone bandmates about their new ska punk record, Against The Rest. During our talk, Adam and I discussed our long history together as friends. Adam likes to assert that he and I met at a Cure concert in 1992 and that his first thought when he met me was,
In Defense of Ska June 2022 (Semi) Newsletter
Hey everyone, I’ve been swamped working on my second edition of In Defense of Ska, so I haven’t had a chance to write a newsletter.