# Aaron Carnes | In Defense of . . . Ska Defender, Obsessive Music Analyzer, Weird Fiction Writer, Death Music Aficionado Page: Feed: --- ## [In Defense of Hobo Johnson](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-hobo-johnson) _2026-05-14 · Aaron Carnes_ Why I am co-writing his memoir ## [Prozac fundamentally altered how I listen to music](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/prozac-fundamentally-altered-how) _2026-04-15 · Aaron Carnes_ Now I'm relearning how to enjoy music ## [The intro/1st chapter of my novel (Rough!)](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/the-intro1st-chapter-of-my-novel) _2025-12-12 · Aaron Carnes_ I reluctantly share... ## [The Music in my novel](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/the-music-in-my-novel) _2025-11-12 · Aaron Carnes_ I want to focus on the tunes ## [I started the 2nd draft of my novel!](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/i-started-the-2nd-draft-of-my-novel) _2025-10-29 · Aaron Carnes_ It took a while, but I'm back on ## [1st draft of my novel complete!](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/1st-draft-of-my-novel-complete) _2025-10-08 · Aaron Carnes_ A conversation with Amy Bee ## [Not done but almost done](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/not-done-but-almost-done) _2025-09-17 · Aaron Carnes_ 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](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/57000-words-on-my-new-book) _2025-09-10 · Aaron Carnes_ Also Shane Moss, Survivor and Zombie Trains ## [Book fatigue](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/book-fatigue) _2025-09-03 · Aaron Carnes_ and the Beach Boys love you ## [Book update: I hit 51,000 words](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/book-update-i-hit-51000-words) _2025-08-27 · Aaron Carnes_ Plus, my wife, Amy Bee, tells a story about me. ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/W2PUBELgfuW9) _2025-08-27 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [Fast Drafting](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/fast-drafting) _2025-08-20 · Aaron Carnes_ Don't think don't think don't think ## [The absurd placement of music](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/the-absurd-placement-of-music) _2025-08-13 · Aaron Carnes_ 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](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/how-in-defense-of-ska-taught-me-how) _2025-08-06 · Aaron Carnes_ A conversation with Amy Bee ## [Getting High for the First Time](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/getting-high-for-the-first-time) _2025-07-30 · Aaron Carnes_ AKA the worst couple of months of my life ## [Little Black Book of Death audio update](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/little-black-book-of-death-audio) _2025-07-23 · Aaron Carnes_ the first of many posts... ## [Music To Die To](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/music-to-die-to) _2025-07-21 · Aaron Carnes_ 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](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/writing-is-not-fun) _2025-01-07 · Aaron Carnes_ Writing is (not) fun ## [There’s Nothing Sacred About Pop Music, And That’s a Good Thing.](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/theres-nothing-sacred-about-pop-music) _2023-04-17 · Aaron Carnes_ 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](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/how-the-cure-played-a-part-in-creating) _2023-04-10 · Aaron Carnes_ 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, ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7y1puTIiTIGV) _2023-04-10 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [In Defense of Ska June 2022 (Semi) Newsletter](https://aaroncarnes.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-ska-june-2022-semi) _2022-07-12 · Aaron Carnes_ 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.