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Danuta's Interests
General
Music, film, books, politics, walking and travelling
Music
From the National to Nouvelle Vague. Curtis Ellers, the world's angriest banjo player, rocked my boat at the 12 Bar; Langholme Slim made me jump for joy at Borderline; and The National made me cry, again, at Koko. What is rocking my boat at the moment? Sufjan Stevens, the Loose Collective, Ryan Adams, the Raconteurs, the Editors....Like I say, so little time..... The Smiths always top my chart.
Top of my Hate Parade: people who talk at gigs. SHUT UP AND LISTEN!!!!!
Movies
The Appartment, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Boulevard, Days of Wine and Rose, Rear Window, Matter of Life and Death, Now Voyager, the Red Shoes, Night of the Hunter, Seven Samurai, Drunken Angel, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gene Kelly, Fred Astair, City of God, The Constant Gardener, Mary Poppins, Good Night, and Good Luck, Brick, Donnie Darko, M Hire, Amelie...these are a few of my fabourite things....
Television
no time to watch car crash trash, though I will always find an hour for Oddiewatch
Books
Mukarami, the Moomins, Patrick Neate, John Banville, Ian Rankin, Ray Bradbury, Philip Pullman, Douglas Kennedy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Molesworth, Jake Arnott, Antony Beevor, Thackery, Wilkie Collins and Hoskins's The Making of the English Landscape.
Heroes
Mslexia, me mum, Steven Patrick Morissey, Billy Wilder, Nelson Mandela (I shook his hand!), George Clooney, JK Rowling, Any artist, especially those without money or connections, who keeps going and breaks through.
About me: I am a freelance arts journalist who knows more about the book world than is healthy. My website, http://www.danutakean.com has all my past articles and information on everything from getting a literary agent to how to make a bestseller, plus gig and film reviews.
Loves: gigs and films (note, not movies).
Hates: people who talk through gigs. get back to Weatherspoons you chattering wenches!
Who I'd like to meet: Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder....if I need to explain we shouldn't be talking.
THEY'RE HERE!!
The exciting superhero YA books are now out!!
HERO .COM: RISE OF THE HEROES and VILLAIN .NET: COUNCIL OF EVIL - are now available in the UK!!
Check out Waterstones, WHsmiths, Borders and www. amazon. co. uk
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
THEY'RE HERE!!
The exciting superhero YA books are now out!!
VILLAIN. NET: COUNCIL OF EVIL and HERO. COM: RISING OF THE HEROES - are now available in the UK!!
Check out Waterstones, WHsmiths, Borders and www. amazon. co. uk
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Andy Briggs is being interviewed on BLOG TALK RADIO about the launch of his two upcoming books!
Check out: www. blogtalkradio. com
on Sunday 9pm GMT - click on the LSPC Reviews show on the home page!
Smoke Feathers have been invited to play at the INDY Music Awards media launch and short list announcement party on Wednesday April 2nd 7pm at the Rock Garden, Covent Garden, London.
It’s no guarantee that we have been shortlisted for the final, but we hope it is a good sign....
I also wanted to share the news that I've been accepted into the Amazon Shorts program. This is an initiative through Amazon.com where the reader can download an author's work for only $00.49. Amazon.com will store the story for you in a digital locker, email it to you in the body of an email, and also email it to you as a PDF.
My first story is called "Dr. Nekros: The Tragedian." Dr. Nekros is the lead character in a serialized storyline who is a ghost hunter pursuing the demon that disfigured him, all while trying to avoid his ex-wife. Check it out here.
Dear friend of Yellowhouse! Have a great weekend with Yellowhouse. Thanks for listening. Please spread the word to all. Hope that everything is fine on your end. Stay in touch!
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The flame still burns for Yellowhouse... and for YOU!
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hey there great stuff :-) I am a muso dipping his quill tentatively into the world of writing so u are a real help !!! I hope u get a chance to hear my music and I can return the favour!! I have blogged the first chapter of my book (unedited) at my page and You are most welcome to read and criticise it all you wish (hehe -be kind madam, be kind!!) ok beautifull, have a wonderfull day -big love from calvin -Raven..s Song
Hi Danuta, I hope things are going well with you. Just wanted to tell you about a podcast interview I did with The Writing Show. You'll believe a man can talk!
Here is the trailer to my book, Letters to eBay. It's going to be released in a few weeks in the UK. Get back to me and maybe we can brainstorm some ideas for marketing!
Hi Danuta, hows things with yourself. sorry I haven't been in touch. I'm still focusing on the dominoes, and taking it one day at a time vis-a-vis the Scrabble addition. My main news tho is that I'm to be a father in December, which is very exciting. But i'm laso working away at the storytelling and the writing. The storytelling sessions are geting a lot of word of the mouth support from locals and tourists alike. So much so that tonights show is sold out. Yay! And I've recently rewritten two chapters of my novel. Chapters 19 & 20 are an Irish folk tale as told by a storyteling character. However, when I originally wrote it I tried to hard to make the story work, and it just ended up dead air, which was a pain because it the story is so important to the novel. But then, Ping, I had a cunning plan, and wrote the story down as I tell it during my shows. And hey presto the problem was solved. So now the novel is back on an even keel, and people can also get a sense of what my show is like from reading the story. Isn' that cool. Other news: It is, suprise suprise, pissing down in Galway, which is grand cos it just makes everything look greener. Hope alls well wae yirsel. Catch yi later :-)
