http://evamoon.net/blog Music, Musings & Mischief Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:10:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I was alerted to the existence of a fabulous thing: strings of tiny purple lights on sale at the Fred Meyer Halloween display. They're about 5 feet long and run for hours on two AA batteries. I popped right over and bought one. I had no idea at ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/10/04/is-that-a-glowstick-in-your-pocket/ Is there anything that might make Wall Street's shenanigans even slightly more palatable? Probably not. But what if you could mix it up with a little funk and sex? Here is my bailout song. Bailout Man Music and Lyrics by Eva Moon Bailout Man - mp3 I want a man who’s a mortgage lender Oozing ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/10/02/bailout-man/ My baby was laid out on the altar, helpless and exposed. The others circled her with glinting knives. "I don't get it. Is it about environmentalism or BDSM or what?" "Cut the middle verse and repeat the first verse." "Dog Chow from China? No one will get the reference in a few months." "Nah. ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/09/30/tough-love/ It's raining. Not that that is exactly a rare occurrence here in the Pacific Northwest. I'm cozily ensconced in a cabin on tiny Lummi Island sitting by a blazing wood stove. We're here editing our novel. It's hard to believe we've reached a point of having an actual beginning-to-end draft of ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/09/25/the-day-the-world-changed/ There's a scene near the beginning of Shogun, where Dutchmen are boiled alive. I have increased sympathy for them today, not that I delighted in their suffering when I first read the novel. We have decamped to Lummi Island, a lovely wooded little island within sight of Canada, for three days ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/09/24/hand-me-that-dutchman/ I was pretty sure it was a dive. But it's been so long since my dive years and suburbia creeps into ones cracks and crevices so stealthily you don't even notice until one night you find yourself in a dive bar saying stupid things you'd never say if you were ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/09/11/12-ways-to-tell-if-youre-at-a-dive/ Not the major antitrust litigation kind. For a small town, we have more of that per capita than just about anyone, thank you very much. No, when I say crime, I’m talking the ‘call the cops’ kind. A little more breaking and entering would be an act of the greatest ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/09/02/redmond-needs-more-crime/ There's an inherent conflict when a celebrity attempts to write a novel. The reader can't help but hear the celebrity's voice. This may be a good thing for the celebrity, but it is rarely a good thing for the story. I suspect celebrities also tend to be resistent to editing. ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/09/01/deranged-atheist-sock-monkey/ I have a great deal of sympathy for travelers of size. Dave Quick, the guitar player in my band, is 6'4" and I don't know how he manages to fold his legs into the puny soup can that constitutes a coach seat. So I understand WHY people feel compelled to ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/31/squeeze-play/ I was hoping to share breezy/sunny pics of me hoisting the mizzenmast or getting keel hauled or whatever it that people do on sailboats, but it was not to be. I showed up at the appointed time and dock, but it turned out they were racing that night. I wouldn't ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/30/no-sailor-moon/ Friends keep asking me if I packed underwear on this trip. Even if I hadn't, Madison is a city that provides for its visitors (see right). But of course, no Eva trip would be complete without some level of miscalculation and this trip is no exception. This may have something ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/27/feets-dont-fail-me-now/ I have bad sectors in my brain. It's something I've known for a long time. Though I can foresee a day when even that knowledge will slip into a bad sector. At that point, I'll just sit on a porch swing and eat Doritos until I die. But for the ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/26/file-not-found/ I don't mean free as in, you don't have to pay for it, but free in the sense of roaming wild and unfettered. But I'll get to that in a minute. Madison, Wisconsin was totally hitting on me today. The weather was transplendant; clear, sunny, low-70s, light breeze, low humidity, no ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/25/pt-4-free-beer/ I am allergic to Detroit. I've never been here before. I have no particular preconceptions about the place. But for some reason, I can't stop sneezing and snifflng. Which is unfortunate, considering how long it's going to be before I leave. It's odd that I should be allergic to Detroit. ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/24/pt-3-breathless-in-detroit/ They say the rear-most seats are safest in a crash. This turned out to be of more than academic interest. But I get ahead of myself. My seat on the plane was so far back that I could enjoy a refreshing "blue mist" shower whenever someone flushed in the lavatory. The ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2008/08/23/tale-of-woe-and-tarmac/