6/16/2006
Go ahead, laugh at me. Go on, laugh! Everybody else is. I have been asked, well--ordered, to go to NYC next week to be in a...a...I can't even say it...a Playboy magazine photo shoot. I told you you'd laugh at me. No, wait--Teresita fans. It's not me lounging with naked hootchies on a bear skin. It's a veddy correct political authors in expensive clothes looking literary kind of portfolio. Uh, anyway. Not the way I usually imagine myself. I have tried to get out of it, but Little, Brown won't let me slide on this one.
Am I a public figure? Is that what's happened? Please, somebody, can I write books again? Anybody? Books?
There is a Mexian crew here cleaning our rain gutters and washing our windows. They can't possibly know that I'm a Tijuana boy. They don't know I write books about them. I keep bringing them cold sodas because I am feeling creeped out that they're doing menial chores for me and I can understand everything they are muttering. My kids are lounging around watching TV. Holy God, I am the enemy.
I am thinking about Jim Morrison, as I get ready to go to SF tonight: "Strange days have found us./ Strange days have tracked us down...." Did I tell you he sent me some emails? Said he was in Duluth. Manuelito, the Apache medicine man was right: this is all a dream. Luis
Roller Coaster Of Love
Am I a public figure? Is that what's happened? Please, somebody, can I write books again? Anybody? Books?
There is a Mexian crew here cleaning our rain gutters and washing our windows. They can't possibly know that I'm a Tijuana boy. They don't know I write books about them. I keep bringing them cold sodas because I am feeling creeped out that they're doing menial chores for me and I can understand everything they are muttering. My kids are lounging around watching TV. Holy God, I am the enemy.
I am thinking about Jim Morrison, as I get ready to go to SF tonight: "Strange days have found us./ Strange days have tracked us down...." Did I tell you he sent me some emails? Said he was in Duluth. Manuelito, the Apache medicine man was right: this is all a dream. Luis
6/15/2006
I've been in the recording studios here and in LA for two weeks. Sitting on a stool reciting Hummingbird. MY BUTT HURTS! But the recording is really good.
I will post the link here when I have it so you can download the book from Little, Brown. I'd give it out free if I could, but they wouldn't. Spend more money!
I'm not much of a shill, but this time it's worth it. The audio will be on-line around July 14.
Also, the Spanish version of Hummingbird is being rushed--it will be released in September.
My pal Luis Mandoki has gotten back from the Cannes film festival, and all systems are firing nicely for the Hummingbird movie.
As far as writing goes--forget it. I have been touring and touring and recording and touring. I haven't even been able to finish my tour book for you. My "Wastelander's Tourbook." But I will.
I record today and tomorrow, then get on my 1,000th plane tomorrow night to fly to SF. From SF, I will be home for a day of sleep and blogging, then we pile into the Urrea Megavan and drive to Colorado for the Aspen book festival. From there to Fishtrap. Go, go, go.
See you out there? I hope so.
Love, L
P.S. I got to write up my new favorite town, Kankakee, in last week's Sunday New York Times. Finally. Thank all you kind Kankakee folks for sending me so many love notes.
P.P.S. My little appearance on C-SPAN unleashed the border Nazis, angered by my views in immigration.
Today, all you ass-munchers like Fuehrer Graham W who send me insane hate mail ("you are not worthy to lick the Minutemen's boots!") can feel proud that patriot assholes (no doubt good Christians) have been draining the Humane Borders water stations in Arizona. Thus assuring lost walkers a slow and agonizing death in the desert heat of Arizona. What a proud moment for America.
Audioslave
I will post the link here when I have it so you can download the book from Little, Brown. I'd give it out free if I could, but they wouldn't. Spend more money!
I'm not much of a shill, but this time it's worth it. The audio will be on-line around July 14.
Also, the Spanish version of Hummingbird is being rushed--it will be released in September.
My pal Luis Mandoki has gotten back from the Cannes film festival, and all systems are firing nicely for the Hummingbird movie.
As far as writing goes--forget it. I have been touring and touring and recording and touring. I haven't even been able to finish my tour book for you. My "Wastelander's Tourbook." But I will.
I record today and tomorrow, then get on my 1,000th plane tomorrow night to fly to SF. From SF, I will be home for a day of sleep and blogging, then we pile into the Urrea Megavan and drive to Colorado for the Aspen book festival. From there to Fishtrap. Go, go, go.
See you out there? I hope so.
Love, L
P.S. I got to write up my new favorite town, Kankakee, in last week's Sunday New York Times. Finally. Thank all you kind Kankakee folks for sending me so many love notes.
P.P.S. My little appearance on C-SPAN unleashed the border Nazis, angered by my views in immigration.
Today, all you ass-munchers like Fuehrer Graham W who send me insane hate mail ("you are not worthy to lick the Minutemen's boots!") can feel proud that patriot assholes (no doubt good Christians) have been draining the Humane Borders water stations in Arizona. Thus assuring lost walkers a slow and agonizing death in the desert heat of Arizona. What a proud moment for America.
6/02/2006
Yo, yo, my peeps!
I am so tired! I can't stop this touring! Every time I stop, something else happens. I guess that's good, though, eh???
I got home from Washington DC yesterday. Going to do Printer's Row book fair in Chi tomorrow, then fly to Tucson Sunday. But here's the big news that many of you have been asking me about--including about ten in DC. I'm flying to L.A. Monday to begin recording the AUDIOBOOK of Hummingbird's Daughter. Yes, finally.
I'll be in L.A., in the studio, for a week, then we'll pick up the recording session here in Chi the following week. I have a reading in Winnetka that week as well. Then, the next week (whew), I'll go to SF for the first Book Club Expo. Then I'll get home as soon as possible so we can all pile into the Urrea megavan and drive to Aspen for the Aspen book festival. But the recording, at last, and in spite of all the distractions, is happening.
The actual product will be fifteen hours long. Hope you get caught in lots of traffic. And it will first come to life as a download or podcast. I'm not sure why, but that's the way it is. I'll read the whole thing, though. And you will be able to purchase it JULY 14. I'll put the link up here when it's time so you can order it. I read like a crazy bastard, so you ought to get it! OK?
So I am remiss in finishing the "Wastelander's Tourbook"--it's so danged long! And, sadly, events around here are keeping me from actually writing much on Hummingbird 2. I had to write in the hair salon while Megan got her $45 haircut for the 8th grade boat trip. How pathetic is that? Dad could only find peace in a hair salon to scribble a few scraggly paragraphs in his notebook. Huh. If this success stuff keeps up, I will convert from actual Writer to Full Time Promoter. Gotta write. Don't know how or when anymore. Perhaps the week in L.A. will be monk-like, and I can put in a week's night-time effort.
Unless Johnny Depp calls! Then fugeddabouditt!
See ya around--Luigi
I am so tired! I can't stop this touring! Every time I stop, something else happens. I guess that's good, though, eh???
I got home from Washington DC yesterday. Going to do Printer's Row book fair in Chi tomorrow, then fly to Tucson Sunday. But here's the big news that many of you have been asking me about--including about ten in DC. I'm flying to L.A. Monday to begin recording the AUDIOBOOK of Hummingbird's Daughter. Yes, finally.
I'll be in L.A., in the studio, for a week, then we'll pick up the recording session here in Chi the following week. I have a reading in Winnetka that week as well. Then, the next week (whew), I'll go to SF for the first Book Club Expo. Then I'll get home as soon as possible so we can all pile into the Urrea megavan and drive to Aspen for the Aspen book festival. But the recording, at last, and in spite of all the distractions, is happening.
The actual product will be fifteen hours long. Hope you get caught in lots of traffic. And it will first come to life as a download or podcast. I'm not sure why, but that's the way it is. I'll read the whole thing, though. And you will be able to purchase it JULY 14. I'll put the link up here when it's time so you can order it. I read like a crazy bastard, so you ought to get it! OK?
So I am remiss in finishing the "Wastelander's Tourbook"--it's so danged long! And, sadly, events around here are keeping me from actually writing much on Hummingbird 2. I had to write in the hair salon while Megan got her $45 haircut for the 8th grade boat trip. How pathetic is that? Dad could only find peace in a hair salon to scribble a few scraggly paragraphs in his notebook. Huh. If this success stuff keeps up, I will convert from actual Writer to Full Time Promoter. Gotta write. Don't know how or when anymore. Perhaps the week in L.A. will be monk-like, and I can put in a week's night-time effort.
Unless Johnny Depp calls! Then fugeddabouditt!
See ya around--Luigi
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