Narrelle M. Harris's Blog, page 78

Banished!

I have a cold. It's just a cold. No sweats, no fever, no aches. Just a run of the mill head cold.

But someone at work today noticed that I had a cold and all of a sudden it was OH MY GOD YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED IN HERE WHILE YOU ARE SICK GO HOME GO HOME YOU DISEASED PERSON AT ONCE YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!!!

Well, I only have a week and a half left to get my contractual obligations filled, and I only yesterday got the final approval, so time's tight.

So, after confirming with my manager that I indeed had to G

Do you remember any forgotten queer icons?

My bro-in-law John is writing a series of articles about actors/characters/etc who *should* have been gay icons but for some reason never became then - perhaps because the timing was wrong, or their show didn't last long enough or whatever.

Included in the list is Peter Wyngarde, who did a series called Jason King, and Servalan from Blake's 7 (who surely would have inspired multitudes of queens for the mardi gras if the series had been made some years later).

Of course, the trouble with coming up

Vermillion on MySpace

I said I was going to start pushing Jess' band. Here I am.

The current song they have uploaded is 'Tempus', with the drummer they no longer have (because he wasn't very good at keeping time). I really like the more mellow version of this song they did at The Empress too, and I think they have plans to add that and the other songs they're writing as soon as they can get them recorded.

http://www.myspace.com/abandcalledvermillion

Have I told you that I'm very proud?

here's a picture

Of awesome rock chicks being shyly awesome.




Reading left to right, that's Jess, Ant and Hannah.

I am fearsome proud.

Vermillion!

My niece is in a three-piece band from her Uni. they originally called themselves Vermillion Goldfish, but I think they're toying with using just Vermillion. Jess, Ant and Hannah all play guitar and are writing their own music as part of their JMC Academy performance course. They are obviously loving it, because they are rehearsing more and more often and on Tuesday night went to the open mike night at the Empress Hotel on Nicholson Street in Brunswick.

LJ dudes - they were awesome!! Needing poli

I am Cougar, hear me roar!

Check out all the love that older FOB fans are getting at icecreamhdaches . Apparently I can't get that 'FOB's Oldest Fan' t-shirt yet, cos I am only in the middling of the age group of the older fans. I present this as evidence, yr Honour, that this music is very good and may in fact last beyond the generation that was the first to hear it.

GaryView: True Blood - "Strange Love" and "The First Taste"

Gary: I like this one.
Lissa: Really? I thought all the vampire sex would squick you out.
Gary: It's not all vampire sex. A lot if it is just sex.
Lissa: And it doesn't make you uncomfortable?
Gary: Um.
Lissa: Only when I make you talk about it, huh?
Gary: Um. Yeah. Mostly it's just kind of boring. I don't... you know... um... respond...
Lissa: Ok, now I'm uncomfortable.
Gary: Uh...
Lissa: So, moving right along - what is it you like? I didn't think it was any more accurate than other vampire shows.
Gary:

Do you *really* want to know what they think?

I'm pinching this meme from severedscythe  in the hilarious hope that someone will ask Gary for advice.

Ask any character I've written for advice, and they will provide it, advice columnist style. Your problems or fictional characters' problems both welcome. Management is not responsible for the results of following said advice

Of course, I have four books' worth of characters to ask advice from - gay rock stars, witches, court jesters, publicists, castle guards, kings and medical personnel are al

Not even Gary would wear those t-shirts. Or... on second thoughts

This promo of Love and Debate (filmed a while back but being released in August I believe) features a few scenes of Sean Astin in some wildly colourful outerwear. Some of those t-shirts are deeply psychodelic, even with Gary's notoriously colourful taste in shirts. 

the shirt at 0.35 seconds is one of the *least* colourful, and I can see that on Gary.

The one at 1.20 - it would probably remind him of uni in the 60s. So yes. Lissa would have to try not to laugh or reach for her sunglasses. But he

Vamplit Publishing

A month ago, I journaled about a US publisher of vamplit looking for submissions. Yesterday, the publishers posted some more info in response, but I thought I'd repost it here to highlight it some more:

Vamplit Publishing:
"Thank you for mentioning our new site. We at Vamplit Publishing are commited to bringing new authors to the reading public. At present we are publishing in ebook format and we are accepting manuscripts for horror, Gothic, vampire and fantasy novels. All our editing and publish