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I’m really delighted to tell you that a new story called Do Make Say Think Show has just been published in Zoetrope: All-Story , the "Francis Ford Coppola presents…" art and literature magazine based in San Francisco.The other contributors in this issue are A.L. Kennedy, Han Ong, Sam Shepard and John Krasinski, who writes about his screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men . There is also a reprint of that story. The whole issue comes in a great design by artist Rex Ray.
My piece is fairly long, and is told in the first person, and came about after I went to see Do Make Say Think the last time they played here in London. It was a great gig. But also … strange, for me. And that strangeness prompted the story. It also came at a time when I was trying to write about music very directly - about how music feels, and what it does to your psychology. My psychology. This story is really the only piece that I was satisfied with. I just had another read of it now, in the magazine. I like it. I usually hate my stuff as soon as I can’t change it any more. This, for the moment, I still like. It’s full of clumsiness and terrible sentences and stupidity. But I like it.
Anyway. Do Make Say Think are, plainly, inspirational. And it’s nice timing that their first gig in London since the one described in the story happens next month at The Scala, on Thursday October 22nd. There are still tickets available here . I cannot recommend them highly enough. Look out for the twitching, socially incompetent Irishman hovering around at the back of the crowd. Whatever you do, don’t say hello.
