SOUNDTRACK: QUATTE.F- “I’m So Glad” from My Space (2009).
Quatte.f is a patron at my library. He had asked me to help him transfer some photos and eventually to help him upload his demo song to his MySpace page. He told me that he was in a local group of some sort–I don’t recall who they were–and this was his chance to go solo.
I’m not much of an R&B fan (NO!), but after we uploaded the track, he asked me to listen and I did. And I have to say I really liked it. It’s catchy as heck. And his voice is really strong. He also avoids most of the histrionics that I dislike so much about R&B.
So, I wish him much success, and since I doubt he’ll ever see this, if you click on his link and listen to his song he’ll be pretty psyched that he’s suddenly gotten all of these listens to his song. And if you’re from a label, he’s currently unsigned.
[READ: March 22, 2009] Miracle Wimp
Sarah got a copy of this in the mail. She said, hey, this looks like something you’d like. So I read it, and finished it in like three hours.
At first, I was afraid that it was just jumping on the bandwagon of the Diary of Wimpy Kid phenomenon. But when I checked the release dates I found that the first Wimpy Kid came out in 2007 and so did this book. We got a pre-released copy of the paperback edition (which is soon to be released in 2009) so no complaints about riding on coattails! (Although, the online cartoon started in, I believe, 2005).
The book is about Tom Mayo, a junior in a high school set in the boonies of western Massachusetts. The book details the ritual humiliations that come with being a wimp in high school. There aren’t diary entries per se, but each page has a title and about a page worth of stuff that happened about that topic. There’s also some rudimentary drawings (not as charming as Wimpy Kid’s, which is especially weird since Tom wanted to be in art class) that convey what happened in that “entry.” (more…)
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