{"id":472,"date":"2006-04-29T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/04\/may-day-weekend-interstitial\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T20:56:00","slug":"may-day-weekend-interstitial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/04\/may-day-weekend-interstitial\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day Weekend Interstitial"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do so like the word “interstitial” which I learned from the eminent intellectual blogging chef, Bakerina.<\/a> This one comes as I embark on a blog fiction which seems already to have a life of its own. I don’t remember writing like this in the past; I just have an incident in my mind, the incident involves characters, and as I draw the characters, the action seems just to unfold of its own accord. Events proceed as the characters dictate, and within a few days of mulling over outcomes, the plot seems obvious – or at least, inevitable – and all I have to do is put the time in and follow through with sufficient detail and care to bring it to life. <\/p>\n

It is odd to pass days like this – the fiction is a second reality which lives and breathes with me, as I travel and work on other things, and the onward nature of the writing gives me another wind to breathe and fill my sails.<\/p>\n

In the so-called real world, I took part in a fascinating seminar this week<\/a> – under the name Deek Dannunzio – in Second Life. The real world involved me rising at an ungodly hour and logging onto a virtual one to speak to real people about real issues – copyright, creativity, and the modern ways that blogging, podcasting and the internet have made us both producers and users of content. Without really aiming to I seem to have become a spokesperson for the rights of UK podcasters, in an attempt to establish them before they are taken from us.<\/p>\n

I also mastered the single<\/a> at Abbey Road – what fun that was. I worked with Sean Magee – we used a reel-to-reel and the audio desk which Pink Floyd used to master Dark Side Of The Moon. Sounds great – we really got that self-preservation brass band sound.<\/p>\n

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The song is released on iTunes May 1st. The funny thing is, it has been such a long process to get it this far, that I feel really detached from the entire thing. We’ll see how it goes. I promise to keep blogging if I become a pop star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do so like the word “interstitial” which I learned from the eminent intellectual blogging chef, Bakerina. This one comes as I embark on a blog fiction which seems already to have a life of its own. I don’t remember writing like this in the past; I just have an incident in my mind, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}