Looks sweet and cuddly, but watch out for the claws...
At long last, a new podcast! And you thought I had abandoned the idea all together, but I have begun a new experiment which I am calling "Conceit" -- not in the sense of arrogant self-satisfaction, but in the literary sense of an overly elaborate and ridiculously stretched metaphor (like Donne's "The Flea"). I'm hoping that things will improve as I go along and I find my feet. Here's the first offering:
posted by K. A. Laity @ 12/12/2009 09:10:00 PM
This is a blog for writer K. A. Laity, the author of Unikirja (Aino Press 2009), a collection of short stories based on the Kalevala, Kanteletar, and other Finnish myths and legends, for which I won the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship and a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant. I have also written Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale as well as other stories and essays. I teach medieval literature, film, New Media and popular culture at the College of Saint Rose. The news blog title comes from my first student film, Un Amor Peligroso or the Wombat's World; it was also the title of a zine I used to publish. Unless otherwise identified, all writing here © K. A. Laity. Lege feliciter!
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4 Comments:
Love this piece!
Thanks, Queen! But is it funny?
It's funny, though kinda cringy (eructation, macrocephaly--yum! And are there folks who can handle dairy but not sour cream? I guess so). I would suggest a little less processing of the vocal in future recordings...it was on the threshold of hard to make out, but clear enough. The playing was very pleasant. A welcome return! (I was somewhat reminded of Ken Nordine...)
Cringey is okay by me. I refer all medical questions to the experts. Blame Garageband for the processing -- it's too easy to do and I didn't like the hissy sound. You're going to make me dig out my real mic and buy an adapter, aren't you...
I will take Ken Nordine, though I was feeling it veered a bit too much into too much Laurie Anderson territory after several takes (clearly she's a model, of course). Unlike the usual one or two takes I give readings, I actually did several of this because it was improvised from a post-it note with a few key words on it.
A work in progress -- I want it to be more Wisty-like.
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