October 11th, 2010 / 8:52 pm
Web Hype
Blake Butler
Web Hype
Live Giants #9: Grace Krilanovich
You missed Grace’s live broadcast but you can still check out and buy her novel, The Orange Eats Creeps, at Two Dollar Radio, and you should do that cuz it’s ooooo.
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ugh, this streaming service likes to interrupt streaming with an advert, then resume streaming from the place it left off—essentially eliminating the true “liveness” of it. I’m just bitchy
actually maybe I was wrong, maybe it does pick up live after the ad goes off.
were you in bands, or go to a lot of shows? i was really compelled by how well you nailed the house show scenes in the book, and wondered about your musical experience, and if music contributed to the book in other ways besides those direct scenes?
What a great fricking novel.
i’d also like to hear more about the cut up methods you used and how that physically worked and what kind of results you got i.e. how much came out of that and how much was made and thrown away
did u read any fairy tales while writing creeps? if so, what?
Wondering about the setting for the book. Are you from the pacific northwest?
I’m in the middle of the book now, so apologies that this isn’t really relevant to the book. But where were you when you found out you’d been nominated for 5 Under 35? Was it anything you’d been anticipating?
i’ve always felt that my friends in bands are more literate (or at least read more interesting things) than my friends who are not in bands, do you feel like you write for people who play music or at least people who go to shows? or for a general audience?
[ i dont know if you can see the q’s in the chatroom with the video but here is one from there ] corpuslibris: What’s the weirdest dream you’ve ever had? Are any of the dreams in Orange Eats Creeps ones that you’ve actually had?
what does ‘gothic’ mean to you, and do you think there’s such a thing as ‘nu-gothic’
jarretmiddleton: how long did it take you to write OEC? did you write any of it in an interesting place or situation?
What about oogles? What do you think of oogles?
speaking of stuff, you seem surrounded by it. Are you in your studio. Is that where you write? Can you write anywhere or only in a specific place?
Scummy travel punks.
grace, forgive me for the cheesy irrelevant question, but i always ask people when i see traces of the classics around them… are you into newer/current hardcore at all? or does the interest stop in the 80s?
Who are your influences (literary, cinematic, or other)? Which most influenced this novel?
What about Hatebreed.
off! rules. keith morris will never ever die.
did u ever go to raves?
ohh, Cruddy is one of my favorites. Great reading/Q&A, too–thanks.
I’m sorry my questions aren’t ‘working’. Oh well. Your book sounds awesome, and I will read it.
Is the reference to Lost Boys a shout out to Santa Cruz?
would you read one last section?
How many hours a day do you write?
haha. now we’re fuckin talking.
yeah that answered my question, i feel like there’s a lot of crossover between independent music and independent literature that is totally not happening that totally could happen. as you said, people who are into cool stuff are into cool stuff, if they know about it and if it’s made for them to think is cool because it’s talking about them. i am always encouraging people in bands to write. thanks, grace.
it’s okay, it’s an embarrassing question. moments in the book unnerved me in the same way lights and house music and robitussin used to inside abandoned warehouses. all those kids staggering around as the sun came up. something sinister and maniacal about the 90’s rave scene, but maybe it’s just a midwestern thing i dunno.
Thanks everybody for these great questions! Sorry I couldn’t get to the last few.
Great reading. Thanks for this.