#32: would you be my neighbor
Welcome to issue #32 of THIS NEWSLETTER CANNOT SAVE YOU, the first issue of the new year!
It's going to be a short issue this week, a minimalist issue if you will, due to my incredibly hectic travel schedule - you see, I've left my top secret fortified bunker in Seattle and am on the east coast at the moment. Things are different here! Anyway, let's not waste any more time - let's get right down to newslettering.
Highlights from Scottoworld
(Author copies of my new book have arrived!)
Tordotcom posted an excerpt from the first chapter of my forthcoming novel WILD MASSIVE if you'd like a teaser of the hijinks to come!
I'll be doing a book launch event at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle on February 7th! I don't have a link!
Publishers Weekly liked the book! So did Library Journal!
Scottovision (LIGHTNING ROUND)
Ten video picks for you, but because I'm so fantastically busy on the east coast (where things are different!), we're doing a lightning round! The constraint is TWO WORDS to describe each video. (Wisecracks about keeping this format forever will be met with me placing my fingers in my ears and singing "tra la la can't hear you" until you go away.)
"Earth & Fire" by Cool 3D World (2023) - sweet revenge!
"Betray" animated by Cyriak (2023) - dancing knives!
"Sexy Furby" from Magic Society Pictures (2022) - deeply demented!
"What Comes Next" directed by Julien Vallon (2023) - dystopian dance!
"Indistinct Chatter #1: Have You Ever Seen A Cow?" from KrainaGrzybowTV (2022) - ominous surreality!
"Hot Future" from Adult Swim Smalls (2022) - dance battles!
"Richard Twice: A Musical Life Interrupted" from the NYTimes (2017) - bittersweet biography!
"I do not do I" by Bambina (2019) - wacky runaway!
"Possibly in Michigan" (1983) - cursed musical!
"Milks! All the milks!" from On Bing Productions (2022) - don't watch
Exit Music
Sending you out this issue with "Would You Be My" by X.O.X., a cute little electropop ballad version of the theme from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
If you get bored, you can find me on YouTube, Soundcloud, Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit, Mastodon, the Internet Archive, Neocities, Tumblr, Vimeo, Mixcloud, Twitter, and the OG home of all my things, Scottoweb.
Until next time, I remain your friendly correspondent, thinking of you,
Scotto