Startling Adventures #2: Revenge of the Aztec Robot Zombies from Outer Space! | Read my brand new short story

Hey Lads and Ladettes,

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In there you’ll find great pulp literature from all over the world, and if it matters at all or if you are a friend of mine, you’ll find my brand new short story “Thoughts and Freckles” in there as well.

For the wicked price of 6.66 dollars you can get that and many more delivered to your house.

So buckled up and join us in ours: Startling Adventures (Magazine 2: Revenge of the Aztec Robot Zombies from Outer Space! (Volume 2))

M.M.Izidoro

Goodbye, Hello!

Two Thousand and Ten was a bittersweet year. If the next one is only a fraction of what this one was, we are in for a ride.

In the end this song by my friends from The Frames says everything I felt throughout this singular twelve month cycle.

Pavement Tune

The Frames

“This situation’s killing me

It’s got me right under the thumb

I don’t know where I want to be

This doesn’t make no sense at all

You’re quoting every single line

I spoke too much but I was old before my time, you told me

I want my life to make more sense

I want my life to make amends

I want my life to make more sense to me

This road is crooked cracked and wrong

They got the odds staked nice and high

I don’t know how they get along

Me, I just internalize

You can imagine what they’d say

Given the choice if I could fight or walk away, I’m walking

You see I want my life to make more sense

I want my life to make amends

I want my life to make more sense to me

I want my life to make more sense

I want my life to make more sense to me

So let me take you by the hand

And lead you through this troubled mind

You said yourself we had a plan

To get us all back to the line

We talk anout it everyday

But we keep forgetting what it was we Came to say

Now don’t we

I want my life to make more sense

I want my life to make amends

I want my life to make more sense to me

My life to make amends”

See all of you on the other side.

Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit,

M.M.Izidoro

002|Things that really… inspired The Search!

Things That Really Inspired The Search

This pieces of art, helped me go through a difficult time and to come out the other side with a new piece of storytelling to call my own.

#3|Hedwig and the Angry Inch

A beautiful woman, man and everything in between. Hedwig was left with an Angry Inch, alone in America, was betrayed by her boytoy and still looked fabolous doing it. Also she sang this song above, a love song inspired by my favorite philosopher and homeboy, Aristophanes. John Cameron Mitchell created a rock opera inspired by his life, not that he was a german transvestite, but he was different in a place and a time where different wasn’t allowed. As she would sing “And this is the sad story how we became lonely two legged creatures. The story of the origin of love”.

#2|Passing Strange

Stew used art to rewrite his life. He got on Broadway. Spike Lee made a movie of it. He won dozens of awards and I hope he solved all his unsolved issues, cause he sure did help me solve some of mine.

#1|The Arrival

Shaun Tan created an illustrated masterpiece with this book. The Arrival is a silent tale of a man in a new land having to come to terms with all the novelty around him and the fact that his family is half the world away. The drawings are breathtaking, the story is breathtaking and by the end it’s all very heartwarming. Here’s one more sample of the fantastic art by Tan:

I highly recommend getting the book and get ready for The Arrival! [rimshot]

#GillianBonus

God is a storyteller and Terry Gillian is a God!

See you guys in roughly 10080 Minutes!

M.M.Izidoro

001|Things that really… are awesome classical music!

Today mark the first entry in this new weekly (I hope) series of posts titled “Things That Really…”. Here will be usually a list of things I think it’s important to share with you all. So let’s get things started shall we?

Classical Music that Rocks My World

This pieces of music and I are one. If I listen to them 27 times in a row, it’s still not enough.

#3|Dvorak - New World Symphony - 2nd Movement

This is epic! The whole New World Symphony is. Dvorak shows in a piece of music what must have been like discovering a complete new land! I’m madly in love with this!

#2|Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 - Prelude

Holy freaking higher deity! Can you listen to this and not tell me it’s awesome! Listen to those dynamics, to those melodies, to the sound of the cello! I float when I listen to this and go higher than a helium ballon!!

#1|Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D

This is popular western music at it’s best. Pachelbel is the original one hit wonder. He wrote a song almost four centuries ago and we are still playing it in our weddings. Even better, his chord progression is the base of modern pop music! Really! I kid you not!

I got into a conservatory only to learn how to play this on the violin (once I did, I quit the damn thing!), I met the love of my life listening to this in a bridge in Prague, she asked me to marry her listening to this in London, my favorite brazilian band Karnak, use it as a base of their biggest hit Juvenar… To summarize, this song is imprinted in me… and you and in all the western world…. Johann, you develish man!

#ComedyBonus

See you guys in roughly 168hours!

M.M.Izidoro