Mark Doyon: Bloggy Yada

Updated September 8, 2008

Remember that Cracker song, "I See the Light"? Sample grab: "I see the light at the end of the tunnel now / someone please tell me it's not a train." I keep seeing that reassuring glimmer as I work on my album, Play for Affection... and then keep finding myself face to face with that locomotive.

The latest near-miss comes in the form of a catastrophic failure of my recording studio. This is roughly as bad as, say, an STD. I'll spare you the blood and gore, but I can't record at all right now, and I don't know when, exactly, I will be able to.

And how was your summer?

Me, I've been getting caught up on my TV watching, my beer drinking.

What's up....

Arms of Kismet / Play for Affection. Almost done, but lost in the machine. Coming out when the high-tech gods deem it right.

Slingshot to Obscurity. Out next year, or so I often say. It's about touring as an independent musician. It's not a "how-to" -- it's more of a "how-not-to." It's got funny parts, sad parts -- sort of like a big-budget romantic comedy, but, well, totally different.

Bonneville Stories. This book is packed, say I, with ready-made film treatments. If someone out there doesn't make a movie of "The Blue Flame" or "Sooner or Later" or "Green Grow the Azaleas" pretty soon, I might have to write a big-budget romantic comedy. Out now as a delightful ebook, out soon as a delightful audiobook.

-MD