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Next Monday it will have been two years since L died.

The baggage (emotional and otherwise) I have had to carry around with me is now all being shed. The book will take about 12 months to come out/be published but it is happening (the Morley magic has worked wonders!). L's friends & colleagues at Oxford Brookes library are extremely excited about it...they will be ordering a copy for the library in L's memory when it comes out.

Significant Other-type issues I have put on the backburner. Getting the book done is my priority at the moment. If it happens, it will happen...someone will come along when I least expect it. And it's a truism that you're better at attracting people when you're not looking than when you are.

Day job is same old same old but is thankfully becoming increasingly irrelevant.

I hope I've not done too badly. First year was chaos, but two years on the concept of a "new life" is slowly starting to make sense.

Up to Glasgow tomorrow to laze about for a week or so; looking forward to it.

In summary - cautiously optimistic, but glad that life is now progressing as I planned.

To paraphrase Yoko's message to John on the sleeve of "Walking On Thin Ice" - I hope you like CoM, Laura. I did my best.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

yay marcello!! well done - you have no idea how much i admire what you've achieved over the last two years

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Marcello, congrats on the book :0)

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay Marcello, I am so happy for you that things are getting towards being back on track & although your life will never be quite the same, I hope you can still find all the happiness you deserve.
*big hugs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Best of luck with all future projects Marcello! Thinking of you.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Marcello

Just a quick note to say hi - and good luck. I'm a big fan of Church of Me, I have loved your recent posts, most specifically the ones on Alvin Lucier ( Its amazing how these things can fall together isn't it? - I had just got into listening to "I am sitting in a room" when i came across your blog and it seemed doubly coincidental/ spooky that Morley had written at length about it too!). Those posts also got me into Gillian Welch - so thanks for that also.

Theres so much more I love about your writing - hopefully i can bang on at length about it at some point!

keep on.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed, best of luck with the book and the next two years (and the two after that and the two after that and so on!). It's been inspiring seeing things unfold.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I got an email last week from a friend completely unconnected to FT or ILX or anything linking to CoM, saying 'have you seen this Radiohead review? It's fucking great.'

Good to hear things are picking up, Marcello.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Keep on truckin'!

Y'know.

If you need someone to spend a day with in Glasgow, Marcello, that'd be nice.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well done Marcello and good luck with the book.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

being positive is probably the most admirable trait in a person, looking to the future and see'ing yourself channeling your strengths into both your future and your book. May you keep up this strength marcello and here's hoping life now deals you what you truely deserve.

― james (james), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

This fills me with happiness.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wonderful news. I look forward to reading the CoM book, whenever it comes out :-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Congratulations on the book, good luck and ::big hugs::

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nice work marcello,and the best of luck with everything

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Congrat's on the CoM volume, Marcello.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

:-)

It is all good to hear, sir. I've already mentally preordered it in my head.

Keep staying well.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very glad things are going yr way (in as much as they can be expected to), Marcello.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I second Sinkah's words - I have huge respect for how you have started a new life, especially how successful you've been as a music writer so quickly. Good luck with it all continuing to progress.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very glad to hear you're doing well. The Church of Me has brought me so much happiness, and I eagerly await the book.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

marcello, what they said.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Looking forward to the book, Marcello, glad that things are going well.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Marcello,

I'm glad to hear that you have hope for a brighter tomorrow :)

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Marcello,
I'm very happy for you moving on and I wish you all the best with your new book.
Hugs Gale

― gale2g20002, Friday, 22 August 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

m. same stuff everyone else said & also it's good to see you posting here again, do it more ok

― duane, Friday, 22 August 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

You're one of the folks here who I was (and still am) a bit in awe of, Marcello. Maybe that's silly but it's true. What I admire is the force of your will; you can carry along entire mountains and forests in its wake. What you've been carrying may be heavier even than these. But these muscles are going to serve you well. Congratulations!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

shit i wish i'd said something more like what tracer said...see i'm not as flippant & disrespectful as i probly seem, just inarticulate & dumm. marcello i remember the 1st thing you writ that i read, that pisstake of jools holland, it was just killer laff out loud funny & i was like WHO IS THIS GUY! HE'S A GODDAMN GENIUS!!
jools holland that is. obv.

― duane, Friday, 22 August 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing more to add that hasn't been said better already. and i'm very much looking forward to seeing yr book.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 22 August 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Congratulations Marcello, you've done incredibly well, your personal progression and achievements stand as testament to your impressive will. I am full of admiration.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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