{"id":2007,"date":"2020-07-18T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2022-02-13T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:39:22","slug":"2020-hindsight-commentary-prophet-15-christine-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/2020-hindsight-commentary-prophet-15-christine-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Hindsight Commentary: Prophet 15, Christine Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

I’m revisiting Timely Persuasion<\/a> 12 years after releasing it \/ 17 years after writing it \/ 6000+ days<\/a> since I jokingly told Jon Mack “maybe I’ll write a book” with a new round of fresh eyed commentary. Today’s look at yesterday’s chapters is brought to you by Supergrass<\/a> and Kiss<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Prophet 15<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Revelations of her revolution” is still a great line\u2014and still a Googlewhack. (Or it used to be before Google stopped crawling the online version<\/a> because I didn’t have time to make it mobile friendly.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Won One” is a real song my friend Chris Evjy wrote in college. I haven’t heard it in over twenty years, but in my memory it’s still one of my favorite songs of all time. (Yes, I know that’s a little extreme.) A handful of old mixtapes exist somewhere with a live version recorded on my radio show, but after countless hours trying to track one down in the attic of my childhood home I gave up. Mainly at this point I want to hear it again to see if it’s really as great as I remember.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Why is the Local Boy open mike debut on Halloween? My past self could have at least had a throwaway joke about a costume.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The list of Local Boy songs contain an easter egg very few people have discovered. The first letter of each song points you to a website. (In hindsight, putting Dash 7<\/a> by Wilco in the middle of the list might have helped.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I wish there was a little more agonizing over the song stealing implications between the 2 set lists. I mean, 1 paragraph? Really?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Debonair” & “Start Choppin'” are awesome, but not exactly “a barrage of hits\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“One more chord to play” is a reference to a different Chris Evjy song.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Use the gifts you gave yourself” is my favorite nugget of writing advice. Re-reading the original commentary<\/a> for this chapter reminded me the whole Local Boy subplot is a classic example of that.<\/p>\r\n

Christine Sixteen<\/h2>\r\n

The narrator could have shown more concern around the fact that his grandparents house that he knew in the future was gone before its time. (And by “more concern” I mean “any concern at all.”)<\/p>\r\n

Another batch of still, still, still.<\/p>\r\n

I wish the Local Boy name was foreshadowed at the coffee house open mike show or elsewhere before popping up out of nowhere here.<\/p>\r\n

“Author of the hit singles” makes no sense. “See Local Boy perform his hit singles…”<\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, a musician performing “in his own backyard!” might have been my current COVID-era self sending a message to my past self.<\/p>\r\n

Quite a lot of smoke in the trailer after being inside for “less than a minute.”<\/p>\r\n

The “Let me clear my throat” reference is pretty bad.<\/p>\r\n

I had to double check the popularity of double albums in 1970 when writing this commentary, which means I probably should have done so directly in the text too.<\/p>\r\n

The last paragraph of this chapter reminds me of the song Bill & Annie<\/a> by Chuck Brodsky, but I didn’t discover that song until several years later. (It would even tie back to the tomato on the plane!)<\/p>\r\n

Check out the original 2008 commentary for these chapters:<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Prophet 15<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Christine Sixteen<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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