No One Knows This is Even Science Fiction: Recently, a friend of mine was reading an advanced copy of my first novel Subterranean, and he texted to tell me that he wanted me to read Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, then promptly brought me his copy of the book. Naomi Watts is amazing in this role and manages to pull off something’s we rarely see: a strong-willed, not so nice, bossy woman who isn’t portrayed as some annoying killjoy but as the person who is taking care of business. Dougie’s being shaken down by some gangsters? Who cares? Janey-E will gladly go to the park in her “cheap, terrible car” and take care of those gangsters and tell them just what a couple of assholes they are.
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The breakout hit of the entire series in my opinion was Janey-E, Dougie’s devoted wife who doesn’t blink an eye when he wraps a tie around his head, repeats everything she says, and doesn’t seem to know how to get to work. We lost a little of the hometowniness as we were taken all over the place: to see a weird glass box in New York, to wherever the hell Audrey was supposed to be, to a trailer park just outside of town (I know, exciting!), but we got even more weirdness, with much of this revolving around Dougie Jones in his green suit. So yes the original Twin Peaks with all of its quaintness, Bobby and Shelley-ness, and Cooper going on about pie and coffee is one of my favorite things, but Twin Peaks: The Return turned it all up a thousand notches. I also love paranoia, mystery, and absurdity. I’m a sucker for a central meeting place, quirky community members, and a little romance. Anyone who knows me would know that on a list of non-speculative based favorite things, it would just be Gilmore Girls. I’ve always had a strange mash up of tastes and any piece of art that manages to put them together into one thing is like magic to me. A lovely song called “ The Lonesome Friends of Science,” is more of a shrug to it all, featuring a sad and lonely Pluto who got “uninvited to the Interplanetary ball.” Prine isn’t too concerned about scientific trajectories because he “don’t live here anyway”:įavorite Spouse to A Person who Emerged from a Wall Socket: Janey-E. Now 71, Prine is still speculating about the future in his latest album.
“ Living in the Future” is, as the title suggests, about life in the future, and much like the best works of speculative fiction it portrays it as something exciting and shiny and also sad and disappointing:
I feel like I will only be artistically satisfied when I successfully take my readers on the same type of emotional roller-coaster a Prine album takes me on. His songs are strange and sad and funny all at the same time. Song about the Future: As a writer, John Prine is one of my storytelling heroes. One year, my dad made me personalized birthday invitations - the kind in Microsoft Word that you have to fold 4 times to make a card - that said: “The party’s out there.” I never really thought about it until tasked with writing this piece, but there is really no cooler role model to have as a young girl: a smart doctor FBI agent who also gets to learn about aliens and hang out with some goofy guy and tell him he’s wrong all the time! I dyed my hair red and wore “suits” (really just like a button-down blouse with a collar) and signed my name Sarah “Scully” Colombo on notes and in yearbooks. I was 100% sure that I was going to become an FBI agent. In late elementary and early middle school, I had a deep obsession with the show, specifically with Dana Scully, who I wanted to be. I begged to be allowed to keep watching it and my parents caved. One day I caught a few scenes, and I was hooked. It was scary, and my parents made me leave the room when it was on. *Bridget Erin, playwright of Sonata for Four Hands and In Our BackyardĮarliest Obsession: I was technically not allowed to watch The X-Files as a kid. What does Sarah love when she’s not writing about an “unsettling world of ubiquitous screens and surveillance, snarky robots and tech-resistant cults”?* Spoiler alert: the best role model, music that takes you on an emotional roller-coaster, one tough dame, a book of eerie similarities, and swoon-worthy villains. This week, we sit down with author Sarah Colombo, whose debut novel Subterranean was released on August 28th from Spaceboy Books!
Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less.
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