The Frictionfiction Show #25 is packed full of goodies.

Music:

DJAY BUDDHA www.myspace.com/howff Down-tempo / Ambient / Afro-beat

Djay Buddha also writes, presents, and produces the fabulous afcollective podcast show

 

KINGS OF JUPITER www.myspace.com/kingsofjupiter Indie / Alternative / Rock

Steedie www.myspace.com/steedie1 Electronica / Pop

Brad Sucks www.myspace.com/bradsucks Alternative / Pop / Folk Rock

Oneyeopen www.myspace.com/oneyeopen Rock / Alternative / Grunge

Lit links:www.glimmertrain.com. http://Quillandink.netfirms.com

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mslee/mag.html

www.thepedestalmagazine.com.

 

The Frictionfiction Shows 24 brings you the best music and fiction on the internet.

G.E.T. aka Da Get Wit It Click Hip Hop / Hardcore / Rap hypermarket Alternative / Indie / Psychedelic party mule Alternative / Indie / Experimental paul busst Indie / Acoustic / Shoegaze

http://www.myspace.com/paulbusst

 

Frictionfiction 23

 

Here's the script of the show as promised:

 

Hello, this is the Frictionfiction show number 23.

 

Thanks for listening. All an artist needs, is an audience.

 

Telephone Teeth by J. Marinelli with his angry young one man band. How does he do that? 

 

And My Fair Lady by Cactus Jons

 

This is the Frictionfiction Show. Each week you can hear the best indie, acoustic, and alternative music on the internet today, plus news of the top online fiction magazines. Speaking of which, Telephone Teeth and My Fair Lady go out for Tom Dooley at www.eclectica.org, new October/November issue of Eclectica is out now.

 

This is Who I Am, by Margo Gordon

 

The sun was overhead. There wasn't a shadow in the square. I saw graffiti. She stopped by a shop window, and I kept walking.

 

"Let's keep moving."

 

But she kept looking. I looked in the shop window too. I saw oil paintings, the harbour, the beach, ruins.

 

"Aren't they cute?"

 

"Great. Now let's go to the beach. I don't like it here."

 

"But."

 

"No buts. Look at the graffiti."

 

We tracked out of the square, and onto a bright mosaic path. White-shoed couples sat in the shade, and leaned towards each other, talking. We stopped for water. She unhooked her bag, and let out a gargle.

 

"It's gone."

 

"What's gone?"

 

But I knew what had gone.

 

In the back pocket of the bag. Her money. Her credit cards. I kicked a date so it flew past the couples who turned away. She slung the bag on her shoulder.

 

"Stay here."

 

"What?"

 

"I said, stay here."

 

Alone, on the beach, I claimed a sun bed and lay down, staring at the underside of the umbrella.

 

I woke up. She was leaning over me. She smiled.

 

"Cards cancelled. Five Euros missing."

 

"Big deal. Sorry I shouted."

 

She laughed.

 

"Sorry I took no notice. At least you never said, 'I told you so.'"

 

"Would I?"

 

I rolled over, and looked along the beach at the other bathers. I saw two men walking towards the sun beds. They stripped off, and sat down. They paid the man for sun beds. One asked the other for a light. They lay back, and turned their baseball caps round, blowing out smoke. They said something, and laughed. Two women on the next beds looked at each other, and rolled onto their fronts. The men stuck out their jaws, and angled themselves to the sun.

 

The

 

Ones.

 

They thought their victims would spend the day in a hot police station filling out forms. They were wrong. I watched, and I waited. The sun dropped low, and cooled. Other bathers rolled up their towels, and left. The man stacked the beds. It was just down to me. I stared. They stared back, and then they looked at each other. They laughed. I sat up, and dug my feet in the warm sand.

 

She grabbed my arm, and I looked at her.

 

"What?"

 

She smiled.

 

"It's not your problem."

 

Sinking by Oceanponee.

 

That goes out for Wes White. All of the people in Wes's top 12 are contributors to Attack!!!! magazine, which he edits. The latest issue, Response: Leighton, is out now and can be ordered from ecartilage.co.uk,

 

My story, 'It's Not Your Problem' is at Surprising Stories

 

Thanks to all the new subscribers. Each week you will hear the best indie, acoustic, and alternative music on the internet today, plus news of the top online fiction magazines.

 

To listen to previous shows, click the orange button at Myspace.

 

Go listen and download.

 

 

That's all for Frictionfiction for now. I'm Ian Duncan Smith.

 

Check out myspace.com/thefrictionfictionshow where I'll post the script of the show.

 

This is Elliot Jack

 

Do Things That Scare You

Brave new artists on the web. The best indie, alternative, acoustic bands working online, plus news of the top online fiction magazines. This week, music by J Marinelli, a brilliant demo  by Cactus Jons (warning, this IS a demo), Margo Gordon, Oceanponee, and Elliot Jack, and a story read by the author. "The future relies on this..."

The Frictionfiction Show 22 with indie, alternative, acoustic music from:

Anzaldua www.myspace.com/anzalduasongs

The Good Die Young www.myspace.com/thegooddieyoungmusic

Ant Couch www.myspace.com/antcouch

Sammon www.myspace.com/sammonmusic

The Frictionfiction shows comes of age with all things creative on the web, music from Armitage Skanks, and Sammy Ault, and as ever, internet fiction news brought to you by Ian Duncan Smith. Check out http://www.myspace.com/thefrictionfictionshow.

 

The Frictionfiction Show from the UK returns with the latest news about speculative fiction on the internet, a new sound, and a story read by the author.

During the Frictionfiction summer break, I've been writing and recording songs (as well as writing fiction) for a CD I called Shedworks, under the band name The Hexyl Circle. The Hexyl Circle draws influences from Senegal, English folk, Britpop, Classical Modernism, and Manchester Post-Punk. Who Knows? is track 2 on the CD, and gets good reviews on Broadjam, Bebo and Myspace. I use a Sony laptop, Shure mike, Fender and Taylor guitars through Line 6 Toneport, assorted instruments, Xylo, gopichand, spinning drum, Indian flute and so on. All 13 tracks can be heard in order on http://thehexylcircle.bebo.com. At Myspace, you can hear a selection, www.myspace.com/thehexylcircle. You can download tracks at http://feeds.feedburner.com/thehexylcircle.

 

Tuesday, June 20th. It's the start of summer, and the Frictionfiction Show reaches the end of its first series. The team will now take a well-earned summer break. In this final show before the break, Ian Duncan Smith reads more from his satirical novel, Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years, out now at lulu.com. The Mantra - Frictionfiction secrets rounds up with the four words to recite aloud when writing fiction. News of Glimmer Train.org's summer competition, and music by The Hexyl Circle.

The Frictionfiction Show 18, with internet fiction news, music, readings and fiction writing secrets. Chapters 2 and 3 of Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years, read by Ian Duncan Smith. Frictionfiction Secrets - Being Your Own Critic. Two tunes by The Hexyl Circle: Wrinkles, and Good Moves.

Ian Duncan Smith's hugely successful weekly Frictionfiction Show 17 brings you six minutes of fiction writing secrets - The Antenna, news of Charlie's Fish's Fiction on the Web spring issue, plus Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years the novel, out now at www.lulu.com - and music, Lovin' You, performed as always by The Hexyl Circle.

The ongoing, and successful Frictionfiction Show brings you more invaluable gems of fiction writing secrets, and music, as always, composed and performed by The Hexyl Circle.

The Frictionfiction show 15 brings you internet fiction secrets, news, music, and readings. Decisions! Decisions! Frictionfiction secrets on how to decide what to write about. A poem, Coppick's Gallery, read by Ian Duncan Smith. Boundoff.com. The Internet Book List. Monica Poling on Kaavya Viswanathan. Music written and performed by The Hexyl Circle.

The Frictionfiction Show - ten minutes of internet fiction writing secrets, readings, music, and news.

Sense of Drama is no joke. Frictionfiction says, Knock! Knock! Who's There?

Hundreds of new subscribers, but do you want to hear from sponsors? Email the show at frictionfiction@wapda.com.

The North is So Much Better For Youngsters Today, story read by Ian Duncan Smith from Transmission magazine.

Book Industry Profiteering - the future for small, independent booksellers. Is internet fiction really to blame?

Music by The Hexyl Circle.

The Frictionfiction show says, "It's behind you!!" and it isn't even panto season. Frictionfiction Secrets, what's in a sense of drama? Great progressive new fiction, Have You Quite Finished? at verbsap.com, Surprising Stories, and music provided by The Hexyl Circle.

The Frictionfiction show 12 features Frictionfiction secrets, 'pressure off' writing, Kaavya Viswanathan, Little Brown and Co, Christopher Shelley, The Million Writer's Award overall winner, Anderbo.com, Book Industry Reactions, and asks the question, How impoverished is the book industry? 

The Frictionfiction Show 11 with internet fiction news, music, and poetry. A one-off special, In Search of the First Commuter, was successfully uploaded on Thursday. Where are we going? Why are we going there? Subscriber numbers. Media Artist's Secrets by Franklin McMahon. Frictionfiction secrets. Writewords.org.uk. Theatre of Decay. SNReview blogger, wordpress.com. Coincidence. Heavy Glow. Smokebox. Amy Prior...and blues in G.

In this one-off, ten minute special, the Frictionfiction show takes the A train, and generates its own story - In Search of the Very First Commuter, a live investigation into people on the move. Where are we going? Why are we going there?

Show 10 brings you news of a forthcoming Frictionfiction special, In Search of the First Commuter, which will be uploaded on Thursday.  Also, The Rollercoaster World of Advances, Gary Barlow, Small Spiral Notebook, a story, God Only Knows, and Verbsap.com news.

In Frictionfiction show number 9, April 11th 2006, Ian Duncan Smith reads a poem, ...in 25 Minutes, from What You Will See (www.gattopublishing.com), news of Pedestal Magazine's North Carolina edition, Prose Toad spring issue, Tripp Reade, Are Advances Down?, Ahmet Zappa's deal with Puffin, The Bookshop War, John Sedden, The Publishing Reaction to Digitisation, The Poetry Library closure and Internet Poetry magazines.

Frictionfiction 8 brings you ten minutes of internet fiction news and a short story: Glimmertrain.org, Fill Her Belly, Boy, ProseToad.com, the publishing industry response at The Book and the Consumer Conference - free searchable content, and Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years.

Frictionfiction show 7 delivers news of the Million Writers competition. Ian Duncan Smith reads Growing Tree and They Said I Should Go Home. Competition updates, and music.

Mr. Frictionfiction 6, aka Ian Duncan Smith, brings you music - Carn Galver, poetry - The Cleverest Man in the World, and internet fiction news: Jim Baen's Universe, Verbsap, Miss Snark's Blogspot, the final issue of Gator Springs Gazette, and Smokelong Quarterly.

Frictionfiction 5 brings you music, plus news of internet fiction - promoting writing on the web. This week: BMW's new audio books online, Karin Slaughter, London Book Fair, World Book Day, new Ideomancer issue, Surprising Stories, and music: Missing Beats. Brought to you by Ian Duncan Smith.

Mr Frictionfiction aka Ian Duncan Smith returns this week with a reading of his story Swing Naked, and internet fiction news about Cloudy Day Art, Escape Pod, Spicy Green Iguana, Ideomancer, Slipstream Fiction, Desperate Celebrities, Right Hand Pointing, F. John Sharp, Pedestal, and Barrelhouse. Frictionfiction 4 is on your Ipod.

The Frictionfiction show brings you news of fiction on the internet. Issue 3, Tuesday 21st, contains news on Eclectica, storySouth's Million Writers Award for internet fiction, Prose Toad deadline, a story read by the author, Ian Duncan Smith, Speculations.com, Cory Doctorow, Flashshot, and Silverthought.

The second issue of the Frictionfiction show brings you poetry read by the author, Ian Duncan Smith, from his collection What You Will See, (gattopublishing.com).

The Frictionfiction show brings you weekly fiction and poetry readings by the author, and news of fiction on the internet with a leaning towards speculative fiction.

Welcome to my podcast - cool speculative fiction stories written and read by me in my normal voice. I'm Mr. Frictionfiction, aka Ian Duncan Smith. 'Roads That Go On and On' is published by Eclectica in the Jan / Feb 06 issue at www.eclectica.org. Read it there, or let me read it for you here. Or both. It's toooo easy.