Here's another hypothetical mix CD, this one called "Jeff Bridges... I Don't Need No Jeff Bridges To Put Music To My Poem!" The title's taken from one of my favorite Tom Goes To The Mayor episodes (though, really, they're all pretty dang great), and the main idea of this mix is to expose people to bands or songs they might not know otherwise. None of the songs were chosen for ironic value; I tend to find all these songs very listenable, and hope others do as well.
The songs worked themselves out into "sides" like an LP, although, length-wise, each "side" here would probably be about 2 sides of a real record, but since this is hypothetical, no one will mind.
The original novel Z is a bit hard to find anymore; it's ostensibly in print, but I've never seen it in a bookstore; I found one of the early paperback edtions in a used bookstore after a few months of looking for it (basically since I saw and reviewed the film). While the two have a similar story, being based on the same real event, each has a different tone -- perhaps at least partially due to when each was created.
Charlie "Spike" Trotman is the creator of "Templar, Arizona", a critically acclaimed long-form "culture fiction" webcomic hosted on Keenspot. Beyond simply being a character story, "Templar" focuses on its titular city as a whole as much as its residents. Recently, "Templar, Arizona" saw print with a fan-financed first chapter, and completed a similar pre-order fundraiser to print chapter two. She has other projects in the pipeline, and between regular convention appearances and work, manages to update on a regular basis with well-detailed and amazingly inked artwork. She can be found at her blog, Iron Circus, and on a webcomic forum near you.
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