#206947 - 11/03/09 12:58 PM
The Lives of a Showman
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Mark.Lewis
Registered: 09/12/09
Posts: 450
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I am most displeased with the response to my marketing research on another thread. I asked for a show of hands to find out who would be interested in purchasing my upcoming memoirs which are taking rather a long time in upcoming despite the fact that I am a subject of great importance.
I am getting psychic vibes of smirking from certain quarters about the lack of response.
I shall therefore ask again on this separate thread. If and when this wonderful opus sees publication who would be interested in purchasing it? Let me see if I can erase the above mentioned smirks.
Anybody?
Edited by Mark.Lewis (11/03/09 12:59 PM)
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#206951 - 11/03/09 03:08 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Richard Kaufman]
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Mark Collier
Registered: 01/18/08
Posts: 35
Loc: Santa Barbara, Ca
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For instance: Some of us may be worried that if we express an interest in buying the book, perhaps people will smirk at us as well 
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#206955 - 11/03/09 04:41 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Mark Collier]
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Pete McCabe
Registered: 01/18/08
Posts: 1368
Loc: Woodland Hills
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I am always interested in learning from someone with as much experience as you have, Mark. But I would want to know first how the signal-to-noise ratio of the book compares with your posts on this forum. Do you have an excerpt?
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#206974 - 11/03/09 08:41 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Pete McCabe]
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Mark Collier
Registered: 01/18/08
Posts: 35
Loc: Santa Barbara, Ca
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An except of my posts or of the yet to be published book?
Confusion will be my epitaph (lyric trivia).
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#206983 - 11/03/09 09:21 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Mark Collier]
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Mark.Lewis
Registered: 09/12/09
Posts: 450
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Mr Collier and Mr Kaufman have made very astute remarks. I hope the publisher takes note of them. Actually I was well aware of this possibility when I started this thread, particularly of the sentiments mentioned by Mr Collier. It can well be difficult for anyone to admit interest in what I say because of the reputation attached to my unholy name.
However it is a wise student who can learn to put up with the quirks of the teacher if he wishes to learn. Not that the book teaches anything particularly. It is a memoir rather than a textbook.
The McCabe personage wants an excerpt. There is nothing I would like better. The publisher however has kittens and becomes delirious when said excerpts appear. I am afraid that you will have to ask the illustrious David Ben if the not-so-illustrious Mark Lewis can post an excerpt or two.
Actually I have already done so. Two excerpts are on this very forum. Seek and ye shall find.
Edited by Mark.Lewis (11/03/09 09:48 PM)
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#207005 - 11/04/09 08:20 AM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Richard Kaufman]
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mormonyoyoman
Registered: 04/04/08
Posts: 30
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Don't take the lack of response by specific individuals as a lack of interest in purchasing the book.
"Purchasing the book?" PURCHASING the book? I plan to break into Mark's garage and steal a copy. It will give me an excuse to drive through Canada again, and wander over to that beautiful Al/Can highway.
*jeep!
--Larcenous Grandpa
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#207011 - 11/04/09 09:31 AM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: mormonyoyoman]
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Mark.Lewis
Registered: 09/12/09
Posts: 450
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I am afraid that you will have to break into David Ben's garage instead. He will have the books not me.
In any case I do not drive and never have done. I leave that sort of thing to lesser human beings. So I don't have a garage anyway.
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#207012 - 11/04/09 10:06 AM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Mark Collier]
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Jim Sisti
Registered: 01/17/08
Posts: 38
Loc: New England
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Confusion will be my epitaph (lyric trivia).
I could care less about this proposed book but I do love King Crimson.
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#207017 - 11/04/09 11:09 AM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Dustin Stinett]
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Jonathan Townsend
Registered: 01/17/08
Posts: 3291
Loc: Westchester, NY
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Robert Fripp/Adrian Belew fans?
Edited by Jonathan Townsend (11/04/09 11:12 AM)
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#207023 - 11/04/09 12:16 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Dustin Stinett]
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Jim Sisti
Registered: 01/17/08
Posts: 38
Loc: New England
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I could care less about this proposed book but I do love King Crimson. A man after my own heart. When my daughter was a crawler, she started crying for reasons she couldn't communicate. It turned out she was terrified by the LP cover of In the Court of the Crimson King.Dustin
To bring this back on topic, maybe this could be the cover for Mark's book. I see a resemblance...
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#207025 - 11/04/09 01:03 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Jim Sisti]
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Mark.Lewis
Registered: 09/12/09
Posts: 450
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Richard says that I am not allowed to be rude to this second rate magazine publisher so I won't. Instead I shall merely comment that I have heard great sniffing of disappointment over the latest issue from a subscriber who often looks in on this forum. He is a young restaurant magician and informed me that it isn't as good as it used to be. He told me that he wished he hadn't subscribed and when I asked why he made me laugh uproariously when he mentioned that he couldn't abide the rather silly Christopher Lyle whom I have to reprimand on a regular basis all the time.
Young Christopher will no doubt be along any minute to defend his rather odd opinions. He assures me that Sisti is a paragon of wonder and he worships the very ground that he walks on which of course is already a sign of his bad judgement.
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#207028 - 11/04/09 01:38 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Jonathan Townsend]
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Jim Sisti
Registered: 01/17/08
Posts: 38
Loc: New England
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We were probably better off off-topic...
Robert Fripp/Adrian Belew fans?
I never liked the Belew incarnation of King Crimson. Their last great album (for me) was Islands.
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#207030 - 11/04/09 01:46 PM
Re: The Lives of a Showman
[Re: Jim Sisti]
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Mark Collier
Registered: 01/18/08
Posts: 35
Loc: Santa Barbara, Ca
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It's not entirely off topic. Mark Lewis himself describes his name as 'unholy'.
From Wikipedia: "The name King Crimson was coined by lyricist Peter Sinfield as a synonym for Beelzebub, prince of demons."
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