Brainpick

I'm having a mind-goes-blank moment.

Are there any sfnal references in black/African American music prior to 1970s? Anything in rock and roll? I know about Sun Ra and his space music, "Terraplane Blues" as early cyborg, and Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" clearly looks forward, but what am I blanking on?

Kev?

Porgess

83300 / 120000 words. 69% done!

I appear to have written 2,000 words since this time yesterday, which is a bit of a relief but is inevitably behind schedule. I have 500 words on Downwards to the Earth on another machine, and I'm hoping I can get a couple of hundred words on Strangers and Dying Inside to complete that chunk, and then it's gird loins to write less than I thought on the Planet of the Apes movies. ("Black people! They're just like monkeys!".) I haven't seen the tv series, mind. There's eleven hours of my life I won't get back. Then there's the cartoon.

I need a speedy reread of Triton and then I can put the first draft of this chapter to one side. There is rather too much history from memory - I need a decent history of American 1800-1970 to pin facts down with.