TimeBlazer’s my second song for a mix tape DC Pierson’s using to promote his new book The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To - an excellent first novel that recalls the dark, galloping excitement of a Lethem and the sly, poignant comedy of an Eggers. Dash of sci-fi, bake til indie.
It’s genuinely one of those books that I didn’t want to end, and the first that, when I did finish it, made me pick it up again from the beginning, immediately. Great stuff.
The story focuses around Darren, a high school boy that spends his time drawing cyborg cavemen at the corners of his math homework and plotting a 3 movie sci-fi story arc with tie-ins to a tv series and MMORPG. He meets his equal in Eric, a smilarly nerdy, wildly imaginitive kid that shares an English class. The develop an incredibly complex world of alternate realities that their hero, Dr. Praetoreous, must race through - always one step ahead of the mysterious, diabolical figure known only as ‘The Man.’
This is the theme to the video game they undoubtably had in mind.
credits
from Singles 2010,
released December 31, 2010
Music by Mattroi
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