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Audiobooks and 8 8 08

2008-07-30 · announcement · John, Dan John Miller · 3:51 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Pop culture, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, guest or collab, on location, song or performance, community lore

John announces his 8/8/08 day in Chicago (a library talk and signing during Terminus, Grant Park music, and Amy Krouse Rosenthal at The Bean) and shows the recording of the Paper Towns audiobook with narrator Dan John Miller.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Cold open ("Hi, James!"); two-part structure; the video intro cuts John off

00:00:25 — Part one, 8/8/08: Harold Washington Library talk and signing during Terminus, special guests, Grant Park wizard rock, 8:08 p.m. with Amy Krouse Rosenthal at The Bean

  • ★★★ John announces that at 2 p.m. on August 8, 2008 he will be at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago, talking, signing books and giving things away. — 00:00:25 · Chicago (city)
  • ★★ Because the day coincides with the Harry Potter conference Terminus, John says special guests will come: Secret Brother Adam, Secret Sister Rosianna, some of the Five Awesome Girls and Guys, and a surprise guest. (playful) — 00:00:25 · secret sibling, Rosianna Halse Rojas
  • ★★ John says that after he finishes at 4 p.m. the group will go to Grant Park to hear wizard rockers (names unclear) and possibly a special guest. (hedged) — 00:00:48
  • ★★ John says that at 8:08 p.m. on 8/8/08 he and, he hopes, many Nerdfighters will join Amy Krouse Rosenthal at The Bean in Millennium Park, where she will do something awesome. (hedged) — 00:00:48 · Nerdfighteria

00:01:17 — The Bean vs the Washington Monument; part two, audiobooks: John records the Paper Towns front matter, tours the audiobook process in Grand Haven, meets narrator Dan John Miller

  • ★ John declares The Bean the best public sculpture in American history, ahead of the Washington Monument. (playful) — 00:01:17
  • ★★ John shows himself recording the dedication, author's note and acknowledgements of Paper Towns for the audiobook, including Hank's name and the word Nerdfighters. — 00:01:17 · Paper Towns, nerdfighter
  • ★★ John went to Grand Haven to see the Paper Towns audiobook recorded and toured the process: engineers at the dials, editing out breaths, and the plant making physical copies. — 00:01:38 · Paper Towns
  • ★★★ John says the best part of the trip was hearing his narrator, Dan John Miller, record the audiobook. — 00:01:59
  • ★ Dan John Miller is heard reading lines, apparently from the audiobook. (fiction) — 00:02:23
  • ★★ John says Dan John Miller is in Blanche, one of John's favorite bands, and played Luther Perkins in the movie Walk the Line. — 00:02:23

00:02:45 — 'Kill that guy and take his suit'; Dan John Miller plays one of John's favourite songs

  • ★★ John ends by letting Dan John Miller play one of John's favorite songs. — 00:02:45

00:03:38 — A Tobian visited John in Spring Lake

  • ★★ John tells Hank that a Tobian came to see him in Spring Lake and asks how Hank could have thought that lovely woman was evil. (playful) — 00:03:38 · Tobian

Humor (significant)

  • John explains why he is not talking about his gravity-defying hair today. — 00:00:25

    “it's because when I talk about it, it gets puffier.”

  • John declares The Bean the best public sculpture in American history. — 00:01:17

    “Sorry Washington Monument, but you got pwned by a beautiful silver bean.”

  • John praises Dan John Miller and recalls first seeing him in the studio at Brilliance. — 00:02:45

    “I'm gonna kill that guy and take his suit.”

  • John tells Hank a Tobian came to see him in Spring Lake. — 00:03:38

    “How could you have thought that lovely woman is evil?”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Dan John Miller · Harold Washington Library Center · Paper Towns

Also: People: Adam · Amy Krouse Rosenthal · Luther Perkins · Rosianna Halse Rojas

Works: Walk the Line

Organizations: Brilliance Audio

Groups: Blanche · Five Awesome Girls · Five Awesome Guys

Terms: nerdfighter · secret sibling

Places: Chicago (city) · Cloud Gate · Grand Haven, Michigan · Grant Park · Millennium Park · Spring Lake, Michigan · Tobi · Washington Monument

Events: Terminus

Memes: pwned

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