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Bruce McDonald

In which the Fictional Bruce McDonald discusses some things with the Fictional Gillian Sze

“do you think I’ve got them figured right?”

“honey you’ve got them figured alright.”

“howso Rocket?”

“because you know exactly where they live – corner of money and gimme some.”

“that’s their deal, it’s always the money.”

“that’s their deal.”

“well…” He takes a swipe at the condensation on the window. Pulls the blind down. “too much bright in here.”

“well what do you want to do… now?” She smiles. She always smiles first. She kicks off her shoes. Skin extra light in the dim light. Pulls the socks slow. Orange peels on the floor. Casino eyes. 

A few years ago he started writing a book. A novel. It started like this:

“She told me to get in the car. She didn’t tell me where we were going. And we never got there.”

He never got much further than that. Decided instead to go into the movie business. Told her there was a gun in the trunk. There was. He called her Rocket. ‘Cause she went off like one.

He read once somewhere this thing about a sociopath, if a sociopath was to come across a fatal car accident, and there was a dead child, and the mother was inconsolable, and if the mother were on her knees in the glass and blood, crying, screaming, the sociopath, he’d go home. And he’d practice making those same faces in the mirror. Fair scene in a movie, right there.  After dusk he wanders into the tree line behind the soft vinyl sided building slowly driven by something he does not know fingers lightly brushing the rough tree edges his neck becomes sore from looking up

no stars.

(original photo credit: Tea Hadžiristić)

Ken Carter

http://www.nfb.ca/film/devil_at_your_heels/

The link above the picture takes you to the full length NFB documentary about stuntman Ken Carter "The Mad Canadian" who, along with director Bruce McDonald and poet Gillian Sze, is one of the main characters in the book.

Book Trailer 1

Book Video

Click on "Book Video" to see the first trailer for "I don't know how to behave". The second video is to be released June 1 2013 both here and on the BookThug website (BookThug.ca)

YOU HAVEN'T READ A BOOK LIKE THIS. YET.

BookThug to Launch New Book By Mike Blouin Fall 2013

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW FROM BOOKTHUG.CA!  Coming September 2013 Department of Narrative Studies No. 10  I Don't Know How To Behave, Blouin's fourth book, combines the true story of Canadian daredevil and stunt driver Ken Carter (1938-1983) with imagined biographical elements from the lives of Canadian film director Bruce McDonald and Canadian poet Gillian Sze. Along the way, this quintessential Canadian story crashes head first into many related things, from screenplay theory to hip hop history to the story of early Canadian film to drawings to photographs to bank robberies to chaos theory to technical specs for Detroit muscle cars to re-imagined movies to imagined documentary to advertisements to newspaper interviews to instructions for making Molotov cocktails to Evel Kneivel to Steve McQueen's Bullitt to self-help tomes to "Rappers Delight" to online instructions for how to publish a book, such as the one you are about to read called I don't know how to Behave by Michael Blouin.

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