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Brian Keene's Desert Island Top 5 CDs
2008-10-02 18:08:09

Here's a little story to go along with today's Desert Island Top 5.

Marvel.com Video Editor Jason Harvey and I were walking through Book Expo America at the Javits Center in NYC last year after filming my interview with ANITA BLAKE author Laurell K. Hamilton. We happened past a booth and I saw a sign for a book called "The Rising," a cool zombie novel I had, coincidentally, finished reading not long beforehand. We went over and saw that "The Rising" author Brian Keene was in the house, just chillin' and talkin' to folks.

Brian was friendly and funny and then when we told him we worked for Marvel, he nearly exploded with excitement. Duh, he's a huge Marvel nerd, as is evident from all the Marvel references in each of his books. Awesome writer who loves Marvel comics? He should be writing for Marvel, right? Of course! I introduced Brian to the right folks, who were coincidentally enough also at BEA and *wha-pam* beautiful things happened! Brian's first Marvel comic just came out, the totally sweet DEAD OF NIGHT FEATURING DEVIL-SLAYER and I'm hoping there's plenty more to come.

Brian's been sick as a dog lately, but he was awesome enough to send me five separate Top 5 lists! Here's the first:

Brian Keene's Top 5 Desert Island Compact Discs

1. Queensryche "Operation: Mindcrime"
2. Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run"
3. Anthrax "Sound of White Noise"
4. Dr. Dre "The Chronic"
5. Prince "Purple Rain"

So, yeah, Brian Keene rules—both in his taste in music and his skills as a writer. Go buy his books (of what I've read so far, "The Conquerer Worms" is my favorite), follow Brian on Twitter and, of course, check out www.briankeene.com!

More tomorrow!

--Agent M

Not bad...
Interesting choice of CD's. I wonder if Pink Floyd or Van Halen would also be nice for life on a desert island?

Posted by Aziroth on 2008-10-02 18:46:48

Keene rulez
That's a great cd list. So glad you guys ran into Brian Keene like that. His books are better than anything out there and Devil Slayer is the bomb. The dude needs to write more Marvel.

Posted by spiderboy on 2008-10-03 08:16:00

This is fun!
I like these desert island scenarios.

My Five:
1. Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - "Mellan Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
3. Depeche Mode - "Violator"
4. Marilyn Manson - "Mechanical Animals"
5. Korn - "Follow the Leader"

Posted by DRock1 on 2008-10-03 15:28:15

I'm a rocker
System Of a Down - "Toxicity"
The Who - "Quadrophenia"
Queen - "Greatest Hits"
The Beatles - "One"
Led Zeppelin - "IV"

Posted by suziepunisher on 2008-10-08 23:37:16

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