Note to Self (from Melina Marchetta – Part 2)

I saved this little snippet from an old interview with Melina Marchetta, goddess of everything. It's so old that the link to the source doesn't even exist anymore. In the interview, MM talks a little bit about character origins and development. Fun little bit of trivia if you've read and loved Saving Francesca and The Piper's Son, but also just good to keep in mind – that characters can come up out of seemingly nowhere.

"What I also appreciate about Francesca is that it introduced me to Tom Mackee, another favourite. He was included in the first draft as the bully; someone who was not going to be important. But I taught boys that year who began as bullies or were perceived to be and they really surprised me by the end of the year. The developing of Tom as a character got caught up in all of that. I always think he was a bit of a sneaky little bastard hiding in a part of my creative head waiting for the right moment five years later to spring out and demand a novel of his own." – Melina Marchetta

a place on the jellicoe road / Songs for Jellicoe Road

"What's the difference between a trip and a journey?"
"Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand."

( listen on 8tracks )

01 // Crystal New Order
I'm a man in a rage with a girl I betrayed / Here comes love, it's like honey / You shock me to the core

02 // Sunday Bloc Party
When I'm with you I am caught, a pearl in your oyster / Head on my chest, a silent smile, a private kind of happiness

03 // Gold Lion Yeah Yeah Yeahs
We'll build a fire in your eyes

04 // Is There A Ghost Band of Horses
I could sleep when I lived alone / Is there a ghost in my house?

05 // Easy To Love The Jezabels
There it is now, she enters the room / It guts like a fish to see how she's grown

06 // To Build A Home The Cinematic Orchestra
Out in the garden where we planted the seeds, there is a tree as old as me / Branches were sewn by the color of green, ground had arose and passed its knees

07 // The Healing Bloc Party
Calm down, let the world spin round / There ain't no other place to be / Take this lifeline / Skin tears but the flesh will weave back together again, only scars now

08 // Flame Trees Sarah Blasko
Do you remember nothing stopped us on the field in our day?

09 // Your Hand in Mine Explosions in the Sky