The book is very enjoyable. I only recently found out that Chapter 5 has already been available online in a limited, but colorized form as "Casting SPELs in Lisp", http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html
Conrad mentioned that in the next edition/errata he probably will add a (web?) chapter about setting up emacs/slime, but I havent heard any updates about that since the initial announcement.
I thought the music had a slight hardcore punk sensibility that made me smile. Had it not been for the length and the chorus it could have been a song by The Minutemen or a contemporary. Great musical comedy on the piano solo.