Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Good Reading
It's been a few years since I watched Todd Solondz's Happiness. The first time around, I enjoyed it for how black its black humour was. It's a suburban satire along the lines of Little Children and American Beauty, but relentlessly darker. Not too many comedies involve suicide, pedophilia, fantasies of rape, and sheer misery. I decided to watch it again on the weekend, and since then, I have been jovially melancholy. I'm in a mood where I want to laugh about how much I think life is a farce. I get in these fits at least once a year. Last year, it lead me to the brilliant works of ugliness and sorrow Taxidermia, Ex-Drummer, and Synecdoche, NY.
Those were all movies though, I would like to find another book to make me feel angry, sad, or violated. I didn't have access to the Gallowmere private library, earlier, so I couldn't satisfy my urge when I wanted to. When I returned to my abode, I decided that I needed something which would help me keep track of what I have, and give me remote access to a list of my books. Something other than an actual physical handwritten list, of course. And thus, with a few keystrokes, I found Goodreads.com. It's a site where you can catalog books you have and designate them to lists of read, to-read, currently reading, and other custom categories. It is apparently going for a bit of a social network thing as well. I haven't used it much, and am only a little more than halfway with adding my books to it. I've done all the fiction I currently possess, but I haven't added any of my nonfiction books to it. As well, I plan on going through and reviewing or at least rating the books that I have already read.
My profile can be checked out here.
As for now, I may have found something which can fuck me up, Comte de Lautreamont's Maldoror. I confess I don't know much about it other than that it is a surreal poem about an unabashedly evil person/being who hates everybody and everything. I'm smiling already.
See everyone in hell!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
29 Days Later
I'm beginning to notice a pattern now...
Any time I crack open the Gallowmere Wazoo to spill a few thoughts or two, it's in 29 day intervals. Well, at least for the last couple entries. No real good excuses other than life at [Miskatonik] University, figuring out what I'm going to do with [The Noxious Novella], obsessing about death (hint! hint!), and for a couple weeks, I'd been indulging my inner-geek with Mass Effect 2 of which I'll say is a lot more polished than its predecessor, has a totally immersible universe, and excised problems I had with its predecessor such as a turgid menu, and boring rover missions (replaced by a 1/5th less boring planet scanner), and of course, I'm enough of a narcissist to have his fancy tickled by the fact that I got to import my custom character from part 1 (made to look like yours truly). Canada produces some mediocre books, movies, TV shows, but they seem to get videogames right. Go figure.
Anyway, I'm here to say that I'm still planning on putting this site through a complete overhaul. I hadn't done much because I upgraded to Windows 7 Professional at the beginning of the year, and lost my FTP information for this site. I had it all on the sync software for the Palm One I had in the mid 00s. The actual PDA is history, but I had all of my important information on it... I thought I backed it up, but only the dates on the schedule survived. I let out a good "OH FUCK" and then pulled out a shrug-n-procrastinate combo. But finally, I decided to go and figure out how to retrieve it all. I got it back, and now I'm going to fiddle with a couple things or two to do this site.
I will probably see what I can do next week since I'll be getting some time off. We'll see what happens.
See everyone in hell!
