Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The day has finally come!
Nearly two and a half years ago, I announced that Haruki Murakami AKA God Almighty had a new book coming out titled 1Q84. Well today it's been released, and I possess in my hands a copy of it. I've done my best to avoid any kind of spoiler about it over this period of time. And now I have it to go fresh into. Can't wait to delve into it. It's going to be pure surreal heaven!
See everyone in hell!
posted at 2:53 PM | Permanent Link
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Speech Therapy
Took a while to hack through these cobwebs with this machete. Struggled clearing through all this dust with an industrial strength leaf blower. But finally, I'm once again deep in Gallowmere's Wazoo. Admittedly, in this realm, time's a wonky element. It doesn't operate the way it does in the real world. But even in Gallowmere time, it's been way too long since I last came here and threw a few lumps of coal black thoughts into the the burner. I'd been distracted, and the flame had been dissipating due to the disappointing events of 2011. This is a year which I can see getting lost in the time vacuum in the near future. Projects of mine that I had high hopes for ended up being unmitigated disasters. As well, I dealt with other series of disappointing events. As [Gomez Calavera] would say, I was "PIIIIIIISSSSSSSED!" But I think it was just the perfect medicine.
I noticed that I didn't have the exact voice that I'd developed over the writing of [The Obscure Opus]. The style got a lot softer, a lot tamer, as if I was trying to bite with teeth made out of marshmallows. There were many factors for this. I'd been becoming evermore complacent over the last few years, and the piss and vinegar fueling me had diluted a tad. I had been getting too lost in the act of life, and I forgot to don the armour of cynicism, and the shield of misanthropy, but here it is once again in full effect! Also, essay writing at [Miskatonic University] and I guess any academic institution can be quite dry and restricting. Everything has to be tidy and serious. If you've gotten this far with this entry, you'll know that my writing is hardly ever tidy and serious.
But I've taken some time to myself to reassess things. I'm regaining this voice slowly but surely. Lamenting life, and remembering that humanity is rife with charlatans, degenerates, sycophants, and phonies and to take this entire race with a grain of salt, honey, and lemon juice if I want to stay insane. To remember that there's a joke in almost everything.
I have a project in the works which I've been working on draft after draft to coat it with the tar of darkness and sprinkles of bone dust for the humour. More on it as the project shapes up, and if it goes the way I want, and doesn't become a failure like a couple of the last ones I wrote and/or filmed. There will be more to come.
Gallowmere is about due for an update. I should make it more 2011 compatible. No promises of when I will get to doing that, but sooner than later. And for the five people who actually visit this page, if you ever need a dose of deadpan darkness, I am floating on other places of the intertubes.
For example, I've been on the Shitter for quite a while, you can follow me on it through: @ToddSGallows
See you there, but more importantly,
See everyone in hell!
posted at 2:47 PM | Permanent Link
Friday, May 13, 2011
Update
"Mah gurlfren leff me an ah feel like a bum. Ah loss mah job an when ah wank ah can't cum!" ~ The Vomits
posted at 12:10 PM | Permanent Link
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The First Haruki Murakami Inspired Videogame?
I've seen trailers for this game by Atlus titled Catherine surfacing about every 1/3 of a year. I just watched this trailer:
Now that I am a bit more accustomed to the overall weirdness of it, the Haruki Murakami influences are all too obvious. It's Japanese first of all... I mean, shit all those wacky Japanese people think alike!
But in all seriousness, it's about a man living a solitary existence who meets a mysterious woman and gets taken into a netherworld full of wild surrealism, and hard-boiled detective tropes. A world where he is pulled into meeting outlandish characters, and a lot of strange sex. The biggest giveaway, however, are the sheep men, taken right out of A Wild Sheep Chase, and Dance, Dance, Dance.
Besides being heavily influenced by the man I can only dream to be as great of a writer as, it just looks fun, and unique. It's not about grizzled soldiers carrying guns. It's not about wizards and knights. It's something really different, and I dig that. I look forward to it if and when it gets a North American release.
posted at 11:48 AM | Permanent Link
Monday, February 07, 2011
A Taste of The Dark Fruits of My Labour
I am aware that I have essentially been all talk on this site. For the time that Gallowmere has been around, I have not shared any of my work. Today, I have decided to find a part of [The Obscure Opus] which wound up on the cutting room floor back during the 19th century, and feed it to an auditizer. When voices were needed, it defiled the throats of [Mike P] to supply speech for Mr. Morton (the name has been changed from the character he was supposed to be in the book), and from yours truly as the mad doctor.
You can listen to it: HERE
I cannot be responsible for the bleeding from the ears this may cause.
Use your ears without fear.
And I will use my eyes when I...
See everyone in hell!
posted at 7:30 PM | Permanent Link
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