Important Update

Hey, I havn't been posting for awhile. And I failed to do my first 23 watch. Ah, well, I'll get to it next month.

Anyway, I'm going to my cousin's college tomorrow, or I'm going to there place tomorrow because it's easier for me to get there. It's kind of a long and complicated story. See my family is going to Ohio for a thing that dosn't really interest me, so I'm going to hang out at my relatives cottage where I will tube, watch Terry Gilliam and Quentin Tarantino movies, and work on my novel. It's looking like a good movie, even if Resevoir Dogs was already rented. Shame, since I was thinking about seeing it again. So basically you won't here anything from me until Tuesday at the most.

Well, that's about it for this update. Hope to see from you guys soon.

What goes on in my mind and I can place on the internet

You ever feel sorry for Captain Hook? I mean think about it. The guy has a pretty hard break. Look at it from his perspective, here’s this pirate captain always being foiled by some punk kid. That has got to be annoying.

So I was at my relatives, I don’t have any code names for them so at this point they will just be known as my aunt and uncle. They’re really cool people. My aunt’s into eastern religions and stuff like that and my Uncle reads Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs and stuff like that. Apparently he did his 10th grade book report on Naked Lunch, which is funny when you have the idea of what it’s about. He lent me a bunch of books. Here’s a list.

• Factotum, by Charles Bukowksi
• The G-String Murders, by Gypsy Rose Lee
• Hell’s Angels, by Hunter S Thompson.
• Essential Works of Marxism
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe
• Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse
• Demian, by Herman Hesse
• Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
• Thrilling Cities, by Ian Fleming
• Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72, by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette, New Edition
• Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin
• Music from Chameleons, by Truman Capote
• Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966
• Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times, edited by Sara Nickles
• The Penguin Guide to Zen Poetry
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
• Warriors, Gods & Spirits from Central & South American Mythology
• The Illustrated Guide to North American Mythology

Those last two were actually my aunts, but the rest shows a pretty well rounded look at what my uncle likes to reads. I’d go into more detail about it, but I know my grandparents read this, and if my grandma knew what goes on in these books she’d have a heart attack. Although, admittedly The G-String Murders does sound like something she should worry about.
Grandma, this is your grandson. Do not worry, I’m seventeen years old. At least I’m telling you I’m reading books about alcoholics, junkies and libertines.

I was thinking about my influences. I don’t know if I have any real influences, or if I should be talking about them in this early stage in my career. But here are the list of people I think I’m influenced by or who I’d like to be influenced by

• Stephen King, The 1960's thing is sort of based on The Stand, not as in a rip-off I hope but it is kind of similar at the beginning. That and I want to write a fantasy-western ever since I read The Dark Tower series, hopefully I can do it without starting legions of copiers starting off a new Tolkien thing.
• Michael Moorcock, I think I've been influenced by his work, the Fantasy-Western is going to have a bit of a Michael Moorcock thing, and I do plan on putting all my writings into more or less the same series even if they have nothing to do with each other, much like Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champions story. That and I'm working Jerry Cornelius and Co. in somewhere.
• Grant Morrison, I'm influenced by his general weirdness and metafictional traits of his fiction.
• The Beats, I like Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. I have yet to read anything by William S. Burroughs, but I'm still looking for Naked Lunch.
• William Blake, I think I'm on the same spiritual plane as William Blake, and we both see our writing as a way to blab about the universe and have developed our own mythology.
• Quentin Tarantino, I like his dialouge.

And that's all. I'm tired so I will stop typing.

The July 2007 19 Watch

• The Marquis De Sade was imprisoned at the Chateau de Vicennes, where he was apparently "locked behind nineteen iron doors."
• Nineteen people where killed during the Salem Witch Trials
• Flight 19 disapeared in the Bermuda Triangle
• 19+23=42, the meaning of life, the universe and everything
• And 19 plays an important part in the Dark Tower series
  

I sure havn't posted in a long time

Yeah, I haven't posted in awhile. Well, a few things have happened recently. The most recent being that I went to Toronto with my aunt to get some new books. It was a really fun trip, even if I got a headache from not drinking enough water. Here is a list of the books I got.

• The Gormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake. I've been looking for this for awhile now.
• An Omnibus addition of The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak, by Michael Moorcock. Both part of the Jerry Cornelius series.
• The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
• Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
• A thing on various Secret Societies

Another good point was having Loncrow come over last weekend. He's moving to Colchester, which is about three hours from where we are now. He said that he's going to come here more often though, so we can continue the campaign. Which is good, I really think it's starting to pick up in it.
Well, that's all I really feel like writing now. I'll get back to you on the 19th.

I'm getting a space bed

I didn't make a post on the 7th either. Again, I'm sorry. Don't expect a frowny face.
So, as for the title, I'm getting a new bed. One of those Tempurpedic beds that are good for your back. I'm having alot of back trouble, and my dad is telling me that I should be doing the stretches that I was suppose to be doing that will help strengthen my shoulders. Eitherway, the Tempurpedic bed is designed by NASA, hence the title.
I found a book of quotes on homosexuality, which are pretty cool. I like the one by Mabel Maney, who writes lesbian mystery novels "For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized what I really wanted to be was a lesbian." I find this funny for some reason. I also liked "If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel while assigning Anita [Bryant] to go on television and push orange juice?" Some guy named Mike Royko said that. According to the book he's a Chicago based journalist. I don't know who Anita Bryant is, but I think that's the point.
Okay, that's all I feel like writing at the moment. I'll get back to you on the 19th or sooner.

Forgot to post on the 5th. Sorry :(

Oh my God, I used a frowny internet face. What am I comming to?
Anyway, as the post says I failed to live up to my new goal of posting on the 5th, 7th, 19th and 23rd of each day of the month. I sincerly apologize, and promise that I will find something to post about tomorrow.

I just thought that I'd make a 23 watch. Every month I could post some new stuff I learned about the number 23, most likely on the 23rd. Gives this blog more of a purpose beyond being the place where I post all kinds of stuff for all to see. It could also show that I am getting more and more obsessed with a seemingly random number.
On the subject of Last.fm, I think it's been a pretty good deal. I've bookmarked a tag radio for 60's garage rock and Surf music, which is partially inspired by liseaning to Little Steven's Underground Garage (see link). I've also found out alot about new bands such as Aprodite's Child and.... well, Aphrodite's Child is the only one I've got so far, oh wait Curved Air. That band is pretty cool. Still, I'm probubly going to by the concept Album Aphrodite's Child did on the Book of Revelations, 666.
I've been thinking alot about the 1960's storyline. The way I see it the first really important novel is going to be about how the various characters try and create a new society, what with the fact most of them are drop-outs, where forced out or are wanted dead by there previous societies. The way I see it, I've got alot of people with verging world views. Here's a list of the kinds of people who inhabit the Commune or whatever it's going to end up.

• Artists, this includes painters, writers, mucisians. People like Roland Morningstar and David Howl. I'm also thinking Moon is going to have some kind of artistic talent, probubly an actor as I don't have any of those in.
• Off-beat and Radical Politicals, At the moment I've got one Trotskyist and a small group of Black Nationalists. Since the Trotskyist, Abraham Nakamura, comes in with the grand majority of Black Nationalists, they might have Communist sympathys. Probubly Abe's girlfriend is one of the Black Nationalists. Yeah, I like that idea.
  
• Religious Seekers and Mystics, This would include various people in a spiritual crisis and the people who are not. Roland qualifies as a seeker, as do a lot of the characters on some level. Mystics would be the people who are already at a stage, and know more of what's going on then most of the other characters. This would be people like Are'do, Rachel, Yeshua and Sophia. On another level, Yeshua is also a seeker, but for way different reasons then anyone else.
• Hippies, most of the characters are hippies or are at least very close. I think David is more of a beat really, which is why I dropped the "e" out of his last name. See Howl. Come to think of it, the story I'm writting about him shares many similarities to the poem.
  

Well, that's all I've got to write about. I'm going to stop writing this now for I have grown bored. I promise to write about something tomorrow though.

Canada Day, Aimless Wandering and Interactions with Friends and relatives

Well, Canada Day has come and gone and I think that I avoided it pretty well. I really don't like these kinds of celebrations, I just don't see the point in nationalism. It's not that I have any specific problem with Canada, I just find the entire thing somewhat annoying and disappointing in humanity. It's all part of my ultimate goal for us to join together into one happy family of men so we can create a Utopian society and thus live in a world I can understand.

On a happier note I went around town today, hoping to go to this coffee shop I went to awhile back. Unfortunately, it's been permanently closed and no one has bothered to take down the OPEN sign. Kind of annoying really. So I bought myself some fries and a coke and went to the Giant Squid instead, where I caught the last bit of a Japanese movie called Pitfall, and watched Desperado. I liked Desperado better because I didn't see that much of Pitfall, making it confusing. Desperado is a pretty cool movie, basically a sequel to El Mariachi which I saw awhile back. Steve Bushemi had a great monologue in it at the beginning. Really well written, great use of repetition.

Anyways, after that I ran into a friend I haven't seen in awhile. I'm not going to reveal her name because of my scrupples. She was Ruric's brother's ex-girlfriend, but she's engaged now to some other guy because Ruric's brother moved with Ruric. I hear there family is in ruff shape. On a more positive note I think I really bonded with them and we said something about getting together to play a game of D&D. I plan on getting my Mythania setting ironed out first though, so we can use that.

And on a final note, my sister Delila is on a Church thing in British Columbia. I don't know if she'll read my blog while she's there. She's kind of become a Church goer, baptized and everything. I think I'm slightly threatened by this. Either way, I feel the need to conrgagulate her on all the stuff he gets to do. Good on you girl.

That's all.