1001 books you have to read before you die

I found the list of books you need to read before you die on the internet and I know have it here for you. The ones in italics are what I have read.

2000s
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday – Ian McEwan
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Sea – John Banville
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The Double – José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live – Will Self
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia – George Saunders
1900s
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Great Apes – Will Self
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Information – Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Indigo – Marina Warner
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Shame – Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter – John Banville
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Breast – Philip Roth
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
G – John Berger
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Joke – Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Things – Georges Perec
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Collector – John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The End of the Road – John Barth
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Victim – Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
The Plague – Albert Camus
Back – Henry Green
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Loving – Henry Green
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Transit – Anna Seghers
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caught – Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Embers – Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Native Son – Richard Wright
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years – Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Passing – Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Nadja – André Breton
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Amerika – Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Cane – Jean Toomer
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Amok – Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Howards End – E.M. Forster
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Immoralist – André Gide
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
1800s
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
1700s
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaire
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Amelia – Henry Fielding
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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I need two things done for tomorrow, the research for my Aristotle (no problem there. It's basically done) and my Halloween costume. This is going to be a little harder then I thought. I'm going to be Hunter S. Thompson, so I'll need a cigarette holder and sunglasses of some kind. I've already got a Hawaiian shirt and a hat to cover my hair (Hunter S. Thompson was bald). The idea is to get one of my pencils, cover it in paper and hope someone falls for it. I'm a little disappointed, but what are you going to do.
So the Animal Rights thing went well. I got a good mark, but the prize for best presentation went to Capital Punishment. Still, Cloning was the worst. That bit from The Island made no sense, I know the movie was about cloning but the scene they chose didn't work at all. Anyway, we ran out of time and I still don't know if I should become a vegetarian or a vegan or something. Still, I think the PETA may be a little nuts.
Well, Sunday I went to the Record Show with my dad and bought my very first vinyl album, In Search of Space by Hawkwind. I also picked up four new CDs and two movies. And now the official list.

• In Search of Space, by Hawkwind. Vinyl.
• The Resevoir Dogs Soundtrack
• Tragic Kingdom, No Doubt. I got this last time but it was in very poor condition.
• Billion Dollar Babies, by Alice Cooper. (We're not worthy. We're not worthy.)
• Sex Mob does Bond. Jazz album of covers for Bond music. Pretty cool.
• The Holy Mountain, by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I showed this at the Cartoon and Comic club but it freaked them all out. One guy noted that the dwarf with no hands or feet was "screwed for life," and many of them said they didn't know what was going on.
• A documentary on Alejandro Jodorowsky that the guy who sold me Holy Mountain gave me for free since he saw I was a Jodorowsky fan.

And I saw Death Proof, which I will know talk about because I thought it was a pretty cool movie. If you don't like really violent pics with blood and limbs coming of you shouldn't watch it. But if you don't mind it, it's a pretty good flick. The basic story is about a guy called Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russel), who at first seems like a charming guy who used to be in the Stunt driving buisness. But when you really get to know him you realize that he's a sick, sick man who kills women with his car. We go through two groups of girls. Group One spend most of their time talking and stuff like that, and are then all killed by Stuntman Mike. Since this was a Tarantino movie the dialouge was pretty good and I really felt sorry for them when they died horribly. But then Stuntman Mike got his commupins when he tried to pull the same stunt (no pun intended) on Group Two, which was made up of a bunch of girls in the stunt buisness.
I've been noticing that Quentin Tarantino seems to have a pretty narrowed range as an actor. For those of you who don't know, yes Quentin Tarantino acts. I think. Usually he's a pretty ratty guy. In every movie I've seen him in he comes of at varrying degrees of some dirty disgusting guy who deals crack or something. Observe....

• Resevoir Dogs. We don't get to see much of Tarantino's character Mr.Brown in this, but we do get the Madonna Speech. Nuff said.
• Pulp Fiction, In this Tarantino's character, I think he's called Jimmy, is a down to earth guy who never the less has mob ties as Vincent(John Travolta) and Jules(Samuel L. Jackson), both take refuge at his house when Vincent really screws things up. One of Tarantino's less ratty roles, but he's involved in organized crime somewhere.
• From Dusk till Dawn, Don't know much about this movie. Never seen it, but I know that Tarantino is a murder-rapist in it.
• Desperado, Tarantino's character dosn't have a name in this, but he's involved in a drug deal. I also think that Rodriguez wrote the part in for Tarantino.
  
• Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino appears again in a Rodriguez film. In the credits he's called "Rapist."
• Death Proof, appears as a bar tender, can't remember the character's name. Approachably ratty.

So why does Quentin Tarantino appear as a ratty guy? I think that's because he's a bit of a ratty guy in real life and he's not that good of an actor. Which is probubly why I'm basing Haikren's dialouge in my novel on Tarantino's speech patterns. Actually, in the mind that plays in my mind for the movie, Tarantino plays Harold/Haikren. I don't know how he'd think of that.
And that's all I've got for know. I need to look up some stuff for homework.

What Christopher Walken does when we're not looking

This is my favorite music video of all time.

When I grow up I want to be Jack Kerouac, Part 1

The big thing is going to be homework for the next few days. I've got to find information for the Aristotle and get my animal rights thing all tidied up. Next to that I've got three movies to watch, Evil Aliens, Easy Rider and Bruce Campbell vs. The Army of Darkness. In between that, I've got an idea for a screenplay that will probably never be made because I have no idea who would want to watch a movie about Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy wandering aimlessly across a zombie infested wasteland, and that's just a basic explanation of the idea. The real movie will probubly be much weirder.
I've been thinking about my life resently and I was thinking is that what I really want is to be free from all responsibility. I just want to do my own thing all day. I'd like to get up in the afternoon, have a nice breakfast of pancakes and hashbrowns, take a swim and then work on my writing. There's probubly a woman in there somewhere, since I don't want to be completely lonely and if I'm going to live in isolation then I might as well do it with one very nice woman who is well read and plays Dungeons and Dragons. I realize that this would envolve some responsiblity, for instance I'd have to make a point to write and to have conversations with said woman, but I don't see this as inherently stressful. The logical part of my brain is saying that this would be stressful, because at some point my autism would come up and miss something that's bothering my feminine comrade, like she's feeling sad and I don't know why and it might end up in a fight because I don't know what to do right. Course, since I imagine us on a deserted island we'd probubly resolve it as we are the only two people here, exluding crazy shaman guy who dosn't speak English and throws dead cuttlefish at us when he gets angry, but has some wicked cool tattoos on his face. So what I'm getting at is we'd have to get back together at some point because crazy shaman guy isn't as fun and dosn't know how to play Dungeons and Dragons.
I place to much importance on female companionship, intamite female companionship. Why is that? Why do I believe that finding the right woman will cause complete bliss? All my encounters with real women in an intamite setting have been terrible. When I grow up I want to be Jack Kerouac. Not really Jack Kerouac, I could do without the part of becoming a redneck recluse living in my mother's house and dieing after throwing up in a toliet. I'm thinking wandering about the place aimlessly Kerouac, classic Kerouac. I read or heard something to the effect that Kerouac was good with women. What does he have that I don't have? Well, he's got novels out and isn't autistic. Why do I have this idea of the perfect bliss-giving lover? I think I've hade this idea for most of my life. I've always had this idea of a woman who will protect me from all the frustration of life. Maybe it's some sort of weird Oedipus Complex thing, if so should I try to defete this idea? Is the Oedipus Complex harmful. I mean, I don't actually want to be with my mother, no I want to be with this woman I've had in my mind for lo these many years. I'm I weirding you guys out? I probly am. Spilling my guys like this, all over my blog no less, going on about angelic women who I live in domestic bliss on our own private island in the South Pacific or somewhere in the environs reminisent of a Muslim paradise, short of the seventy-two virgins. Who would want to have inexperienced virgins in paradise anyway? What is this obesssion with virginial purity? Is not virginity just another state of being. Dosn't most everyone stop being a virgin at some point and does it really depict purity? Odds are those kids blowing themselves in the Middle-East are virgins, are they pure?
I'm going to go now before this gets to weird.

Fauvism, Expressionism and Cubism, Oh My! Part 3: Cubism

CUBISM(1907-1930)
Like Expressionism, it was influenced by an interest in African and Oceanic art objects and making paintings two-demensional surface holding a design and not a presentation of something. It wasn't concerned with emotion or personal feelings. Mainly, it just breaked people and stuff down into little blocks and into a million different pieces and then reconstucting them. There are two types of cubism....

1. Analytical Cubism, which is shattering of fragments and then reconstructing them, as I explained earlier.
2. Synthetic Cubism, which uses collage, stencils and glue to produce a surface image.

And know the pictures

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, by Pablo Picasso

This painting marked the beginning of cubist painting. The influence of the African Mask, which can be seen with the two figures on the right, forced Picasso to rework the entire geometry of the frame. The critics called it "Cubism" because of it's geometric emphasis. And on another note, the woman in this picture actually existed but they didn't look like this. At least I hope they didn't, because it would be very hard being a prostitute that looked like that.

Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp

This was a very controversial painting that was completly misunderstood by the American public and critics, possibly because it dosn't look like a nude descending a staircase. One critic called it shingles. The thing about this painting is that it shows the various stages of a nude descending a staircase, each one frozen in place at the same time.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, by Pablo Picasso

If the painting looks a little grey and dull, that's because most paintings by Cubism are grey and dull. This shows a fully developed style in Picasso by 1910.

Guitar, by Pablo Picasso

This is an example of Synthetic Cubism, which my notes say "grew with Picasso's work with George Braque" whoever he was. This statue, made from sheet metal and wire, was a radical departure from making statues with stone or wood. It was also a fore-runner for modern sculpture which would be constructed as compared to made from stone or wood.

Fauvism, Expressionism and Cubism! Oh My! Part 2: The Expressionists

Expressionism (1905-1915)

The Expressionists where German painters who paid attention to the social conditions. There work address moral issues such as poverty, corruption, loneliness, sorrow and passion, as well as the social conditions in Germany at the time. They are noted for there exaggerated forms and unnatural colour schemes which gave them a more emotional look. Like the Fauvists, they also sought to make paintings considered a two-dimensional surface with a design on it as compared to a representation of something. There where two groups of Expressionists. The First, Die Bruke (The Bridge) was established to build a bridge, hence the name, with the German art of the past and modern experimentation. This was lead by Wassily Kandinsky, who painted Blue Mountain and Study of Composition #2. The second group, Die Blau Reiter,(The Blue Rider) made work representing pure inner emotion. It was also strongly influenced by the works of African and Oceanic cultures. Both groups freed the artist from the limitations of repressive art, and where suppressed by the Nazis. For pissing of Hitler, I give the Expressionists two thumbs up!

No pictures, because I'm tired of it.

Fauvism, Expressionism and Cubism! Oh My! Part 1: The Fauves

FAUVISM (1905-1908, or 1901 to 1907)

Back in the olden days when war was fun, God was in his heaven and seeing a woman's ankle was a thing to tell your friends over a pint, a group of French artists decided, out of genius or just laziness, to create paintings that were actually paintings. Up until then, paintings were mirrors of reality, and where expected to look realistic. These blokes decided to screw the institute and created paintings that were brightly coloured and had raw brush strokes. The critics called them "Fauves," because they where French and Fauves means wild beasts. The painters excepted this as there name and so there you go.

FATATA TE MITI,

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin was a pretty cool guy who dropped out of society to paint half-naked women in Tahiti. He was originally a symbolist due to the realistic subject matter of his paintings, this separated him from the impressionists who painted to capture quick moments. Gauguin was praised for painting realistic depictions of the lives of peasants and the natives of Tahiti.


THE RED STUDIO,

Henri Matisse

Matisse ignored all rules of perspective in his work, which is why this doesn't look realistic. He also used a lot of bright colours, which is why his picture has all the red. He also used simplified shapes to make it look even less realistic. There was also no shading. So basically, this isn't a very realistic studio. For all we care it wasn't even red. It may not surprise you to know that Matisse was the foremost spokesman of the Fauvists.

Starry Night,
Vincent Van Gogh
The painting shows an influence from Japanese wood-blocks with it's thick outline. It reflected what the artist felt internally. Van Gogh's wild and visible brushstrokes force you to look at as a two-dimensional painting. The people are also portrayed as as small and insignificant. As you all should know, Vincent Van Gogh was a crazy person who cut his ear of and ate his own paint, neither of which is suggested.

HEAD OF CHRIST
GEORGE ROUALT

Sorry, couldn't find a painting. But it's of Jesus' head, because Roualt was a devout Catholic. It's not really realistic, but hey nothing here will be. If you could see it you'd also notice a stained glass type influence which is because of Roualt's interest in medieval life. Roualt even worked in stain glass in his early years. He also used the thick, raised paint system. Roualt is actually more similar to the Expressionists then the Fauves, which leads us to our next guys.

The Aristotle, New Bookshelves and Alicia Silverstone emerging nude from a swimming pool

Again, I was lazy about posting. But no matter, today I will fill you in.

Mom and Dad finally decided not only to get me a new bookshelf, but two book shelves. So since Delila was of in Niagara for a theatre thing, we packed the car up with the remaining people in the family and drove to Ikea. Then we went to Chapters and then Outback Steakhouse.

The Chapters was okay. I got a copy of Stephen King's On Writing and an anthology of speculative fiction written by people of African descent. It's called Dark Matter. I also found a really big book of William Blake's poetry, but it was way to expensive.

In School news, I've only recently gotten started on a thing called the Aristotle. It's basically a philosophy essay I have to write and will take me most of the class. My EA, who has been brought out of the wood works, keeps bugging me about doing it. Considering the fact I don't really have any work done on it I suppose she has a point. I'm also doing a study on animal rights, which is opening up a whole can of worms for me. I'm wondering if I should become a vegetarian or just kill my own meat.

On the subject of recent news, it turns out that famous person I've never heard of, Alicia Silverstone has joined with PETA to promote vegetarianism. The video she cut with them is of her emerging from a swimming pool naked and then the words goveg.com appear on the screen. While I have no real quarrel with nudity in general, there is something of seducing people into vegetarianism in this. I'm not saying becoming a vegetarian or vegan is bad, but the video doesn't really have anything to do with swearing of your meats. It's just a very attractive woman naked and then goveg.com on the end. It's hilarious once you think of it, but what about the people who can't read. They will loose the meaning completely.

Also, my new favorite song is the Gipsy King's version of Hotel California. From now on the song should only be played in Spanish. If you haven't heard this song it's on the soundtrack to the Big Lebowski in the scene where we first meet the Dude's bowling rival, Jesus.

What am I going to do with the rest of my life?

I've been thinking about my future. I've had a lot to do recently with getting my essay all tidied up and it's caused me to think about my method of doing homework.

My teacher says the problem isn't that I'm not intelligent, but that I'm not disciplined. I'm a little worried about that because I don't think I want to be disciplined. I just want to write the stuff I want to write about.

I'm also thinking that at some point in my life I'm going to become an expatriot, at least by the time I'm forty. Maybe sooner, depending on how soon Canada goes down or when America becomes really facist dictatorship and Canada is invaded. The only problem is I don't know where to become an expatriot in. I was thinking I may go to Paris or Tangiers, but they've already been done. What I want to do is move to a nice leftist republic that dosn't have any major revolutions or wars going on and where I can live in some nice remote area and write epic fantasy and magic realism. I'm starting to think that I may just join Steph in Norway, although I don't think Steph is as interested in starting some weird artist's colony to revolionize people's conciousness or jump start our evolution into glorious star beings, which I may or may not want to do.

Also, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

Homework and lots of it

Well, it's my last day to get the stupid epistomology-Creationism vs. Evolution-David Hume essay done. I have to tidy it up and work in a few quotes so as to show I was using sources. I'm tired of the entire thing and can't wait until it's over.

On another note, I need to get two pieces of artwork done by the end of October or else I won't get a good mark in art class, that and I have no idea what to do next. I think the method is going to be a sketch type thing, no painting like "Extinction." Probably something about the species of Mythania.

On another note, oh what was I going to say? Ah, I lost it. Damn. Anyway. That's all I've got.

Home with the Flu

I have the flu. First signs where when I was in art class when I began whorling apple chunks in a garbage can. Then I was sent home and I took a nap. Completely ruined my sleep cycle and I was up all night trying to get to sleep.

And I'm still not feeling so well, so I had to stay home again today. I'm getting my first draft of my David Hume essay done, well I'm supposed to but like all homework I'm having difficulty actually focussing on it. I hope to have it finsished today.

Hm, I thought I'd have more to say but it appears I don't. I'm to tired.

September 2007 Blogthings

You Are 16% Emo

You're the furthest thing from emo. Sensitivity is not something you exactly cultivate... and you can't imagine weeping over song lyrics.

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouemoquiz/">Are You Emo?

You Should Play the Accordion

You are eccentric, funky, wacky... definitely one of a kind.People have trouble putting you in any one particular category. You definitely have your own thing going on. You are a born entertainer. No wonder you'd be perfect as an one man (or one woman) band.Your musical influences likely cross all genres - and blend together in a very unusual way. While you are definitely offbeat, you also enjoy tradition and influences from the past.It's just your style to take an old fashioned instrument like the accordion and make it uniquely yours. Your dominant personality characteristic: your total inhibition Your secondary personality characteristic: your interest in obscure activities and subjects

http://www.blogthings.com/whatmusicalinstrumentshouldyouplayquiz/">What Musical Instrument Should You Play?

These things are getting more and more feminine, so I don't do them. Maybe I'm becoming to insecure about my masculinity.

On Alejandro Jodorowsky

First of all, I can never remember this guys name. I had to copy it down from Wikipedia. I really should because he may just be one of the most important people alive today.
Why does Alejandro Jodorowsky deserve such praise you ask? Why does he matter? What does he do? Well, he makes movies. I've only seen El Topo, which is a movie about a gunfighter trying to attain enlightenment. It completely blew my mind. If you look him up on Wikipedia (click on the title to learn more about him), you'll see he also does alot of other cool stuff. He reads Tarot cards and is a scholar of comparitive religion, both of which are things I see myself as doing at some point. He also almost made a movie out of Dune, which would have been cool but Hollywood sabotaged it because it was to French. I really should make a secret brotherhood of movie makers in Hollywood villains in a novel someday.

Anyway, what I really mean to say is El Topo, while freaking me out in some places, is one of my favorite movies. I think elements of it have worked there way into The Last Dance Revolution and probubly most of my other works too. So when they decide to write down all the people who I'm inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky will probubly be high on that list.

Anyway, I have decided Alejandro Jodorowsky is know one of my favorite human beings. That's all I have to say.

And here's an interesting link to an article I found on him.

Apparently there was no monkey envolved in the Scopes Monkey Trial

So my EA is back. I wasn't paying enough attention in Philosophy, so I suppose I deserve it. But if I'm really good for the next six days she'll go. At first it was five, but five is one of the special numbers and I didn't know if that was a good omen or not. I thought it wasn't, but I'm having doubts at the moment.

On the subject of Philosophy, I have to write an essay about what a certain philosopher (Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, John Locke or David Hume) would think of the theory of evolution. I'm thinking about doing either Rene Descartes or David Hume because I feel I've got a good handle on them, mainly since John Locke is hard to read. I also had to read alot on the Scopes Monkey Trial, which was a big thing on evolution being taught in the American South during the 1920's. It was a pretty interesting account, since to me it looked like few of the people involved even cared about evolution except for the people who where against it and even then the major players had ulterior motives.

And there was no monkey testifying at the trial. There where a bunch of people who brought performing monkeys and said they would be testifying in the trial. They did have an article about a super-intellegent Chimpanzee from the future named Cornelius, but it was dismissed because the concept of a civilization of intellegent apes went against the Bible. As did the theory of a civilization of human degenerates who live underground and worship a bomb.

And that's all I can write for now because I am know bored.

Screwed-up Japanese Movie

The good news is I am not completely desensitized to violence! The bad news is I'm going to have nightmares about Japanese school kids brutally murdering themselves for months.

I was going to Art class ahead of time, which meant that the cartoon and comic club would be there. Usually they watch harmless stuff which I can handle, such as Popeye or the Animatrix, but today they where watching Battle Royale, which is about a bunch of Japanese School kids who are forced to fight each other to death on an island until only one survives. It is very brutal and there are a bunch of kids who die in very painful ways. I didn't enjoy it and after they turned it off I had to ask for some hugs and I'm still all wound up about it.

On a lighter note I was worried that I was becoming desensitized to media violence. So I suppose seeing this movie wasn't all bad.

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Passed by Ruric's old house today and I got all lonely again.
I don't know why I'm posting this. I just felt I needed to post. Probubly because it's the 19th and that whole special numbers thing I've got. God that's a stupid concept.
Well, that's it. Be seeing you.

They cancelled Little Steven's Underground Garage so know I have to listen to archived shows that is if my little sister isn't on the computer. DAMN!

Recently, Little Steven's Underground Garage has ceased to be played on my local radio. As I am a big fan of this particular radio program, I am greatly disappointed. I should probably call them about it. Anyway, this has caused a great change in my calendar. On Sundays, when I knew that I would be able to listen to Little Steven's Underground Garage and I wouldn't feel so bad. Now, I just lay in my bed and await the inevitable. Come to think of it, listening to Little Steven's Underground Garage is probably one of the ten top ways I would like to die.
Does this mean that I can't listen to Little Steven's Underground Garage? No, I can listen to archived shows on the Internet (see link). But I have to listen to it the moment I get home because my sister tends to bring a friend home most days, thus interrupting the episode. Except for today when I forgot to put it on. So know I have to wait until tomorrow because I also have a mind load of philosophy homework.
School has been going well. I'm bonding with alot of people at the art table and I'm going to get on to my first piece of art "The Extinction of the First Kingdom of Yazan," this week. I also need to figure out what my next pieces of art will be.
Well, that's all I care to mention today. Be seeing you.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Posting for the heck of it

School has been going along pretty well. I've got myself into a routine that suits me. I have learned a good deal about philosophy which is fun. Art class is looking to be a pretty high mountain to climb though. I've been working on a piece called "The Extinction of the First Kingdom of Yazan." I want it to have a bit of realism but I'm not seeing myself as a realistic painter. I just want the perspective of the body to be right, which I'm having a problem with.

Then I have to figure out what I'm going to do with my second piece, since I need a second piece. I'm not sure what to do, probubly something that connects to "Extinction". Maybe something to do with Ilsethan and Lucifer, since that is the other half of whatever book of my mythology this is (The one dealing with the beginning of the Conflict). I just don't know how to work that out.

Okay, I can't blog much longer bye.

Academic 4 Life

Well, yesterday was the first day of school. Things are going pretty good you know, I have a good classes, two of them and with my two favorite teachers. I got the teacher I had for Writer's Craft last year for Philosophy which is good because she's cool and on my same wave length. I'm also doing 6 pieces of art for art class dealing with my mythos.

I have been talking with my parents and it looks like I'm going to spend most of my life in an academic environment. I got bored out of my skull without the structure of an academic environment during the summer, I don't know how I will react to having myself seperated from school. I talked it over with my parents who figure I should take four years at Wilfred Laurier and then get a masters degree from the U of T (University of Toronto). Then I could just work as a university librarian and work on my books.

Well, I guess that's enough. I should probubly be getting to class.

The Naos and Helen Sestinas

I posted these up on deviantart awhile back, at separate times. Helen's Sestina I just put up today. I decided I might as well post them up on the Aspie Diaries for the hell of it. The basic premise is that Naos and Helen are both writing sestinas for each other. I don't think these are going to be in the mythos proper, which is going to have some William Blake style poetry at some point, but I figured it would be nice. Enjoy.

Link to Naos' Sestina to Helen

Link to Helen's Sestina to Naos

Helen's Sestina to Naos

Come to me. For you, I break down my barriers
Only for you would I open the doors of my soul
Burn it. Burn it all down. Turn me to a savage
Save me from the evil empire that brings death
And I will save you from loneliness, my love
Beautiful and mystic harbinger, whose name is Naos

Will you tell me my love, my only Naos
Did you learn to bring down politic’s dark barriers
And will you please tell me of metaphysics and love
You bring out the hidden romantic of my soul
It’s truly a relief from being the avatar of death
To lay down my arms, sheltered by you, the savage.

Savage. It has a negative connotation, the word savage
But you and I, we know better, don’t we Naos.
We have seen the civilized world, and it is death
They are trapped, fogged in shadows and behind barriers
I was once like that, till Father saved my soul
And I meet you, and learned to fly with your love

I celebrate, dance and sing in your love
Two of us, media atrocities, bohemian savages
I agree, we are united, emanations of the same soul
We are Helenaos. We are not Helen and Naos
Back and forth and in and out, till all barriers
are broken down, bringing on our symbolic death.

And then we rise, Phoenix-like from death
Both male and female, united by our love
Physical, emotional, spiritual, national and mental barriers
They all fall down to us, the eternal savage
You know I dream of this too, my Naos
I to long for the complete union of our souls

“But we truly are one in our souls.”
Said the mystic to the avatar of death
(I am the avatar. The mystic is Naos)
I say “I know, I know, my love.”
But there is still the infernal barrier
Preventing union, keeping us two savages

But at least we’re savages, with a heart and soul
You are a breaker of barriers, of the avatar of death
And for that I love you. I love you Naos.

Naos' Sestina to Helen

O Helen, I stand in awe of your beauty
You, O divine killer and slayer of men
For despite that I look upon you with love
That I will give unto you for eternity
O Helen, my lover, my only, my goddess
Beautiful, Ethereal, Immortal Helen

When we sleep I see you, O Helen
In my dreams were you become beauty
And fulfill your role as universal goddess
And are worshipped by millions of men
But you have chosen me to spend eternity
And in return I give you unconditional love

And you will get it, all my love
For you are my muse, O Helen
I could spend all of long eternity
In mere contemplation of your beauty
Away from the trappings of men
And worship you as a goddess

For truly you are a goddess
Yes, of death but also of love
both loved and feared by man
I sing your name, Discordia-Kali-Helen
In your divine and tantric beauty
From toes to forehead, eternity

represented in your flesh. Eternity
I say, for what else should a goddess
be, but the embodiment of universal beauty
and wisdom and strength and love.
That is what you are, my Helen
Why you are loved by all men

While you were created for The Man.
He did not know your soul was for eternity
And that he became unworthy of you, O Helen
No one knows of your identity as divine goddess
except me, and Helen I give you my love
Helen, the avatar of spiritual and physical beauty

For you are the avatar of true beauty, worked beyond the skills of mortal man
And I swear that for all eternity, I will give you my love
My Goddess, my angelic Helen

The Angels have the Phone Box

I just watched an episode of Doctor Who and boy was it cool. Basically it's about this woman named Sally Sparrow who must get the Tardis back to the Doctor who has been sent back to 1969 by the Weeping Angels who are really scarry statues that come alive when your not looking and kill you.

The best part of it was the secret message the Doctor hide as a DVD Easter Egg. The Easter Egg is encountered before, as Sally's friend's brother is obsessed with the Easter Egg he found in various DVDs. Later, when Sally has it all figured out, she has a conversation with the Doctor on the screen, which he can do because he has the transcript that was written down by her friend's brother who makes comments such as "I love that part, the Angels got the Phone Box. I have that on a T-shirt."

Alright, if that dosn't work. Here's a link. Yes, I do love Wikipedia.

I think it would be very cool to be the Doctor, or have a life like the Doctor where I get to travel time in a super cool phone box thing. That and I could just be walking along when a complete stranger says my name and tells me to take these notes because the fate of the universe hangs in the balance or something. That and I could see Woodstock twice!

My Weeklong trip to the Cottage of Hell

Well, I'm back from a week long vacation to a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula that was badly built and had a terrible shower and I couldn't be happier. The cottage I was at was terribly built and I didn't like it at all. I was also sharing it with my entire family and some of my relatives who have six people in there family, two of them little girls so you can imagine the screaming when you combine that with Sprite.

So, a summary of my vacation is in order. I can't give you much in the way of a complete linear narrative, but I can tell you I did have a good time. I went to various beaches, went for a few hikes with my relatives and emediate family, saw an example of Native-Canadian dancing and took part in an intertribal dance, bought twelve books including William S. Burrough's "Naked Lunch", watched an old Chinese Kung-Fu B-Movie that had a terrible plot but still remained pretty awesome, hit my head repetedly on a door that was to small, had a bat fly at me, liseaned to alot of Dead Dog Cafe, had a camp fire and had fudge. I can't remember what else I did besides watching my copy of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly."

I have decided I am officially decided I am holidayed out. I will probubly take this back when it happens, but I want to go to school again. Maybe I won't take it back because I'm only going part time and I'm doing philosophy and art, which look like there going to be really good courses for me. I'm also looking for people to play Dungeons and Dragons with, probubly using an adjusted version of Mythania.

On another note, I may have to change the name of Mythania. It turns out the name is used by a MMORG and another world called Mythania that has some similarities, for instance it has steam technology and rodent people although from what I've read of these rodent people they are drastically different from the tawaze. Here's a list of other Mythania links.

• Some weird poem
• Stuff on Wikipedia on the other Mythania
• Some American lady who is oddly enough 23. How'd you like that coinsidence?
• Somebody's character in Warcraft
• Some story called "Mythania Sorrow the Fallen One" about an angel or something
• Some account on Quizilla

That's about it. Hope you guys find it interesting. Sorry it took so long to write all this.

New Update Concerning My Blog

Hey, you may notice that under my archives is a list of books. Well, this is my Librarything account. Library thing is basically an internet collection of books I own, and gives suggestions and stuff like that. Steph, I know you'll be interested in this. Just thought I'd give you a heads up.

I'm back from the cottage again and this time I'm posting!

Hey, sorry I didn't blog in awhile. This is turning out to be the August of Cottage Trips. No sooner do I get home from my relatives cottage then I go back there with my entire family, and I did have time to blog last time but I didn't because I am lazy. Just to warn you I'm going for another trip next week. I'm going with the cousins whole will have the highest chance of playing Dungeons and Dragons with me, which will be cool. I'd love to do the Mythania RPG, but I don't have that quite ironed out yet. Not to bad, I plan on doing lot's of new and exciting things with Forgotten Realms.
Anyway, the cottage trips were fun. I went tubing alot, and there is a good chance of me sending you pictures of myself tubing. I got two new books, one having a bunch of short stories by H.P. Lovecraft and the other having a bunch of Poetry by Lord Byron, despite the fact I believe I have more in common with Percy Brysse Shelley. Shelley is defenetly going to be the next poet I pick up. I also finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which as recent readers would know I borrowed from my Uncle.
I didn't work alot on my novel, and it's starting to look like I won't be getting much of a chance to get it finished completely by the end of Summer. I do believe I am making progress on it, and at some point today I will get to work on it. I'm also getting alot of ideas about the whole Conspiracy-Urban Fantasy-Counter Culture megaseries. I'm thinking about calling it The Rosicrucian Cycle at the moment, as the secret society I concentrate most on is based somewhat on the Rosicrucians, and to The Invisibles as well. I'm thinking about working Grant Morrison in as a character, as I want to have historical characters appear in the novel. I feel that Ken Kesey should appear in the 1960's thing, which I'm calling The Fellowship something-something, depends on how many books are in it. I have a feeling it may be one of the longest in the megaseries. I thought I could do four books, but then it seemed like five, and then I had no idea what I was going to do. But combine that with the Apocalypse storyline and The Howlers (one trilogy and a few short stories) and probubly some kind of history of the organization before that, which I'm probubly going to put as an appendix in the Fellowship and Apocalypse books....Well, I've probubly given to much away. I'll stop talking about it.
Anyway, I'll try to call back in. Also, I'm putting 7 on the labels for this post, as I will do on every seventh day of the month because it's one of the special numbers. The same will be said for all other numbers envolved.

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.

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came

I've done it. I've finally done it. I have finished the Dark Tower series. It's been long and hard, and there's been all kinds of blood and weird stuff and a clinically insane monorail, but I have finished it by golly.

The ending is kind of anticlimatic, and the last book was by no means the happiest (but hey, this is Stephen King. He's not suppose to leave you with a nice fuzzy feeling at the end). I'm glad Roland got to his Tower and that he got to he top, but I'm not sure that I liked what he found up there. But as Stephen King said, endings are heartless. I wouldn't say that the ending itself is heartless, but it's a good ending none the less.

So I've finally finished it. I've read the entire series, including the novella about the vampiric nuns. That's it. There are no more stories about Roland and his Ka-Tet. I mean, there's still the connecting novels. Theres 'Salems Lot and Insomnia and Rose Madder and who knows what else, but I'll never hear anything from Roland or Jake or Eddue or Susan or Oy ever again. I'm going to miss them.

Well, just thought I'd write something about it.

BBC official Hawkwind documentary

Hey, I found this awhile back. I meant to put it up eventually, so now I did. Here's everything you wanted to know about Hawkwind

I'M OUT!!!

Yeah! I'm out of school. Summer is here and I don't have to go to School, I can goof of all day. Huzzah!
So yeah, I'm out of school. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with all this free time. I figure I could try blogging more. I've been thinking about making a post on every 5th, 7th, 19th and 23rd day of the month because they are my special numbers. Mom says I should try doing a blog post every 23 hours. I don't know if I can work that but it would stave of boredom.
And there is the novel. I plan on working really hard on my novel so I can get it done by the end of summer. I figure I can get at least three chapters of it done this week. That and I'm going to get started on the 1960's stories.
On the subject of the number 23, I'm working a thing in where the number 23 plays a role in each of the characters lives in some way. Here's what I've got so far.

• David Howl only sold 23 copies of his first novel.
  
• Jack Blackwright wakes up in the Soho district of London with a 23 year memory gap.
• Oothoon was 23 years old when she left the Brides of Yazan.

Okay, that's all I've got so far. I also have the idea that some of the characters were born on the 23th of something.
I've also been wondering what else I should actually do. There are a lot of things I want to work in to this series. Here, I'll make a list.

1. My Main Pantheon, this is going in as it is way to important to the plot
2. Historic Feel of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960's, I'm probably going to have to find people for this or at least read a whole lot of books
3. A Cast similar to that on Lost, Basically, a bunch of people from all walks of life who are drawn together by a similar force and end up creating a sort of tribe.
4. Historical Figures, I want to work real people into the story line. So far all I got is that The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and the Jefferson Airplane are going to appear, a possible Beatles cameo, and Charles Manson seems to be turning into an antagonist. I'm also thinking Ken Kesey might turn out to be a major character. Oh, and the Black Panthers come in here somewhere.
5. Fictional Characters, I've been thinking about working fictional characters into the universe. I already have an idea that Cthulhu, or at least something like Cthulhu, turns up. Actually, Steph knows that Cthulhu comes up. I also see Jerry Cornelius appearing somewhere in the story, mainly around the London stories. The problem is I don't know if Michael Moorcock would allow me to use Jerry Cornelius in a story. If not I'm probably going to have to come up with some alternate version, which would also be fun. Maybe I should do that instead. Forget I wrote this down.
6. Metafiction, I've been really into this ever since I read Animal Man. There's an entire list of things and I would like to work as many of them in as possible.
   
7. Some kind of important link to Mythania, Somehow the characters should be aware of Mythania, even if most of them never go there. I'm thinking that two of the characters end up discovering they share the same fantasy world and end up writing a novel, which could also work into the Metafiction element, making it a story-within-a-story.
   

Okay, that's all I can think off. So, time is running out on this computer,so I'm going to sign out now.

The first one is for Steph and Hans

A friend of the family showed me these funny videos. This first one is for Steph and Hans as they are living in Norway.



And here is a little song about mennonite thrift stores. It is hilarious.



And because everyone loves making fun of Televangelists.



I don't know what's funnier. The dubbed in farting or the fact that he does this without the farting.

Practically out

Well, as you know I have been feeling very small and lonely. You'll be pleased to hear that I have exponetially increased my MSN contacts. Bad news is that nobody is on at the moment.
In the meanwhile, I'll be officially out of school by Friday afternoon. I just need to get my co-op project done, which it half is already. I am feeling very good about myself today. I plan on having a big celebration after getting out of school. I'm going to see if I can talk my mom into driving me to a used bookstore and seeing if I can't get myself the first book of the Illuminatus trilogy.

I just have to get my exam done in History and then I'm set. I'm not overly worried about it, because I feel I got it under control. Still, this isn't my best class. I'm going to have to look over the French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon.

I'm really enjoying Last.fm. Again, thanks to Dan for introducing me. I just found all these cool examples of tracks by genres. I'm going through surf rock at the moment. I'm liseaning to a really cool version of "Walking on the Moon," by somebody called getAmped. But then when I clicked on it to see who they were I lost track of the thing. Curses. So, last.fm isn't perfect.

I can't write anymore, I'm going to go hide in my room

Last.fm

So recently I've discovered the wonder of what is last.fm, thanks Dan. It's been really great. I've discovered this band called Aphrodite's Child, which is a Greek progressive rock band that did a concept album on the Book of Revelations in the 60's or early 70's.

So anyway, I'm working on a playlist. This playlist should have a bunch of songs on it and I'll be able to put it on my blog. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm so lonely

I've lost Loncrow's phonenumber. I don't now when I lost it, but it's lost and I've realized how lonely I actually am. I mean, both of my sisters have all these friends. Delila is going to some party today and Sprite has all kinds of friends who come over but I don't have anyone except for the people who read this blog. I mean, I really like you guys but I never meet you face to face and that bothers me alot.
I have some people in my hometown who could work as friends, but I have no idea how to actually go about making them friends. I want someone to hang out with, I want someone who I can go out and do stuff with. I want someone who I can talk too. It's driving me crazy. I mean, how hard can it be to actually make friends. I have so many likely candidates around it should be easy, but I just have no idea how to go about doing it. It's nuts.
Okay, talking about this makes me sad so I'm going to stop now.

Summer is coming up fast

I just turned on my new yahoo radio station. The song it started out with is "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton. It said it was suggested for me. I really like that it makes me feel special.

So, we've been watching a movie called Le Dernier Combat in Writer's Craft so we could write a review for it. I don't really like it that much because it made me fall asleep. They're was literally no dialouge except for two people saying "bonjour." The basic plot is that the world has collapsed and you have a guy wandering around. At some point he's trapped in an abandoned hospital with a doctor and a girl and outside is this guy who's going to kill them. For some reason nobody can talk and society has broken down. It's really weird. If you want to see it go ahead, but make sure you get alot of sleep before you do.

On another note, I found the coolest book at the Library. You know that book 1001 places you must see before you die? Well, I found one that's called 1001 Books you must read before you die. I was going to put up more of a post about it, but Delila needs to do some homework, so I have to get off. I'll get back you you guys on it as soon as possible.

Bunch of cool YouTube videos

Hey, So I was fiddling around on YouTube, when I saw a bunch of interesting things. I've decided to gather together a bunch of YouTube related things and put them up as a post. Her we have K-Os, live on Letterman.



And here's a treat. Michael Moore without his hat.



Turns out he's making a new movie about America's sucky health care system. This is a great trailer.



I've really meant to get into Hawkwind ever since I learned of there relation to Michael Moorcock. I got one of there albums, but I'm a little uncertain as to how it was made. It's called Masters of the Universe and the list of songs is a little off. I wonder if it's a bootleg or something sometimes.
Anyway, here's Hawkwind. If I had a band, it would probubly look alot like this and be called Gunslynger.



And that's all I've got. Bye.

400

Yeah, I've have 400 posts on this thing. Most excellent.

So, I'm half finished the first half of my history essay, so in true fashion I am not doing any real work on it until tomorrow. In the meantime, I plan on getting some writting done, if only for what I have designated novel number two, which is basically just a bunch of interconnected short stories. It's all part of the Family 48 thing that Steph knows about. I'm not going to go into to much detail because I see it as a thing like Lost, where half the fun in watching it (reading it in this case) is trying to figure out what is going on. Don't worry, it will end with a good idea of what is going on.

Ah, that's all I can think off. Hell of a 400th post.

The June 2007 blogthings

You Are a Good Friend Because You're Accepting

No matter what a friend says or does, you try your best to understand it.And your friends feel like they can tell you anything. You don't judge. You know that friendship is a journey - with a lot of ups and downs.If you and a friend grow apart, you get over it quickly... and leave the potential for future friendship open. You tend to have many friends from many walks of life. Anyone you meet is could become a friend.In fact, you are especially interested in people who are a little different than you. Seeing life from another perspective is something you cherish. Your friends need you most when: They can't turn to anyone else with their secrets You really can't be friends with: Dogmatic, stubborn people Your friendship quote: "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

http://www.blogthings.com/whatmakesyouagoodfriendquiz/">What Makes You a Good Friend?

Your Love Life is Like Annie Hall

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies." You believe that love (if you even believe in love!) is a very complicated thing.Maybe love is pain. Or maybe it's all a big therapy session. You're still figuring it out. Your love style: Brainy and a bit neurotic Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Realistic and reflective

http://www.blogthings.com/whatmovieisyourlovelifelikequiz/">What Movie Is Your Love Life Like?

You Are 12% A Child of the 90s

The 90s aren't a time you remember too well.Either you missed most of those years, or you were on some pretty good drugs!

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouachildofthe90squiz/">Are You a Child of an 90s?

I was in elementry school.

You Are Destined to Be Thin

Even if you aren't thin right now, you have great habits that will ensure you're thin for most of your life.You have a great relationship with food and eating. Don't change a thing.

http://www.blogthings.com/areyoudestinedtobeoverweightquiz/">Are You Destined To Be Overweight?

Your Inner Gender is Male

You are rational, matter of fact, and quite dominant.You like to get things done, without any emotional messiness.You truly don't understand most women. And you definitely feel more comfortable around men.No doubt about it. You're a guy - at least on the inside.

What's" Your Inner Gender?

Summer is coming. The light at the end of the tunnel.

Hey, you may have noticed I redid the blog. I felt like redoing it so I did it. I'd ask you how you like it, but I like it this way so why argue.

So, Summer is coming slowly and in the mean time I have two major projects to finish. First there's a history essay and then I need to do a co-op thing where I write a book report on a book on museums and write a thing about technology in the workplace. I'm really not in the mood for School at all. My mind already thinks it's Summer and just wants to goof off.

Work on my novel has also been postponed because all of the school work is getting in the way. This really bugs me, but I plan on working really hard on it over the summer. I hope that I can finish it over the summer too. If I get ten pages a day done I think I can manage it, also I plan on working on a few short stories and seeing if I can't send those out.

Okay, just thought I'd do some writing. Now I have to go work Israel into my essay, shouldn't be to hard.

Does anyone other then me actually read 8 bit theatre?

Hey, I was just trying to get the link up for 8 bit theatre, which seems to have died during the transfer of formats. I was wondering if any of you guys actually read it.

Movies and such

In Writer's craft we are learning about writing film reviews and as such are watching movies. The first movie was a thing called Cube, which is a science fiction like movie about a bunch of people who are stuck in a weird cube maze thing. It's really weird and has a kind of avaunt-garde feel to it. Were also going to watch Dead Man, which I have already seen and thought was very cool.

Also, I just watched El Mariachi at home, which was also pretty cool. I was able to get it for free at the Giant Squid because the last movie I got there was pretty scratched up. They're a great store. It was pretty cool that Robert Rodriguez could make made it on only $7000. It has kind of inspired me to try and do my own movie on that kind of budget. Mind you, I have no idea were to get that kind of money, or even what I should do. I don't want to do a traditional action flick like that because it just dosn't seem like something I'd do. I'll have to think about it. I have an idea for a movie that could work as an action film but also work on just being a cool movie to see. Anyway, I'm tired so I'm going to end this post now.