Burroughs, Gysin, Spare, "I, Parasite", Velvet Acid Christ, Aleister Crowley, Jenna Jameson, Sylvia Saint, The Saints, Heretic X, The MRPP Crew, Satan, And Mr. (fucking) VI, along with vast amounts of Jack Daniels.
"The sun dies. It goes away and the curtain of night covers the eye.
Imagine then, way back at the beginning of things, when the only
clothes mankind had were skins of stories. The only choice is the fire
or the dark.
Do you huddle close with your kin, or do you face out, to where the
monsters dwell?
Sometimes you have no choice. When you're out of options. Up against
the wall. Outgunned - an ape with a spear against something infinitely
vast and terrible, that owes you nothing and doesn't care if you live
or die.
So what do you do?
You learn magic. You *are* magic.
Nietzsche unbound."
-Mr. VI
"Speak to me not of quietism or tranquility [sic], rather speak to the condemned of the safety of the gallows-drop! My mother told me she suffered hell carrying me, and from birth I have lived in a chaos as of normality, everything around me like a nagging termagrants and all my affairs with women a miserable misalliance. Half my life a struggle for pence... and the other half I live in sleeplessness; so when I have a few shillings I loaf awhile by intoxications. Strangely, I am not drink-sodden or frustrated, have few fears, great friendships and believe deeply in the Soul. I am always Stoic and have the power, at times, to forget the whole bloody mess called civilization and also to smile at this misnomer and at myself... Other love is usually soaked in desire - always unstable or vicarious. Like many others, my desire is usually for wisdom to express my ability in some way, to serve the young and helpless, to see and appreciate beauty, to have the warmth of friendship and sound sleep; not yet...
On different days we are different... even deny our denials, and sometimes we are as blessed and draw nearer the gods."
Two and a half years. The first edition book is done. 279 pages (first two don't count), lots of black and white illustration. Oh yeah, also, lots of words. About 100,000 of them.
It looks like it's going to take a couple weeks for Booksurge to place Fallen Nation through online retailers (Amazon, Waldenbooks, B&N, etc) so I'm making the exact same book available through lulu temporarily. I've ordered copies through them for the first round promotion and reviews, they look great.
Alright, it's not the exact same book: the spine is simpler on the lulu version than the version that will be available through the larger online outlets later. (In store distribution has to wait for the 2nd edition.)
So if that doesn't bother you, and you've been wanting to pick up a copy right now, enjoy. The basic "what's this book?" song and dance is there as well.
Major kudos on the recent podcast. I found it both enlightening and entertaining. ;) The whole bit about overcoming fear -- going out and meeting the devil at the crossroads -- really intriguied me. That fear is one I struggle with constantly, but one I'm working on.
I'm trying, but I can't promise January. I'm not working song-by-song, but layer by layer this time. I have eight songs with rhythm track and acoustic guitar now.
I can send you a link to a good version of Holographic Universe. The one I gave you on AIM.
