You
would try
to rip open
my heart
but you know
of the danger
well
I dare say
Armageddon
kiss me, you slag
I’ll sound the alarm
SIRENS SCREAMING
SIRENS SCREAMING
SIRENS SCREAMING
SIRENS SCREAMING
SIRENS SCREAMING
SIRESN SRCREAMING
Tonight is my 33rd birthday, and I’ve just finished reading Alice Decoded by David Day – not only has it revolutionized my ability to write The Holy Gift (formatting excellence, definitely cool beans, all~) – so I’m just on a lark figuring I’d share a few of my favourite books from a span of when I was a wee sprout, up until around 15.
::clever latin quote about being a reader and soulful goes here::
In no order of particular meaning
One: Roxaboxen
A story of a group of children wild at play, constructing a world of their own fantasy, with bits of smooth glass as money, if I recall, and the most wonderful white stone lined houses… the illustration is done by Barbara Cooney, who you will see again in this list, known for her light textures and dreamy watercolour worlds, she is a whimsy of nostalgia that evokes a future dream to come – forever young is the banner she rides under, just as the wooden horses Alice McLerren creates – even in a child’s world of wonder here, wars and battles are not distant, but… all too near.
buy it here
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Two: Miss Rumphius
As I said, here she is again, but this is all Barbara Cooney – a lovely story about life and it’s tender meaning if one has the heart to truly comprehend this gift we have been given – so easy to forget – to grow hard – the waves are parting and we can see true paradise in a kind smile and a love of flowers and the ability to pass gracefully through this world. Although we cease to exist we persist to remain, love, memory, tradition… this is a very personal book that I cannot tarry further on with, suffice to say that you will be moved, and that is the value, in part, of these books I share – they … are truest jewels*.
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Three: Goodnight Moon
This should be on everybody’s list, but it goes without saying this rhythmic sea of poetry lulls us off to the dreamiest of distant memories where we where still ‘of the trail and glow of heaven’ or something to that end of the line, but as much as the words are spellbinding, the illustrations by Clement Hurd are almost surrealistic blacklight pantomime but the thick matte texture somehow offsets the harsher tones leaving the gestalt subsuming the favour of the eye, and the actual ‘text of the illustration’ waltzes in perfect time hand in hand with Margaret Wise Brown’s masterful lyricism.
Four: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle’s high youth fantasy (trust me there) … I first read this at age 8… no surprise to some of my readers (I have those, you know!) 8 being that … one of my flavorites – perfect to mention as this has a focus on the mechanics of time, one of my first forays in to the concepts of philsophy, other worlds, and high imagination, the likes of which I had not been able to prepare my self for – for I too was swept up on that windy night, with Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace off to magical lands, the likes of which… I expect some of us will be returning to sooner than we may possibly once yet again imagine….
Five: Goosebumps #7: Night of the Living Dummy
YES! A frukin Goosebumps made it on my list! This was the first in a slew of these things – I read a ton of them – never got in to Fear Street, but this corny story was just so much fun. My Grandma Doris Foster got this one for me when I was about the same age, she was proud of me for being a kid who read. Not much to say here, except that I wanted to name our Mini-Schnauzer after a dog from Goosebumps – Trigger – but my brother Geoffrey Niles got to name it Tyke. Because they got a dog without telling me. Hey I know! Let’s move forward!
P.S. I remember the original cover being way more appealing ^^
Number Six: Love You Forever
Robert Munsch pens a timeless loving tender rendition of the circle of life between a mother and her son. It’s very touching and I know you feel the way I do too. The illustrations by Sheila McGraw perfectly compliment the tale, the entire book is a timeless magical treasure and for any mother looking to read a book to her son that will touch them both in the best way, Love You Forever is the one.
Number Seven: The Runaway Bunny
This list isn’t giving me enough room haha
Number Eight: Alice in Wonderland
Number Nine: Alice Through The Looking Glass
Number Ten: The Hunting of the Snark
…For The Snark WAS a Boojum, You See
xoxo :3 I’m going to have to extend this list to include some CS Lewis, the Chinese seven brothers and a few others including Mouse a Cookie, some Jan Brett, and more… but this is a living blog, so I can do that.
Force.
This shit has it.
Now just Force.
THE FUCKING MOTHER FUCKING FORCE mother fuckers
Star Wars. The movie my parents saw on their honeymoon.
Merka. I know. Also. Correspondences, sprechinze de lingos, beeyotch :3
Grant Morrison is one of my heroes, rightfully so, for his way of living belies a path to semiemulate, when one realizes that one walks one path alone, the dreamer or doer, rather the both than the former or latter, is prone to excite responses from auspicious audiences.
The power is in YOUR hands. Real moments come from reading Grant’s iterations (as they all three of them begin to hump my side voraciously at first and then tenderly and tenaciously and almost tepidly, waiting to hear what I will say of them) – sorry lovies – only talking about Doom Patrol now.
This is why I’m famous. What? Like hotdogs? No not pornstars/I’m a blackstar. Motherfucker. Ok. Enough of the language, you cadmium resevoir of electric fluid monoliths. Finding your own voice matters, and don’t you forget it.
If I may create a duality for the spirit of both our heaven and our time – the individual versus the machine – that is the voice we have heard of the Borg – be not afraid of joining with other humans – it is the machine, it*s optics, metrics, and presence you ought despise, expatriate from as much as humanely possible, and realize that even 5G is a threat to yr tits and dicks.
Gotta speak that way, ladies, and gents, the old way is gyring and gimbling away – oh Alice – you ARE in Wonderland – even the highest Chaotes know this – following along the way – it spirals in circles – we are dust – we are dust – we are dust and sunsets and holy births and chemical weddings and expansive explosive loving destinies MAGNIFIED ~
DID YOU EXPECT A BREAKDOWN OF THE COMIC OF GRANT MORRISON ET AL
Coz that’s not what you’re getting. Not here. You can find that, but idiot – just READ IT. Buy the bloody thing from Amazon like a proper champ in Omnibus form and keep Vertigo in print and in business like a good chap now, won’t you?
Of course you will.
Now as it seems we have some spectrals in the mist
It’s time to stop writing for now, Willoughby…
I’ll be back
Same Bat time
Same Superman channel
Mother Fuckers.
The Son and Parent and Overcomer of Salvador Dali… N A T E F O S T E R
This is inspired by a few in the spheres which I respect, GC, CLK, GW to name a few… I want you to see me at 17. I am changing, but this is what I was. It just needs to be said. I am not looking for pity, as much as I sometimes revel in feeling ‘that kind’ of ‘cared for’…
Needless to say, I am what happens when neglect and abuse meets rock music and long car trips of isolation plus being pilled up at too early an age and being sent off to mental hospitals, where, everyone knows by now, I lost my virginity.
The Tool and other sync aspects of resurrection and alcohol abuse/drug abuse and madness and violence and etc all intersect – but the POINT is HEALING. I am still raw… I’m sorry truly to those I hurt… my left hand path is nothing like that… at all ~
Meet Me, Nathan Lee (Miller Foster) / Nate Foster / Occult Fan
and also… The Gift
at age 17 – My lovies…. “Jesus… Meet Nate”
O wat caustic hologram
let the nations a sieve through
most hold wars with gold bars and parachutes
but we use our minds and our attitudes
your own private litany
the blood soaking the company
how rude dear
at least use a coaster
you
lily
of the
rose
star pattern
treasure map
compass
light guiding this lost sailor home
you
crackling Vienna
at her bright height
vanquishing Constantinople
and her domes
summer flower
violet sky line
velvet lover
sweetest heart
you
the ocean tide
I
a piper
in the surfs
sweet sparrow,
starling… swallow
we feed
our creation in exultation
I
and you
lily
of
the rose
Occult Fan 