This should surprise no one but outrage all.
My ideology in one picture.
I've been bitching for a while how kids don't play outside or walk to school on their own and my sister just informed me that it's actually illegal for kids under the age of 12 to be out unsupervised. I don't know if this is widespread or something peculiar to where we live but I find it staggering.
Analogical Force are a label that have been putting out some great stuff for a while now too.
Brainwaltzera and Bochum Welt are both sensational.
Nice!
These people deserve everything that's coming to them.
It's Jan de Beer, another Netherlandish painter working around the same time as Bosch.
I checked his profile after he posted this. Turns out he'd only created his account half an hour earlier and was already bitching about the place.
No, I never checked it out but I may do at some point.
I never bothered with the TV series - it came out post-bubble and I figured it would be impossible to capture what made the books truly great.
Titus Alone is good but has nothing in common with the other two aside from Titus himself. It's written in a different style and it's actually more of a science fiction novel. Interesting idea, but it's bound to disappoint after you've just recovered from Gormenghast.
Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" novels are every bit as good as "The Lord Of The Rings" even though they stand in complete contrast to Tolkein's epic. They are claustrophobic rather than expansive and the narrative (for the first two novels anyway) barely leaves the vast, labyrinthine castle of Gormenghast. There is also a striking absence of the mythological; although the lives of the castle's inhabitants are governed by a seemingly endless sequence of arcane rituals, any semblance of meaning behind it all has long been forgotten. No quest is offered as means of renewal; there is only stagnation, decay, intrigue and insanity. This all sounds extremely dour but they're also laugh-out-loud funny at points, hauntingly surreal at others and the inhabitants of the castle are unforgettable and written with a level of characterisation truly worthy of Dickens. This is world-making of a different sort.
The first two books are stunning and form a complete story in themselves. The third is very different in tone and takes place outside of the castle. By comparison it feels more hastily written and is less compelling than it's predecessors. There is apparently a fourth, left unfinished at Peake's untimely death and later completed by his wife. I've not read that one though and it's not usually included in omnibus editions of the series.
#bookstr
Sorry mate
The original is cool too. It's from The Exorcist II soundtrack.
