Wang Ping Yuko Taniguchi, Bob Hicok

Wang Ping Yuko Taniguchi, Bob Hicok

Reading even more poetry. Magic Whip by Wang PingVery powerful stuff here. with horrific images of foot binding. If you have a foot fetish you may want to pass on this one. also insightful images of asian imagrants living in cramped apartments suffering in the winter time, sharing bathrooms. This is a good book.

Insomnia Diary by Bob Hicok Reminds me of when I had sleeping problems and so on. funny commnets about Rogain.Foreign Wife Elegy by Yuko TaniguchiWas hoping more from this, a quick read. kind of morbid which I like, A joy to read From the library I got a stack of poetry books so I should be busy for quite awhile.I have been reading with a frenzy. I thought I couldn't read books anymore.

I haven't read Poems for years. I think its because I was afraid, I would accidently copy someone elses style. like I tried to copy Burroughs... I miss William Burroughs. the fact is I'm so jaded with genre related novels with the same characters over and over. I guess I couldn't focus, or even care about these people anymore.

I could no longer see myself in them, or relate to their problems.I'm so glad I stopped reading Stephen King when I was a kid. he just went on and on and on and on. I couldn't stand Anne Rice with her gay vampire soap Opera. It just wasn't scarey.

Gay people aren't scarey unless they are gay hill billy's living in a shed in the woods with pent up Desire. I think Horror has died in general. I'm either too old or just jaded. Or I just grew up. which is sad, I never wanted to stop loving things like that. I guess I'm talking about this because It's Holloween.

It hasn't felt like Halloween for me in years. sometimes I want to cry about it. I like change in my life, but I didn't want to lose that spark of wonder, that I enjoyed about myself.I just wished there was a sincere effort for people to create better horror films and novels. I wished I could be deliciously scared. I wished I craved these things again. I wish there could be magic. I just wish this did not die in me.

posted Monday, 31 October 2005

Adam Gerber made this comment,

Hey Craig- this is Adam from the Final Friday gallery hops and such. Interesting blog. Sorry to hear your jadedness at Halloween/horror/etc., I hear where you're coming from. I'm in New York now, though, and just went to the Halloween parade last night, 100,000 or so people strong. Very festive and vibrant celebrations all around the city, every costume you could imagine and then some (even the comedian Carrot Top, like I totally forgot that he existed!). Maybe you could stop by New York another year for Halloween. It would be much fun.

Take care man, Adam