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[xiane]

My teeth hurt today. I think I clenched my jaw all night long, while I traveled through bizarre and startling dreams that kept me off-balance even after I awoke. Blah. I love dreaming, but lately my dreams have been alarmingly weird, and not in a pleasant way either. At least I'm dreaming again, I guess. Could be worse. Dreams = writing, at least for me. When I'm not dreaming regularly, I'm not prolific at all.

Modern Rock is in just a few more hours. Hopefully it will be pleasant and The Freakjob will not be picking me to pieces. After this weekend the fundraiser starts, and that means for about 2 weeks my life is going to be very, very hectic. [like it isn't already, yes, I know]

I need something good to read, something that stimulates my creative mind. I've been reading back issues of Comutbus while I'm at Coyote, and that has been really inspiring... I want to really get the 'zine rolling again, and I recently had the re-revelation that writing is one of those things that truly makes me happy - and I feel like I'm not too bad at it, which is a plus. Not that anyone could tell from these rambling LJ entries!

Too much to do. So little time.

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[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

I have to recommend Mutant Message Down Under, for shaking up one's schema. Otherwise, for pure entertainment, The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte or Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Off the top of my head.

it's only my eyes, I've sold them before

[xiane.livejournal.com]

Both Mutant Message and Titus Groan have been on my list for a long time, and I always seem to forget about them. Now I really have a reason to seek them out. I went on a Phil Dick rampage after I quit Rev Soup and was doing zero work, but after speeding through all the books I had in my "to read" pile [I'm a terrbily fast reader], I've been left bereft.

Tomorrow will see a visit to the used bookstore. Thanks for the recommends!

Re: it's only my eyes, I've sold them before

[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

Hm! Anything you'd suggest for me? I'm into noir and well-done fantasy, not "vicariously experiencing the sweet touch of a woman through my protag" fantasy or "unicorns and dragons" stuff. I liked The Riddle-Master of Hed, God Stalk, and The Story of the Stone, as points of reference. I've got a small stack of Perez-Reverte stuff to finish (which I'm ecstatic about, since it's rare that I find an author I like, as opposed to one fluke story) and then a huge collection of random junk I've acquired over the years and am looking at very critically these days, when space is a precious resource.

Re: it's only my eyes, I've sold them before

[xiane.livejournal.com]

Patricia A. McKillip [author of The Riddle-Master] is one of my all-time favourite authors, to the point where one of my band's songs is based on those books. Eerie. Everything she's done I recommend highly; she has a very strong style that I enjoy greatly. I also recommend Charles DeLint, particularly the Newford series. Some of his books are for a younger audience and it shows, but the Newford collections are definitely for adults who have open eyes as well as minds when it comes to looking at the world. I need to bring my books downstairs so I can type out a fuller list of recommends. This will have to wait until, oh, Sunday. I said I was going to sleep 20 minutes ago!