My theatre company is putting on a version of The Jungle in hippy rock opera form in a few weeks.

"I'm sorry, did you say it was a 'hippy rock opera' version of The Jungle? How the fuck does that work?" you might ask.

The answer is I don't know...I just don't know...
But it's the happiest book I've ever read in which a kid gets eaten by rats.

That's why I recommend Stewart Meyer's The lotus crew.

Just looked that up,
it's now on my to read list.

It's actually better then the web reviews indicate.

What do spiders know about books anyway?

they know that they'll have a xitload of children and some stupid pig that should've been slaughtered will have to take care of them.

Don’t forget the Rat, always a fooking Rat in the bunch.

No need to get personal.

there's ALWAYS a need to get personal.

come here, dear, and sit on uncle's lap...

Oooh. Do you have candy?

AND pictures. i'm a lovable man.

care to go to the nearest star?

We be the “Rat Pack”.

i'm more of a wack pack kinda guy.

I'm into wacking.

CeeGee's into packing.

Ask Lars.

BTW, where is Cornelius these days?

Happy with the "from the Land of Bogs chick".

While awaiting the arrival of my new books, I became desperate and started digging through my boxes of old books.

I managed to find the one book my ex left behind. Written by his uncle, it's a lovely homoerotic tale with a forward by Gus Van Sant.

The pics are disturbing. If you gave my ex a receding hairline and an ironic moustache, he and his uncle would be twins.

Sounds like a creepy book.

You have no idea.

Read Mala Noche.

The Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake:
If J.R.R Tolkien had not written, these would be the best novels of the postwar British fantasy boom.

The Process, by Brion Gysin

The film version is supposed to be finally getting a DVD release soon. I'm a big fan of Van Sant's early films (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho), and some of his more recent work is not bad either (Elephant). I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Good to know. I was looking online for a VHS or DVD.
Couldn't find anything.
I figured since Mala Noche was his first, I'd be outta luck.

Looky here, Abs.

Thanks, Rimmy!

Anytime.

I'm in a re-reading phase.
When you're in an all-too-familiar place in your life and you're reading what you read then in the hopes that it'll remind you of how you got your ass in gear before.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Sweet book.

That could be a very powerful point to be at. I hope it turns out to be.

I'm a total fuck-up,
so not likely,
but we can hope.

Fuck-up? No. I'm a certified, licensed and bonded FU artiste so I know these things. For you there's plenty of hope.

The Street of Crocodiles, by Bruno Shultz

Some of you may be aware that the Brothers Quay did a short film called The Street of Crocodiles. Perhaps these two works of art are related?


The Hell Screen, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Japan's ultimate literary prize is called the Akutagawa award. Here are some Akutagawa winners:

The Sea of Fertility tetraology, by Yukio Mishima

The Woman in the Dunes, by Kobo Abe

Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata


TONE-loc, biotches!!!

Read this one, Peeps?


Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, by Judge Paul Schreber


The cover of the new edition features a still from Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic.

I think there's an excerpt from that in a book I have titled "A Mad People's History of Madness".

Very interesting book.

I just happen to be looking for my next target. Noted. Thanks, fellers.

Just in time, indeed!

I just finished reading And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave, and I am of the opinion that it is one of the best novels I have ever read!

Read it, Peeps, and be amazed.

I'll have to add that to my list.
Am about to start "Kafka on the Shore"

The Twenty-Seventh City has me engrossed. Although it's Franzen's first, it's better than Strong Motion and belies the nascent talent that gained full expression in The Corrections.

I'll look for that next.
Started A Confederacy of Dunces this weekend,
though only a couple chapters in
I really like this Ignatius J. Reilly character.

he's a snappy dresser.

Just finished Confederacy of Dunces.

LOL'd more than once.

To both of youse.

Yeah, I need to read that one.

My brother read it recently.

I'll borrow his copy.

grate.

Sniff the sweaty corduroy carrot.

gladly.

is it sweaty and odoriferous from the heat?

Have we decided that the correct way to reference a work of fiction is by underlining the title? 'Cause if that's the case, I'll have to edit all of my italicized titles in this entire thread, so's I don't look like an ignorant ass.


That's how much I cherish y'alls opinion of me.

Actually, I'm just jealous.

Goddammit!, I'm the literate one around here!!!

In fact, I'm reading Proust right now. In the original Freench.


Fuck that Terence Kilmartin fucker!!

Within a Budding Grove or Young Girls in Blossom?

No, its A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs!!!

Excuse me, A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs!!!!


Good, I think that's pedantic enough to mask my real ignorance.

I think its obvious that I fucked my professor for the A, though.

I just did it because Peeps did it
right in front of me.

I knew it!!! You've had it in for me ever since I said that Psychology degrees were for perverts!!! Way to rise above, chica! Real mature!!!

underlining it just makes me think that you've linked something.

then i click it and nothing happens.

and i start plotting how i'm going to kill you.

You've been plotting that since the day I joined.