dotinthesky | Horror Novels Will Tear Us Apart

I'm working on my horror novel. I'm listening to Joy Division and it seems like the perfect soundtrack for all kinds of writing: fiction, letters, emails, Livejournal. You name it. If I had known this yesterday, I would have listened to them while working on my CV. I dispatched it this morning to my temp agency -- they are close to getting me a job. I won`t mention what exactly until I have it - curses and all that. The job seems like a dream come true. I still don't know the catch and, frankly, I don't care. All I want is money at the moment. I'm willing to go back to monkey work.

We've been watching episodes of Twin Peaks' 1st season. We'll watch episode 4 tonight. David Lynch is love. I can deal with his form of kitsch because there's something rotten behind it. I also love his soundtracks and his juggling of the sinister and the quirky. When Kevin visited Corrego do Bom Jesus, he said it was the Brasilian equivalent of Twin Peaks. We were using a pay phone right on a dirt road somewhere between my farmhouse and the town. The pay phone had been built in front of a house and we could see a silhouette pressed against the front window's stained glass, trying to hear our conversation. Then, from down the dirt road, I saw my grand-uncle Pepe shuffling towards us. Pepe has a moustache, is about 4 and a half feet high, Spanish, bald, and hardly speaks comprehensible Portuguese eventhough he's been living in Brasil for decades. Kevin stared at Pepe in wonder as he stopped to talk to us then continued on his merry way.

I'm going to brew a cup of echinacea & raspeberry tea, pour some honey in it, then return to my homework; I need to have a section of my novel ready to present for my creative writing class on a future Saturday. I have a feeling I`m the only one writing genre fiction. Nobody understand us, paperback writers.

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Oooh... does your novel have a name yet? What is it about? Will there be lurking horrors and women in flimsy blouses with heaving bosoms?

the background on my computer is a picture i took of Snoqualmie Falls - the falls that the lodge where he gets the pie all the time sits on.

my favorite!!...rock

yeah twin peaks is still one of my favorite shows to ever air on the televin...maybe i'll pick up the box set...hmmm....WOOOO!

new order's playing tonight and i have no tickets...have you heard their new stuff yet...it's simply amazing!

david lynch is love. dark, brilliant, crazy love. i've seen almost all his films, even the early ones (i only haven't gotten through 'the straight story' and 'dune,' though that's pretty notoriously considered to not be a lynch film by his fans), and started watching twin peaks a few years ago. only problem was that i couldn't watch too many episodes because they started really freaking me out when i'd watch them (alone). i'm not a wuss with horror or suspense or stuff like that. lynch just sets appropriate moods of tension and discomfort. i've been meaning to go through them again with someone so i don't freak out so much. too bad i already know who killed laura palmer.
so i'm guessing that you're enjoying them thusfar...? is it your first time watching them?

is that your uncle who got mauled by a pig?

So horror is your genre...anything the topic is, try to include a child in it, a child with mental powers or mental problems, there is nothing that I find more terrifying (apart from my mother-in-law in shorts, that is)
I loved Twin Peaks at first...the shocking image of Laura wrapped in dirty plastic...so beautiful still. Ahh...do you know Tim Powers? his book The Stress of her regard could give you some ideas. Good luck anyway, Ollie, buena suerte.

eu estou tão ansioso pra ler.

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david lynch is amazing!!!!!!
i am not a huuuuge fan of Twin Peaks, but i love "Blue Velvet"!!

My penis' name is Pepe.

David Lynch is wonderful. I'm not one of these Lynch freaks who accept everything he does indiscriminantly, but when he hits gold, he hits higher than anyone else has ever done with me. "Twin Peaks" is maybe the only piece of television in the last 30 years genuinely worth a damn in my opinion. The last episode is still the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.

I'd love to read some of your horror novel, obviously. You already know how much I love horror books... :) No chance of a sneak preview I guess?

While I notice we're doing horror recommendations, I seem to recall ages ago
you saying you'd not read much Peter Straub beyond "Ghost Story" - do try to pick up "If You Could See Me Now" (early book with lots of angry young man style raging narrative - beautiful prose though - one of the books I keep as an example of what I'd like to, in my wildest dreams, aspire to with horror writing), "Shadowland" (complexed proto-HarryPotter-gone-wrong type affair) or "Julia" (simple little book but creeped me out like few others) if you've not already...

i love horror novels. do post a bit of it if you like...

So, by this point, I still do not know what your novel is about!! I only know is a horror novel… and that sounds great. Don’t know why genre literature is considered of low value… We have to accept that best-sellers are usually cut by the same shape, but it doesn’t mean that it can’t exist great genre literature!!! (though I’m not a great reader of it!!) Well, if you’re writing with Joy Division sure it would be a great horror movie: the scent of their music fits a lot with horror fiction!!

And yep… I LOVE TWIN PEAKS, TOO!!! The best (don’t know if you’ve arrived to that part): the dancing dwarf at the red room… glups…

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horror...really???

pay-pah-back wry-tuh

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