Shores of Night

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture. Jhonen Vasquez Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jhonenvasq348409.html?src=t_goth

Today's 5 is about western animated series I like. I've loved animation for ages, I actually prefer it to live action. Batman the Animated Series Cool and stylised, the 1990s Batman drew on Tim Burton's movies and expanded on the ideas that he had established. It proved to be the founding series of what went on to be what might be seen as the most accessible version of the DC universe. Duckula A blast from my childhood, Duckula was a fun cartoon from the people who made Danger Mouse. Featuring a vegetarian vampire duck, who had a castle that could travel anywhere and who spent a fair amount of time dodging the machinations of the vampire hunter Von Goosewing. Oban Star Racers When an invading alien army is stopped by a mysterious intervention, humanity is baffled by the circumstances, the news that a great race to determine the fate of the galaxy will take place. The story follows a young girl who bluffs her way into the team from Earth, trying to get ...

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful. Vik Muniz Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vikmuniz627876.html?src=t_pointless

It's late, and I cannot sleep. My thoughts are haunting me, something's opened my Pandora's Box of bad shit, the stuff I try to keep locked up and can't. So I'm assuaged by thoughts about how useless, and ugly, and stupid I am. I pretty much have those all the time, of course, I guess we all do, it's just that I learnt to listen to mine, and to take them seriously, and it doesn't matter if I wrote a good review of a book I read for a friend, or got the cat's medicine. Those are mistakes, accidents... This fucked up, stupid man who can't look at himself in the mirror and hates having his photo taken is the real deal... the real side of me (why do you think I put a cartoon picture of Galactus up on here and not an actual photo of me?). Or at least that's what the thoughts tell me, and like a fool, I listen to them. Even though I know I'm just compounding my error, that's what I do... it's what I've always done, even though it mean...

The third Captain America film, and arguably the true end of Phase Two, Civil War takes the simmering backdrop of political disapproval that's been part of the MCU since the first Avengers film and puts it centre stage. The film opens with a disaster in Lagos, which serves as a kicker to the events of the movie, and to the MCU's expansion into new territory, bringing the mysterious kingdom of Wakanda into focus for the first time (after only being mentioned as the source of Vibranium in Age of Ultron), and lets events expand from there. As the team is confronted with the collateral damage that their actions have caused, it is, oddly, Tony Stark who takes up the cause for greater control, completing the arc from self-absorbed millionaire playboy to, um, self-absorbed, but guilty, millionaire playboy, who'll do whatever he can to keep things going. He very much plays the role of 'the pragmatist' in this film, but his role jars when you consider that this is the m...

Five Friday Favourites is back, with five songs from the 1990s that I loved. I started the decade as an Indie kid, loving the energy of that scene, if it can be described that way, really it was just pop music. It felt very different to the music of the 1980s though, perhaps inheriting some of the spirit of Goth. It's been said that when Goth vanished underground, the Metal scene adopted the look and the Indie scene the spirit of what was going on, I don't  know how true that is, after all I've always been a bit on the 'ostrogoth' sides of things, hiding away to read rather than going out to do stuff. I do know that in many ways the music to now is more cheeful than some of the Indie I listened to back then. Kingmaker: Queen Jane Radiohead: Creep  Manic Street Preachers: Spectators of Suicide Levellers: This Garden The Wonder Stuff: The Size of a Cow

It looks as if Fantasy series have become the new Pokemon, for TV execs at least, as Wheel of Time has been picked up for the adaptation treatment. I assume that whoever is producing it have a long haul plan in mind, given the length of the late Robert Jordan's opus. With Game of Thrones, Shannara, and now Wheel of Time resplendent on the small screen, it really does feel as if everyone is scrambling to pick up this sort of thing. Given that's the case it thought I 'd throw out some of the series I'd like to see adapted for the screen, and say why I think they'd work. Split Worlds : Emma Newman's tale of love, duty, and faerie set in the Nether, a backstage area of reality that lies between the human world and the alien world of Faerie. Here, human families pledged to  Faerie Princes live long lives, perhaps overly long, and the world of yesteryear with its prejudices and paranoia flourishes. Despite the nature of the setting, the story is about women's ...