Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

This is something I do a lot, obviously; Stephen King is my favorite author, no matter how much I question that every time I read a Clive Barker book. But I'm re-reading IT right now, for about the millionth time I guess, and man--maybe it's just because the book's over a thousand pages long, but it feels different this time, almost? I'm noticing different things, that's it. And I know this happened when I re-read The Stand earlier this year, too. I noticed different things. With that one, it had been longer since I'd read it, and they were bigger things I was noticing; character things. For this one, it's little paragraphs, details that I didn't pay attention to before. I even started bawling at around page 500, which is not my normal IT-crying-time. Also, my copy I'm reading this time around, which is new-ish (new to me, but I got it off of e-bay to replace my nice hardcover I lent someone and never got back) has a fun amount of typos, which I...

Reading: Shadowcaster by Cinda Williams Chima--sequel to Flamecaster, which is a sequel series to the Seven Realms series, which I read in high school and really loved. Gotta say, even though I'm not a huge fantasy person, I'm really digging this one, I think more than the first. I really like every single POV in this one, which is saying something. IT by Stephen King--just let me have this, please. Re-read. Love it. Almost cried about seven times already. Writing: For warm-up and cool-down I do some on my fallback projects, but mostly I'm focusing on my WM3 project, which was last year's NaNo. Doing a clean re-write, so that's fun. School has been getting in the way, though. Listening: "Metal Health" by Quiet Riot-- in my Walkman right now. Unironically one of my favorite tapes, I don't give a shit, it pumps me up like nothing else. "Girls Girls Girls" by Motley Crue-- on-deck. My least favorite of the Crue albums I have but I sti...

The System: As Uncovered by The San Francisco Graft Prosecution by Franklin Hichborn (copyright, 1915) first line: "A tethered bull does not know that he is tied until he attempts to go beyond the rope's limits." Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America by Bernard Rosenberg & David Manning White (copyright, 1957) first line: "This book is the result of a need for such a collection which both editors personally experienced in trying to teach courses where no traditional source books were available." Horror!: 333 Films to Scare You To Death by James Marriott & Kim Newman (copyright, 2006) first line: "This book contains 333 film reviews, listed in chronological order." North Korea Today by Robert A. Scalapino (copyright, 1963) first line: "If one were to believe the official histories written in North Korea during the past few years, political developments in North Korea after 1945 and even the entire history of the Ko...

Notre-Dame de Paris burned yesterday. It's out now, but it's something that doesn't still really feel real. I mean, I have no claim to the building or anything. I'm not French, I'm not religious, and I've never even seen it outside of pictures. But it was... The structure and two of the towers are safe. If I'm right, and don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure most if not all of the statues were removed prior to the fire starting for some repairs, so they're fine. But the stained glass is gone. And the spire fell. Video footage of that spire falling is the first thing I saw about the fire, and it's--like I said, it doesn't seem real. This is like--it's like the White House burning down, it's like Buckingham Palace burning down. And I guess it didn't really 'burn down' but it's been gutted. One thing that France has really had for a long long time is being this cultural center, and part of that was Notre-D...

Monday, it was sixty degrees. Everyone's out in t-shirts, shorts, tanktops. It's spring, man, allergies in full-force. Most of the snow is gone. We got thirty inches (or more, I might be remembering wrong) in February but it's been warm enough that it's gone-- Oh, what did you say? Winter storm watch? Nine inches of snow? God damn it, North Dakota.

I'm not going to just put, "all the time" and close out, even though I considered it for the humor if it alone. but yeah, "all the time." No, I'm talking more about like, the right time in your life to read a Stephen King book. And I'm not talking, when can I let my kid read Stephen King (for reference, my parents handed me The Stand on my twelfth birthday and I turned out OK). I'm talking, boy's written a lot of books, when do I read what what. What made me think of this is I'm reading a Stephen King book for the first time right now. This doesn't happen too often anymore; I'm a little bit behind on his new releases but overall, what I have left is: Duma Key, Gerald's Game, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties, From a Buick 8, Elevation. The one I'm reading right now is Blaze.  Fuck, man, I had to look up the list of Stephen King books to make that list of ones I haven't read, and I thought it was longer than that, excus...

Maybe my caffeine consumption isn't what one should call 'massive', but it kind of is, I mean, kind of. I used to be really good at only having one cup of coffee a day, I'd have one right in the morning, it was a good thing. Then it turned to two. Then three. Then however many I can fit in the day. Lately I've had two days where I've maybe overdone it, and let me tell you--very high difference in caffeine highs. If you don't eat, it's like "w...o...a...h can't really stand because i am very lightheaded what the fuck". If you do it, it's like "WOAH LET'S GO FUCK YEAH". The first time was because I drank four cups rapid-fire, and the only thing I ate was a pack of ramen noodles, and the coffee won. The second time was because I'd eaten that day, and I'd already had a couple of cups that day, but I was wandering around drinking a gas station cappuccino and then "Kickstart My Heart" came on and I was forc...

Let's get this straight--when it comes to Nikki Sixx, the band that I see with more nostalgia is Sixx:A.M., because that's a fucking phenomenal band and also I was born in 1997 so time-wise it just worked better for me than Motley Crue. Though, as I've learned from listening to their greatest hits CD, every song that I had filed under 'stereotypical rock song' was by Motley Crue . I've spent the last couple of days going: "Too Young To Fall in Love" is by them? "Wild Side" is them? The version of "Smokin in the Boys Room" that I know is them? But anyway, I don't know that much about the band. Sure, I have the fuckin "Dr Feelgood" tape, and my radio station used to play Nikki Sixx's show at night (now we do Alice Cooper), but since I saw the trailer for the new movie, based on their combo-memoir, I knew it was literally the only musician biopic coming out that I had any interest in seeing. But I don't have N...