Friday, June 06, 2003
Yesterday was utterly lost to chaos and bullshit. Chapter Five of Murder of Angels has not been started, though I did write 746 wds. worth of notes for the chapter day before yesterday. I'm not accustomed to writing notes or outlines or suchlike, and whenever I resort to such extreme measures, it's a sure sign that the going is rough. Chapter Five introduces an important new character, the woman who was Spyder Baxter's psychiatrist, who has been willed the old house on Cullom Street, and who eventually writes a book on the disturbing events that have transpired in the house. So, in Chapter Five, the narrative suddenly shifts from third person, present tense, to a fictional non-fiction excerpt from the book she writes, which is first person, past tense. I'm re-rereading Jung, specifically his Psychology and the Occult, and John Weir Perry's Roots of Renewel in Myth and Madness, and a host of psychological, parapsychological, and anthropological papers on possible connections between schizophrenia and hauntings/psi activity.
Meanwhile, Ryan Obermeyer has finished his beautiful cover for the Subterranean Press edition of Low Red Moon and has begun work on the art for the endsheets. This is going to be a beautiful book, truly. I've probably said that already, but Ryan's cover gets me worked up every time I look at it. I just received a copy of Le Terre del Sogno: Corvie Altre Crudeltà, an Italian collection of The Dreaming #22-26, which includes all of "Unkindness of One," Peter Hogan's "My Year as a Man," and, much to my delight, my previously uncollected "Restitution." It appears that Magic Press is going to continue releasing these trade editions, so at least Italy (and those fluent in Italian) will have another chance to read The Dreaming. And I learned yesterday that I'd missed the June 1st deadline for John Pelan's Darkside 3. Apparently, in the kerfuffle, I just forgot it, which I have to say I have never, ever done before. Forgotten an anthology deadline, that is. John's very kindly holding a space for me until June 20th, so I have to get hustling on that.
Today is National Doughnut Day and I understand that Krispy Kreme is giving away free doughnuts.
Last night, Spooky and I saw The Two Towers at the Fox Theatre here in Atlanta. The Fox is one of the most beautiful surviving "movie palaces," and easily puts Hollywood's reknowned Chinese Theatre to shame. It was a joy to see TTT on a gigantic flat screen (previously, I'd seen it only on those little cineplex screens that try to pass for big by curving the screen surface and producing, in the process, all sorts of atrocious problems with focus and depth). It was almost like seeing an entirely different film. Anyway, I urge you to make time for a film at the Fox this summer, if you can. You will have many more chances. Now I go work.
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