Fiction Reading List

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:17:42 +1000

Decided to do my own customized version of the reading list meme. The underlined are highly recommended and I have asterixed the childrens books. Probably add more as I think of them, but this will do for now.

   1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
   2. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien*
   3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
   4. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
   5. Fox Volant of Snowy Mountain - Jin Yong
   6. The Bible (well, I read Genesis, Revelations and some Psalms...more than most Christians have read I'm sure)
   7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
   8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
   9. Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Devices and Desires - P.D. James
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of William Shakespeare (not all of it)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien*
17. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
18. Diary of a Drug Fiend - Aleister Crowley
19. Journey To the West - Wu Cheng En
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Dr Thorne - Anthony Trollope
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll*
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame*
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis*
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. Forbidden Colours - Yukio Mishima
37. The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
38. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
39. Dream of Red Mansions - Cao Xuequin
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne*
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. After the Banquet - Yukio Mishima
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
45. The Odyssey - Homer
46. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
47. Portrait of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Slapstick and Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut
51. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
56. The Tennant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
57. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
60. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
62. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Sea Priestess - Dion Fortune
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (one Hardy was more than enough)
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (saving this for my old age)
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett*
74. The Once and Future King - T.H.White
75. Ulysses - James Joyce (I tried I really did...)
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransom*
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
83. She - H Rider Haggard
84. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea- Yukio Mishima
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine - Iris Murdoch
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White*
88. The Iliad - Homer
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton*
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. How Right You Are Jeeves - PG Wodehouse (all his Jeeves and Wooster books are awesome)
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams*
95. Rumpole of the Bailey - John Mortimer
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl*
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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Prince of Cups

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:52:22 +1000

Emoprince

"The moral characteristics of the person pictured in this card are subtlety, secret violence, and craft. He is intensely secret, an artist in all his ways. On the surface he appears calm and imperturbable, but this is a mask of the most intense passion. He is on the surface susceptible to external influences, but he accepts them only to transmute them to the advantage of his secret designs. He is thus completely without conscience in the ordinary sense of the word, and is therefore usually distrusted by his neighbours. They feel they do not, and can never, understand him. Thus he inspires unreasonable fear. He is in fact perfectly ruthless. He cares intensely for power, wisdom, and his own aims. He feels no responsibility to others, and although his abilities are so immense, he cannot be relied upon to work in harness."
Aleister Crowley
Book of Thoth

Going to draw this card today. This would be the perfect pose for it in fact, but I am not wasting my time drawing other peoples images anymore. Have to say though Marcy is so Prince of Cups.

Incidentally I have been researching the court cards intensively recently and I am amazed at how little they are understood and how confused people are about them. They all seem to want to impose a patriarchal nuclear family on the courts, which is so small minded and trivial. Crowley may have been a Beast, but at least he understood that human beings are far more than this. He has sown the seeds of major confusion which must be making him chortle. In a way it's a good thing, because if you do actually bother trying to properly understand them, you become quite unique. Like the Prince of Cups...

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Gargoyle - Niji Asobi DVD

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:37:54 +1000

Kiba

Gargoyle - Niji Asobi DVD
ガーゴイル
虹遊 [FCDV-3]
2008-06-23

ジェットタイガー ....JET TIGER
HALLELUYAH
ときめき ...tokimeki
極楽フルソロットル....Gokuraku Full Throttle
太陽の道 ....Taiyo no Michi
懊脳の獄 ....ou nou no goku
D-EXIT
花蝶風月 .... hana chou fuugetsu
HUNTING　DAYS
約束の地にて.... yakusoku no chi nite
人間の条件 .... ningen no jouken
人の為.... hito no tame
死ぬこととみつけたり.... shinu koto to mitsuke tari
完全な毒を要求する.... kanzen na doku o youkyuu suru
邪悪...jaku
アイコノクラズム....iconoclasm
BALLA　薔薇　VARA....balla bara vara
CRAZY　SADISM
神風ギャング団... kamikaze gang dan
ヂレンマ...dilemma
Genom
Last　Heaven

plus
JET TIGER PV

Katsuji

Finally a Gargoyle DVD, celebrating their 20th anniversary, and just look at that endless tracklist! This is such a gorgeous dvd, with beautiful sound and picture quality. Awesome value too with so many classic songs that were so exciting to watch live, and so consummately performed. I particularly loved the live of Taiyo no Michi which was my favourite song from the most recent album. There is so much energy and emotion in their performances. I'm sure I saw Kiba crying towards the end...though maybe it was just because his mascara was running into his eyes, some how I doubt it. He seems to go into a trance sometimes while performing it moves him so much. They really are the most honourable and dedicated band I have ever encountered and also one of the greatest live bands in the world.

They start the show standing motionless with masks on and Gagaku music playing, which is highly dramatic.The first half is classic outfits, Kiba all in multicoloured silk robe and feathered head dress, and the second half they wear more casual clothes. It's a very hard DVD to screencap though because they just never stop moving. Especially Jet Tiger PV which has St Vitus Dance editing. Oh well you will just have to buy it to see Kiba in a cage. And Toshis' gorgeous white suit, with peacock feather trim. Toshi is so sweeeet :D They all are.
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Mou Dame Da

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:02:16 +1000

Machida

もうだめだ　もうだめだ　私はもうだめだ

命を　光を　愛を　身体を　愛を

もうだめだ　もうだめだ　私はもうだめだ

もうだめだ　もうだめだ　私はもうだめだ

最低なんだ　最高なんだ　いま終わるんだ　もうだめだ

最高なんだ　最高なんだ　私はもう　もうだめだ

町田康「もうだめだ」

mou dame da mou dame da watashi ha mou dame da
inochi o hikari o ai o shintai o ai o
mou dame da mou dame da watashi ha mou dame da
mou dame da mou dame da watashi ha mou dame da
saitei na n da saikou na n da ima owaru n da mou dame da
saikou na n da saikou na n da watashi ha mou mou dame da
machida yasushi ' mou dame da '

It is already useless. It is already useless. I am already hopeless.
Life Light Love Body Love
It is already useless. It is already useless. I am already hopeless.
It is already useless. It is already useless. I am already hopeless.
It is the minimum. It is the highest. It finishes now.
It is already useless. it is the highest
It is the highest. me -- already --
It is already useless.

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Hiroto

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:16:40 +1000

Hiroto Koumoto

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my little leopard

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:08:47 +1000

po diem

This is the most awesome kung fu master I know of and also a pure incarnation of both Love and Death. He is only a small cat but he regularly dispatches rats more than half his size, and eats them too. He is the definition of Speed Aggression Surprise. But he is also the sweetest and most loving being on the planet. He brings joy to every human being he meets. I sometimes think my only purpose in living this life was to meet this cat. I also think his sweetness is partly due to the fact that he has his freedom. He lives as close to a natural life as is possible. And this makes him happy.

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Orchard Swallowtail Caterpillar

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:02:05 +1000

Caterpillar

This cute little fellow was munching on my Mandarin Tree.

Caterpillar2

When he gets stressed out he shoots out red tentacles and exudes a strong smell:

Caterpillar3

Nothing to fear from me though...I love the gorgeous butterflies these turn into.

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"music" station

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:16:58 +1000

No escape

hahahaha! :)

Well I did screencap the single dvd but Marcy was hiding in that...and falling asleep half the time >.>
Loved the dvd still though...so funny :D
Love the single too of course and Lets Go Uchuu. I would write some kind of review but I have decided to get started on the Blue Hearts albums instead. I do want to say that I think the harmonica in Eight Beat has a very Highland Scots feel, as in like bagpipes or something. And that is a complement.
Anyway for now i am capturing this Music Station because Marcy cannot escape my captures that easily XD even if he makes silly faces. God this is such a dreadful TV show...must be hell for them sitting through it. I can't stand this host at all, and I think Marcy feels the same.

No escape 2

but Hiroto is seemingly happy because he gets to ogle Mariah Carey @__@...or perhaps he is just trying to work out if she is real flesh and blood or made of some high tech plastic, like her "music". Probably a combination....

No escape 3

Yes I am watching you ;p
You are worth much more than this shit.
We all are.

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Mars

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:00:46 +1000

Mars

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Hirotos' heart

nobody@vox.com(flyingfox) — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:41:31 +1000

8beat

I wanted to wait until my single actually arrived before I said anything, but that won't be for a few days yet and I really couldn't keep quiet that long.
I cannot get enough of エイトビート (Eight Beat), the song of the fucking decade in my opinion! Especially that TV live, which gives me a rush from start to finish. >.> Mr Koumoto really needs to be congratulated, as he has totally and utterly outdone himself. It's all about the feeling. He is creating euphoria with sound! This song is pure love drug.
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