Thanks Toot I am going to have to see about getting a copy of that book.
Talk about taking matters into your own hands [shocked]
In 2000, he attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole. The expedition failed when his sleds fell through weak ice and Fiennes was forced to pull them out by hand. He sustained severe frostbite to the tips of all the fingers on his left hand, forcing him to abandon the attempt. On returning home, his surgeon insisted the necrotic fingertips be retained for several months (to allow regrowth of the remaining healthy tissue) before amputation. Impatient at the pain the dying fingertips caused, Fiennes removed them himself (in his garden shed) with a fretsaw which didn’t work so he picked up a Black & Decker in the “village” with a micro blade and cut them off just above where the blood & the soreness was.
Impatient at the pain the dying fingertips caused, Fiennes removed them himself (in his garden shed) with a fretsaw which didn’t work so he picked up a Black & Decker in the “village” with a micro blade and cut them off just above where the blood & the soreness was.
Fucking hell…that’s some straight up Bruce Campbell Evil Dead shit right there!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
It’s an awesome book. Makes you feel lazy but at the same time happy to be in a nice warm comfortable home lounging around like a bloated lizard!
Dune bored me almost to death, I love the Lynch movie, but the book is a bit like lord of the rings, 3 quarters in and “Arrrrgghh, if something doesn’t happen soon I’m gonna…” Book Down Forever
Just started reading “The Spiders of Allah” which is by some cynical atheist who is in the Middle East trying to understand religious violence.
Also a book from 1980 about Soviet military tech, it tells me that those cursed Soviets have the will and means to destroy the world 10 times over. Lots of pictures!
dune bored me as well. dry. not a big fan of dry.
lolita never bores. the movie by kubrick is required viewing. especially with peter sellers playing the perv.
for you kubrick fans out there, read the book. it’s the closest any director has come to the original text.
saw the exorcist in a theater in chicago whilst sporting a 102 fever.and then saw the movie, and close to the agony, but not quite.
but still. the scariest fucking thing i’d ever seen.
Read ‘Lolita’ regardless of Kubrick affiliation. Despite the frequent discomfort of subject matter and that you’re basically reading it through the eyes of a deranged pervert,(and not to fan the dying embers of the cold war but it took a Russian to write it) it is the most beautiful American novel ever written.
It’s a book that brings such great satisfaction as well as misery to writers as it is a joy to read but you know you’ll never write anything as good.
Reading the short James Cameron interview in Maxim Magazine. Also looking for a book called Gateway by Fredrick Pohl, hear its a sci-fi favorite among many.
“shark”. dean crawford. a book about human relations with the beast. pretty good so far. was a christmas present from a friend in edinburgh.
Thanks ed, I’ll have to get that one off of Amazon for sure. Sharks and rays are a big interest of mine so I try to keep updated on the literature surrounding them. I have a Megalodon tooth in my collection bigger than a fist.
“Sex & Rockets” for the second time. Great bio of Jack Parsons, pioneering rocket scientist by day (there’s a crater on the moon named after him due to his work), gonzo sex magician/anti-christ by night. I’m not even to the part where he meets up with L. Ron Hubbard, who works with Parsons on magic then takes off with his wife and his money.
Just finished “Please Kill Me” by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain. Pretty much anecdotes, and interviews by all the major and minor players of the early NY punk scene. Insightful and somewhat depressing.