A Blog To Pass The Time

Boredom is a funny thing. It's also a valuable thing. It's a motivator, leads you to discovery.

One of my favourite performers of all time, Leadbelly, is a man I have a great deal of respect for. Even if he was infamous for his actions. Stabbing. Sung his way out of prison though. Twice if I remember rightly. Talent, you might say.

Back to the point, boredom led me to find this, hardly his most chilling work, give it a look through the keyhole though. Pretty rare to actually see a video of him, enigmatic.



I hear fireworks right now, led me to remember something. Staralfur by Sigur Ros, is that fireworks in the mid section? Look at this, can't recommend Blogotheque enough.




Danielewski - House Of Leaves, read it. Post-modern as fuck but incredibly creative and terrifying. Brooding and sexy too. That's a tale for another day mind. Anything that can get some Dante in has my approval though. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate.

"No matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then, for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got, not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name. And then the nightmares will begin."

Danielewskis sister performs under the pseudonym Poe. She released an album that interlinks with House Of Leaves, Haunted. Quality varies throughout but some of the soundscapes are haunting, as the title suggests. She uses a lot of samples of her recently deceased fathers voice, eerie to say the least..

This sound collage gave me shivers the first time I heard it. In my room in pitch black one night late at night. Based on House Of Leaves it was always going to. You must watch this. Art in it's most primordial fearful state.



That is all.