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Published: 2011-07-10 08:06:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 881; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 16
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aka My Bedroom 4It was high time I posted pictures of the new room that I've been living in since October. I'm still in the same house as here: [link] & [link] just in a bigger room.
It occurs to me that the black theme may have come out of long standing envy for HRG's "black room". Featured here is his "Necronom 4". There's also a poster for The Shining and parts of my movie and book collections.
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Β This! Ah, I was so proud of what I did with that room
Nearly all the shelving is made from the cardboard displays
from the stores where I'd worked and the walls and ceiling are
covered with black glossy paper or black garbage bags Β
I tried to really make it my own environment, adding
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I envy you your books; despite my inability to concentrate on any one thing long enough, books have always been a refuge for me;I love your use of black (love me a black room); love that I can peek into your brain; how active it is, how involved, how evolved. . .but where do you sleep? I don't see a bed. . .
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The bed's left out of the shot, it was in a bad state when I took these (in truth it usually is). I have trouble keeping organized and actually have some of that same difficulty doing one thing at a time (I'm reading 5 things at once). What do you like to read, my friend?
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my favorite book ever is Antoine de Ste. Exuprey's "The Little Prince"; (it was a gift to me when Β I was 15 by a boy I was intensely attached to) I was very fond of Edmund White for a while (until I met him); also fond of John Rechy, Herman Hesse, Anais Nin, Collette, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Wharton (especially "The House of Mirth"). . .stuff like that.
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They say "never meet the artist" 
I'm getting the vibe 
and everything in between.
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Sadly, all of Burrough's that I have read is "Tarzan". . Β .and I'm pretty sure he's much more famous for his Mars and Venus stories. . .on the weekends, (in the summer) there is a Lovecraft "Ghost" tour up on the East Side of Providence; I have not gone on in yet; and it's true: never meet the artist: I met Edmund White at a dinner party on Rutland Square in Boston; the press had favorably compared him to Nabodkov; he believed them. (he was rather cute, very boyish)
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Well, that's the one most people read. I vastly prefer the
Mars series myself
Oh dear, it all went right to his head, eh?
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Hehe yep, black plastic bags lining the ceiling
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oh surreal and erotic 
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That's a nice lookng pad, you got the old VHS and VHS tapes...sweet.
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Hehe yeah, VHS is dear to me since I grew up with them. I gotta
have the old media, I'm not one of those people who chucks
everything when something new comes out
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Ah ha I'm guilty as charged, I threw out all my VHS tapes, all I have left on VHS is Clive Barker's Night Breed and Space Adventure Cobra.
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Awww you lost everything! Hehe you can tell from the photos
I don't throw anything away
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I never had a huge VHS collection, but I had a lot of old VHS tapes like the old Fantastic Four cartoon with Herbie the robot. Ha ha that's a good thing you don't throw things out, they may be valuable.
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Hehe I try to keep them nice and I know other people are
just throwing them away. I actually rescued a lot of the ones
I own from the dumpster at the videostore where I worked
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I had to keep my Nightbreed VHS tape, it was my favourite horror movie in the 90's. I think these young dudes don't know what they missed with the old VHS video stores. I usec to love going to the video stores in the early 90's as a kid and renting all the horror movies. Movie stores are a thing of the past now.
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Hehe yeah, me too. We used to go to a local videoΒ
place and rent them 5 at a time, made for a nice
weekend of movie awesomeness. Yeah, internet
movie viewing just isn't the same. You don't getΒ
the cool old beat-up video cases and the trailers
for films even more esoteric than the one youΒ
rented
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Those old video store were the best, you're right the internet is not the same, I miss the old trailers as well.
Did you ever see the horror movie "Phantasm" I really like the original one, I like more atmospheric movies compared to gore.
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I just miss being able to browse for things in stores
and (!) actually finding things instead of being told
by a clerk "yeah, we can probably order that".
Hehe I love Phantasm, my sig is actually
the tagline for it under the alternate title
The Never Dead
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I had a problem with a DVD shop here, they could get any DVD but the problem was a lot of them were made for US dvd players, so I stopped buying DVD's there.
Phantasm isn't a movie I saw until just recently, It was always sitting in the shelves at the VHS store, but never picked it up. Haha I remember that movie "Re-animator" that movie was a comedy I think, even though it wasn't meant to be.
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Oh crap, they never checked which region they were
ordering? Well, working at the video store I discovered
that even DVD players of the same region have specs
that don't match up, so every DVD has some players
it can't play in and every player has at least one disc
it won't play. It's really annoying.
I enjoy it, also enjoy that director's next film Beastmaster
Well, Stuart Gordon was always going for laughs a little
bit I think. His film isn't much like the Lovecraft story
though.Β
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Yeah they were selling NTSC region 1, we have PAL region 4, It really pissed me off and I really had to try hard to get my money back for the DVD. The guy in the shop claimed it wax my fault.
I think I saw Beatmaster a long time ago, a lot of these movies I haven't seen since the 90's. One of these days I got to get around to reading Lovecraft's stories.
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That's some bad service you got there! I wish I had
a region-free player, then I could just watch anything.
I dig Lovecraft quite a bit, and his pals Robert E. Howard
and Clark Ashton Smith
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Robert E Howard wrote Conan right? did Howard ever right horror?
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Yep, and yes he wrote some horror as well. He and
Lovecraft inspired one another
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Do you like Clive Barker's writing?
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I like the little bit I've read and the films he directed
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I think Barkers stuff really appeals to me, a lot of people like Stephen King, but I have never liked King's stories.
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King's writing annoys me honestly. Some of
his books have been turned into good films,
but the filmmakers had to fix King's stories
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He writes down to many details and it takes him ages to get to the point, I just don't like his style of horror.
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Yeah, he's kind of a dick too. They keep making
his stuff into boring mini-series, just makes me
wish he'd retire.Β
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Ah he made that shit mini series "Under the Dome" that didn't last long here, they scrapped it.
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Hmmm I think I heard of that but I have no idea what it
was about. The 4 hours TV version of The Shining thatΒ
he scripted in 1997 was pure awful, it only went to
confirm that Kubrick's version was best.Β
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I saw that shit tv series of The Shinning, it was a shocker. Krubrick's Β Shinning was a classic, a very haunting movie.
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Yeah, Kubrick took King's stuff and made it brilliant,
in retaliation King took his own work and made some
crap with it
CGI hedge animals? Hmmmm....
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I never liked IT, it had the weirdest and confusing ending the clown turned in to a giant spider WTF ?
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The whole second half of "It" was just absurd. It's
kinda like "this is the best you can do"?
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I think King is very much over rated.
I'm off to bed mate, getting late, talk to you soon.
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Dude, you have no space.Β You film collection looks nice though.
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You should see my living room!
better sometimes.Β
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By better do you mean worse, haha?
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Well sometimes I go crazy trying to get it more organized
so then sometimes it looks like a bomb went off in it
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I know how that all works, haha, I do that on a weekly basis.Β It does seem you have waaaaaaaaaaay more stuff than I do so I can't even imagine trying to straighten out a mess of that magnitude.Β I'm a neat freak, so I would go bananas in your house, haha.
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