A quick note before bed....

[oneirophrenia]

Let me tell you, driving home from Pittsburgh on big, ol' empty Route 43 at 1:30 am on a Sunday night, listening to Oneiroid Psychosis' Dreams (With Pollutions When Virile) is a seriously, seriously creepy experience. Lone car...middle of the night...middle of the nowhere, surrounded in the dark beyond the acrid halogen streetlamps by all manner of sparkly lights and random stars...listening to an 8-minute song that ends on the note "You're starting to die, and so am I"...CREEPY. Period.

Much to tell, later...but that's all I've the energy to scribble out before my forehead hits the keyboard and cartoon Z's begin to bubble up about my head.

Comments

[jdecay.livejournal.com]

It was great seeing you last night, Pegritz. Dreams is an absolutely brilliant piece of work by OP. I dig all their albums, but each album has been a great step forward. And it sounds like quite the atmospheric moment to have.

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[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Great seeing you, too, brother. I've found a great deal of Oneiroid Psychosis has been filtering into my own musical compositions, lately, especially the third part of the "Subterranean Passage" trilogy--the ambient EPs, Not much longer now..., A special place prepared for you in hell, and the concluding elements (which I'm currently sort of half-assed working on), Please inform next of kin--which is starting to slowly evolve into a more structured piece of work: still depressing as hell, still morbidly ambient and dreary as a February evening in Seattle, but a little bit less amorphous and more structured. Heh. I might even add some vocals, but then I'll probably just sound like a wanna-be Decay, and we can't have that! I ain't about to be bitin' on none of my homies' styles. :)

[ex-wolff493.livejournal.com]

I need some heeeelp.

1. By any off chance would you know of any criticism about HP Lovecraft, the Lovecraft circle, Arthur Machen, or Algernon Blackwood? I have to start doing research for my honors thesis, and I'm not sure how good of an advisor I'm going to have, so I need as much help as possible!

2. I asked you ages ago if you would at all be interested in doing an interview for my horror zine, www.livingdeadgirls.com. How bout it?

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[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

1) I have TONS of criticism on all of the above. Over the next few days, I will glance through it and see if I can find any particularly apropos works that you could benefit from--but one immediately comes to mind: _H. P. Lovecraft: Six Decades of Criticism_, edited by standard HPL scholar S. T. Joshi. A wonderful work that compiles almost every one of the most seminal pieces dealing with Lovecraft and his inspirations, including Fritz Leiber's excellent piece, "A Literary Copernicus"--which alone would be a great help to you in that it delineates a great deal of Lovecraft's inspirations and the like. Also, DEFINITELY see HPL's own _Supernatural Horror in Literature_, which is quite literally the Man Himself's very own accounting of many of his favorite stories in the context of a history of "weird" or supernatural fiction. Most excellent.

2) Send me and the other Nyarlathotep cronies some questions and we'll get right on it!

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[ex-wolff493.livejournal.com]

Wow. You are my HERO! Whenever you have some spare time, would you mind listing some of the other criticism? I'll check out those books right away, and have you heard anything about the -Lovecraft Studies- journal?
Maybe I'll just send you my "thesis prospectus" so you know what I'm looking for, if that isn't a problem.
Yay! I'm so glad there is actually Lovecraftian stuff out there! *dances with glee*
I'll email you the interview questions in a few days. Thanks!