As found on Blabbermouth somewhere he even has his own couture-collection with some freaky designer, so everything should be possible

He's a pretty skilled painter actually. Vice (the magazine) & Peter Beste did a five-piece documentary with Gaahl at his house, where you see a lot of his work. Search for the given names at youtube (Gaahl, Beste, Vice, black metal) and you should come up with something.

And yeah, he's engaged in creating a collection based in some aspect of Norse mythology/magic. Such an aesthetic man! Will be very interesting to see where that ends.

Thank you both! I've watched two of the 5 you're talking about.. but I'm tired, maybe some day of the forthcoming weeks, if I have time and the wish to go over these clips again... meaning I'll have to keep an eye on them just for the appearance of these pictures, I suppose they are not a direct subject for the camera's attention, and if that's the case I'll have to look behind the people the camera focuses on, is that right?

Thanks once again!

I read Auster, I'm fed up with his machinations, but I still like what he has become... I think he's obssessed with the role of accidents when it comes to comprehending the nature of our lives as destiny. I think he lets the book write itself and somehow interweaves this whole mess of perspectives: reality (autobiography, real and fictituous works of art) and different plots... he writes books in a book which reaches out for his actual position of simply being a man with a fate that maybe consists of chaos and a calling. Auster tends to make huge diversions retelling whole lifelines with the voice of his primal hero subdued. I prefer it otherwise, like Miller does it - he does not enumerate facts.. we see his vision of facts which a poetic vision, that is the way we come closer to a human being...

I have a soft spot for Auster. Don't know why. I'm reading "Man in the Dark" at the moment. Read "Transcriptions from the Scriptorium" (or what it is called) this summer. Have though not read the major part of his bibliography. But there's something about him I enjoy.

Read Cormac McCarthy's The Road some month ago. That was a bleak one. And Herman Hesse's Siddharta. Magnificent books both of them.

Its kinda rare that I get into literature nowadays - too much to read already at university. But the last writer I got into is Bruno Schulz. Its really something special and experimental.

http://www.brunoschulzart.org/

nice page, Olivier, very pro-reader organised and welcoming colours too

aVoid, so far I'm looking forward to "The Road" being published here. Bulgaria hardly has a couple of full-blooded readers...

Hey man, whats wrong about being Bulgarian? We're more gifted at birth... Are you racist against your own blood? Maybe this is a very naive question since I don't know what's going on in your country.

And yeah you're right, its the same for me when it comes to literature: I want to feel something. Cause reading science and philosophy books all the time for university is not something you do for the feeling of it. So fuck those intellectual writers, I need "more" than that when I read for the pleasure of it! For me its like listening to music, it has to be experimental and beyond reason.

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both by david micthell both awesome and poignant and with a world scopic style...........

jorge louis borges - labyrinths (collection of tales and essays)...some insane stuff in there...really weird..touches of a philosphical lovecraft

re-read arkham asylum--still the dark epitome of super hero comix

finishing the john le carre smiley trilogy.....spy fiction perfection....dark,funny non-judgemental and very accurate

Finished Olaf Stapledon's marvellous "Star Maker" from 1937, strange and epic and philosophical science fiction describing the history and purpose of all of cosmos and it's multitude of inhabitants. Very fascinating life-forms he conjures; thinking nebulas and stuff. And what I like the most about it is how extremely small and irrelevant he says mankind & earth is; as expandable as one braincell in a whole human mind. A must-read for anyone into any kind of science fiction.

Afterwards I picked up the second scroll of "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe, "The Claw of the Conciliator". Surrealistic and dark fantasy set in a hideously distant future where the sun is dying and mankind has receded from being a starfaring interstellar race into a brutal medieval... race. Dream merges with reality, and everything is strange and unknown; no hobbits or elves! But a lot of strange animals brought back from distant galaxies, now forgotten in deep dark woods. Wonderful. And strange.

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

nice one...

yeah, ty - that sounds awesome!

And it is, very strong book. Little bit experimental, but nothing really dangerous.

Going to buy Book of Longing, poems also used by Philip Glass.

Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park

Ellis-hero summarizes the plot of a new novel he's configurated to be both the salesman's and the idea of a modern writer fix ... strewn with about a hundred sex sceenes, some quantity of drugs, alchohol and charming innocence. Having scruples about this - I feel awkward about the theme of sex, - I read it like a masochist's soft dope. Accepting the fluent quality of my shame, complexes and prevalent voyeurish existence, Bret's book makes no sense.

Ellis´ "American Psycho" was much more awkward and disturbing. Though I still feel the excessive descriptions of Bateman´s brutality would not have been necessary, the book in itself made very much sense.