Daniel Johnston's been hospitalised for what appears to be poisoning from the medicine that's allowed him to be so productive recently.
(Pic nicked from here.)
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Of course I had to email the article link to my husband right away. Big Johnston fan as well as Jad, and crazy ole Roky Erickson.
As soon as I showed her this, Rose said, 'They're our parallel couple in New York.'
'Parallel couple' -- this sounds almost like the DC universe with all its parallel worlds....
I've got a plan for an alternative world science fiction time travel novel where the mythical southern continent actually exists.
On a related note, I'd like to meet some of my alternate selves. Be interesting to compare notes (though it'd probably all end in fisticuffs).
Good stuff, David :-) You are serious, right? About planning to write a novel, I mean...
I agree -- it would be mighty interesting to bump into an alternative self. Imagine that...
Meeting a range of them would be the go I reckon. There's lots of different ways we could've each turned out - sum of our experiences and all that.
You mean the great NZ sf novel I've been planning since I was 12 (which, incidentally, was when I discovered 'Flow my tears, the policeman said' by Philip K Dick on my mother's bookshelf - and the inherent possibilities of the form (especially expressed in this case by a fascist US police state, incest, and a digressionary mescaline trip) completely blew my mind)? The plot details and characters have got a lot more specific and refined recently, but I decided against being a writer cos it was going nowhere but I had all these ideas about what paintings should be but couldn't find any anywhere. Anyway, unless you do it for a job, writing books is an old person's business. I've been seriously toying with the idea of starting actually writing it though - but I've got a fair whack on my plate as it is what with the job and the painting and all.
I'm all about the time travel David-did you know that is why I looked at your blog in the first place. Very interesting!
I told my husband this too, and he thought it was true as well, and maybe a little scary. Same couple different places, oppsite sides of the planet.
No, I didn't know that, though I did spot it on your profile and thought ha ha. Funny, eh? Uncanny even.
I might try to work up an outline of the current plan and stick it up sometime (though painting commitments take priority of course). It has a slightly alternate version of me as the main character (yeah, yeah, shameless, but there's a detective novel precedent).
Have you seen the new Doctor Who? You would've seen the classic old stuff, eh? Particularly the Tom Baker ones?
Oh yeah-I always thought it was something I shouldn't have been watching, but I was so intrigued, and somehow all wrapped up in that wooly scarf. Who knew...?
Why shouldn't you've been watching?
Doctor Who's great. I even liked the new ones, especially the existentialist Dalek.
Ummm.. somewhat latterly.. David, remind me to lend you a copy of the Teenage Fanclub / Jad Fair album sometime..... beauuuwtiful.
'Words of wisdom and hope'? Got my own copy. It's not too shabby at all, is it?
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