Battery Life

I’m in Chico right now. Staying at Steven’s brother’s house. The studio at Chris’ fell through sadly, so we are staying here for the night. Most of the people in the town have really made me feel like I was in some kind of movie. This place is a tiny magical little city, I think. I’m enjoying it immensely and there is a lot to do on every corner. Its secluded, and mostly forgotten about, it seems. There wouldn’t be as much going on if it weren’t for the College so close. Maybe this is how I wish Santa Clara could be.

I saw some great live Jazz music tonight, and I got a glance of the night life in the area. For the most part, I can see why Steven loves this place so much.

For me, its been nice to not have to worry about anything going on, or to have to think about my next step. I can honestly say that for the first time in a long time, I’ve felt like I have actually relaxed for once. My hope is that I can ask Steven if I can come back to Chico with him more often. Its far enough away that I don’t have to worry about what is being thrown on my schedule or what I’ll need to do for the next night.

We’ll see what we can do tomorrow, and I’m hoping that most of the people we meet end up being friends. We’ve met so many interesting people already that I wouldn’t want to pass up on another character to add to our troupe of wierdos. And trust me, there are not a lot of people as far out there as we are. Maybe that’s just wankery talking, but I honestly believe it sometimes. The greatest part about being on the road sometimes if the simple fact that is can easily slip into feeling like a movie. When you get into this strange cycle that can be life, you easily forget the exciting bits, and the tiny things that make life different.  You start to notice different things when you’re in a van, quickly seeing the majority of the coast line, or far off cities that have strange names.

I am blessed I think.

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For a long, long time now, I have been an immense H.P. Lovecraft fan.

I could go on forever about why , and how I love the guy’s writings, but I’ll just leave it at “One of my favorite authors”.

Reading isn’t really the mainstream media of fear at the moment. At one point in history Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” was the equivalent of watching Psycho in HD at the Imax theatre. Rarely do I get scared reading, and when I do, I know I’ve found a nugget of gold.

One such H.P. Lovecraft story, did just that; scared me. I was in Senior year of Highschool, staying up late reading instead of sleeping or doing homework, and I started out the night by reading H.P. Lovecraft. One story to the next. It wasn’t til about 1:30 am that I started reading “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Each page drew me deeper, and deeper into a story that honestly terrified me. Finally, as I reached the last page, and set the book down after finishin, I sat in bed for a little while hoping that the ever watching Fungi from Yuggoth were not outside MY window trying to get in.

Fastword to now, and my amazement that the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society of www.cthulhulives.org fame, have begun to film a movie adaptation of the story “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Woot!

You honestly can’t go wrong with these guys. Who better to guard the virgin sanctity of Lovecraft than Horror-obsessed club nerds who grew up to start their own Society.

Here is the Trailer. Please check it out: (Note - The movie is being produced as though it were filmed in the 30-40’s to keep the Ye Olde Tyme feel of Lovecraft’s stories)

http://www.cthulhulives.org/Whisperer/trailer.html

-Nik

Well..I’ve given up. The Picture thing wasn’t doing it for me anymore. Not to say I won’t post some pictures every now and then, but sometimes you just gotta scream from the preverbial roof top.

And besides, there is too much interesting business going on for me to just post pictures.

-N