Poetic Justice

In the viral marketing that went around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I was a player. I got mine watching over objections of "Isn't that a little girls show and their relationships?" Um, yes, that's part of it. Don't a bunch of dudes turn into vampires and have to get dusted by the babish Buffy and her varying squad of assistants? Uh, yeah, and it's funny and deadly serious at the same time. Brilliant show befors the last two seasons. Marti Noxon made it into a soft porn wannabe crossing over with something like Dawson's Creek. It was disgusting at the end but the point is I got a lot of people to watch that bloody show. Why can't I get you on to James Lee Burke?

I'm reading his new one and it comes with pain. First of all I can only read ten pages or so at a time. It's just so good I can't handle the overload. I need some downwriting, paddign placed between the good scenes.

There's a definition of poetry floating around out the that I can't quite get to in my mind. I'm on ambien and suspect I'm crawling into the behavior we won't remember in the morning phase. Something sure the hell is hiknking my typing. Anyway, the quote said sometihg about how good writing uses perfect wrods in just the write situations. But in poetry you use just perfect words.

Burke writes poetry. His descriptions are evocative, they are beautuifl, they areattainments. He writes perjaps the finest genre novels out there, with each book driving forth the trumeting cause, the flood lights to heaven marking the site of the books beautiful things.

Burke's books are to be cherished. Read "Neon Rain", "Into 'The Electirc Mist with the Confedrate Dead", or "Jolie Blon's Bounce.' The books are poetry becasuse they are written with the perfect words. He's brilliant, his books are are, and they will maintain. Most of all he makes me aspire to things as a reader, as a writer, and as fan, someone who can sop up the biscuits that are steaming out of his books.

If you trusted me on Buffy and Farscape and Zelazny's "Lord of Light" or his first Amber series then for gods sake go pick up the Neon Rain. Get familiar with "Electric Mists" because they're making a move of it with Tommy Lee Jones. Check out the Alec Baldwin turn in "Heaven's Prisoners." It's a bit off but it will give a taste of the books., hopefully make you want to read them

I'll be reading mine again and again. Tomorrow, though, I'll have to try to read this. I need to sleep before the crazy behaviour kicks in. It's already even odds I won't remembe doing this.