Writer's Block: What's been seen can’t be unseen

I realise how unpopular this is going to make me, lol, I dealt with being ridiculed for it as a kid, too...But my least favourite movie (or a movie that's high on the dislike list) has to be, unequivocally, The Neverending Story. There, I said it. I hated that damn kid more than anything in that movie, lol, and -- as the name suggests -- the dashed thing just goes on and freakin' on. Not cool.

I can't believe that I just went on a rant about a kids' movie. 

Anywho.

I've just returned from a trip to the city (not much of a trip now that we live only a handful of train stations away) to get some books with the gift card my grandfather sent me for my birthday, check out Sugar Fix (where I bought some Twizzlers and Fritos. Yum) and have lunch (just a sandwich, lol). I also bought, completely by accident, the movie Shine on DVD. It's based on David Helfgott's story (he's the concert pianist with schizophrenia and is played by Geoffrey Rush in the movie). Did you know that Helfgott worked on the Neon Ballroom album with Silverchair? Bet you didn't.

But yes, books, most importantly of all. I've been on kind of a book binge lately and I doubt that I'll have time to read them all, but it's been pretty cool so far. During my exams I bought Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (read Kaddish if you get a chance. It's beautiful) and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath which I haven't finished yet. I'd forgotten how incredibly well she wrote...She wrote like someone who was a complete raw nerve, too open, slightly odd and almost compulsively. Brilliant.

Of course, that wasn't enough. For my birthday I got a Visa debit card and felt -- as per usual - - that it would be best spent on things to read. I headed on over to my new favourite book-buying site www.bookdepository.com and ordered me up three new books: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I've read Beloved (also by Toni Morrison) which was just incredible, so you all should read it too. I ordered A Prayer for Owen Meany  by the slightly mad John Irving (of Garp fame) and then, on a whim and because I realised that I know nothing about the subject, Physics for Dummies. Yes, it's condensed and simplified (for dummies, you know) but I dig the way those books are written.

So, onto today where I bought two books. Only two, lol. One is The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (of whose books I have many) and the other is one I read a review of in the paper a couple of weeks ago. It's called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by a dude named James Frey. It's about the Messiah living in the modern world, in NYC of all places.  Frey is the guy who claimed that his book A Million Little Pieces was a memoir even though he fabricated enormous chunks of it. Lol, he was on Oprah where she tore him a new one for being dishonest. In spite of this, though, and a little bit because of it, I'm interested to see how this new book pans out.

So, so rambly. My bad. Coherent thought is not a strong point right now, lol.

Hoping you all are well xx

EDIT P.S. I forgot to mention the three other books I bought the other day when I get my new desk from Ikea (God, I love Ikea). One is The Stand by Stephen King. I bought it because I love him and the book is more than 1000 pages long. I got The Pigeon by a dude named Patrick Süskind. It's a novella that plays out kind of like Poe's Raven. And the last book is my favourite, I think, is The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester. This one's about Dr. W.C. Minor, an American former surgeon and Army Captain who became one of the greatest contributors to the OED...From the homely environs of Broadmoor Lunatic Asylum.