Victorian Consciousness

My art show at Idle Hand Tattoo goes up on Tuesday. The Opening is Friday the 6th, from 8pm-10pm. Check out the flier but know: THE FLIER IS WRONG!!!! THE DATES ARE WRONG! I WILL FIX IT SOON!!
Yes, I'm happy to be showing in a place where I can put up ALL art work, no matter how disturbing! I will be showing "risk it all" the lovely picture of a kid with a gun in his/her mouth that I produced in my depths of despair about America killing Afghani children (doesn't that war seem long ago? When I painted that it seemed so pointless, our stupid leaders and their flagrant and obscene disregard of the future--since kids experience war too, and they represent the future. Children are clay, and only good things should be imprinted upon their minds, if we want the human race to progress).
I am stressing out, slightly. I seem only able to take naps.
In other regards, work is good, as I now feel comfortable to be my dorky self and get all excited about book on decorative wall painting and "Victorian Consciousness" around my coworkers.

I want the book that these illustrations are from. And then I want them tattooed all over my body.
Books finished recently:
Kushiel's Avatar-the ending behemoth of the supposedly bodice-ripper (according to ORION and other literary snobs) S&M fantasy saga that I and Mykle have been reading...recommended by brother Jordan. God, that sounds bad, doesn't it? The writing is totally terrible: his hair is "like silk" or as dark as "a raven's wing", the fields are perfumed with flowers, he is "clad" in a "velvet doublet", his "phallus" parts her "nether lips" (!!!), etc. etc. BUT the heroine is strong and ass-kicking and complex and in the end it is all about real human love, even though everyone has at least three french-sounding names.
Idlewild- was O.k. It is Sci-Fi, and written by the son of Carl Sagan. I felt very detached from all the characters though, I kept having the feeling that I was watching the story through a veil. The plot is good, if the author had cared to embellish it the story could have been three times as long. There was a lot of meaty stuff to work with that I think just got passed over.
Now Reading: The Summer Country by Jame Hetley (NOT Hetfield, that's the lead singer for Metallica, you metalheads!)
Charles DeLint liked it, and he says so on the cover. That makes sense, cause it is sort of like Charles DeLint: the plot deals with the intersection of the old world of fairy and the modern world of bad childhoods and traffic jams. I like things like this, probably due to my childhood fixation with wanting to discover that I am actually an elfin princess with magical powers who can walk between worlds and ride on unicorns. Therefore, reading Charles DeLint seems to be to be somewhat masturbatory. It's like too much Kai-childhood wish fullfillment going on. I wish I had discovered him 15 years ago. That said, so far, this book rules. It is gritty and has sex and swearing in it, as well as evil fairy lords and Pendragons and bone-crunchy violence. Along the lines of American Gods. It might be better than Charles DeLint, in fact, cause it's not so twee.

It's obvious that I am on a fantasy/sci-fi kick right now. I feel safe with it. I SHOULD read "Chiva" and "We regret to Inform you that tommorow we will be killed with our families", but so far I'm a bit scared. So it's either Victorian Consciouness (god, I love that phrase) e.g. "Possession" and "My Blue Notebook" (I am reading this soon-the diary of a famed fin de'siecle courtesan) or Fantasy.
Mayhap I shall return anon