Fucking books featuring fucking vampires
First you came for the television. Anything with a modicum of wit or intelligence disappeared from view to be replaced with whatever the lowest common denominator has decided what passes for 'reality' these days.

Occasionally something fresh does pop its head above the parapet, only to be die a quick death as those in charge do not think that our beloved LCD will 'get' it. Sob. Dries eyes.

But I didn't mind too much, for television was not my favourite. Besides, I could always retreat into music.

Then they came for the music.

I don't think that it is because I'm getting old, as I can still find music that I love. But my oh my does it take some finding. Gone are the days when I could hear a song on the radio and want to hear more. Instead I hear generic 'RnB', washed through so many levels of computer processing that I cannot help but wonder if the Bitmap Brothers moved into music production once they finished 'The Chaos Engine'. When it launched iTunes became the refuge of the legal downloader. The top ten sales were made up of great tunes, and a listen to the previews would result in giant games of music tag following along the chain of contempories. Then the LCD found iTunes and now their charts are as bland as the airwaves.

But at least I have my books.

Oh no. Not my last refuge. How can you find me here?

My local bookshops previously a place where I could spend a lunch hour reading the jackets and making a list longer then Santa of authors that I would have to investigate further. Now reduced to a facade of diet plans, ghost written autobiographies (rather appropriate really) of the same non-enties that have infested the airwaves and now on every shelf, of every best seller list and seemingly seemingly shoehorned into every genre - the romantic vampire.

Is it the kind misunderstood vampire that secretly wishes to be a vegitarian? It is the 1,000 year old lord of the vampires seeking his bride? It it the lonely teenage vampire that only wishes for some filly to play with his stake? I don't know, but they now seem to be everywhere and someone must be buying this.

Of course where the literary world goes Hollywood will soon be along to pillage and re-imagine. I guess soon I won't be able to find a decent film amongst the dreamy vampire flicks. What's that you say? Twilight is a film and the LCD's have flocked to it?.... Well shit.
( Kovacs Slogan free since 2003, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 21:43, Reply)