Fellow Nick Cave fans, do you subscribe to The Red Hand Files? It’s always interesting but issue #298 was especially entertaining with Nick and poet Tom Hiron discussing their look at wild gods. It’s a brief but fun peek into the minds of the artists. And it made me think of the Bukowski poem The Laughing Heart.
I don’t really have a prompt, I just wanted to recommend subscribing if you don’t already. I hope the wild gods are working for you instead of against you this Monday morning.
…wild gods…old gods…what one of terry pratchett’s books called “small gods” (which was similar-but-different to what the romans meant by it)…I like a lot of the stuff that comes up in those conversations…so…I know I’ve mentioned this before & it’s not quite the same thing…but I think it might draw from a similar well when gaiman has a character whose choice not to die is part of an ongoing bet between dream & death not unlike the one god & the devil have about job…he’s called hob gadling & the author puts the words of this toast in his mouth
…always felt like there was an interesting ambiguity in that closing sentiment?
I have not read enough Prachett. I need to remedy that. Maybe this winter.
I like that toast 🙂
Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”, I thoroughly enjoyed.
I liked the book, never saw the show.
I’ve mentioned this before: loved the book, but refused to watch the show because it was so abysmally run/produced/staffed. I didn’t want to fall in love with the first season and then watch something I care about go off a cliff.
I liked the first season a lot but then it fell off a cliff and I gave up. I very much doubt it made sense to stick to the book, and would have been a lot better if they just turned it into an episodic show without an overall plot.
I’m a subscriber now.
You’ve got a backlog of great blogs to read. Enjoy!