Appendix Null
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I was inspired to start this blog because of the theme going around a lot of blogs was "Appendix N". It got me thinking about my influences. They don't all make sense but I am what I am.
The last straggler in the "Appendix N" posts came from Afraid of Encounters. Well, I can't be THAT lazy and with some encouragement from peole at the Prismatic Waystation Discord server, real life business, and procrastination I stream-of-concsioused my own Appendix Null.
This is semi-chronological. Apologies to any influences I forgot.
Kid Loitering In Used Bookstores
- Tolkien - the runes and descriptions of trees, pipeweed (foreshadowing)
- Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth - praying mantis aliens, psionics, Quetzelcoatl aliens
- Elfquest - alien elves, cool mounts, might explain bi
- Fangoria - monsters and aliens, forbidden rated R
- Thieves' World - thieves, hub city, pentagram on forehead
Kid Loitering At The Gas Station Comic Stand
- Kirby Devil Dinosaur - poor kid's Kamandi?
- Micronauts - a multiverse as they say these days
- Ninja and Mercenary magazines - shuriken and nunchaku, Rambo shit
Getting Beat Up At School
- Moorcock's Elric and Eternal Champion - drugged-out sex elves, elemental pact magic, chaos lords, multiverse, tragic anti-hero, Tanelorn
- D'Aulaires' Books of Myths - the gods as psychedelic assholes, creepy
Descrambling HBO
- Blade Runner - flying cars and Han Solo
- Alien - Giger, Ripley, Jonesy, working class, FLAME THROWERS
- The Omen - secret devil stuff, freak out check my scalp
- Amityville Horror - flies, these ghosts will kill your ass, the devil
- The Shining - scary, weird, Donner party
- E.T. - playing d&d while smoking, dominoes
- Conan the Barbarian - serpent cults, Crom, magic is evil
- Krull - boomerang named after a polearm
- Road Warrior - battle cars, gyrocopters, eating dogfood
- The Thing - body horror, FLAME THROWERS
Bored Hot Summers
- Badly dubbed Shaw Brothers films - blind fighting, you killed my master, epic facial hair
- The Young and the Restless - hugging someone while staring off into space thinking about that secret thing you're hiding from them
- Bonanza - guns, protecting your land
- Grizzly Addams - grizzly bear familiar, he wins
- Ben - giant rat familiar, he wins?
A Well-Adjusted Adult
- David Lynch Twin Peaks etc - weirdness in the mundane
- Lovecraft - read on LSD, cosmic horror as nature
- Akira - psionics, cyberpunk, body horror
- Cronenburg - body horror
- Tetsuo - man and machine, body horror
- William S Burroughs - embrace randomness, addiction, secret hidden world
- Robert Anton Wilson - conspiracies, coincidances
- Maximum Rock n Roll - the world of punk zines
- Giger - dark sexual imagery, body horror
- TAZ - self-governing communities, pirates
- Crowley - occultism as cover for fringe beliefs, rituals, willpower
- Tai Chi Master - inner power, cinematic fights
- Hard Boiled - cinematic fights, violence, overly dramatic
- Chinese Ghost Story - non-Euro/US ghosts
- Dark City - dreams, opression
- Event Horizon - horror, not the eyes