Yesterday I tried to be asleep a little learlier... I think I was able to fall asleep till about 2am... it's an improvement, but yet it's not "decent enough". The problem is that I am a read-a-holic, and I am becomming obsessed about writting on this thing. Why is that the problem?... At night my house is at ease... everything is quiet... I can actually hear my self thinking without any other noises disturbing my mind... Reading at night is just pretty cool from me... I know some pople "read till they fall asleep", and for some that happens around page 2. The problem with me is that I have to force my self to stop reading and try and get some sleep... if the book hooks me up I could just read all night long no problem.
And the same thing happens with work and writting... During the day is a good time to meet up with teams, have creative meetings, discussions, agreements and all... but the best time for me to get things done is during the night. I focus better and the "no distractions" mood makes me get into kind of a "working trance"... It's not like I work all through the night though... But my "better" hours I think are from say 6pm to 4am... which is quite messed up when you think that most people do get out of work at 6pm, and afterwards in when they have a "social life"...
Still I am going to keep trying... we will see how that goes.
On the other hand one of the things that kept me awake last night was reading about Alan Moore... now I am an obsessive reader, and that added to the fact that I love learning things, is a dangerous combo. I love neil gaimans work on comics, and so I read a lot about him, the way he works, how he started, this an that... but when I found out that he was influenced by Alan Moore's work, and that Alan Moore is considered to be the most influencing figure in comic books story telling... then I felt like I needed to learn a lot about this guy too. He changed the medium by doing only the kind of stuff he would be interested in, he challenged the medium more and more, and experimented a lot with story telling... you could say he was the father of DC´s "vertigo" line in a way... comics for mature readers, not because they were "dark" or "depressing", but because they talked about very important moral issues... and again, it wasn't just the stories... the story telling was important too. Anyway, one of the things that I was interested in about him, is that he is not only a great comics book writter, but he is kind of a magician... for real. His is greatly interested in the occult and in magic, and you could find a lot about that fact on google, yet here is one little link in which the topic is discussed by him... there he even talks about influences like Alister Crowley and such.
I like this whole idea of the power of our own mind and how this can affect the world around us...
As well I read an x-men volume that is very "touchy"... it is number 110 of one of the numerous x-men series... but what was interesting was that it didn't have much dialog at all. All the comic is just an "illustrated letter to doctor xavier"... a letter that kitty writes, in her mourn for the dead of Peter (colossus), and my compliments for the artist. By reading it I felt sad, and empathized a lot with this characters... and believe you me, I am no x-men fan, and I didn't even know kitty existed... but I could feel her grief... and that is something.
Hmmmm... I am writting way too much about comics latelly haven't I?...
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