Well, I won't be posting any art for a while, since my computer completely crashed and all my files were deleted, including Photoshop and OpenCanvas. And my scanner was broken while it was shipped from Portland to Anchorage. LAME.

In other news, I'm going to go to a different college next year and I'm going to pursue a pre-medical degree. Art is fun and all, but it's not something that'll put food on the table.

As most should know by now, I'm a huge Lost Souls fanatic. So, of course I had to read Poppy Z. Brite's other books at some point.

It took me a while to find this book (a couple weeks of checking at Powell's). When I finally saw it, I almost shrieked with joy. I got it home and buried my nose in it immediately. I slept about a total of 6 hours in the three days I read this book. Holy crap was it awesome.

Drawing Blood is the story of an underground comic artist named Bobby McGee who kills his wife and one of his sons then kills himself, but leaves his oldest son, five year old Trevor, alive. Twenty years after the incident, Trevor who has also become an accomplished underground comic artist, goes back to the house where his family died, in Missing Mile, N. C. There he meets a hacker on the run from the law named Zach. They fall in love and do it.... a LOT. Like rabbits. In a haunted house too. Kinky.

Despite that, Poppy Z. Brite is extremely good at making her characters very three dimensional. I was bored with the first 100 pages or so because it was almost nothing but setting and character description, but when she got to the meat of the story, I was glad all the boring descriptions were in there. Otherwise, the character's reactions to some of the situations that were thrown at them would've made no sense. And her vivid descriptions of the abandoned kudzu covered house that Trevor's family was murdered in, never failed to give me chills.

My only complaint about the book was that it kinda went on little silly tangents, like when out of nowhere Zach is an amazing singer, so the local band signs him up to be their lead singer. That really took away from the mood of the story a little bit in my opinion.

So anyway, overall I think this book deserves a 8.5 out of 10. Not quite as good as Lost Souls, but it's definitely something I would recommend to lovers of intense horror and/or gay erotica.

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Normally, I prefer to stay far, far, faaaaaaaar the hell away from the Romance section of the book store, but so many people were giving this book great reviews, it peaked my interest.

It's about a band of vampire warriors called The Black Dagger Brotherhood whose goal is to protect the whole vampire race from The Lessening Society, a group of undead humans who wish to see them destroyed. Sounds kinda cool, but it's not. First of all their names are Tohrment, Zsadist, Wrath, Phury, Vishous, and Rhage (*Puke*). My head hurts just from typing them. Reading them all time in a 400 page book nearly put me in a coma. Second, it's written like a bad soap opera penned by a rabid fangirl.

This book is the first of the series. I would read the rest, but I think I'd rather eat a dog shit sandwich smeared with 10-year old mayonnaise.

So, the plot of Dark Lover is that a dead member of the brotherhood, Darius, has a daughter, Beth, who is close to "transitioning" into vampire-ness. Before he dies he tells his "brother" Wrath, a half-blind vamp, to help her out. He agrees. No surprise there. Wrath meets her at her apartment and within seconds Beth realizes she loves him. I don't remember their exact conversation, but it was close to this:

Wrath: I'm here to protect you.
Beth: *moans*
Wrath: ???
Beth: TOUCH ME!!!
Wrath: But, I can't... I shouldn't....
Beth: DO ME!!! DO ME NOW!!!!
Wrath: Okay.
*Cue unrealistic sex scene*


It seems to be a trend in "horror" novels nowadays for the main female characters to be sex-starved, dim-witted, bimbos. Since when did tomboys go out of style? I want to read about a girl who wears torn jeans and old T-Shirts, arm wrestles, sits with her legs open and slouches, and eats like a lumberjack. In other words, me. Now THAT is a real woman.

Another thing that bothers me about this book is the fact that all the vampires are filthy stinking rich. They can afford mansions, Cadillac Escalades, and Gucci apparel, yet they can't drive Wrath to Lenscraters for a pair of glasses? Stupid.

Avoid this book like the plague.


*I apologize for the crapiness of this review as I am under the influence of Nyquil. Bleh...

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After hearing everyone aged 13-20 raving about how wonderful this book was and how it was is the greatest vampire novel ever written (some claim it's even better then Dracula), I became increasingly curious about it. I went to the bookstore and read the reviews on the back, one of which was brave enough to claim it was "the best book of the decade so far". I was skeptical, but I secretly hoped it was true.

So, when I get home and finally began reading, I immediately realized I freaking hate Twilight.

This book is about 500 pages long and the text is pretty large. Yet, in one reading session of about 4 hours, I could only read about 20 pages. As a result, it took me a week to read through this horrible book. For comparison, Watership Down by Richard Adams is also about 500 pages and the text is much smaller, I read that book in two days. WTF? This is seriously one of the most tedious books I've ever read. It's the worst vampire book ever written. Ever.


It's bad enough that the female lead Bella Swan, is a retard with no coordination skills (Honestly Stephenie Meyer, she's clumsy, I fucking get it) the author had to throw in the amazingly handsome and perfect in every single aspect in his unlife, Edward. Edward Cullen, a crappy vampire with a conscience who sparkles in the sun. *pukes*

Bella sees Edward in school and immediately realizes she's loves him. Why? Because he's hot. Edward realizes he loves Bella. Why? Because she smells like flowers and he wants to eat her. I was wishing he would. Then I wouldn't have to read anymore of her bitching about how depressed she is because Edward left the room for two seconds.

The whole book:

Bella: You're a jerk, Edward.
Edward: Maybe, but do I dazzle you?
Bella: YES! I love you!
Edward: I watch you sleep at night.
Bella: AWESOME! I LOVE YOU 4EVARS!!
Edward: OH NO!! RANDOM VAMPIRES HAVE COME OUT OF NOWHERE TO KILL YOU FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON EXCEPT TO ADD DRAMA TO AN OTHERWISE BORING BOOK!!!!
Bella: OH NO!
Edward: OH NOOOO!!!
Bella: OH NOOO MY LEG!!!
Edward: DON'T WORRY, I'LL SAVE YOU FOR THE 148TH TIME!!!
Bella: MY HERO!!!
Edward: Oh Bella I love you so much!
Bella: I love you too!
Edward: I love YOU!!
Bella: GIVE ME YOUR COCK!!!!one111!!

That's pretty much it. Stretched into 500 pages of shallow crap. Anyone who says that this is the greatest vampire novel ever written is either really really stupid, they haven't read very many vampire novels to begin with, or they're Mormon. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite is still the reigning champion in that department in my opinion. And my opinion is always right.


I really thought Bitten by Kelley Armstrong was going a little overboard with the romance. But after reading Twilight, I have new found respect for all the books I thought I hated. Avoid this book if you haven't read it. If you have read it, I'm sorry.

Conclusion: Twilight = Worst book of the last five centuries. Take that, Stephenie Meyer.

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I turned 20 years old. I'm not a teenager anymore D:

But only 364 days until I can drink legally . AWESOME.

Interesting Fact: Jonathan Taylor Thomas shares the same birthday as me. <3

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