While continuing to deal with personal matters (which remain unnamed simply because I cannot imagine anyone else would be interested at this point), I have been using my limited free time to slip out of reality's grasp in as many ways as possible. As has been the case since childhood, these ways usually involve immersing myself in media.

I have been reading, listening to audio, and watching DVDs at a prodigious rate. And because my tastes usually (but not always) run toward the odd, I keep saying telling myself I should write some reviews or commentary. Circumstances being what they are, though, that remains out of grasp for now. So instead, here's a list of the other places my mind has traveled for the past few weeks. If you want to know more, say so in the comments. That might inspire me to finish one of the stack of draft essays cluttering up the place.

Books: Kerouac, Pomes All Sizes • Will Eisner, The Plot • Marc Scott Zicree, The Twilight Zone Companion • Samuel Delany, Hogg • Michael Chabon, The Final Solution • Christopher Priest, The Prestige • John Wagner and Vincent Locke, A History of Violence • Eric Drooker, Blood Song • Lynd Ward, Gods' Man • Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean, Mirrormask Illustrated Film Script

Audio: Bjork, Music From Drawing Restraint 9 • The Arcade Fire, Funeral • DJ Spooky & Dave Lombardo, Drums of Death • Luaka Bop Remix • Afro Celt Sound System, Anatomic • ZBS Productions, Dishpan Fantasy • Iain Ballamy, Mirrormask Soundtrack • Matt Gajewski's Pure Imagination • Neil Gaiman, Telling Tales

DVD: Nightmare Alley • Jan Svankmajer's Alice • Fantastic Four • Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing • In the Realms of the Unreal: The World of Henry Darger • Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre • Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone • The Flash • Dave McKean's Mirrormask • Call of Cthulhu • Alex Cox's Revenger's Tragedy

This is not an exhaustive list, I'm afraid. In the midst of all this I had to rearrange the deck chairs of my personal Titanic, and stacks of media waiting for review ended up shuffled back into the archives. So it goes.