The Road

UM...I’ve read a few things during this project outside of uni that have a lot to do with the work I’m threatening to make. These being 2000ADs Thrang's Future shocks, The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Again, 2000ad in general, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the Filth by Grant Morrison, And I’ve Started reading J Conrad's The Heart Of Darkness. Other stuff I’ve read this year that has nout to with Uni is Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge By Clinton Heylin, Vic Reeves's Sun Boiled Onion and The last volume of The Losers by Steve Diggle. All these Books were Awesome.
However the Road is connect to my prints for obvious reasons. The book has these bleak descriptions of a post apocalyptic America and my prints are messy images of some post apocalyptic city. Though out the book there are these briefs descriptions of the landscape like this" In The long gray dusk they crossed a river and stopped and looked down from the concrete balustrade at the slow dead water passing underneath. Sketched upon the pall of soot downstream the outline of a burnt city like a black paper scrim". So there’s plenty to take from for my prints. Again very good book, I think this is the only post Apocalyptic book I’ve read with no Sc- Fi, mad max themes in at all, which is nice, and which makes it a very bleak and terrifying book, but it got this father and son things that is very umm sad and tender.
Also they are making a film of it, very good people involved, including John Hillcoat, Viggo Mortensen, Nick Cave and best of all Omar from the Wire Michael Kenneth Williams ( oh how I miss the wire , also I’m currently reading Homicide By David Simon, creator of the Wire.). Should be good.