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When Kingdom Hospital first aired on tv, I saw up to the episode 'Butterfingers'. Much Callum Kieth Rennie love there, seriously. Then the show started jumping around times and days, and then just wasn't on anymore. I was thrilled when I found the DVD set for 30$ at Best Buy, and ran home to introduce the housemates to it. zinjadu and nekokoban have been enjoying it right along with me, and we finally got caught up last night.

And ventured into territory I hadn't seen before. We watched all of disk number 4, which ended with 'Siezure Day'. And the more I watch, the more I'm convinced this is one of my favorite Stephen King projects. I'm invested in most of the characters, I love the plot, I'm dying to find out answers to the many, many questions I'm still left with, and I'm looking forward to seeing how everything is resolved.

A while ago I wrote a little piece on my views on Stephen King's works in the written media and the visual media. And honestly, I think I prefer his visual pieces over most of his novels. Last time I went on about description and relying on what is seen to put points across, and how that comes across better in a visual format. Last night I realized something else.

Stephen King relies heavily on music. In his novels, bits of lyrics and snatches of song are everywhere Take IT for example. IT is full of musical references, lyrics, quotes and songs. The Stand. Tommyknockers. Insomnia. Christine. To me, the use of music works better out of a book.

And don't think I'm saying I don't like Stephen King's novels, I love them. I've read the ones I own over and over again. I do prefer his short stories most of the time, though. And my all time favorite Stephen King written piece still remains the short story 'Ballad of the Flexible Bullet'.

Now I want to read through 'Skeleton Crew' again.

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Very long but very good day.

I went out to Sand Point to hit the giant book sale - the one with the airplane hanger full of books? - and have returned triumphant. I won't do errands down the street in bad weather, but tell me there's an airplane hanger full of 25 cent books and I'll toddle off to parts unknown with only a bit of paper with hastily written bus schedules and an empty sack. Highlights of the haul:

The Art of the Empire: Star Wars Art
20 Years in Rock and Roll History
Mind Hunter
Dr Kinsey's Sex Research
Eye of the World

I also got some light, crunchy fiction in the form of a couple of Dragonlance books. A replacement for my old copy of The Dragon's of Krynn, and a copy of the Magic of Krynn. Looked at the gaming books and they didn't have much. Scanned through a couple of WoD manuals and I honestly can't say anything caught my interest, which is unfortunate because pretty much everyone and their brother has been singing the praises of this system to me for years now. Maybe I need to take a closer look, but from my brief inspection, it didn't really look like anything I'd play in. But I was looking at the Vampire books, and if I remember correctly, there's other branches for campaigns. To this day, my best handbook find has been the Discworld GURPS manual.

I also found a book I may be able to do my case study project on. I don't remember Christa Pike being on our list of banned murderers, and she'd be pretty interesting to do. So all in all, a very successful day. I will be working on the next part of Debts tonight, as well as wrapping up my other projects.

Now I am exhausted and hungry and in need of a bath.