Monday, March 20, 2006
Video Game Poetry
Blue wizard is about to Die got trashed by BookSlutwhen it came out in 2004. But despite that, for some reason, there is something about video games, that makes all nostalgic references to them inherently sublime. Perhaps it is because you realise in retrospect, that the game you wasted so much of your life on, was even more pixalated and crap than you could ever, in your wildest nightmares, have dream of. And, as such, all nostalgia towards them can be equally crap and kitsch and still keep the faith. Hence the brilliance of a line like ÂI have no idea what I am doing, but I am doing it very fast". So despite BookSlut's fretting, Blue wizard is about to die will remain a cult collectible long after literacy has ceased to be.
Blue Wizard Is About to Die: Prose, Poems, and Emoto-Versatronic Expressionist Pieces About Video Games 1980-2003
Rusty Immelman Press
ISBN: 0974100005
