I love this book too. Yep. It's Poe's brother, the guy from the video where he reads a passage from his book.
I felt like he was doing stuff with prose the way I try to do in kabuki with type and image, in terms of the story telling, rythm, and page layout.
Love it Love it.
I'm a big fan of Poe. She is a real sweet heart. I'll give you the detailed story, but the high points of it are that Poe was dancing on stage at her concert with my girlfriend Anh and then Poe held up my Kabuki books and said "Kabuki by David Mack" and showed the pages to the live audience at the concert.
More details to come.
I also noticed that my lawyer's name was mentioned in the thank you section of her album and in the thank you section of Tenacious D's album. I mentioned it to him and it turns out he is also Jack Black's lawyer and he used to date Poe. Or was it the other way around? Joking. I joke because I love.
: Yeah that was my favorite book for a while. Mark Z
: Danielewski (sp?) is the author, and the guy who reads
: that one scene in the Hey Pretty song.
: Definitely the most unique book I've ever read...very
: multilayered. The book is based around a famous photo
: journalist named Navidson who decides to make a
: documentary of his family moving into a house out in
: the country. He then quickly discovers that a closet
: in the house keeps growing until it leads into this
: impossibly huge, dark labyrinth that changes as you
: walk through it. And his film is about his
: explorations of it, and how it affects his family.
: So that's the film the book is based around: The Navidson
: Record. The actual bulk of the book is an ultra
: detailed, somewhat anal retentive analysis of the film
: by this blind guy named Zampano, who is found dead
: amidst piles of papers written about the film...which
: doesn't actually exist. It's interesting going through
: all the footnotes that lead to supposed
: "Aritcles" written about the film, from some
: magazies that are real, and others that aren't. Some
: of the footnotes you realize don't need to be read,
: but become part of these funky page layouts that story
: goes through. Some parts you have to turn the book
: upside down to read what's going on, or flip ahead 10
: pages to read a small part of a page only to flip back
: again...
: Then you have the narrorator...this 20 something named
: Johnny Truant, who finds all of Zampano's research on
: the Navidson Record and begins to put it together into
: a book. Johnny's portions get really poetic, sometimes
: so much so that I lost track of what was going on, but
: it's all still incredible writing. He talks about his
: life (lots of graphic sex scenes,) and how Zampano's
: research is affecting him mentaly and physically.
: THEN you have all these appendixes, like this whole
: section of letters from Johnny's mother from a mental
: institution, where you see her gradual emotional
: breakdown...
: Just an awesome book. It's a commitment, but well worth
: it.