Bookin It With Tommy Stewart of Negative Wall/BludyGyers/ETC

Tommy Stewart

Tommy Stewart has recently been featured on the Bludy Gyres section of the Rope Enough For Two split, which you can check out HERE.

Like all of us, he's trying to read books as well. Stewart was willing to give us a little bit of time to tell us about how he's reading.

1. I try to read at least two books per month, and mostly fail, what's your goal and reality?

I read all the time daily, but rarely finish a book. I have no goal, but reality is when I read for recreation.

I do it slow to enjoy it.

2. Encyclopedia Brown and Choose Your Own Adventure books were a big part of my childhood. What did you read back in Elementary School?

 Jules Verne and Charles Dickens. I was hooked on classics.

3. It's no secret that I think Harry Potter is an amazing saga, but it wasn't until after the movie for Chamber of Secrets was released that I began reading the books. What was the big thing you were late on?

Late in pop culture? Oddly, I've always been very ahead. For instance, I read all of Tolkien many years before movies.

4. My local library is amazing and I'm there pretty frequently. What do you like about your library?

 Nobody knows or cares who I am so it's very quiet. I like to go when no one knows where I am.

5. Comic Books. Which ones are you reading?

None, but just got through reading about 60 Classics Illustrated from the 50's and 60's. For some reason I've always been into antiquated literature. I was in my element in university when they want one to read all the classics. 

I already had on my own.

6. What author can you just read again and again?

I've repeatedly read Dickens, Carroll, Poe, and poetry by Victorian authors that were decadent poets providing free -for -all implied meanings and false corridors with trap doors the reader unwittingly stumbles upon. 

The lyrics I write for my music are full of these things and modernists generally don't understand. I've personally been accused by a professor for having a case of "the solemn vapors" in which one writes profundities that are so clouded that no one knows what is meant, if anything is meant at all. 

I know what is meant, the audience can find their own association at will. At any way, Oscar Wilde is an example of a poetry author that I read often and has influenced my own writing.