{"id":57,"date":"2005-05-23T00:19:50","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T07:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/starting-mysterious-skin\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T00:19:50","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T07:19:50","slug":"starting-mysterious-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/starting-mysterious-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Mysterious Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mysterious<\/a>
\nIn my continual stop-and-start of book reading (I recently started, then stopped, Infinite Jest<\/i>, then I started, then stopped, Speculum of the Other Woman<\/i><\/a> [for the third time]), and now I’m starting yet another book. This time, though, I need to finish it since I’m seeing the movie it was based on in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

My next book is Mysterious Skin<\/i><\/a> by Scott Heim.<\/p>\n

I don’t know too much about the book, except for the fact that is is probably gay-themed and involves alien abductions (that probably aren’t really done by aliens). I know nothing about the author, so this should be pretty exciting.<\/p>\n

I’m reading it because on June 2, I will be seeing the film version of Mysterious Skin<\/i><\/a> as part of the Seattle International Film Festival<\/a>. Greg Araki, who directed two movies I absolutely love: The Doom Generation<\/i> and Nowhere<\/i>. <\/p>\n

Araki’s other movies are very sexual and surreal. Nowhere<\/i>, in fact, seems to have been very inspired by the Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero<\/i><\/a>. The film version of Less Than Zero<\/i><\/a> absolutely sucks, so I just pretend that Nowhere<\/i> was the real adapatation.<\/p>\n

That said, I’m excited to start reading this novel. With the except of Infinite Jest<\/i> (which, of course, I took a break from reading), I haven’t read a nonfiction book for a few months (The Handmaid’s Tale<\/i><\/a> was the last one I read).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my continual stop-and-start of book reading (I recently started, then stopped, Infinite Jest, then I started, then stopped, Speculum of the Other Woman [for the third time]), and now I’m starting yet another book. This time, though, I need to finish it since I’m seeing the movie it was based on in a couple … Continue reading Starting Mysterious Skin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}