First off, in case you haven't seen There Will Be Blood and Milkshakes, it's potentially my new favorite YouTube video.
Revel and enjoy.
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And the long awaited Barbossa costume! With as Jack Sparrow!
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That is all. Enjoy!

This has been a particularly prosperous birthday season for me. It helps the tiny hangover I'm currently experiencing wane away.
I've acquired, in no particular order, an Elder Sign pendant, a skeleton pocket watch (finally! I can be like the other steampunks with a decent timepiece!), delightfully random brass trinkets, the Call of Cthulhu silent movie, amazing Gift Art from CabbyHat, a pair of handmade spats, a sock-monster called Regenald, Earl Grey tea, a C'thulhu shirt, two vintage cowboy shirts and the most awesome suit ever, hat feathers and a black rose, a bottle of Tourment absinthe, a jug of Sangria, a can each of Steel Reserve and Pabst Blue Ribbon, a ticket for Zombieland, snuggles, a C'thulhu cake painstakingly iced by my dear mother, and a hangover.
It was so delightfully untraditional. Instead of the usual birthday chant, I broke everyone out in a rousing chorus of Combichrist's "Happy F*cking Birthday." Needless to say, it was much better.
Tonight, I might be going to Rocky Horror, which will be smashing!
Though, all my Tranny outfit stuff is away in storage, I'm going to come up with something ridiculous.

Anyhoo, thank you all for the wishes, and things!
It certainly made for one memorable 21st!

Your friend,
nick/Renfield

I've finally got my hands on some plumes! They were a gift from my better (and when I say better, I mean better) half.
Now, what I thought would be as simple as putting feathers into a hat turned into a fiasco of feathers. The thing is.. the feathers manage to look like they're just laying in the hat.
Doing that is easy enough. Getting them to do that and stay in the band is another story. I've even cobbled together a better looking hat-band with black leather and an aged brass buckle.
I currently have them in the closest arrangement I can.
Though, I will admit to going a bit overboard. One large black plume, one small black plume and a bright red one along with two pheasant pheathers. Yes, I spelt feathers with a ph. I thought it was witty.
It looks good to me, and I like the contrast of the bright red feather to the darker, more earthy and worn out colors of the rest of the costume.
But you are probably growing weary hearing me harping on about feathers. So in other news..
Last time I updated, I said I had finished nine pages of the (currently) Chthonic Chronicles. I am now up to twenty.
I've been working on dedicating a few pages to random entities with an introduction and sketch page before each section, along with a brief history of the Necronomicon, since this one will supposedly be written in the 17th century by a protege of John Dee.
So, when the book seems like it can hold no more, I will bind it, do some finishing touches, and take pictures!

You should expect a plethora of photos soon enough.
I just need to get my ruddy camera working.
I keep complaining, yet I never do anything about it.

Ah well.
Anyhoo, it is off to bed for me. I'm going to put on At World's End and try to figure out what the blazes is going on with those damn feathers and probably dream of them.

Until we speak again, o dear friends,
-Renfield

So, for a long time, I'd had only the Atlantis Ascendant album. After listening to "Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur" and looking up the lyrics, I realized it was written with snippets of a journal of sorts. I thought this was a brilliant idea, so I printed off a few of the lines in a crazed handwriting font and tucked them inside my prop-Necronomicon to add a bit of story.

It was only today that I downloaded their album, The Chthonic Chronicles. Good Lord. I've been listening to it nonstop and began working on the next tome in a series of eldritch tomes. This one was going to be the fabled Book of Eibon, but after reading some of their lyrics from that album, I noticed that they have a list of Bal-Sagothian tomes.
"The Tome of Shadows, the Forbidden Books of the First Cataclysm, the Epsilon Exordium, the Scrolls of the Third Circle, the Oracle of Antediluvian Blasphemies, the Diabolist's Lexicon, the Arcana Atra Libri, the Thirteen Cryptical Prophecies of Mu, the Manuscripts of the Cultists of Ur, the Chronicle of Shadows, the Black Bible of Kor-Avul-Thaa, the Ancient Book of the Six Keys, the Cydonia Manifesto, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers, the Cursed Books of the Z'xulth, the Praxeum Codex, the Chthonic Chronicles"

I don't even know where to begin. My new goal is to create my own take on at least five of these. I think the Book of Eibon will now become The Chthonic Chronicles.
Thirteen cups of coffee later, I had nine pages written out (only fronts due to inkbleed after staining) and the innards ripped out of a red faux-leather photoalbum. I have the basis of it.
I've been including things I've dug up through my journeys on the interwebs. Most importantly, the Rite of Yog-Sothoth.

So, there's something to definitely keep an eye out for. As soon as I can get my ruddy camera working, I'll post some excerpts and such.

But yes, if you're into epic/symphonic black metal band with strong death metal elements (according to Wikipedia since classifying metal is so damn difficult these days) then I highly recommend them.

That is all. It's almost 4:30 and I am really really tired. D:

Farvel-
Renfield/etc.

Blast-it-all! My birthday is so close I can almost smell the cake and liqueur!
But it's still just meandering about and not arriving!
If anyone can turn time ahead to the 15th of October (hint hint!) It'd be much appreciated.
But in other news, the spacebar and G-key on my laptop detest me, so I'm going to wrap this up by saying that things are still going alarmingly well and I went to see the local playhouse's Evita on opening night, and it was fantastic!

Sooo, wish me better luck on forcing time to move ahead quickly!

-Me