The Dreaming

Neil was in Vancouver yesterday with Amanda Palmer for a show at the Vogue Theatre. Earlier in the day they played a “ninja gig” at the Fluevog Store on Water St.

The above video is Neil singing (!!) “You Think I’m Psycho Don’t You, Mama” that I recorded on my iPhone. The audio’s a bit poor, but it’s listenable.

Afterward we all walked over to Occupy Vancouver where Amanda played a few songs including Ukulele Anthem which I recorded here:

About ten seconds in I realized I should have recorded this widescreen instead of vertical but it was too late. Oops. At least the audio is better!

Here’s Neil in Season 5, Episode 7 of The Guild.

Neil Gaiman shows his songwriting chops at Minnesota Public Radio’s Wits with a song he wrote as part of the 8in8 project. He performs “The Problem with Saints” with Josh Ritter (@joshritter), John Munson (@munsongs), Steve Roehm, The Ascots and The Brass Messengers.

via BoingBoing.

Tor has one of Neil’s old stories (it says copyright 1986!) online, “I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?“, along with the above marvelous illustration by Brian Elig.

Wired News has Comic Book Artists Illustrate Sci-Fi Legends where you can find this great drawing of Neil writing in a Graveyard as well as Alan Moore as a floating-ink apparition/wizard and many more.

Shelfari has an article and a lot of gorgeous photos of Neil’s bookshelves.

…Dull days at forty, false friends at fifteen;
Let her have brave days and truth.
Let her go places that we’ve never been;
Trust and delight in her youth.

Ladies of Grace, and Ladies of Favour,
And Ladies of Merciful Night,
This is a prayer for a Blueberry Girl,
Grant her your Clearness of Sight.

Words can be worrisome, people complex;
Motives and manners unclear.
Grant her the wisdom to choose her path right,
Free from unkindness and fear.

Let her tell stories, and dance in the rain,
Somersaults, tumble and run;
Her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep,
Let her grow like a weed in the sun…

Based on a Neil Gaiman short story, animated by Gahan Wilson and directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe

The latest SomethingPositive has Neil dealing with critics who call Coraline a Tim Burton movie…. lethally.