Instantly, I felt a change in my school environment. Although Orange County is about an hour and a half away from L.A., the two places were very different. As a little girl, I lived in Los Angeles for a few years during elementary school, but at around age eleven moved to Orange County. I was raised by a single mother and have lived in numerous places around Southern California throughout my childhood. Most of Francesca’s books take place in Southern California, which helped me connect with them even more. Witch Baby wasn’t all angry, though - she was just misunderstood and wanted to be heard. It was hard for her to feel the pain of the world, but it became bearable after she found the vehicles (music and photography) to channel her passion into. Was her third eye open or did she just happen to be charmed? Witch Baby wasn’t all angry, though - she was just misunderstood and wanted to be heard. Witch Baby felt the roaring of the earth, the rage beneath the surface of reality, the stories trapped in the land - the things most people pretended weren’t there. She was the purple-eyed, wild-hearted, drum-playing, roller-skating, photo-taking fairy who floated above the ground - yet couldn’t see her own beauty. While reading the Dangerous Angels series as a teen, I immediately related to main character Weetzie Bat’s adopted daughter, Witch Baby.

Witch Baby is also the book from which I got my musical name, Globelamp. Above her hung the clock, luminous, like a moon.”Īnd so begins Witch Baby, the second book in a series called Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (or FLB to my circle of fellow fans/friends).

What is that supposed to mean? In the room full of musical instruments, watercolor paints, candles, sparkles, beads, books, basketballs, roses, incense, surfboards, china pixie heads, lanky toy lizards and a rubber chicken, Witch Baby was curling her toes, tapping her drumsticks and pulling on the snarl balls in her hair.

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