I need some more scary films to watch as I’m running out so it’s recommendation time.
But before you head off to the comments box, let me qualify what I’m looking for. I don’t want slasher flicks, torture porn or anything which is predominantly gore over substance. Not that I mind gore so don’t [...]
Archive > November 2007
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Displacement
Activities that I am currently using to put off doing any writing:
1. Finishing Half-Life 2 Episode 2 (which was great and I’ll tell you all about it soon)
2. Designing a new theme for the blog (and actually getting somewhere too)
3. Work.
Ah well. Maybe I’ll do some tonight.
Now, questions:
1. Can anyone recommend a freeware ADSL [...]
Day of Solidarity
Today is an international day of solidarity for the picketing writers of the WGA Strike. There are several events taking place including a demonstration outside the Trades Union Congress HQ in London, organised by the WGGB, demos in Ireland, Montreal, Toronto, Perty, Sydney and also, a one woman demonstration in Bournemouth by Lucy Vee.
I [...]
Name-a-whale
This amused me no end today.
Greenpeace are holding a whale naming competition wherein you, the internet surfer, may go to their site and select a name from a shortlist of 30 that will be given to a Humpback whale or something. Ingenious idea that only Greenpeace could come up with. Names to choose [...]
Dream a little dream
This little blog entry here is indicative of just what a genuinely top bloke Mr Neil Gaiman actually is.
That is all.
Winter Malaise
Since deciding not to run a marathon on this forthcoming Sunday, I have done absolutely nothing that could in any way, shape or form be construed as exercise. Okay, that’s a actually a bit of a lie as I have taken the dog out for a walk most days but to me that doesn’t [...]
Speechless
Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood blog has been running a series of short films about the Writers Strike over the Thanksgiving weekend. The films, part of a series called “Speechless”, star well known actors such as Holly Hunter, William H. Macy, David Schwimmer, Kate Beckinsale, Sean Penn and Harvey Keitel amongst others.
You can see all [...]
Gods and mothers
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
This quote (which you may remember being uttered by Brandon Lee in “The Crow”) really gets to the heart of a thematic convention that is often used in horror films as a way of isolating and effecting not [...]
Revelations and repetitions
I’m so very nearly at the half way point.
The chances of finishing this draft before the end of November are slim. Not impossible, just unlikely. It will mean writing 6 pages a day which is definitely doable – provided I have no more distractions and stop procrastinating. But the story is beginning [...]
