I was lucky enough to have a day to myself without any commitments on Monday, so I took myself off to London to indulge myself for the day. I wanted to do some poetry and what better place to go for inspiration than the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. I chose a few paintings and, […]
Read more "Haiku-ing at the National Gallery"So, I was lucky enough to see some very brief ‘rushes’ or ‘dailies’ or whatever you call them from the first day of filming on Queen of Hearts, the long-awaited Twin Peaks fan film which expands the story of Annie Blackburn. Queen of Hearts is the work of Cameron Cloutier, lifetime Twin Peaks fan and […]
Read more "Queen of Hearts – update"Firstly, a warning. If you’re not all caught up with Season 7’s events, probably best not to read this until you are. It contains details about who is alive at the end of Season 7. Spoilers ahead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . […]
Read more "Game of Thrones – Who will survive?"I have never written anything on here about Game of Thrones. With the start of its final season marching purposefully towards us, axe in hand, like an angry Sandor Clegane, I thought I might stick my neck out with some predictions about what I think might happen in the last six episodes. I might do […]
Read more "My Top 5 Predictions for Game of Thrones Season 8"Hey everyone, Passing another milestone tonight: my 300th post on this site. I suppose its fitting that it should be about the same thing I usually waffle on about: Twin Peaks. I didn’t have a blu-ray player when this came out so I never saw The Missing Pieces in its entirety until now; those deleted […]
Read more "Tonight’s viewing – The Missing Pieces"Quite a bit of news has come out tonight all in one go. A lot of the stories tonight will be about Hans Zimmer’s unveiling as the composer attached to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Add to that the news that filming has started and it may get lost that we’ve had another casting announcement. There was […]
Read more "Casting Dune – Stephen McKinley Henderson initial reactions"Hi all, After a year of setbacks and travails, the crowd-funded fan film Queen of Hearts, written and directed by Cameron Cloutier from the Obnoxious and Anonymous YouTube Channel is back on track. It’s set for a release date of Spring 2020. Lots of bad luck has hampered the progress of this project since vocal […]
Read more "Queen of Hearts – new trailer and announcement"So, the part of the traitorous Suk Doctor, Wellington Yueh, is the latest to be filled. 42 year old Taiwanese actor Chang Chen will be selling out Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson et al in Dewnis Villeneuve’s upcoming film. Regrettably, I’m not that familiar with his body of work with the exception of 2000’s Crouching Tiger, […]
Read more "Casting Dune – Chang Chen initial reactions"Things have changed a lot since my first visit to the old site of RAF Hendon about two and a half years ago. Just a five minute walk from Colindale tube station, the facilities have been upgraded and there is a lot more on site for families – computer simulations, indoor and outdoor play parks, […]
Read more "A Trip to the RAF Museum, Hendon"Miklos Rozsa was born in 1907 in what was then Austria-Hungary. He could play the violin at the age of 5, and was able to read music before he could read words. He lived what he referred to as a double life mixing pure concert music, which he loved but was unable to make a […]
Read more "Monday Music 5 – 2019"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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