My brother was kind enough to loan me his Blu-ray copy of this film which we used to watch quite often when we were children. It’s one of those films that we had on VHS growing up that would somehow always end up in the machine. I haven’t seen it for about twenty years or […]
Read more "Tonight’s viewing – The Medusa Touch"Just a quick one. I’m in Sardinia with Mrs A and the bairns and we happened upon a fairground in Villasimius. It features this fantastic ride which I’ve never seen before. I’ve probably never seen it before because I live in Health and Safety obsessed Britain. It looks like your standard ride, right? Get in […]
Read more "Best Fairground Ride Ever"Editing begins Hi everyone, Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve finally found an editor to look at the book. I have enlisted the services of Therin Knite, of Knite and Day Publishing, who comes to me highly recommended. She is starting work on a developmental edit tomorrow, which I expect to […]
Read more "**Ardenna Crossing Update**"Hi everyone, I’ve always been fascinated with Mike’s story; how he traded his arm for redemption and a chance to hunt down his former partner. I wanted to do a special haiku to mark getting to the 200th video I’ve done. Number 200 happens to coincide with my 6th wedding anniversary and I have much bigger […]
Read more "Mike’s Story – a haiku sequence"I was watching Fletch last week and I thought I would make it the subject of this week’s Monday Music. For starters, I looked for one of the songs from the film and came across probably the most bizarre music video I’ve ever seen. This really has to be seen to be believed. Dan Hartman, […]
Read more "Monday Music 18 – 2018"It has been a while since I did a list. I’ve done quite a few Top 10 episodes lists of my favourite TV programmes but never touched my favourite of all. This ties in nicely with it being the Twin Peaks Festival in Washington this weekend (although in truth that’s just a fluke – I’ve […]
Read more "My Top 25 Twin Peaks scenes"My Fantasy Casting – Dune post has done really well since I wrote it at the end of last year and I’ve been watching updates about the project from Brian Herbert on Facebook. Earlier in the week, the first big casting announcement (not confirmed yet) emerged in various sources and I wanted to share my initial […]
Read more "Casting Dune – Timothee Chalamet initial reactions"This week I’m going with my all-time favourite piece of music: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. It’s occupied that place since my early twenties when my Dad had a copy of it that he played for me. The violinist was one Maxim Vengerov. I’ve listened to this countless times since and it holds such rich associations for […]
Read more "Monday Music 17 – 2018"Haven’t posted anything for an absolute age because of work but I thought I could get an easy win today by doing a quick Monday Music post. No, no it’s not Skinner and Baddiel, that would be too obvious. Having said that, I did get that off iTunes yesterday. No, today is about Annie Lennox. I […]
Read more "Monday Music 16 – 2018"With the beginning of the World Cup today, I thought it would be worthwhile going on a little jaunt down memory lane and remembering where I was during the tournaments that I can remember. I’ll say a little bit about my life at the time, my memories of the tournament and anything else that springs […]
Read more "My World Cup Memories"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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