So, today was World Book Day. Last year, I borrowed my brother’s Obi Wan Kenobi outfit. (complete with boots which were way too big for me). This year I decided to keep it much more simple: So, I came as Dr. Alan Grant from Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, complete with my inflatable buddy. All stuff […]
Read more "World Book Day"Terribly sad news about the passing of Bill Paxton today. He’s been a constant in my movie-going experience since I was very young. I’ll always remember his roles in Weird Science and Appllo 13 but mostly as Simon in True Lies and Hudson in Aliens. Everything I read about him backs up what I thought […]
Read more "Game over man, game over!"Decided to do something different for a change of pace. I was walking the boy down to the park yesterday and happened upon some big rolls of pipework. It reminded me of something so I took a photo and set to work on Photoshop. My skills with this are not exactly great, but I […]
Read more "Saturday Night Photoshop"So, after 8,000 words of Book 2 that came spilling out of me with such ease, I hit a brick wall this week. Chapter 3 started with a very nice paragraph that I was very happy with and then ground unceremoniously to a halt. Worse than that, in fact. The words kept coming but I […]
Read more "Brick Walls"A nice bit of the master, John Williams, for this week. Enjoy Rey’s Theme. I like its originality coupled with the subtle references to earlier films.
Read more "Monday Music 4 – 2017"Hello there, It’s been a while, but tonight was the perfect opportunity to get into another episode of Blake’s 7, followed hopefully by a bit of Deadly Premonition on the XBox. I’ve been busy working on my second book and the stuff I’ve been doing for tasteofcinema.com but I thought it was long past time […]
Read more "Rewatching Blake’s 7 – Season 2 – Episode 2"Here’s a link to my latest article for Tasteofcinema.com. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/11-reasons-why-brick-is-a-modern-classic-of-american-cinema/
Read more "New Article"Just a quick note. I’ve been told by someone who shall remain nameless that I left a spaceship off my Top 50 list that should have been included. Here it is, Button Moon rocket at number 53. I can’t say it’s a masterpiece, being that it consists of a tin of beans, a funnel and […]
Read more "How could I forget?"Back at the coffee house for a couple of hours this morning to carry on with the story. I was very happy with Chapter 1 and where it ended up. Now I’m back into Paul’s world to see where he’s got to in the last few months #visitinghours Richard
Read more "Sunday Writing"Sorry, but I had to do a colossal name drop. I just had a Twitter conversation with Rian Johnson, director of Looper and Star Wars: Episode VIII. I didn’t get any information about The Last Jedi, but he did answer my question about his 2005 High School noir, Brick, which is the subject of my […]
Read more "Humble Brag"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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