Hi there, I don’t know why I bother setting up weekly things. I set myself up to fail by not delivering from week to week for one reason or another. There have been mitigating circumstances: holiday, work, doing my application for Taste of Cinema and so forth. However, when it comes down to it, I […]
Read more "Monday Music 1 – 2017 "Hi everyone. Just a quick note to wish you all a great day and say thanks to my lovely wife and in-laws for the present they’ve given me. They have agreed to pay for me to have someone do a high resolution design of the X5. You will soon be able to see my vision […]
Read more "Happy Boxing Day"Season 2 – Episode 1 – Redemption So, here I am, back on the Blake’s 7 odyssey and straight into Season 2. It’s been a while but I couldn’t resist any longer. This is easier than editing my book. We open with a picture of what looks like strange galaxies and then cut to the […]
Read more "Rewatching Blake’s 7 – Season 2 – Episode 1"In celebration of the Seahawks’ great win over Carolina last night, I decided to go with this for the week. Completely nothing to do with Science Fiction. Instead, we’re back to one of my favourite Bruce Willis films, The Last Boy Scout. I remember seeing it at the Warner Bros’ cinema in Manors, Newcastle with […]
Read more "Monday Music"Just a short announcement. Today I started book two of my series. The second book is provisionally titled, ‘Divisions’. I did the first 500 words this morning, which required me to learn all about police interview procedures and section 9 of the Theft Act 1968. Don’t know what the guy at the computer next to […]
Read more "Here we go again!"I’ve been meaning to do this since last week in the Travelodge in Reading. I was scanning through the episode lists on Netflix trying to find ones to watch. I wondered what my top ten would be. Strangely enough, it wasn’t that hard picking the ten. The hardest part was putting them in order, especially the […]
Read more "Top 10 Star Trek Episodes (Original Series)"Season 1 – Episode 12 – Deliverance (not starring Ned Beatty) Yay. After opening with a bizarre shot of two people in a very small spaceship, we cut to Servalan. Always a good omen. She’s laying down the law to some subordinate over the intercom about not being disturbed. Makes you wonder why she didn’t […]
Read more "Rewatching Blake’s 7 – Part 6"Firstly, just a quick note to say that I reached a big milestone this morning. When I woke up, I discovered that I’d reached 5000 hits on the website since I created it in the Spring. These have come from over 70 countries around the world. I’m immensely grateful to everyone who has come and […]
Read more "What happens next?"I was feeling in the mood for something a bit more upbeat and heroic after last week’s tearful entry. As a result, what better than Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld)’s excellent theme music from Pacific Rim. A clunky, illogical beast of a film but good fun to watch. The theme music was one of […]
Read more "Monday Music (on time again)"This is a very much younger version of me at Snoqualmie Falls in the summer of 2001. It took me a long time to get there. By that I don’t mean the plane ride from Heathrow to Seattle (half an hour to transfer in Cincinatti, please, like that was ever going to work out! I […]
Read more "A Place Both Wonderful and Strange"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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