Adding to my tenuous list of famous people I've maybe met...
We're going to see The Book of Eli tonight, a movie I've managed to hear absolutely nothing about. But I was unreasonably excited to find out it was written by Gary Whitta, one time editor of PC Gamer, who (if i recall rightly) took the reins of that fine magazine not long after the Matt Bielby Golden Age, no less. Also, I think I met him once. It was at the Future Entertainment Show in London, way back in 1994. I certainly met a very nice bloke from PC Gamer magazine called Gary, and I guess it could've been him. It's difficult to tell from his imdb photo because all chubby bespectacled nerds have a certain similarity. But I remember he was lovely, because he gave me his autograph AND a free magazine.
So there we go, yet another tenuous link to the famous and fortunate. My mate Gary Whitta--I promise not to say anything rude about your movie, at least until after I've seen it. :)
Monday 18 January 2010
Sunday 17 January 2010
awesome creed 2
our xbox finally succumbed to the red rings of death a couple of weeks ago (i love that microsoft couldn't fix the fault that causes instant death in their consoles but they did put helpful lights in so you can tell when it's fuxxored). We thought we could survive without it... turns out we were wrong. How shallow we are.
it didn't help that i was halfway through Assassin's Creed 2 at the time of fuxxoring. So we bought a new box, and i sat up till 5 am to finish the damn game.
i... am not sure how i feel now.
the ending was better than the last one. As in it almost had an ending as opposed to abandoning us in mid sentence and causing my heart to shatter into a thousand tiny pieces. But even so it was a bit of a bastard.
oh, spoilers. Btw.
it was like the sodding Architect all over again. I'm sure it was supposed to be a head-fuck but really it was just an annoyance. What's wrong with giving us actual endings to stories? why does everything have to be setting up the next sequel? Are y'all so afraid of finishing things, in case we don't come back for more later?
right before the end credits, Desmond asks the question we're all asking by that point: WHAT THE FUCK?
so in summary... AC2 did not break my heart. But it did make me very angry at five o'clock in the morning.
it didn't help that i was halfway through Assassin's Creed 2 at the time of fuxxoring. So we bought a new box, and i sat up till 5 am to finish the damn game.
i... am not sure how i feel now.
the ending was better than the last one. As in it almost had an ending as opposed to abandoning us in mid sentence and causing my heart to shatter into a thousand tiny pieces. But even so it was a bit of a bastard.
oh, spoilers. Btw.
it was like the sodding Architect all over again. I'm sure it was supposed to be a head-fuck but really it was just an annoyance. What's wrong with giving us actual endings to stories? why does everything have to be setting up the next sequel? Are y'all so afraid of finishing things, in case we don't come back for more later?
right before the end credits, Desmond asks the question we're all asking by that point: WHAT THE FUCK?
so in summary... AC2 did not break my heart. But it did make me very angry at five o'clock in the morning.
Saturday 16 January 2010
a whole new year
happy 2010 everyone! 2010... aren't we supposed to be living on the moon by now?
as usual i made a bunch of resolutions and as usual i'm ignoring them to the best of my abilities. The "cut down on drinking" and "take more exercise" ones are looking particularly ropey.
One of the biggies is: WRITE MORE, WRITE BETTER, GET PUBLISHED. I'm happy enough with my output levels of writing (altho last year was a bit slow), but i can always use improvement, and i could really use getting published.
My master plan so far, therefore:
1. Buy a copy of the Writers And Artists Yearbook
(conveniently, i got a copy of it for christmas)
2. Write a bunch of synopseses
(i'm notoriously bad at synopsis writing and try to avoid it wherever possible)
3. Actually submit some stuff
(failure to actually submit anything anywhere has maybe hindered my grand plan to be more published)
4. Update website and blog more often
(hence this update)
5. Take up acting classes
okay, the last one is a bit of a tangent. Really, i wanted to take up writing classes, but since i live on an island the size of a shallot there are no writing classes, so i've taken up acting instead. I figured it could be useful - if you understand actors, that must make it easier to write dialogue for them, right? Don't correct me if i'm wrong, i'm happy in my blissful ignorance. Anyway, i had my first class today.
first thing i realised (or remembered) is that i don't really like actors. They bug me unreasonably. Maybe it's because I can't think of any other profession, other than fine art maybe, where a person can talk so much bollocks about what they do. Also, the guy teaching the class was very keen on method acting, so much so he insisted there was no other possible way to act (he also seems to have a man crush on Al Pacino, bless). Due to being ranted at by certain intervals, i've become slightly suspicious of people who insist "this is the only possible way of doing things". But aside from that it was a lot of fun. The people were lovely and the teacher guy was helpful and knew his stuff. I will never be an actor, i lack the whole 'ungodly acting talent' thing, but hopefully i can pick up a few tips.
viva la resolutions!
as usual i made a bunch of resolutions and as usual i'm ignoring them to the best of my abilities. The "cut down on drinking" and "take more exercise" ones are looking particularly ropey.
One of the biggies is: WRITE MORE, WRITE BETTER, GET PUBLISHED. I'm happy enough with my output levels of writing (altho last year was a bit slow), but i can always use improvement, and i could really use getting published.
My master plan so far, therefore:
1. Buy a copy of the Writers And Artists Yearbook
(conveniently, i got a copy of it for christmas)
2. Write a bunch of synopseses
(i'm notoriously bad at synopsis writing and try to avoid it wherever possible)
3. Actually submit some stuff
(failure to actually submit anything anywhere has maybe hindered my grand plan to be more published)
4. Update website and blog more often
(hence this update)
5. Take up acting classes
okay, the last one is a bit of a tangent. Really, i wanted to take up writing classes, but since i live on an island the size of a shallot there are no writing classes, so i've taken up acting instead. I figured it could be useful - if you understand actors, that must make it easier to write dialogue for them, right? Don't correct me if i'm wrong, i'm happy in my blissful ignorance. Anyway, i had my first class today.
first thing i realised (or remembered) is that i don't really like actors. They bug me unreasonably. Maybe it's because I can't think of any other profession, other than fine art maybe, where a person can talk so much bollocks about what they do. Also, the guy teaching the class was very keen on method acting, so much so he insisted there was no other possible way to act (he also seems to have a man crush on Al Pacino, bless). Due to being ranted at by certain intervals, i've become slightly suspicious of people who insist "this is the only possible way of doing things". But aside from that it was a lot of fun. The people were lovely and the teacher guy was helpful and knew his stuff. I will never be an actor, i lack the whole 'ungodly acting talent' thing, but hopefully i can pick up a few tips.
viva la resolutions!
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