Chocolate and Vodka

First draft of my script now finished. Comes in at 93 pages, which is way too short, but I have other scenes to add and tweaking to do, so it's not really quite a first draft yet. But it's the first time it's been complete end-to-end, so to speak. The dots have been joined. Now […]

With any luck, I'll get to see The Matrix: Reloaded at the IMAX tonight. Somehow, I'm just not as excited about it as I was last time round.
They'd best not have projector failure tonight, though…
Full report tomorrow, and an explanation about why I've not been blogging much lately.

I think I’ve been working on this script for about 20 days now. I’m up to 76 pages, so making good progress. Today, though, I realised that I had things out of sequence. Stuff was happening long after it should have, so I took my printout, cut it into scenes and laid it all out […]

Pizza's not the same when the topping has slid off one side.
Paramount's scheduling of M*A*S*H sucks arse.
I'm up to 63 pages.
The plot to Donnie Darko is oxymoronic. Or possibly tautalogical. I'm not sure which yet.
Wat dacht u van korter werken en meer verdienen loesje.
It's impossible to lick your own elbow.
Finger crossed, all things being equal […]

I seem to be finding myself oddly without much to say at the moment. The Guardian Online, usually a source of some sort of response from my grey matter, is just dull and boring at the moment, with idiotic writing about fluff like how to cope with email. I can answer that problem in one […]

I just got invited by my mate Debs to join Friendster, a 4-degrees of separation networking web site. So, I thought, why not? So far, I have to say, it's been an amusing experience - within a few moments of joining I discovered that I'm linked via only two friends to 41 people (at least […]

I don’t want to write a review about Donnie Darko. It wouldn’t do it justice. It would be just too linear. Too done before.
Instead I want to just enthuse. Jake Gyllenhaal, despite a dyslexic's nightmare, is amazing as the eponymous Donnie. There are times, as he gazes up through his eyelashes, half grin on […]

Go on!Just a quid!

Why?

Just lurking.

Been spending a lot of time, possibly too much, on Zoetrope lately, mainly on the message board. Makes me feel more involved in this whole screenwriting thing to be talking to other screenwriters. Course, it's also mildly amusing to watch them ripping each other's throats out. Why is it that internet communities invariably suffer from […]

…but tiredness.
Sleep is my refuge at the moment, my escape. I had some wonderful dreams last night, wherein my life was just fine and dandy, people appreciated me for who I was, and I didn't get hassled by anyone. Although I did have some problems with clothespegs at one point, but that was a fairly […]

I spoilt myself today - I bought Neil Gaiman’s Coraline in hardback. I wasn’t going to, but there it was, calling out to me from the shelf, and when I flicked it open I saw it was signed. There’s a slight blemish on the dust cover, which is I suppose why it hadn’t already been […]

There is a Rule. A new Rule. And that Rule is:
Do not read Neil Gaiman's work when you're trying to cook.
Coraline may look like a slim volume. A children's book, it may seem like light fayre for the seasoned reader. The scrawled signature inside makes you think that perhaps this book was at the […]

Seems that having a regular spank of the monkey might do you guys some good, actually protecting you against prostate cancer. I don't suppose for a second that you need any sort of excuse to go play with your little friend, but at least now you have the perfect comeback to anyone who tells you […]

Thousands of rubber ducks are about to end their 11 year voyage around the world which started when they escaped overboard from a container ship during a storm in 1992. I just hope that when they're washed up in New England, some kind souls will find them a nice hot bath in which to end […]