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That's the garden done

August 25, 2003

With the help of a couple of my neighbours, I've managed now to get the garden sorted out. Don't think it's ever looked quite so… er, “good” just isn't the right word. That garden has never looked good. Now it looks tidy, and that's about the best I can say for it. However, it's one […]

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So, what are you doing with the long weekend?

August 24, 2003

8pm on a Sunday. The sky is blue, the balmy summer evenings not yet behind us. Across town, 55,000 people are drinking too much Bacardi Breezer, discovering that their mobile phone has no signal just when they need it most, and fervently hoping that the crunchy bit in the baked potato they’ve just eaten won’t […]

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Not too pleasant

August 23, 2003

Well, local grapevine tells me that this morning, a few hundred yards upstream, a man was found in the river. He died later in hospital. I'm not saying that incident was related to this morning's loud bang. But it is a somewhat uncomfortable event to have happened so close to home.

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Absolution – revision

August 23, 2003

I would like to revise my opinion of Muse's Absolution. Upwards. Right… I'm going to go meet K from the station, then we shall start to pack up my house, eat pizza and go watch Pirates of the Caribbean once again. Then tomorrow we shall pack some more, make lewd comments about Johnny Depp, and […]

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Hm, maybe a good time to leave

August 23, 2003

I happened to be awake at 5am this morning. Now, Reading is a fairly peaceful place, but it does have the very occasional problem with violence – stabbings and such. I guess any town does. I live in a fairly dodgy area – Newtown – but I've never seen any problems here at all. Mandela […]

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As good a read as I thought it was going to be

August 22, 2003

That was a deeply, deeply satisfying read. The script is a mid-production draft, and is as well written as it is filmed. Interesting to see the number of deleted scenes which are sadly only indicated by the scene number and the word 'omitted', except for one exchange between Norrington and Elizabeth that never made the […]

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Omg, omg, omg, omg, omg, omg…

August 22, 2003

I just got the script of Pirates of the Caribbean through the email from Terry Rossio. For those that don't know, Mr Rossio wrote the script along with Ted Elliott and kindly via their web site, WordPlay, offered a copy to anyone who wanted it and was quick enough off the mark to email and […]

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Just to say…

August 22, 2003

Ralph is a very nice man and There Is No Cat is a very good blog. And I'm not just saying that.

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Muse – Absolution

August 21, 2003

It’s been a good year for music both new and simply new to me. Aqualung, Athlete, Blur, Hot Hot Heat, Jeff Hanson, The Shins, Rob Dougan, The Thrills, Tom McRae, Turin Breaks. And that’s only a small sample. It’s been a vintage year, and the best of the them? I wonder. Years ago, it would […]

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The cursed disease of nostalgia

August 21, 2003

Now that I’m packing, it’s making a dent on my psyche and I’ve discovered that I’m having a lot of lasts at the moment. The last walk along the Thames to Tescos. The last of the year’s ducklings. The last of the first ripening chestnuts. The last patch of white and grey feathers where some […]

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A couple of minor points

August 21, 2003

1. I've just got my sound card working. Yay!! Yipee!! And hoorah!! This means that I am now listening to the dulcet tones of Mr Matt Bellamy, which are sending shivers up and down my spine, making me catch my breath and generally turning me into a weak-kneed, swooning wreck. The way he sings 'Oooh […]

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Reaction to my script

August 21, 2003

Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I posted the first draft of my script, Tag up on Zoetrope for review by my fellow screenwriters. The passing comments I've had on it have all been very encouraging and positive. Now the reviews proper have started to come in and I have to say that […]

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Escher in Lego

August 20, 2003

Someone has way too much time on their hands. Still, this is really quite astounding.

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Recruitment agencies

August 20, 2003

Now, if you had a recruitment agency based in Israel which specialised in attracting English speakers into the country, what would you call it? Something snappy, yes. Something memorable, yes. Certainly something carefully considered, bearing in mind the tense situation in the area. And quite possibly not Marksman International Personnel.

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Packing…

August 20, 2003

I started packing. Ok so I only got two boxes done, but it's two boxes less to do on the weekend. It's depressing though. Until you start packing, the move remains a theoretical possibility. Once you've got boxes stacked in the corner it becomes an unpleasant inevitability. What's also irritating me is that my computer […]

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