I was about to talk for a bit tonight about world-building. But, the anecdotes that were going to drive a bit of that discussion were actually around incremental mythology and what inspired me as a kid, so that's what I'm going to turn this into ( Read more... )

It's Eurovision weekend. Here in Australia, that's Friday-Sunday, not Thursday-Saturday as it is for Europe itself. Which means devoted fans have to spend much of Sunday morning avoiding all internet/scrolling news-bars/social functions etc just on the off-chance someone may spoil who won, who got nil points, etc ( Read more... )

The content, quality and quirks of an author's output should never be confused with the author's personal character strengths, their own foibles and flaws. Except when they should be ( Read more... )

Okay, so viewers of 30 Rock may be familiar with the phrase EGOT, used to describe the select list of individuals who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

My theory on who's angling for such glory? This man.

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I'm over post-apocalyptic movies. It's been ages since I've seen a good one - any recommendations ( Read more... )

Trent Reznor (and Atticus Ross) is scoring Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I can't wait - Social Network was a really interesting return to the world of soundtracks for Reznor. Comparing his work on that to, say, Natural Born Killers (which was a mixtape soundtrack rather than a score) or his abandoned work which eventually became Still, ( Read more... )

Chompapottamus.

Now, to find a conversation where I can use this in context...

The next day. Monday morning on the 8:10am from West Footscray. A Vietnamese woman wears a poorly fitting t-shirt reading “special gorgeous fantastic”, which for a second I read as “specious gorgon robot fantasy”. I think I’d like a t-shirt saying that. Everyone is reading Dan Brown except for me and a sleeping salariman in a paisley shirt curled ( Read more... )