Resurrecting old projects in preparation for NaNoWriMo. This one is entirely the fault of Hal Hartley. If any film school students out there fancy adapting this, you're more than welcome - just ask.

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Watching this, you can totally see why David Thewlis was cast as Lupin:  I don't think I've ever seen another interview where the interviewee seems so laid-back, genuine and good- tempered.  Also, I love the revelations that he a) grew up in a toy shop, and b) paid his twelve-year old neighbour in Harry Potter memorabilia to tell him what happened ( Read more... )

Has anyone else seen this?  I was going to work on my photography thesaurus, but I think I might need to go to the video store instead.

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Man, yesterday was the nicest Sunday I've had in ages - went through to Edinburgh and met the former German Flatmate for a coffee and catch-up and general gossip about the state of things, and then piled into The Liquid Rooms amongst all of the other pensioners and teenagers and students and middle-aged folkies. I've never been to a concert where ( Read more... )

AASDJDGKL;ALKSJDFLAKS; A lovely and enterprising person has posted the whole of the movie 'Strike' on Youtube. The title is significant in more than one way, but let's just say that when the  movie starts, it's 1963 in New England, and the girls at Miss Goddard's Finishing School are less than thrilled about their school's upcoming merger with St. ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/american-library-association/banned-books-2010-graphic-novels_b_740726.html#s145740
I have to wonder about a society that tries to censor reading material on the grounds of 'anti-family', 'nudity', and 'unsuitable for age group' (which in turn implies a very narrow conception of who graphic novels should be/are read by ( Read more... )

Just stayed up far too late watching the remake of The Wolfman.  It's gleefully cheesy and Hammer Horroresque, to the point of pastiche.
Hugo Weaving got all of the best lines, and had all of the best reaction shots while  Anthony Hopkins phoned his performance in from the depths of the Welsh mountains, and then presumably went back to his painting ( Read more... )

Nothing to say apart from a shallow observation that doesn't Joey Burns scrub up nicely? My crush continues apace. Nice guitar work as well.

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Today was notable in that it was the first morning in a very long time where I actually slept well, woke up at nine, and felt energetic and hopeful about getting up. I'm calling it  at Serotonin Levels: 1; Depression: Nil. 
Needless to say, very little of that energy actually went into the Evil Thesis; it did, however, go into making a very large ( Read more... )

I should just start calling this journal my tutorial log; it seems like I only ever post on Mondays anymore. The curse of actually having work to do, I suppose...Not much new on the home front: the St. John's Wort seems to be helping a bit; I had a kind of crappy day on Sunday, but that was less to do with Thesis-induced depression and more to do ( Read more... )