...no matter how often I watch it. I love every single shot and every single line, and the chemistry and bickering of Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw, and all of the gnarly and stellar supporting players, and the ridiculously assured racking-up of foreshadowing and tension. I just love this film to pieces. It makes me want to ( Read more... )

Sometime, I want to write a proper grown-up serious review of this show - God knows it deserves it, and I am a massive Sherlock Holmes nerd from way back - but right now, just after watching the final episode, all I've got is the flail.

( Spoilers, really. Don't click if you haven't seen it. )

Silly alt!X-Factor-#230 fic.

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Oh hell yeah.

I think I'm about to start actually posting/reblogging on Tumblr instead of just lurking and following. I tell myself it's because Tumblr is fun and full of fandom, but it's really because it'll give me something else to do when I'm supposed to be doing all of this. I am shameless.

I love Peter David's X-Factor. I hate that its sales figures are always so dangerously low for such a critically acclaimed, beautifully constructed, thoughtful, fun comic. And yet right now I want to slap upside the head all the people on forums who are saying they'll definitely pick up the book now that Havok and Polaris are in it, as if the ( Read more... )

I was skimming through some of my Dad's New Yorker magazines recently. I still find the non-fiction stuff in the NY really interesting; one issue alone had pieces about giant Polaroid cameras, Edward Hopper's house, a writer's double life of lit-fic and pulp noir, and a deceased modern artist called Blinky Palermo who I wish I'd heard of before. I ( Read more... )

What this mostly means to me is that the clock is now ticking on all the stuff I've been breezily saying I'll get started on 'in the new year.' You know, easy stuff like retrain, look for another job, rewrite my book and take up running. Oh bugger.

I love that my Google homepage is asking me to buy stuff from the Android Market. The fact that this conjures up a mashup of Chiba City in Neuromancer, the street vendor bits in 'Blade Runner' and the troll market in 'Hellboy 2' - rather than some boring website selling phone apps - makes me happy. And a big nerd, obviously.

I want someone to create software that will cleverly take a script, drabble or ficlet and turn it magically into a piece of fanart. Honestly, I have so many dorky little ideas for fanart that amuse me, but I can't draw for crap. I'm almost tempted to try and teach myself to draw just to get these little scenes and gags out of my system, but the ( Read more... )