So, I watched Powaqqatsi last night. I’ve seen Koyaanisquatsi as well, but that was a while back.
It’s incredible how rich a meaning you can get out of a simple (simple…maybe not) interplay of music and images. The returning motif of the main anthem is just incredible. I knew I’d heard it before though and I [...]
Powaqqatsi - A Parastic Way of Life.
Insomnia Bites
I’m having lots o’ trouble sleeping.
Last night I managed to drift in and out whilst watching Edward Scissorhands, which inevitably just made me really fucking sad.
I did get a few hours in the end…but I’ve woken up feeling slightly worse than I did when I went to bed.
Insomnia always picks a really irritating time to [...]
Das Booty Politick
So, I saw something on today’s hot posts on the front page, and hoped for it to be something it wasn’t. Then I thought that I haven’t written anything particularly political for a while (unless the Personal is political in which case I’m always going on about politics). That means I’m going to write [...]
Knew what I Know
I watched Rushmore while falling asleep last night (or not..in fact I was totally brutalised by insomnia all night and I’m not looking forward to being at work for ten and a half hours, especially not on a beautiful sunny day like today.
Anyway, Wes Anderson makes the strangest coming of age movies. It’s the common [...]
The Storyteller…My first Drabble
So yes, I cut the story down to size. It does not have a name, only a epigraph. The epigraph is part of the story…or at least part of the hundred words. It appears I was right in my previous post. It was just a plot without any characters….I think it’s much better this way.
Though [...]
I have no voice and I must dream
Damn, damn and damn.
I was all up for writing a story today…I started, and it’s just crud.
I know where it needs to get to, but I just ended up writing loads of exposition without any actual interest. All scattered bits without detail or life.
No voice.
It’s a problem I find writing in the first person. People [...]
Kipple
Yes, I’m drinking Gin and Lemonade…it’s only one in the afternoon and I’m on my own.
It’s my day off.
And I’m still here.
This is going to be a lot of bits and pieces you see…hence the title….but not everyone will get it.
I’m currently drowning in old Guardians. Everywhere I look text is glaring at me. Things [...]
New Ideas - When to begin?
So I’ve had an idea.
Something that would make a nice little short story, or possibly even the basis of something grander.
The idea isn’t what’s important here.
What matters is the problem of when to start writing.
You see….if I start to soon, then the idea won’t have had time to breathe. I personally like to give it [...]
The Games We Play - I Want to Build ‘em
So, I’ve been reading and thinking about one of my silly little pipe dreams this week. This is the one about Game design. I’ve always thought it would be incredible to be involved in the design of a game…simply because I enjoy playing them and learning the way they are structured.
Yes…I’m talking about PC Gaming…let [...]
Five Questions
We’re back in the meme business temporarily. I found this one the Bit’s blog and was intrigued. The particularly fun one about this is that its different questions. It depends upon what someone else wans to know about you. Feel free to ask for questions below, I shall provide to the best of my ability. [...]
Photo Jenny and the Eye of the Beholder
So, among other things I’ve been reading a bit more news than usual. Particularly the Guardian because it’s what I read generally, if only because I’d happily pay the cover price for getting to read whose Birthday it is (and raising an ale to anyone I respect…if possible) and the Quick Crossword…that makes me feel [...]
Noisecore Breakdown
Back in Brighton, tired as hell. Gonna try and have a nap and write a more interesting post later…lots of things occurred to me from various readings on trains and cars that I want to discuss. Some of them may even be related to each other.
Anyway, the gig went as well as they normally go. [...]
Thoughts Encrusted
Well, it’s my eyes that feel encrusted to be honest. I clearly haven’t had enough sleep and it’s clearly to early.
I’m not expecting to be witty and original any time soon. I’m in fact just trying to waste time while the water heats up so I can wash the metaphorical mud off my tired tired [...]
Fingerprints - Distinctive Writing
So, Caveblogem has launched a word stats crusade recently. It’s proving interesting.
What’s particularly got me thinking is the attempt to locate words unique to a specific blogger compared to others. Trying to get a kind of pattern of what words are distinctive to one person. The phrase fingerprint was used…and I was intrigued.
What makes a [...]
Things Falling Together - Creativity as Reverse Entropy
So, this is pretty much a part two of yesterday’s post. So you might want to read that first if you haven’t already. Today is going to be mostly inspired by Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Whitishrabbit’s comments yesterday. Also loads of Modernism/Post-Modernism lectures at Uni. And [...]
