Posts in the Entertainment category

Hello everybody,

It's been quite a while since I last posted on the blog. Why? Well, it's a number of things:

Everyone's going nuts over politics, and has polarized. I'd post about political stuff, but I just don't have the heart for it. Partly this is because I've recently found that I lose friends when I talk politics (I don't automatically slew in the direction of my friends on every issue even though I'm a bleeding-hearty lefty - I prefer nuance, and right now there's none). I'm not willing to compromise my principles or ignore facts or skip analysis, so away from politics I go.

Work has been busy. I've been doing new and interesting things, some of which may or may not pan out... But as a result, I've been trying not to blog. I discovered many years ago that writing kind of shifts a gear in my head - and I don't want to get stuck in that gear. It can take weeks for me to shift back, so I've been avoiding it. Instead, I've been working on music.

So I’m happy to say that I’ve finished writing the first draft of the pilot episode of my reality mockumentary comedy tv pilot (wow, that’s a mouthful), Brixton vs Compton. It’s in the hands of my read-through crew now, which is a nice place in the process to be in.

Of course, it’s also only episode 1 of 12. (Which means I need to get my skates on and write at least another 3 episodes sharpish).

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My 3 year old daughter Lexi just said "The Wait Is Over" in ominous tones to my wife Darci. Darci had no idea where she got that phrase from. I thought it was from movie trailers.

Lexi pipes up with "No, it's from Pitch Black".

"Well my dear, you have very discerning tastes in Sci-Fi horror movies, but when did you see Pitch Black?"

"He was saying it to Jack Frost."

Ohhhhhhh... Rise of the Guardians. Not  Vin Diesel. I see.

Okay, so I was totally surprised by Oblivion. I was originally planning on not watching it, bucketing it in the same category as After Earth – the sci-fi movies whose interviews prove that (provided they’re not completely taken out of context), Will and Jaden Smith have slipped their ratchets and gone cuckoo.

And then I did watch it, at my (way smarter than me, naturally) wife’s insistence.

I’m massively glad that I did. Reasons why?

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