I'm back

Ten months and I have finally started writing again. It looks like my first draft for the sitcom is going to have a feature length script that is going to be cut down to about 25 pages when I'm done. Let the horror begin.

I liked John Carter (of Mars)

It was kind of sucky, the storyline rushed and generalised, but the humour was actually funny and there was loads of blood.

That was why I didn't like The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. You had a massive battle with minotaurs and shit, but no blood.

Also, John Carter is a gold digger (Nuance!).

It could've been much, much better.

The action was good, the CGI was not lacking at all.

I still liked it. I will buy the blu-ray. Good enough.

Also, if we can have a film set on mars without the title indicating it, I want the next Harry Brown to be set on Mars. Oh, and Antwone Fisher, he can finally have his Charlie Kaufman moment.... on Mars.


*Spoiler below*



He totally married for the title.

What I wish I wrote (Unofficial Hate #4)

Doing online applications for business' is the most annoying process I know. The main point is when they ask why I want to work for them or a short personal statement to support my application.

I'll make it nice and simple for them.

Money. I want your fucking money, and I want to use it for my own gain. Like every fucking person in the world.

Here is what I wrote first:

The fact that you require a personal statement alongside my credentials to support my application is ludicrous. What is the point of going through when applying for a low paying, low respected, no future careers as a sales advisor. Would it be better if I record a blood sacrifice and posted it to the HR department in Gloucester, where I strangle a chicken and make a vow to Satan to bind my soul with the economical enterprise that is your company? Why do you require this much convincing, businesses such as yourself should stop convincing yourselves that working for a business means you are a fanatic convert to the point of evangelical cashiers at Tesco. You are asking people to do a mind numbing job, this is a matter of respect and a completely lack of humility on the side of businesses.

I did not send that, I wanted to though. The next time some company requests that, well, I think I'll send a better draft of this.

Fucking bastards.

Hate #3

My neighbour who sings in the morning. You are a horrid, horrid singer and yet you do it every morning.

I funded Wastelander Panda

I decided to get it out of the way. Despite exceeding the Aus$20,000 I threw in £10. Plus I get HD downloads of the three episodes.

Post-Uni

It's almost a year since my friends and I left university. I don't think any of us expected post-uni to be the way it has turned out.

It's like being on the worlds biggest rollercoster, slowly going up the steepest incline known to man, and we're no where near the top. In some cases, the rollercoster has stalled or gone back a few metres. Will we ever reach the top?

Don't be Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray is the person who invented the telephone, well, almost. Elisha Gray submitted his patent the same day as Alexander Graham Bell handed in his patent, by how many hours and minutes, I don't know.

Every since I read Aaron Sorkins play "The Farnsworth Invention" this has been in my mind.

Don't be Elisha Grey.

I think I'm going to print it out and put it on my noteboard.

I've been through it before, so have my friends. We come up with ideas, then within seconds, days, weeks etc. Someone else has made the idea and got it out there. There is a feeling of loss, the idea going up in flames usually.

It is becoming more and more apparent to me, that as soon as you have an idea, there is a clock ticking away until somebody else releases it as well.

Yes, two people did release a video that was similar to an idea of mine and it hurt. I'm in the planning stages of a project, I don't have a camera and haven't done any extensive planning. These people did and did it better than I would've imagined and better than I could've. But my idea is different in some ways and I don't think I have the budget that these people had.

 I will carry on with the project, despite this. Mine will be distinct, but it won't have the same significance (to me) that it once did.

I'm going to print out my new maxim now.