Yeah blog boy, make with the posts

JUST sneaking under the wire of an entire month since a post. I suck SO much. Plus I have SO MUCH to talk about it's untrue. I'll try and be more forthcoming.

Mostly on my mind is that a friend of mine, a lovely kid called Lucie Brabyn, was run over and killed last weekend. She was 22 and having just graduated from the school after three years training she was up in London, I think starting a new job. I'll do a post about this properly when I've assimilated the enormity of it. Which I guess may be never. But later anyway, the point is too sore right now. Suffice to say, my thoughts are with her family and other friends, all of whom are writing tributes to her on Facebook. Funny, because my first impulse was to write her a message on Facebook as if she would read it. I discovered a few people were there ahead of me. Didn't really hit me till yesterday when I saw pictures of her people had uploaded... i cried like a child for about an hour. Every once in a while I remember she's dead and it's like a punch in the gut. We weren't really close but we talked a lot and I liked her a huge amount and so did everyone else. She WILL be missed, and as I've said many times since the news, the world is a much less fun place without her.

That sad news gently aside for the moment, what else?

The kids have been away for a week and half. It's been weird. You'd think a week and half would be a lot but it's flown by. I wish we'd had the money to go somewhere last weekend, but I'm still pretty strapped for cash so I guess we'll have to make our own fun. OH we did go to Stourhead on Sunday, and that was really cool. Mia liked it a lot. I enjoyed it too, much more so that I would have had we gone to Weymouth, which was another thought. That would have been RAMMED with people and we'd have been exposed to the sun all day which is something I really don't like.

I've started making a little film about ADHD and me, just a little fill-in project I can make myself while I'm waiting to get some money to get "The Sacrament" geared up again. I'm filming lots of time-lapse clouds and stills and recording a voice over. I figure I can make a bunch of video podcasts, 10 minutes or so apiece, and then compile them into a feature later on. It's going to be fun, and I like a project. I have to say response to my experiments so far has been really lukewarm. People have looked at the handful of hasty shots I ran together and some music from Edith Frost and gone "meh!" so I'm not going to show anything to anyone ever again before a premiere. I'm so sick of people not "getting" what I'm on about or being able to see through the superficial flaws to the core of what I'm on about. I dent my own belief in things I make if I show them to people too soon. I should keep them under wraps until they rock. I just want to share, but it's breaking one of my own rules for the sake of a little instant gratification. Well, more fool me, I say. (NB: Just a note from the future... I later on retitled this film "Attention Seeker". Catchy huh?)

Okay, more great news, Kevin Smith is directing an episode of the new "Heroes" spin-off series "Origins". Here's Kev talking about that at the recent Comicon in Los Angeles.



So pretty cool huh? I really liked the "Heroes" series, we downloaded them as they came out in the US and watched them on the DiVX player... WONDERFUL show. Can't wait for the next season. Kind of short of things to watch at the moment, so we are working our way through the backlog of things we copied or bought over the last three months or so. Watching Michael Palin's "Pole to Pole" at the moment at bedtimes. After that we have a STACK about two feet high of cheap £3 DVDs that we picked up in Tesco. Damn them and their easy to afford DVDs. I guess that's the answer to piracy though, huh? Make the product cheap and people will buy instead of steal. Simple. Take note, RIAA and MPAA.

Later kitties, I'm out of here.