This is my first blog in a while and i really dont feel like conforming to my self giving title of "negative"
The reason why i take so long to do blogs (i think my last was about 2 weeks ago) is because its hard to always think about negative things to write about that dont actually involve my current personal life. Needless to say im in a bad mood and have even resulted in taking it out on other bloggers! (sorry mighty-boosh-kitty however i still think you get featured way too much) But i think if i write about anything negative for a while my head will actually fall off.
I have always tried to keep my blogs away from the typical angle of writing about my life and instead writing them with the mindset i was writing an article for the Guardian newspaper or something. I did this for a few different reasons but i did it mainly because (1) Why would anyone want to know what was going on in my life and why would i want effective strangers to know? and (2) I wanted to keep my blogs interesting and relitively well written and not "droolings of the mind"
I could have completely copped out and resorted to writing my opinion about something i read in a tabloid newspaper but i think for today im going to completely go against what i have been doing previously and just give you a completely boring overvue of my last 2 weeks (as that seems to be what gets people featured) So here we go:
The last 2 weeks i have been mostly watching films, listening to music, making a film and reading books.
Films: The films i have been mainly focusing on lately are 80s horrors for inspiration on my own horror film "Splatterpus"
www.diaryofanammaturefilmmaker.blog.co.uk - you can see its progress here on this horribly shameless plug.
I have also been watching all my Coen brothers films as well as going to the cinema with my girlfriend to see their new film "burn after reading" which was very good.
Music: I have been mainly working on the music for my horror film which i am directing.
www.diaryofanammaturefilmmaker.blog.co.uk - Heres another shameless plug to my other blog, because i reall just want to fill up some room on this page to give the illusion of more stuff i have been doing over the last 2 weeks.
I have also been listening to : Devin Townsend, Mastodon, Aphex Twin and Squarepusher
As well as ALL THIS i have also been reading. I have read "V for Vendetta" and "Watchmen" by Alan Moore. Like most people i had seen the film version of V for Vendetta (which to be fair is very good) however when you read the graphic novel you really do realise just how lacking the movie is.
I also thought it was about time i read "Watchmen" I dont really like seeing a movie adaptation unless i have a full understanding of how its supposed to be. Needless to say it was definately one of the most amazing, deep and interesting things i have ever read.
I CAN ASSURE YOU i am NOT just jumping on the watchmen bandwagon. unfortunately due to my tender and innocent age of 18, due to no fault of my own i was not alive when it first came out. I am however glad i can say i have read it before the movie has come out as even though the movie looks good i doubt it can ever fully capture what Watchmen means to me. I do read "grown up books" as well and i can honestly say despite watchmen being what some ignorant people would cosider a "kids comic book" its definately no Beano and is deeper than anything else i have read so far. But i could talk about Watchmen all day so i'll stop now.
Oh yeah did i remember to plug my new blog? I didnt? oh well ok here it is:
