So, yeah this past week's been a bit hectic.... I should start when it officially started for me, Last Friday!
Friday 8th October
I left at around 10 in the morning and headed off to Leeds, and then to Manchester, and Chester. Trains are ace! No seriously, I prefer them to buses, there's less hassle and rocking around. Much more pleasant journey. After arriving in Chester I promptly met up with a group of approx. 30 friends for a huge geekend!
Saturday 9th October
Geekend continues, we watched many films of varying quality. Including the awesomeness that is Rockula! No seriously, check out this film, it's ace! It's a vampire rom-com musical! In which a vampire named Ralph has to rescue his true love. Ressurected every 22 years only to be killed by a pirate. Who has a rhinestone pegleg. And a ham bone... So, he starts a band! It's bloody brilliant, the songs are funny and well produced and Toni Basil plays Ralph's mum, Phoebe! She's.... strange. But really track it down, it's well worth the effort!
In that same night, we also had a costume party, in which I was a Black Lantern version of myself. I'm proud of the costume. If anyone wants to see the results, watch my DevART page for a comparison between the design and final product...
Sunday 10th October
Pretty much the same, minus the costume party. But it had added Twilight-bashing and Dean-from-Supernatural in a daft rom-com, which had Clea Duvall as a tomato-girl!
Monday 11th October
Headed back to Lovely, lovely Leeds! Got up at 9, finally got back home at 3:30! The good thing was I wasn't hallucinating this time around (Don't ask.)!
Tuesday 12th October
Nothing much happened, spent most of the day catching up with things, the internet primarily. And began to draw the web comic. To date, it's still not done. Then at some point after 5 I headed off to Leeds for a Fantasy Art thing.
Wednesday 13th October
Went down to Bradford with my best mate and his girlfriend and went on the Uni Radio. Listen to ...And Be Done With It on RAMAIR 13.50 AM! Wednesday's 7-9pm! It's brilliant! There plugging out the way. The web comic's still not done. We went to the pub after, and the new studio's looking nearly there!
Thursday 14th October
Met my new girlfriend (Hi Nic, if you're reading! xx) and headed down the White Rose with her and her older Sister after a brief meeting at hers. Then I went down town. The comic's still not done. Noticing a pattern, Ladies and gents?
Friday 15th October
Hung out with my girlfriend, my best friend and his girlfriend. Not much, but STFU, this is my blog, I can talk about what ever bollocks I want!
Saturday 16th October
Started the day at 7:30, I had work at 8.... Ugh, I know people say they hate their bosses, but really. One of mine is an absolute cunt. May the bastard die screaming horribly. Fuck him, fuck his bad attitude and moronic decisions. The man has no idea how to run a supermarket! I could run it better than him, and I think he knows it... Anyway, after I finished at 5. Went home, got changed and left at 5:15. To go to Sheffield.
To one of the best nights of the year! I went to see one of my favourite bands ever. ALESTORM! Support one of the bands I do actually quite like, SABATON! They were ace! Yes, me and my mates got a bit lost on the way, but we right up there at the front, rocking and getting slightly crushed to songs like Captain Morgan's Revenge, Uprising, Cliffs of Galipoli and Keelhauled! Guess whose songs are whose... Yes, it was an amazing night out, despite my ears ringing and my voice slightly hoarse. My back weirdly, never felt better! Oh, and I met the band as well!
Sunday, we had a stock take, but that left me bitter and threatening horrific acts of hubris on my superiors involving pencils and ropes and stuffed owls...
And that is why I haven't got the next page of the web comic up!
Monday 18 October 2010
Saturday 2 October 2010
In The Mouth Of Madness, A Review...thing...
"Visit Scenic Hobb's End! Home of the maddeningly horrific works of novelist Sutter Cane!"
...
Actually... don't.
So I was watching In The Mouth Of Madness last week, and I thought it was pretty good! Alright, I'm a John Carpenter fan anyway so there's a touch of bias but bear with me. It was a great film, wonderfully atmospheric little horror, dealing with madness, literature and scary squid-shaped thingees...
And you can't fault a film which starts with your lead character shouting "I'm sorry about the balls!" while being dragged kicking and screaming into a padded cell. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I've always been fascinated by H.P. Lovecraft's work, but I've never read any of it. Partly because I'm a visual person, and I love descriptions of monsters in novels. And Mr. Lovecraft's beasties are usually left obscure and not seen (I think), and to me, that's a bit boring. Sometimes I do like to know what I'm meant to be scared of. This film is a big tribute to him and his, complete with the weird foreboding sense of unease. Anyway...
It all starts with a man, no not our loony hero John Trent. But rather another loony. One with an axe. He attacks our John but not before asking "Do You Read Sutter Cane?" So, Sutter Cane's this famous horror writer, right? And his stuff's really good, and like H.P.'s. Only he's gone missing. So his publishers send John Trent with Cane's Editor/ Publicist, Linda Styles, to track him down and get his latest bit of work. The titular In The Mouth of Madness. Then thing's get weird....
It turns out that this place all his books are set in, Hobb's End, is actually real and not a fictional location! And things get weirder, paintings start changing, kid's disappear and Sutter's acting all smug and evil. Mind you, he's played by Jurgen Prochnow so that's understandable. What kind of name is Sutter anyway? Oh, and after reading a bit of the book, Styles is acting a bit off and the villagers are mutating. Poor, John meanwhile, is oblivious to all of this. Or trying to ignore it.
The film is really good with the whole paranoid mood. Everyone seems out to get the pair, from the kiddies with the semi-melty faces to the creepy old biddie who owns the local B&B. And the whole thing about the villagers all claiming to be written by Cane and not being real. As well as the town itself, not supposed to be existing.
It was a good film and the ending, which I will not ruin, was about right. If I say it's part of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy, it should give you an idea of what to expect. But, as much as I liked it, I do wish there had been more of the monsters involved. Yes, there were some in it, but I do like my monsters and I would have loved to have seen some more utilised when scaring Trent. As well, I didn't think there was enough in terms of atmosphere to scare people. Yes it did get me thinking in certain bits, but overall if I want to be atmospherically spooked by something, I really want it to be a bit more there..
Still, I do recommend you see this one. It's a clever film and will make you think about the power of literature and beliefs. The only thing I hope is that Stephenie Meyer doesn't have the same power or end up with a similar cult following with her series...
That and I can find a region 2 copy of this film, it were great and I'd love to see it again...
...
Actually... don't.
So I was watching In The Mouth Of Madness last week, and I thought it was pretty good! Alright, I'm a John Carpenter fan anyway so there's a touch of bias but bear with me. It was a great film, wonderfully atmospheric little horror, dealing with madness, literature and scary squid-shaped thingees...
And you can't fault a film which starts with your lead character shouting "I'm sorry about the balls!" while being dragged kicking and screaming into a padded cell. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I've always been fascinated by H.P. Lovecraft's work, but I've never read any of it. Partly because I'm a visual person, and I love descriptions of monsters in novels. And Mr. Lovecraft's beasties are usually left obscure and not seen (I think), and to me, that's a bit boring. Sometimes I do like to know what I'm meant to be scared of. This film is a big tribute to him and his, complete with the weird foreboding sense of unease. Anyway...
It all starts with a man, no not our loony hero John Trent. But rather another loony. One with an axe. He attacks our John but not before asking "Do You Read Sutter Cane?" So, Sutter Cane's this famous horror writer, right? And his stuff's really good, and like H.P.'s. Only he's gone missing. So his publishers send John Trent with Cane's Editor/ Publicist, Linda Styles, to track him down and get his latest bit of work. The titular In The Mouth of Madness. Then thing's get weird....
It turns out that this place all his books are set in, Hobb's End, is actually real and not a fictional location! And things get weirder, paintings start changing, kid's disappear and Sutter's acting all smug and evil. Mind you, he's played by Jurgen Prochnow so that's understandable. What kind of name is Sutter anyway? Oh, and after reading a bit of the book, Styles is acting a bit off and the villagers are mutating. Poor, John meanwhile, is oblivious to all of this. Or trying to ignore it.
The film is really good with the whole paranoid mood. Everyone seems out to get the pair, from the kiddies with the semi-melty faces to the creepy old biddie who owns the local B&B. And the whole thing about the villagers all claiming to be written by Cane and not being real. As well as the town itself, not supposed to be existing.
It was a good film and the ending, which I will not ruin, was about right. If I say it's part of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy, it should give you an idea of what to expect. But, as much as I liked it, I do wish there had been more of the monsters involved. Yes, there were some in it, but I do like my monsters and I would have loved to have seen some more utilised when scaring Trent. As well, I didn't think there was enough in terms of atmosphere to scare people. Yes it did get me thinking in certain bits, but overall if I want to be atmospherically spooked by something, I really want it to be a bit more there..
Still, I do recommend you see this one. It's a clever film and will make you think about the power of literature and beliefs. The only thing I hope is that Stephenie Meyer doesn't have the same power or end up with a similar cult following with her series...
That and I can find a region 2 copy of this film, it were great and I'd love to see it again...
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