Random post I made

OK, looking over the scant entries I made I found this one, which seems worth putting up here, before I get into my series of short lectures on the badness of MSN and some more reading logs- so here it is, C'n Pd straight to you

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Hello nonexistent blog viewers!! I'm determined to keep up this thing if it kills me, well I can't see this actually being worth my life and if I were to die attempting to keep this up then I would no longer be able to keep it up therefore rendering void my effort to keep it up so it would be best if I didn't keep it up at all in the first place, but then that would put all this good meaningness to waste so I'll settle for just keeping it up halfheartedly. Therefore even before finishing this paragraph I've rendered it all null and void so it would probably be best to delete the whole thing but that would then waste all that I've just written and you wouldn't be able to see that I decided to delete it you would just see nothing and not know that I had deleted anything at all which is very bewildering indeed! Back to reality (and what is reali... oh never mind!) and my life is generally about as dull as the fact that I'm telling you it's dull. My time is often chewed up by two computer games, Knights of the Old Republic and Matrix Online the first of which is an exceedingly long game, the second is online and thus never ends! I do however find time to read, work on assignments and occasionally do something creative. I will endeavour to fit in this blog a little more often- though it's no longer an assignment I think I'll keep up my reading log as it was quite interesting to do and should be more fun now that there's no pressure. I may attempt something regular to keep this up- like a word of the week or summat I'd wish you a happy new year, but since you may read this much later that it's publication I wish you good day!! Word of the week: Meh? (Anyone got a dictionary definition?)" I'll keep you up to date with the word of the week thing as these are obviously old ones, my current one is Melancholy a word meaning said, but to me sounds like it should mean happy (mainly 'cause it rhymes with Jolly!!) Enjoy your lives people Me

Reading Log

As a task for Uni (I study Imaginative Writing) I was required to create a "reading log" of what literature I'd been digesting- I decided to use my Space as a place to record this information, so in turn i will pass on the information in an abbreviated form to this blog.

A Scanner Darkly- Apparently it's coming to the screen soon, starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder so I won't reveal the plot. Essentially it concerns a future where drug use is widespread and police are fighting a losing battle against it. We follow one officer as he is giving an assignment that will push his already tortured mind to the limit. This story was a lot darker than a lot of Philip K Dick's other writing or perhaps more acurately it was sadder as it came from the heart. The story was based on Dick's own experiences of drug abuse- and the novel ends with his memory of all his friends.

"This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have fun, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed- run over, maimed, destroyed- but they continued to play anyhow."


V for Vendetta- recently released in the cinema and if you still fancy seeing it I'll keep my mouth shut about the plot. The story features quite possibly the coolest hero in comics, constantly wearing a smiling mask and quoting shakespeare whilst killing thugs he fights to bring down a system of corruption and cruelty. I like the fact that the main hero is an insane terrorist and yet we can happily support him on his rampage across London. I'm fairly ignorant of the comics world but i think this is some of the best comic book writing there will ever be.

Minority Report- a short story collection featuring it's namesake and the basis for the fim Totall Recall a good collection of stories on the whole. Written by Philip K Dick, a true master of Science Fiction these stories were helpful to me as I attempt to write my own Sci-Fi shorts. However these were clearly early works and I could see that some were prototypes for other novels that would come later- one even featured the same character as the novel Ubik! I could begin to pick up on his style too- the ending is always a big shock, though I'm still not good enough to guess what the shock will be yet!

Right, that'll do for now- more to follow.

Welcome to my world

Well I've moved into the world of blogspot- so all you weirdoes out there can learn about me and my life etc. I've started a more comfortable blog on MSN Space and this will be copied, pasted and edited onto this- hence the title. C 'n P is my persuasion of a lot of current music, which comes under the title Contemporary Rap And Pop, which is often ripping off older songs- or Copying 'n Pasting them! So (C 'n P as opposed to R 'n B- clever innit!)

I suppose moaning wasn't the best way to start this, but hey- it prepares you for the rest of the contents coming up soon, but for now, there's a chance of something decent on TV, so goodbye for now people of Planet Earth