Morecambe and Wise

So, a brief catch-up on the last few days:

After the boring night in on Friday night, Suzy came round on Saturday afternoon and we walked down to Galgate, via the scenic route. A detour through a cemetery and a quick mess about by a stream was good. Some very interesting cottages and old mills along the way too. The evening was spent drinking Bulmers and vodka (not together) and having my first Guitar Hero experience; I'm hooked. Sunday was completely uneventful except for a stroll to 'the meadow'. Yesterday we got the bus to Morecambe for a couple of hours. Had a go on those 2p machines; didn't win.

Still looking for a job, which is annoying because I have to pay my first months rent on the house early next week and I don't have the money for it. No idea what I'm going to do. I don't fancy telling the landlord I'm skint. Bad impressions.

If you haven't noticed, I have decided to use larger images for the blog now.

Staring at the Sea

A (nice) day in Morecambe today. I can't be bothered going into detail right now, I'm going out tonight and there's valuable drinking time being consumed already. Today we ate a traditional fish and chips at a traditional fish and chips joint, which was run by an Asian family and waited by a mute, black boy in a football shirt and trackies. Classy.

The Long and Winding Road

Been a good weekend. I'll expand on this later. I'm going to Morcambe today.

Hunting for Witches

For those of you who are interested this website offers streaming of a lot of top movies. I think some of them are from public domain as their copyright has expired, though a lot of them are quite recent like The Shining. From what I've checked they all seem to work. It includes such gems as Un Chien Andalou, Fahrenheit 451, Rashomon, Freaks, and It's A Wonderful Life. It even has the Mario Bava giallo classic, Black Sunday. Go buff up on your films now!

Moving into my wonderful Georgian house sometime next week (I think). It's a ground floor flat in the massive three-storey house, which was built around the mid-to-late 1700's, and is literally next to the castle. I'll be living there about three weeks on my own until my housemate, Jess, moves in.

Friday Night Lights

It's Friday night and I'm in my room, alone. This could probably only happen off term time. Usually by now I would be either a) getting ready to go out, or b) getting ready to go out whilst drinking. Hopefully the latter. But as I'm in and bored, a long post may have to do.

Me and Suzy (or Suzy and I if you prefer the proper English) are doing the Die Hard trilogy on DVD. We're going to watch the third, and second best film of the three in my opinion, tomorrow night. Hopefully after this I can convince her to watch the Beverley Hills Cop trilogy. Apparantly she doesn't like Eddie Murphy. I would agree if you didn't take into account a lot of his 80's movies, BHC, 48Hrs, Trading Places, etc. Maybe we could do other great trilogies/films and their sequels over the next few weeks? They could include the Alien quadrilogy, the Indiana Jones trilogy, the Dollars trilogy, the Halloween series, Star Wars and its sequels/prequels, and maybe the Rocky series?

I'm currently re-drafting my creative writing portfolio, which includes the beginning of a Coen Brothers-style thriller script entitled, 'The Girl from the North Country' (yes, after the Bob Dylan song), a TV comedy script, some poems, and a short story. I also included the beginning of a Michael Mann-inspired crime script which I named 'Held Up', which is retrospect is a shit title. Maybe I will use the beginning of this in another idea I have for a feature-length script about a photographer, obsession, love, and double-identities. 'An Affair Through A Lens' is inspired by films; The Passenger (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975), Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), and The Element of Crime (dir. Lars Von Trier, 1984).

By the way, the posted photograph was taken a couple of weeks ago, I haven't got my camera on me at the moment.

Shoplifters of the World Unite!

The Mirror Cracked

Currently listening to The Chinese Stars, Arab on Radar, Silicon Vultures, Beat Happening, Cold Cave, and Ye Olde Maids.