For my 3 fans I’ve been preoccupied with stuff, you know. For one everything mechanical object in my life is slowly dying. My computer suffers from sporadic hardware lock ups - most notably one of the 4 hard drives in it is has bad sectors but I can’t afford to replace it. Thankfully it’s only got music on it. One channel of my hifi is going - crackling like a mofo. Annoying beyond words.
What’s been happening - not much. Life sucks, you suck, go away.
Cats make the best internet memes.
Time to get excited about The Fountain. Really my first reaction to it’s trailer was ‘Meh’ but after having read this Wired article I have begun to catch the ‘oski bug. To quote:
One of Aronofsky’s primary ambitions was to create outer-space environments without using CGI, and he succeeded brilliantly with the help of a microphotographer in England named Peter Parks who lives in a 400-year-old cowshed and created luminous, Blake-like visions of exploding nebulae for "The Fountain" using curry powder, baby oil, shrimp larvae, and other wacky substances, magnifying them with a device called the microzoom optical bench that employs both Victorian prisms and state-of-the-art digital cameras.
To give you an idea of what that means, check the Film poster.
2006 has been an amazing year for Film.
Elsewhere, exciting news - It’s NanoWriMo. Time to bang out that 175 page novel by the end of November. I’ve never tried this before but I’m going to give it a shot with a ‘Why the Fuck not’ attitude. Why don’t you? You might discover unplumbed depths of Stygian rot deep in your heart, the kind of stuff that makes good print in other words!
I just discovered GTDMonkey, an excellent task manager that you can download and use. It’s not actually a program, rather it’s a webpage that you download to your Computer, filled with HTML, JS and various other voodoo. What that spells though is is a great web interface to plan projects and your daily doings. What does GTD stand for? Getting Things Done. GTD is actually a type of time management strategy to help you be more productive, and I know that things like that sounds like rubbish but a lot of people who enjoy being productive have found GTD a great way to help in their daily business. Heavens knows I need to GTD, so this is a good start!
Holy Folktronica Tunng Power Batman.