Backstage with Bob Dylan

Simon just sent this to me, and i had to put it on here so Dad could see it. Possibly it's because i've been awake for about 35 hours and am having the most stressful day of my life and am just a little bit punchy because of that, but it made me laugh a lot!



Also, i'm beginning to think that my love for Tom Waits is bordering on the obscene, but damn, i might have to watch Down By Law again.



What a dude!

this is where the wild things are

Those lovely gents at men.style.com, a website i check almost obsessively, today gave me a real treat in the form of a link to Spike Jonze's blog for the making of "Where The Wild Things Are." And just because i'm a very good person, i'm going to share it with you. Enjoy http://weloveyouso.com/blog/ and think of me.
I've been looking forward to this film for actual years, since rumours first started spreading that Jonze was teaming up with Dave Eggers (literary love of my life) to adapt the Maurice Sendak story.


I've watched the trailer about a million times, and it looks like a hug of a movie. I can't wait to see it, but i'll have to, so hopefully this blog shall tide me over until October.

Oh you sneaky disney people, tricking us innocent kiddywinks

Simon just sent me this link, because i said i wanted more magic in my films (as in films i watch as much as films i make). This doesn't exactly enhance the magic of these films, but the editing makes this one magical in itself.



Interesting, non? I wonder how they noticed, i never would have unless it had been shown to me.

Othello At The Brighton Fringe

Set in the claustrophobic world of modern politics, this contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic play explores the invasion of privacy, and the devastating effect it can have on people’s lives.

By submersing itself in modern celebrity and paparazzi culture, this production of Othello proves Shakespeare’s relevance to the modern world once and for all.

Othello is Shakespeare’s classic example of the destructive power of jealousy and mistrust. Innocence is corrupted and trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies. By exploring the idea that “tearing down privacy lets in chaos and lets out love,” this production looks at Othello in a new, contemporary, cultural light.

Sussex University’s acclaimed drama society is proud to present its third production at the Brighton Fringe festival, after many years of successful productions at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Dates & times: 18-22 May - 6pm

Venue: Brighton Unitarian Church

Price: £6/£5 conc.

Tickets can be bought online at:
http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/ticketing/webextra.aspx?ev=907

This is my big directorial debut, and it's shaping up to be a pretty awesome show. I've been working on it since November, and it's taken over most of my life, but hopefully it will all be worth it. Now i just need people to come. We were in The Independent this Saturday, which is amazing, and will hopefully boost our audience numbers, but i still want more!
Please buy tickets, and wish me ridiculous amounts of luck.

My new favourite website

All of you are hereby ordered to look at http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/ and then laugh like idiots. I mean really, how cool is this guy?!


"why yes, i do have ironic pubic hair."

For those losing faith in the goodness of humanity.

The Tweenbot is a cardboard-bodied, human-dependent robot that navigates the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Tweenbot has equipped with a flag stating its intended destination, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal. Kacie Kinzer, the student of Tisch School of the Arts created the tweenbot for his art experiment.
"Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot...

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the 'right' direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can't go that way, it's toward the road."


Oh, I love this world.

The Fair Youth

So back in October my friend Alex wrot me a poem, which was lovely, if a little on the dirty side. I've been mocking him recently because it seems the only things he ever reads out that he has written are kind of in the same vein, so he set himself the chllenge of writing me a sonnet. Something clean and nice and sweet insted of perverse. He started writing it while we were in the pub. Here's the finished thing.

The Fair Youth

She dresses like she works for sugaRAPE,
And she confuses me most of the time,
Laughs like Muttley, Smirks like a Pirate,
But this short-haired pixie that makes me rhyme,
Intrigues me more than any catwalk bint,
Could ever hope to catch my wandering eye,
Without her foulness and her cheeky glint,
Those throat-drying legs that make my soul sigh,
Wears her hair how she wants- she wears it well,
Flirts like a sailor and swears like one too,
This fire in my heart I’ve no wish to quell,
When butterflies squirm at her wolf-dance moves,
Some call it her style, but I call it art,
I lost my mind, and she stole my heart.

Isn't it lovely? (for any of you that don't know, sugaRAPE is a made up magazine from Nathan Brley, an awesome comedy show from a couple of years ago.)
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Happy Easter weekend.
x

Validation

Another video from "Smart Bitches love Trashy Books," this one is 17 minutes of pure, unadulterated happiness. It's adorable short-filmmaking and i demand you watch it the whole way through at least once!



Don't you feel better now? You. You are great.

Only in Wales...

I just found this video on a blog called "Smart Bitches love Trashy Books," a link i clicked on because i physically couldn't not. The very first thing on the page was this video, which has nothing to do with smart bitches or trashy books, but which is amazing none the less.



Well done Baa Studs, you officially brightened up my rainy friday.

Happy Mother's day.

I've said it before and i'll say it again. My mum is cool.


All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

For once i disagree with Oscar. If i grow up to be like my mum then i will have succeeded in so many ways.
I love her.