April 2008
52 posts
My Radiohead 'In Rainbows' review on the NME... →
Sing of the Week:
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
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Todays Word Count.
After a heavy weekend partying; 345 words today. An agonising amount.
Mojo - iTunes Music Sharing →
Amazing app that lets you share eachothers iTunes songs in an easy to use interface.
My username is Chepanzee
Writing in my Sleep.
Last night I dreamed a story. But I was actually writing it in my dream as well as seeing it in my mind. It became confusing. Okay, so, I was with three guys and we were trying to write a screenplay - this was the actual story I was writing. It was a story about four guys trying to write a script about a Polish man who was tryng to kill himself by jumping into a port. He wanted to die because he...
Stoned Soldier = Bad Soldier « Ghosts of Alexander →
Bon Iver's myspace. →
Two other songs on Bon Iver’s myspace page.
Song of the Week:
Bon Iver - re:Stacks
Jesus, Police Cop of Nazerus.
I’m thinking about a historical crime series of books based around Jesus.
He has his posse of disciples to help him solve crime in 1st century Gallilee. Everything from goat rustling to murder.
Thomas would say, “I don’t think this is our guy.”
or, “I’m not sure if this is the murder weapen, you know.”
Jesus will pick up phrases he hears and write...
Me and my brother, George, made this ringtone.
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Snozwangler - Find Out Who The F*ck Just Called... →
“Welcome to the Snozwangler website. The Snozwangler website is perfect for people who receive nuisance calls or regularly find missed calls on their phones. If you have ever wondered “who’s number is?” then you can simply type it into the above search bar.
If you find a match you will be able to view the details we have in our database for that number and even visit...
‘Thirteen Feet of Snowfall’
A song I...
'Ron's Eulogy' In decomP Magazine →
Last year I had this short-short story published in decomP Magazine, April 2007 - maybe I could have an annual appearence (April is my birthday as well).
It’s a brothers struggling attempts at a eulogy for his wayward sibling, Ron.
decomP Magazine →
Link to the front page and all the goodies held there within.
decomP Magazine Features Me This Month
decomP is a magnificent magazine full of art, poetry and prose. The contributors are a bunch of talented people. Give it a read.
Here’s how they describe this months issue,
“Welcome back to decomP for the April 2008 issue. We hope March treated you well. This month we’re pleased to feature new work from Ward Crockett, Jack T. Marlowe, Sam Pink, Brian Rosenberger, Cindy Rosmus,...
George Orwell's Ten-Point Plan For The Perfect...
George Orwell’s ten-point plan used as base for Wetherspoon’s pubs. A pub needed 8 out of the 10 to be acceptable to Orwell. 1. The pub’s architecture and fittings must be uncompromisingly Victorian. 2. Games, such as darts, are only played in the public part of the bar; the saloon bar, ladies’ bar, bottle-and-jug bar, and upstairs dining room. 3. The pub is quiet enough to...
WatchA true genius of the short story. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel is worth saving from the fire, flood or any other act of God.
Word Count Update No. 2
Nada, niet, nothing, rien, zilch, zero, none, o, 0… And finally, fuck all.
To be fair, I switched off today. I spent the day attempting to go to a garden centre and then buying some trousers. We didn’t make it to the garden centre - yawn - because it started to rain and we got bored. Then the creative morning block had disappeared. The trousers are really nice, though. Linen and...
WatchI love this. It is such a good pastiche it could be from the 80’s.
The Opening To My Story...
Cordite.
And so he bought a gun and learned to use it; he told himself it was for the protection of his family and their possessions. He began to love its cold barrel and perfect mechanism. When he saw other guns on television and in movies he thought of his own and held it in his mind. He had read all the literature and was careful to...
Arvon Foundation →
This is what I want. A week in the countryside would be bliss. Me, lappy and the sunshine.
Tonight me and my brother, George Watts, made this...
Word Count Update Redux
I did write a thousand words on Tuesday, so, er…
… Yes, it does makes me feel better to say that.
It’s a good idea for a story. I wanted to knowingly - nudge, nudge. Wink, wink - link with Checkov’s gun trope. That if a gun appears in a story it has to get fired. The first line of the story is “And so he bought a gun and learned to use it; he told himself it was...
Word Count No. 1
Twenty One Words Today.
They were:
“Oh, yeah. I forgot. I’m worried about her. She never sleeps. She’s always out of bed, up and down the stairs.”
Jesus…
Graffiti Seen On Desk.
Amzing graffiti on the desk of my screenwriting class today:
“Time is just an abstract concept.”
then below…
“Pow! the poontang partyboy!”
then below that…
“little dragon.”
A philosopher, a sexual devient and a small child?
I don’t know what it means, but amazing all the same.
Writing... The Hard Way.
I think that the glorious days when I wake up, head buzzing with a story, and spend the morning clicking at the keyboard make up for those other days. The days when on waking I have no feeling for anything; no words have formed themselves in my dozing mind the day is full of endless scrabbelings toward creating fiction. Pecking at flecks like a battery chicken. The page is so white I cannot look...
My Fiction Site →
Links to my writing.