Copies of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and a Criterion of Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well arrived today and that was awesome. If you’re not aware of the awesomeness that is Darkplace (a believable, yet fictitious 80’s horror/drama by the well fictitious Garth Marenghi), then shame on you, or more likely shame on me for not spreading enough word on it.

Woke up with the modem and router completely missing from the house and the kitchen rearranged around and smelling of wet paint. Always hate being severed of a connection to the net. People wonder whether they’d survive living a hundred years ago. I wonder how I’d cope with twenty years ago before the internet boomed as we know it. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting on the asshats who’ve now held my phone hostage for two weeks and still no real garuantee they’ve actually fixed it yet. Heads will soon roll.

Gonna be in Auckland this weekend for a mass screening of Tarantino’s new film Inglorious Basterds and while I’m not holding my breath for it to be awesome, what I do hope to go to and experience awesomeness of is a sneak preview screening of the first 15 minutes from James Cameron’s new film Avatar. For free and in 3D. Further details on the event and session times can be found at https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0908/S00244.htm.

Gwaaah… the start a new week. Always so much fun.

Woke up retardedly early today with two tentative filming gigs offered, which is always a fun start, followed by chasing some growing rumors of a new radiohead album possibly appearing soon, though I’m not holding my breath on that being the cynical bastard I am.

Also caught up with a surprising number of people I’d not talk to in a while and some I just like talking to and then proceeded to get annoyed at the useless bastards who are taking way too bloody long to fix my cellphone. Something I could have and should have done on my own now that I realise how bloody long it actually takes the bastards just to replace a screen.

Wandered the streets crying out for my cellphone to return to me till I realised I was hungry and then proceeded to eat a bunch bakery foods while watching How to Lose Friends and Alienate People which is good, but not great, but still amusing. Paid some bills, sent some emails, fought a mountain lion and then went to work.

Hopefully that fills my personal blogging quota for now.

Been enjoying just posting odd links here and there, it ain’t quite as interesting to post things about myself, which are just boring to read as you can see… Well, except for posts about how awesome I am at playing guess who for the future of the human race against robot invaders (their rules of conduct are dumb).

Oh and big congrats to two lots of friends who’ve announced their engagement recently, Art and Judy; and David and Brooke. I look forward to being drunk at your weddings.

Well shit, I’ve taken a bit more of a break from blogging than intended, but ah well here’s the catch-up…

Been working well too much in the last week, balancing filming and working. Still have to work on actually combining the two into a one regular thing.

48 Hours continues to be prevailing. C4 is currently screening three 48 films from this year every night at 11pm on a weeknight. Starting Wednesday, they’ll be screening the regional winners, Friday will be the wildcards as picked by Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro (super cool) and Saturday will be the televised finals (at 9pm if you are interested in watching). Our film will be screened last on Wednesday night which will be really cool and you’ll get to see our retarded intro and possibly my retarded interview as well. Past that, we don’t have any illusions of actually winning the entire competition and while it is an international competition and there’s no telling who could be picked for whatever reason, I highly doubt we’d win anything and it’s basically just cool, if not still surprising, to have gotten this far again.

Oh and if you’re unable to watch any of the episodes of the 48 Hours tv show, they’re online at the C4 website here. It’s pretty much how I’ve been following the show as I’m working when its on and come to think of it, might not even be available to watch the finals when they screen.

There’s plenty of other things to mention, but I’ll save it for another post. This week shall just be catch up week really as I start sorting out what I need to do next. Room currently looks like a post-tornado site and the boot of my car is filled with just as much junk to go through.

In the meantime here are some videos:

A very cool ‘stop motion’ video with post its and computer who ha.

An online comedy video series thing that’s pretty funny and manages to keep being so in subsequent videos.

And my current favourite awesome, the latest N.A.S.A. music video for the tract “A Volta”. Totally brilliant.

Also a few New Scientist articles I’ve enjoyed and cause the tabs are still open…

Seven things that don’t make sense about gravity.

10 scientific objects that changed the world.

And the very cool article on The inside story of the Conficker worm.

The goddamn heat at the moment is being a real bitch at the moment. Slowly, bit by bit, I’ve been getting more and more things to do and with the current heat wave, it’s really hard to do anything but sit around and bitch about the heat. That or blog about how damn hot it is.

Actually, I’ve been doing a lot of long distance driving in the last few weeks and most of it during the day. Actually, by some internal clock coincidence or something, most of this driving has been occurring when the sun is at just the right angle so that no matter which direction up or down from Hamilton I’ve been driving, there’s well enough sunlight on the drivers side to give me a tan on just my right arm. So now my right arm is quite darker than my left and I’m starting to feel a bit like Harvey fucking Two-Face and a lot less like Batman, which is causing quite a complex for my motives in fighting crime at night.

Anyway, over the weekend, I drank and saw off my friend Cameron who’s now taken off to live in Melbourne, Australia for the purpose of well, to be in Australia. It was about as close to a spur of the moment act as any act of changing lifestyles can be. Just short of grabbing a passport, burning your house to the ground and leaving an intricate puzzle that’ll stump investigators for decades. Cause that’s how I’d do it and so would Batman.

Anyway, I wish him the best of luck in his hunt for buried Nazi gold and we can follow his travels along in his blog at https://cameronscott.blogspot.com/