Met up with James and Nic last night in London. Went for dinner and had a good chat. James gave me a copy of his new single, things are really happening with him on the DJing side. We talked about feature ideas.
Afterwards went around to Al's in Lewisham, he was just back from the studio in wales and was on a creative high. Got up to the usual shenanigans, and listened to some good music - Beatles, dylan and the boss. I had a meeting this morning so didn't get too wasted. Elizabeth was in france so it could have got real messy. Maybe playing drums on a couple of tracks for Al, which will be cool.
Got to continue revising this weekend. Very pleased with the progress so far on the novel.
The children are still ill, so not sure what we're going to do at the weekend. Got Last Days and Wolf Creek to watch.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
A work in progress...47
Had a bad cold over the weekend so didn't do much writing. I'm busy revising the first 10,000 words and like what I've written so far. I've got the work laptop for another week and may have my own back by the weekend. The computer will reboot with XP Home, but not Pro , which is what it was installed with. Very bizarre.
I've been drilling the kids all weekend for their sponsored spell and I'm reading them Roald Dhal's The Wicthes on a nighttime, which is scaring the pants off them. We had a good day together yesterday as my wife was at a dance workshop all day. I couldn't take them swimming as promised, due to my cold, but we did go out for lunch.
My wife was also unwell and went to bed early on saturday night. I stayed up and watched A Clockwork Orange. The film usually makes me depressed, but this time I watched it for its artistic merits. Forget the violence this is a beautiful film, I hadn't realised Beethoven's Ninth played such an important part of the film. I have been listening to this piece of music quite a lot recently and it made the film all the more powerful for me.
I also watched Nil By Mouth, another unforgiving British film that pulls no punches. Ray Winstone is terrrifying as the out of control geezer beating up everyone he comes into contact with. Gary Oldman's script and direction is brutally authentic. Depressingly brilliant and inspiring.
I've been drilling the kids all weekend for their sponsored spell and I'm reading them Roald Dhal's The Wicthes on a nighttime, which is scaring the pants off them. We had a good day together yesterday as my wife was at a dance workshop all day. I couldn't take them swimming as promised, due to my cold, but we did go out for lunch.
My wife was also unwell and went to bed early on saturday night. I stayed up and watched A Clockwork Orange. The film usually makes me depressed, but this time I watched it for its artistic merits. Forget the violence this is a beautiful film, I hadn't realised Beethoven's Ninth played such an important part of the film. I have been listening to this piece of music quite a lot recently and it made the film all the more powerful for me.
I also watched Nil By Mouth, another unforgiving British film that pulls no punches. Ray Winstone is terrrifying as the out of control geezer beating up everyone he comes into contact with. Gary Oldman's script and direction is brutally authentic. Depressingly brilliant and inspiring.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
A work in progress..46
Twenty-two-and-a-half-thousand words written. A third of the book.
Going to continue writing, but also edit and revise what I've got and maybe send the first 10,000 words out to a few people. I had to go to a function at the South African High Commission on tuesday. I had about an hour to kill so I was wandering around the West End and found Brown's bar. It's very posh and exclusive, also expensive, but I was able to sit in this lovely whicker armchair in a quiet corner and write. The waitresses kept me refreshed with Leffe beer and it was all rather civilised. It felt as though I was in the Far East again.
I've started reading WS Burroughs' The Naked Lunch. After reading Ulysses (which I have not finished, but will go back to) Burroughs' prose is frighteningly coherent. I'm reading it for the structure, or lack of it. I've read so many books over the past 14 months, devouring all sorts of material.
Sam Beckett is the feature of a special season at the Barbican. I'm going to get a couple of tickets for Waiting for Godot. Never seen the play but studied the text for A Level. There is much to learn from him - his use of language and dialogue. I keep thinking of the play as I write.
The more i write the more confident I get and the better my writing becomes. I can see it evolving before my eyes. It's quite scary at times how stuff just comes out, as if I have no control over it.
Going to continue writing, but also edit and revise what I've got and maybe send the first 10,000 words out to a few people. I had to go to a function at the South African High Commission on tuesday. I had about an hour to kill so I was wandering around the West End and found Brown's bar. It's very posh and exclusive, also expensive, but I was able to sit in this lovely whicker armchair in a quiet corner and write. The waitresses kept me refreshed with Leffe beer and it was all rather civilised. It felt as though I was in the Far East again.
I've started reading WS Burroughs' The Naked Lunch. After reading Ulysses (which I have not finished, but will go back to) Burroughs' prose is frighteningly coherent. I'm reading it for the structure, or lack of it. I've read so many books over the past 14 months, devouring all sorts of material.
Sam Beckett is the feature of a special season at the Barbican. I'm going to get a couple of tickets for Waiting for Godot. Never seen the play but studied the text for A Level. There is much to learn from him - his use of language and dialogue. I keep thinking of the play as I write.
The more i write the more confident I get and the better my writing becomes. I can see it evolving before my eyes. It's quite scary at times how stuff just comes out, as if I have no control over it.
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