Ben

Never heard of it.

This sounds suspiciously like an attempt at sneaky online marketing. Clever.

• Me: He should just quit now while he's got all that money.
• Ash: I know! Nicholas Cage is a terrible actor...

Wilde | Debbie Wiseman

I finally got my hands on this soundtrack.

Best thing I’ve listened to in ages. I love it.

Awesome excerpt from upcoming novel Star Wars: Scoundrels

One shot was all Falsta got. An instant later his blaster was pointed harmlessly at the ceiling, frozen in place by Chewbacca’s iron grip around both the weapon and the hand holding it.

That should have been the end of it. Falsta should have conceded defeat, surrendered his blaster, and walked out of the cantina, a little humiliated but still alive.

But Falsta had never been the type to concede anything. Even as he blinked furiously at the ale still running down into his eyes, his left hand jabbed like a knife inside his jacket and emerged with a small hold-out blaster.

He was in the process of lining up the weapon when Han shot him under the table. Falsta fell forward, his right arm still raised in Chewbacca’s grip, his hold-out blaster clattering across the tabletop before it came to a halt. Chewbacca held that pose another moment, then lowered Falsta’s arm to the table, deftly removing the blaster from the dead man’s hand as he did so.

For a half dozen seconds Han didn’t move, gripping his blaster under the table, his eyes darting around the cantina. The place had gone quiet, with practically every eye now focused on him. As far as he could tell no one had drawn a weapon, but most of the patrons at the nearest tables had their hands on or near their holsters.

Chewbacca rumbled a warning. “You all saw it,” Han called, though he doubted more than a few of them actually had. “He shot first.”

vendettavendetta replied to bensley’s photo.

Hey Ben, read the books. Gosh.

If I read the books, it’ll spoil the series. If I watch the series, it’ll spoil the books.

I guess the obvious solution is to read the books while watching the series at 1/10th speed..

Determined to remain spoiler-free for the next ten weeks.

This little girl was pretty cute. When I told her to watch out for the ants, she said “You should dead them with your shoe!”

I consolidated all my digital photos into a neat Lightroom catalog.

I should have done this ages ago. It’s awesome having them all so super-organised and easy to get to.

Just witnessed the return of Darth Maul on The Clone Wars.

He’s literally insane.

• Ben: [Walks over to customer]
• Girl: A wild salesman appears.
• Ben: Need any help?
• Girl: Yeah, I have a Blu-ray player, but only about 50% of hard drives seem to work with it.
• Girl: ...And by 50%, I mean one works and one doesn't.

Visionary conceptual designer Ralph McQuarrie passed away today.

My Demo Reel in 10 seconds

Supercut for the attention-span-impared and ‘dub-step enhanced’!

The Invention of Dreams | Howard Shore [Hugo]

I’ve been in love with this soundtrack lately.

This track is so damn enjoyable.

“There’s been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates,” he says. “As a result, there’s a growing number of professional writers now going to small presses, self-publishing, or trying other kinds of [distribution] strategies.

“The same is true of music and cinema,” he adds. “It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.”