Steven Keevil
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- Jan 2008 - PresentL2 Course Tutor / MidKent CollegeA mixed group with learning and behavioural issues. Covering Video Production and Functional Skills English and Maths, embedding into life skills and cross course collaboration including Performing Arts, Music Tech and A-Levels. Enrichment; Regular cinema trips and visits by Industry Professionals, Creatives and others
- Jun 2004 - PresentProducer / OnMeJack Productions Limited
- 2003 - PresentPersonal Assistant / Scala
Education
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2001 - 2004Bournemouth UniversityBA (Hons) in Film and Television
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Thanks for taking part and suggesting films.
Ok so there is only room in the academic calender for a MAXIMUM of 30 films
of this list what would you say should be there and what should go.
Is there a film that should be there but isn’t?
Get ten votes for what should and ten for what shouldn’t.
10 Things I hate about
15 and Pregnant
4,3,2,1
8 Mile
A Guide to recognizing your saints
Across the Universe
Adulthood
Almost Famous
Amelie
American Graffiti
American Pie
American Teen
An Education
Attack the Block
Back to the Future
Badlands
Battle Royale
Bend it Like Beckham
Better of Dead
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
Billy Liar
Blackboard Jungle
Blair Witch Project
Boogie Nights
Boyz in the Hood
Breakfast Club
Brick
Bring it On
Bugsy Malone
Carrie
Casshern
Charlie Bartlett
Clockwork Orange,
Clueless
Corpse Bride
Cruel Intentions
Dazed and Confused
Dead Poets Society
Dirty Dancing
Donnie Daro
East is East
Easy A
Election
Elephant
Faculty
Fast Food Nation
Ferris Bueller Day Off
Film Death Match
Final Destination
Fish Tank
Footloose
Freedom Writers
From Dusk til Dawn
Ghost World
Gingersnaps
Girl Interrupted
Go
Goonies
Grease
Green Street
Gremlins
Hallam Foe
Hallowean
Hanna
Harold and Maude
Heathers
High School Musical
Hole
If
Igby Goes Down
Inside Im dancing
Juno
Karate Kid (Original)
Kes
Kick Ass
Kids
Kids are alright
Kidulthood
La Haine
Le Peril Jeune
Les Roseaux Savages
Let The Right One In
Lost Boys
Magdelene Sisters
Mallrats
Mean Girls
Mighty Ducks
Monster Squad
My Own Private Idaho
Mysterious Skin
Mystic Pizza
Napolean Dynamite
Outsiders
Persepolis
Pleasentville
Precious
Pretty in Pink
Pump Up The Volume
Rebel without a Cause
Repo Man
Requiem for a Dream
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Rivers Edge
Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrman)
Rumble fish
Saved
Say Anything
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Scream
Scum
Serenity
Slumdog Millionaire
Social Network
Some Kind of Wonderful
Somers Town
Sounds like Teen Spirit
Spiderman
Spirited Away
Splendor in the Grass
St Elmos Fire
Stand By Me
Star Wars
Submarine
Summer of Sam
Superbad
Sweet Sixteen
Switchblade Romance
Taking Liberties
Teenwolf
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
The Wave
This is England
To Die For
True Grit
War Games
Weird Science
Whale Rider
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Wild One
Wild Things
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Filed under: Create or Die Tagged: Create or Die, Fellow Creative, Ted Talks, The Element
I seem to have collected many blogs to infrequently post to…
in the mean time here is the logo to a project that you might see this year. i said might.
Filed under: Create or Die, The Chimp Presents
Such is my inability to maintain a blog that this actually happened last week.
And it will refer to things that happened at the end of last year.
When I was a lad I wanted to be a writer, as a gift my mum once had letterhead paper made up with the the word writer on it, which must have made it official.
I went to Uni, I ‘specialised’ in scriptwriting. and so like so many people before during and after i came out not writing.
After Uni I’d occasionally write but more often then not I’d script edit and what could loosely be called Produce. I made a few shorts, some things which are even considered as all right. And I let a few people down.
Working with Kev brought me the most success, in terms of enjoyment, quality of work and mainstream breakthrough. Which is to say we didnt break through, but it’s the nearest I’ve come as a writer.
A couple of years ago I became a college Lecturer, and I enjoyed it, and occasionally I was good at it.
This year I realised I loved it, and that maybe I could be really good at it. Even maybe make a difference to somebody somewhere.
If I took it seriously, took myself seriously at it.
Normally when I worked with Kev he would write something and in my capacity as Script Editor I’d help him develop it, occasionally it would develop into a co-writer-ship
Last year bouncing off an idea by Kev and going in completely the wrong direction I wrote something. Kev really liked it. a 6 part web series. and it was decided we would make it.
We had discussed making things before, even come close a couple of times, but ironically the thing we would make would be something I wrote and Kev would direct. People seem to come on board. With the incredible supprt and work of Tam Bleasdale it actually happened. it got filmed and is in post production,
So why do I hate Kevin Proctor?
Because this year for various reasons I decided I would focus on teaching and that the writing would be something I did occasionally, maybe.
I met with Kev for coffee ready to tell him. Then the bastard did two things;
1) Pitched me an idea.
2) Showed me the rough cut for our show.
And as focused am I am, and will be on teaching, I know I have to write. Eventually it might be something great, I might blog about it.
You might even see it.
I do hate you Kevin Proctor. With all my heart this valentines day.
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The great thing about being a writer who doesn’t write, is that it is incredibly difficult to be told you are a writer who can’t write.
as Ze Frank warned I have become addicted to brain crack.
I’m not far off from becoming this guy….
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Continuing on from yesterday, part of the situation of working in media is that it is a collaborative industry and so you don’t always have to worry about your own balancing act.
sometimes it’s others that can bring things to a crashing halt. Not through any real fault of their own, other then their life got in the way. There was an imbalance. This has happened to several projects I have been involved with in the past few years. sometimes its me, sometimes its not, but most times the project comes to a crashing halt.
Occasionally, if lucky, we are able to dust ourselves and it down and pick it up again/ start again. sometimes even with what feels like a great idea we are not.
Im going through that a bit at the moment and wanted to talk about one particular example. Whilst developing an idea on Youth Activism, with a student of mine, Olie Martin, we had the opportunity to film and later interview a Student Union representative from Belgium on the subject of Student Prostitution. In the following months Olie and I would discuss that topic and what we could do about it. the more we researched it the more we wanted others to know about it.
Olie isn’t a ‘typical student’ in many regards, what ever that actually means. Acutely politically aware, with a strong belief in socialism and a desire to achieve his best it was interesting to approach a project not as lecturer/ student but as equals.
To discuss the merits and our joint desire to bring light to this issue.
However
This has to be done whilst we both find our balance. And so with us both being in college we agreed to meet Thursdays to discuss things. Even if we hadn’t achieved anything. The right decision was to meet anyway, so that it stays part of our conversation, even micro achievements better then not meeting at all. Because it is very easy for one week to become two and then a month and then you cant remember when you last met to discuss the project.
Media is a collaborative medium and sometimes the collaboration is just staying the course.
Posted in Balance, Create or Die, The Chimp Presents Tagged: activism, Balance, collaboration, documentary, Olie Martin, prostitution, student
Previously I talked about Balance, based on a blog by Tim Clague. Its something i think about a lot.
Finding the right balance between working, writing producing, blogging and living.
Im constantly thinking about my life and what the next step is, from a financial point of view. Do I want more independence, do I want to be debt free or do I want to create. And in real terms i can at this stage only have one of those things.
And depending on what time of day it is I pick a different thing. I’m very lucky, that I get to make this choice, but I can’t make it. I try and i fail and i get it wrong.
So ive benn talking, well i say talking quizzing, friends about their balance seeking some clarity on the subject. Showing how unbalanced I am, some of them i havent got back to due to work. I hope to share things I have learnt from them with you and eventually make a decision i can standby.
And find my own balance. and not fall off.
Posted in Balance, Create or Die Tagged: Balance, Life, Tim Clague
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The last couple of days I’ve been at work like a boy who had his toys taken away.
Part of what I felt made the course work this yeah, was the additionality and enrichment. So much so that requested addition additionality to the course next year in the form of an extra functional skill and an Extended project.
Instead the course will actually be shorter on hours next year.
This made me a little upset, taking students who need attention, care and support. And taking some of that away from them. Taking students who feel educationally undervalued and making them educationally undervalued.
This is for a variety of reasons. And I’ve slowly begrudgingly come to except it. And start planning for all the exciting things I want to do.
I have a post it note I keep reading.
MUST
SHOULD
COULD
I file each idea under one of those.
Its going to be a good year.
Be seeing you.
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Haven’t been back to the site for a while.
Feel bad about that.
Have got a list of things to blog about and going to do that over the next couple of weeks.
And then will be using the summer to blog about plans and ideas for the next academic year and get used to naturally sending these posts as my reflective learning process.
Be Seeing You
(Soon)
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I wanted to do an Ian Drury track after enjoying the film ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’ After a Facebook poll, I ignored the results and chose this song as it seemed a fun track to end the year on.
One of the learners quickly identified it as obviously a list song, but what none of them could do is identify exactly what it was the song was listing.
What I wasn’t fully preparing for was that it would turn into a quick and fun course in Cultural Literacy.
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Reasons To Be Cheerful lyrics
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed
Why don't you get back into bed Reasons to be cheerful part 3 1 2 3 Some of Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley add nanny goats {I've seen this given as "Domenecker camels"]
18-wheeler Scammels, Thumbing out the candles
All other mammals must eat their oats.
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing small pox Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3 1 2 3 Reasons to be cheerful part 3 Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
round or skinny bottoms Take your mum to paris
lighting up the chalice
wee willy harris Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
[This is certainly, "Harpo, Groucho, Chico"]
Paco, Berto. Chico Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
["motorcycle," though pronounced as given here]
Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
balabalabala and Volare Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying hokey-dokey, singalonga Smokey
Coming out of chokey John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano
Bonar Colleano Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3 1 2 3 Yes yes
dear dear
perhaps next year
or maybe even never in which case Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3 1 2 3 Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3 1 2 3
Reasons to be cheerful part 3 repeat to fade
The learners then wrote a list of upto ten things they had to be cheerful about, which they then had to turn into a rhyme. This exceeded my expectations and I they are going (some reluctantly) into the recording studio later in the term with the Music students to record their rhymes.
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I had a request from a student for some Reggae and at the time I quickly, and wrongly dismissed there request. My dismissal was out of hand and out of the spirit I am trying to foster.
I chose Redemption Song after hearing its use in a Documentary, the lyrics were great for discussion. Though it turned out the student obviously wanted something more modern, you can’t win them all
Redemption Song lyrics
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the 'and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil de book. Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
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[Guitar break]
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil de book.
Won't you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
Was a great lyric for discussion, what did it mean and was it relevant to them?
This led to a great, and at times moving writing exercise as I got the learners to write about a point in their life when they found themselves either trapped by the perception of who they were, or a time when they had broken free of this and tried something new different and how had that worked out for them.
This was certainly an exercise I will do again next year, and sooner in the course as well.
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With no sense of irony at all we covered Another Brick in the wall in class.
Following a discussion in pairs, one of the learners quickly picked p on the double negative used within the song and we were able to lead the conversation to talking about register and formal English.
Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall Lyrics
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We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all your just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all your just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
As an activity they then rewrote the slang story from last week using extremely formal language.
In reflection, this was done to various degrees of success with some students not finishing. I need to do more, within the limited tome we have to ensure students finish or at least finish t a point activities set.
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The learners in my FS English class really responded positively when I said that we would be studying song lyrics, but it was that we looked at Stan that they really got into it. They saw they it wasn’t going to be a succession of songs that either they had never heard of or that they had heard because their parents played it.
There was a validity to the music the listened to. (Not that I have any delusion that they were waiting for mine, or anybody’s approval)
Stan by Eminem
(Lyrics been mildly altered to get past the college email filter!)
Chorus: Dido
My tea's gone cold I'm wondering why I..
got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window..
and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'd all be gray,
but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that it's not so bad,
it's not so bad.. 1st Chorus: volume gradually grows over raindrop background
2nd Chorus: full volume with beat right after "thunder" noise [Eminem as 'Stan']
Dear Slim, I wrote but you still ain't callin
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not-a got him
There probably was a problem at the post office or something
Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot him
but anyways; f uck it, what's been up? Man how's your daughter?
My girlfriend's pregnant too, I'm bout to be a father
If I have a daughter, guess what I'ma call her?
I'ma name her Bonnie
I read about your Uncle Ronnie too I'm sorry
I had a friend kill himself over some b itch who didn't want him
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
I even got the underground shit that you did with Skam
I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
I like the s hit you did with Ruckus too, that s hit was phat
Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Stan {Chorus: Dido [Eminem as 'Stan']
Dear Slim, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad - I just think it's F UCKED UP you don't answer fans
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your concert
you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
That's my little brother man, he's only six years old
We waited in the blistering cold for you,
four hours and you just said, "No."
That's pretty s hitty man - you're like his f ucking idol
He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
I ain't that mad though, I just don't like being lied to
Remember when we met in Denver - you said if I'd write you
you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
I never knew my father neither;
he used to always cheat on my mom and beat her
I can relate to what you're saying in your songs
so when I have a s hitty day, I drift away and put 'em on
cause I don't really got s hit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed
I even got a tattoo of your name across the chest
Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds
It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me
See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
But she don't know you like I know you Slim, no one does
She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
We should be together too {Chorus: Dido [Eminem as 'Stan']
Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Call-Or-Write-My-Fans,
this'll be the last package I ever send your ass
It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
I know you got my last two letters;
I wrote the addresses on 'em perfect
So this is my cassette I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
I'm in the car right now, I'm doing 90 on the freeway
Hey Slim, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to drive?
You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night"
about that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drowning
but didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?
That's kinda how this is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downers now, I'm drowsy
and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
I hope you know I ripped ALL of your pictures off the wall
I love you Slim, we coulda been together, think about it
You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
See Slim; {*screaming*
Shut up b itch! I'm trying to talk!
Hey Slim, that's my girlfriend screamin in the trunk
but I didn't slit her throat, I just tied her up, see I ain't like you
cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more, and then she'll die too
Well, gotta go, I'm almost at the bridge now
Oh s hit, I forgot, how am I supposed to send this shit out? {Chorus: Dido [Eminem]
Dear Stan, I meant to write you sooner but I just been busy
You said your girlfriend's pregnant now, how far along is she?
Look, I'm really flattered you would call your daughter that
and here's an autograph for your brother,
I wrote it on the Starter cap
I'm sorry I didn't see you at the show, I musta missed you
Don't think I did that s hit intentionally just to diss you
But what's this s hit you said about you like to cut your wrists too?
I say that s hit just clowning dog,
c'mon - how f ucked up is you?
You got some issues Stan, I think you need some counseling
to help your ass from bouncing off the walls when you get down some
And what's this s hit about us meant to be together?
That type of s hit'll make me not want us to meet each other
I really think you and your girlfriend need each other
or maybe you just need to treat her better
I hope you get to read this letter, I just hope it reaches you in time
before you hurt yourself, I think that you'll be doin just fine
if you relax a little, I'm glad I inspire you but Stan
why are you so mad? Try to understand, that I do want you as a fan
I just don't want you to do some crazy s hit
I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick
Some dude was drunk and drove his car over a bridge
and had his girlfriend in the trunk, and she was pregnant with his kid
and in the car they found a tape, but they didn't say who it was to
Come to think about, his name was.. it was you
Damn!
The song led into an interesting discussion on slang, as we looked at the slang terms they used, what the term meant and how that transition happened.
A favourite part for me was a student proclaiming that a favourite slang term of theirs was ‘Vex’.
As is unavoidable with slang, the discussion led towards insults, and we looked at how much of slang is sexual in nature.
The session was finished with a creative writing exercise as they wrote a story using as much slang as possible.
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Now this ties into other areas that I’ll touch on at other stages but, it surprises me how little the students talk to each other and support each other on assignments. Sharing information, skills and ideas.
Though this is probably another one of those moments where it’s my naivety that will be the thing to change the most.
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Been a busy time, lots of stacks of paperwork building up, funny what you can convince yourself is the important jobs that need doing.
Have made a list of these to do, to comment and reflect.
This post more to ensure the good habit of doing them restarts.
Be Seeing You.
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Today as part of a research and summation excercise i had the student develop arguments where they had to argue FOR the banning of various media themed issues inc: Anti War themed news or programmes
Race based Jokes
Pornography. There was a vote in class before or after each issue, based on For, Against, Undecided or Dont Care about the ban. What was interestingg, to me at least, was that in the majority of votes an area that increased more then most was Don't Care. Sometimes going from no votes to a third of the vote...______________________________________________________________________ Please consider the environment and don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email has been scanned for viruses by the Email Protection Agency ______________________________________________________________________
Research is an important skill in Media, and it is a skill.
Being able to do it correctly can significantly help with entry level positions.
It is also important on a Media Course. If that course is a BTEC in Media Production hen its actually mandatory. I have a guide book here, that’s what it says.
The first part of the task is to show an understanding of the importance of market and production research, this is traditionally done through an Essay. An Essay which requires primary and Non-ICT sources.
Today was not a good day, of a possible 30+ assignments due, 3 were submitted. Many had not even been started. I let my frustrations and disappointment reach the surface, and reacted to it. It’s been sad that ‘State is everything’ and this was not a good state to be in. Sweetly some students commented that they didn’t like to see me sad, not appreciating the irony that they were the ones making me sad.
And yet what was I expecting, they hadn’t researched and written an essay about research. Would I?
I wanted them to want to do the essay. Why would they, why should they?
My sadness is a symptom of my naivety and over the years of teaching that potentially lay ahead of me, this situation of students not doing the work will become a recurring one. Eventually I will accept it, expect it and fail to avert it.
Eventually I will no longer be saddened by it.
In truth though, I hope not.
In part I like that I’m saddened by it, that despite all evidence to the contrary I believe that the next assignment will be done with enthusiasm and on time.
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So one of the classes I do is teaching Functional Skills: English.
This is to students between the age of 16-21, who largely have achieved a D at G.C.S.E English, for a variety of reasons.
I’ll be chatting more about this at various stages, but just wanted to get upto date with one aspect of the class, and that is instead of studying Poetry we study song lyrics.
To varying degrees of success.
The first one we did was
Fairytale of New York.
It has become such a mainstay of Christmas, that a lot of the students had heard it, without really knowing what it was, and without knowing what some of the lyrics really said.
It was Christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me: won't see another one
And then they sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away and dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I´ve got a feeling
This year´s for me and you
So happy christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
Where all our dreams come true. They got cars big as bars
They got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It´s no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold christmas eve
You promised me broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome you were pretty
Queen of new york city when the band finished playing they yelled out for more
Sinatra was swinging all the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night. And the boys from the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out for christmas day. You´re a bum you´re a punk
You´re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy christmas your arse I pray god it´s our last. And the boys of the NYPD choir's still singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day. I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can´t make it out alone
I´ve built my dreams around you And the boys of the NYPD choir's still singing Galway Bay
And the bells are ringing out
For christmas day.
So if nothing else, just remember the next time you are having a Christmas, you aren’t really enjoying;
‘You´re a bum you´re a punk
You´re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy christmas your arse I pray god it´s our last.’
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Last night I went to the Bad Film Club @ The Barbican to watch Speed 2.
Was really good fun, the put on a good night and was great to catch up with Sian Fever.
However, the tension I felt just leaving work ON TIME. I took work to do on the train, paid the best part of £10 to get home, when I could have walked and all I was thinking was I should be getting work done.
I need to get out more, just need to not feel bad about doing it.
Somehow.
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I have officially joined a Union.
Hope I never have to call them into a meeting, but good to have support.
And there is a part of me that’s just happy to be part of a Union, and wish that more people had the option and or exercised their option to be part of one.
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- Life: You know those films where the main character has dreams and aspirations.
- The Writer: yeah, of course.
- Life: And so after doing a full day at work, they come home and stay up late. Working into the small hours to the detriment of their relationships and health.
- The Writer: Sure. Very inspiring films some of them.
- Life: well you star in a different film, where after a day at work you come home eat bad food, and fall asleep watching a film covered in your own semen.
- The Writer: I... I'm sorry.
- Life: For what?
- The Writer: For... falling asleep.
- Life: Why are you sorry?
- The Writer: Because, I...
- Life: Let others down.
- The Writer: Yeah.
- Life: and you let yourself down.
- The Writer: Of course sure that as well.
- Life: And so you are going to focus and work and get things done.
- The Writer: Of course, sure... only.
- Life: What?
- The Writer: Well can I do that after Spooks?
- Life: Frak Me.
- Speakers: 'Feeling hot hot hot'
- Melissa: Bartender can I get a sex on the beach!
- Voice: PLEASE LET ME GET THAT.
- Melissa: (Giggles) Why thank you, but mum told me never take a drink from a stranger!
- Voice: MY NAME IS... BOB!
- Melissa: (Giggles) Well i guess that means you aren't a stranger anymore!
- Bob: I AM GLAD PLEASE WOULD YOU JOIN ME!
- Melissa: (Giggles) Well okay Bob, now tell me what do you do?
- Bob: NOTHING INTERESTING. I WORK IN... AFTERLIFE GUIDANCE.
- Melissa: (Giggles) Well that sounds interesting to me. Maybe i need some of that.
- Bob: TRUST ME, NOT FOR SOME TIME YET.
- Melissa: (Giggles) You have the most incredible voice.
- Bob: I HEAR THAT ALOT. NOW, TELL ME ABOUT YOU!
- Me: Hey, no need to come downstairs, i was going to bring you breakfast in bed.
- She: Aww, bless you but I really need to get...
- Life: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?
- Me: Excuse me?
- She: What the?
- Life: And who is she?
- She: Who are YOU to call me she?
- Me: Okay, everybody calm down. Okay this is well, I think I explained it as a house mate and she is erm...
- Life: Oh dear you can't remember
- She: What?
- Me: Of course I can the names on the tip of my tongue it's... well... it begins with a T?
- She: (Slaps Me)
- Life: Priceless.
- She: (Slams door behind her)
- Me: Thanks for that!
- Life: Well you shouldn't have forgotten Mel's name.
- Me: (Face Palms) of course Mel.
- Life: Any way, where was I?
- Me: You mean other then ruining a perfectly good morning.
- Life: Ah that's it. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?
- Me: What the hell are you talking about?
- Life: What am I... Do you watch the news?
- Me: What? well normally, but well its seemed a bit weird and down lately.
- Life: Oh dear... Okay, explain to me why you are living here alone.
- Me: Oh, well that's easy, we were chatting and I said I thought it was a bad thing that he was all work work work, so I suggested that he take some time off.
- Life: You did WHAT?
- Me: Stop shouting.
- Life: (Slaps Me) fix this.
- Me: Wish people would stop slapping me.
- Life: Fix this. (Slams door shut behind them)
- Me: Fix what?
- Me: Welcome to my humble abode.
- Her: So you live here alone then?
- Me: Yeah, used to have, I suppose... room mates, but they've gone off.
- Her: It's nice.
- Me: Thanks, put some music on I'll get a bottle of wine.
- Her: Cool.
- Radio: ... 'considered a miracle is now considered anything but, we spoke to the wife of PC Harriet who was struck down in the line of duty but...'
- Her: Cheery. (switches station)
- Radio: ... '30 year old twin brothers, who apparently tested their new immortality by stabbing each other, they are currently in intensive care, unlikely to...'
- Me: I said music...
- Her: Yeah mood killer. sorry. (switches)
- Radio: ... 'There's no place for us, What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away From us... Who wants to live forever'
- Her: (Switches)
- Radio: I can't shoot them anymore, That cold black cloud is comin' down, Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.'
- Me: I'll put on a CD.
- Her: A CD how quaint.
- Me: Ha, Indeed, come here you...
- Me: Hello?
- -
- Me: Still got the place to myself...
- Me: (Unzips)
- -
- Life: What the fuck are you doing?
- Me: What me nothing. What are you doing?
- Life: If come to pick up a few things. Where is he?
- Me: I suggested he need to relax and so he seems to have gone on hol...
- Life: Please zip up.
- Me: Oh.
- Me: (Zips)
- Me: As I was saying he went on hol...
- Life: Is it true about the girl at the party?
- Me: Is what true?
- Life: I heard you went to a swanky party and met a hot girl.
- Me: Right so exactly. Yeah I'm a player thought you'd be proud.
- Life: I heard she invited you to go on with her for after party drinks, dance the night away in London.
- Me: Yeah, exactly right. And?
- Life: That's my point and what happened next?
- Me: I'm not telling you.
- Life: You can't tell, because?
- Me: Nothing happened I went back to a friends instead.
- Life: Freak. Goodbye.
- Life: (slams door)
- Me: Arsehole.
- -
- Me: (switches on TV)
- TV: ... Furniture can be improved with varnish and...
- Me: (switches)
- TV: ... I ... Love You...
- Me: (switches)
- TV: ... Is it a miracle? or maybe a leap in human evolution. Reports are coming in that nobody has died in the UK unconfirmed reports suggest the world in over 24 hrs...
- Me: (switches)
- TV: ... Next on the one show
- Me (Unzips)
- Me: Hey.
- -
- Me: Hello?
- -
- Me: I said Hello!
- -
- Me: Wow he really went away.
- -
- Me: Got the place to my self.
- -
- Me: I could do anything...
- -
- Me: I could write...
- -
- Me: Read, dance.
- -
- Me: I could do anything.
- -
- Me: (unzips)
- Me: Funny, I come home and normally I'd ask at some point, had a busy day? But with you I really don't want to know.
- Death: OH.
- Me: It's nothing personal.
- Death: WELL IT IS.
- Me: I mean it's not that I'm not interested in you. I like you. It's your job that I...
- Death: HOW CAN YOU DISTINGUISH, MY JOB DEFINES ME.
- Me: Really, but should it?
- Death: WHAT?
- Me: Should your job define you.
- Death: WELL WITH ME THAT'S FAIRLY SELF...
- Me: What I mean is, wouldn't you rather be known for something else?
- Death: LIKE WHAT??
- Me: Playing the Flute.
- Death: PLAYING THE...
- Me: Okay bad choice but something else.
- Death: BUT WHO WOULD DO MY JOB?
- Me: Surely you don't need to do it twenty four - seven.
- Death: WELL IT DOES GET PRETTY TIRING.
- Me: Exactly. Everybody needs a hob...
- Death: HOLIDAY.
- Me: No I was going to say hobby.
- Death: I CAN'T REMEMBER LAST TIME I TOOK A HOLIDAY.
- Me: Okay. well I suppose. I mean, can't do any harm can it...
- Death: SO YOU HAVE A CAT.
- Me: Indeed. Do you like cats?
- Death: CATS ARE WISE SOLITARY BEASTS. THE ARE ABLE TO SENSE THAT WHICH MERE MORTALS CA NOT. I FEEL A KIN WITH THAT SPIRIT, IF NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATE OF THEIR SELF OBSESSIONS. YOU?
- Me: Cats are evil.
- Death: AH. BECAUSE?
- Me: Cats are trying to take over the world. You try and discuss it and people look at you like you are a freak. its part of their power. especially over women.
- Death: YOU'VE MENTIONED YOUR THEORIES TO WOMEN?
- Me: Yeah.
- Death: OH DEAR.
- Me: And they aren't theories. they are unsubstantiated facts.
- Death: OF COURSE. I CONTINUE TO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE SINGLE.
- Me: Bank Holiday. You got any plans?
- Death: JUST WORK.
- Me: No rest for the wicked.
- Death: SORRY?
- Me: Not that I'm saying you are wicked.
- Death: REALLY?
- Me: Well I mean doesn't it bother you?
- Death: BOTHER ME?
- Me: Well Killing...
- Death: I DON'T KILL
- Me: Oh, ok well then...
- Death: WHAT HAPPEN'S IS ALL PART OF NATURE.
- Me: Oh, Well that is true they do say...
- Death: SOME HAVE A FUNNY VIEW ABOUT IT, GET ALL UPSET, I EXCEPT IT
- Me: Well obviously you would I mean.
- Death: LIVING. IT'S SUCH A WEIRD EXPERIENCE, I'M HAPPY TO HELP PEOPLE BE DONE WITH IT.
- Me: Exactly. No. What. Wait. Living. You're saying living is part of dying.
- Death: OF COURSE, I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT. LIVING HAPPENS FOR SUCH A SHORT TIME. THERE'S ALL THE PAIN AND DISAPPOINTMENT. SO MANY TEARS.
- Me: Sure, but there's also laughter and love and..
- Death: WHEREAS BEING DEAD WELL THAT'S PEACEFUL FOREVER
- Me: Ok, but Living, well you get, Sex and whisky and Dr Who.
- Death: THAT IS TRUE, DR WHO IS GREAT. BUT IS IT WORTH LIVING FOR?
- Me: What? well that's a bit heavy, I mean, what's worth dying for?
- Death: PEOPLE DIE FOR THINGS ALL THE TIME. COUNTRY. BELIEFS. LOVED ONES. A TWINKY. TELL ME
- Me: I, erm
- Death: YOU SIT AROUND ALL DAY IN YOUR PANTS, PASSING COMMENT ON OTHER PEOPLES LIVES, THEN YOU GO TO BED, AND THEN IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN.
- Me: I...
- Death: TELL ME WHAT YOU LIVE FOR?
- Me: I...
- Death: NO RUSH, I'M PUTTING THE KETTLE ON WANT ONE?
- Me: Hi.
- Death: HELLO. HOW WAS BREAKFAST WITH THE EX?
- Me: Yeah good, nice, fine.
- Death: THAT'S GOOD.
- Me: ...
- Death: LOOKS LIKE RAIN AGAIN.
- Me: Well?
- Death: RELATIVELY. THOUGH THE THOUGHT OF RAIN MAKES ME FEEL BLUE.
- Me: No I meant, well...
- Death: I DON'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
- Me: No, Well... As in let me have it.
- Death: OKAY. NO. HAVE WHAT?
- Me: I met an Ex for breakfast. Aren't you going to berate me for doing such a thing?
- Death: NO.
- Me: Okay well mock me for the meeting her for breakfast, and not having breakfast as a result of waking up together...?
- Death: NO, WHY WOULD I?
- Me: Why wouldn't you?
- Death: IT'S NO REAL BUSINESS OF MINE, AS LONG AS YOU'RE HAPPY, IT WAS A GOOD BREAKFAST ETC, THEN WELL, FRANKLY I'VE GOT OTHER THINGS ON MY MIND.
- Me: Oh.
- Death: IT WAS A GOOD BREAKFAST?
- Me: Yeah it was really good, great to see her again.
- Death: WELL THAT'S GOOD. I'LL MAKE TEA.
- Me: ...
- Death: SO DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT?
- Me: talk about what?
- Death: LIFE. LEAVING.
- Me: Not really no.
- Death: I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOU.
- Me: Do YOU want to talk about it?
- Death: ONLY IF YOU DO.
- Me: well I don't. He's been nothing but a bully and a pain for years, not like when i was younger, when there would be support for what I wanted to do, the choices i made or didn't make. In the last few years though it's been nothing but highlighting errors, which i admit there have been a few, or making fun out of my pain or indecision. and that's not supportive, you cant make good decisions when you are second guessing what Life will or will not think about it. You can't do the best thing. Surely I've got to make the decisions i think are best for me, if I'm wrong I'm wrong, but well there's nobody else, not really and so well. I suppose maybe if he had been supportive I'd have made better choices maybe things would be better. actually bollox to that I'm actually genuinely generally happy just because that's not the type of happiness he would have wanted doesn't mean it's wrong.
- Death: OKAY, WELL AS LONG AS YOU ARE SURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
- Me: So did you have a good time last night?
- Death: YEAH IT WAS GREAT. SO SHIPPLE, IT WAS LIKE TUTTLE BUT ON A SHIP?
- Me: Exactly..
- Death: GENIUS.
- Me: Well I'm glad you liked it.
- Death: YEAH WAS GREAT, MEET GEEKS, FREAKS, HOT GIRLS, STUDENTS, CAPTAINS AND CIRCUS PEOPLE.
- Me: Circus people?
- Death: yeah.
- Me: Wow, well see takes all sorts. think you'll come again?
- Death: YEAH IF I'M INVITED.
- Me: Sure, why not.
- Death: NO THERE WAS COOL PEOPLE THERE. GREAT CONVERSATION. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THEM AGAIN.
- Me: Wow, what you've arranged to meet them for coffee or something.
- Death: NO, I MEAN, I KNOW IT WASN'T BUSINESS NETWORKING LAST NIGHT. BUT I'LL BE SEEING THEM ALL AGAIN ON A PROFESSIONAL BASIS!
- Me: Oh I see, oh, wait, Dude that's just wrong.
- Death: WHAT? WE ALL HAVE A JOB TO DO.
- Me: That's just cold.
- Death: I WAS THINKING OF GETTING ONE OF THEM TO MAKE ME A WEBSITE.
- Me: Well, won't that be nice for them.
- Me: Hey, who do these bags belong to?
- Life: Me.
- Me: I don't understand.
- Life: No that's because you are an idiot.
- Me: Where are you going?
- Life: Just away, a new scene, i can't live like this any more.
- Me: What?
- Life: I can't keep berating you for the same things. for being pathetic and alone.
- Me: what do you want?
- Life: I want to berate you for new things.
- Me: Like?
- Life: For being a rubbish boyfriend. Forgetting an anniversary. Buying a rubbish present.
- Me: Oh.
- Life: Exactly.
- Me: It might change.
- Life: It's not going to change, at least not any time soon
- Me: I'm going out tonight, I might meet somebody.
- Life: You think.
- Me: ... Sure
- Life: Where you going?
- Me: Tipple.
- Life: NO. see its just false promises. You never meet anybody their its just geeks and married women.
- Me: Hey they are friends be nice.
- Life: I'm going. I don't have to be nice.
- Me: I... I'm sorry. I thought you might come with me.
- Life: No.
- Me: Then who will I go with?
- DEATH: HI, GIVE ME AN HOUR AND I'LL BE READY TO GO.
- Me: Oh.
- Life: Indeed
- Me: Well fine if that's the way it is then, fine.
- Life: You know what upsets me the most?
- Me: What?
- Life: Its not that you wake up alone.
- Me: I
- Life: it's not the no wife, and not seeing children running about.
- Me: I
- Life: It's not that you go to bed at night crying yourself to sleep.
- Me: I
- Life: It's that you genuinely seem fine about it all.
- Me: I don't cry myself to sleep.
- Life: ...
- Me: I don't always cry myself to sleep.
- Life: Goodbye.
- Me: (Sobs)
- Life: (weeping)
- Death: ...
- Me: (Sobs)
- Life: (weeping)
- Death: ...
- Me: (sobs)
- Life: (weeping)
- Death: CAN YOU STOP THAT, I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
- Me: It was really incredible.
- Life: I don't think I'm ready to really talk about it.
- Death: IT WAS A CARTOON. FOR KIDS
- Me: What? that was an animated movie.
- Life: That was an emotional experience, that's what it was.
- Death: I DON'T UNDERSTAND. IT'S A STORY ABOUT TOYS!
- Me: Then I'm sorry for you.
- Life: I think it's because you have no soul.
- Me: Ah, well then, it's not your fault.
- Death: TALKING OF WHICH I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT.
- Me: ...
- Life: Think one day, that'll be you,
- Me: Cheers for that, really picked me up.
- Life: Let's go get a drink.
- Me: I can't I have something I have to do.
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- Life: I don't understand what are you doing with your Action Figures?
- Me: it's time to... they moved on.
- Life: WHAT?
- Me: They're just stand there collecting dust. They should move on to a good home, somebody that'll play with them.
- Life: Play with them? You have a Sin City Marv, holding a disembodied head!
- Me: Ok, well appreciate them at least.
- Life: Roaring Hulk?
- Me: Got to go.
- Life: 3ft Kenny?
- Me: Got to go.
- Life: Not original Buzz!
- Me: Him especially. If the movie taught me anything, its that just as they were there for me, I need to be there for them. And they need, deserve to be played with.
- Life: I'm really not sure i agree with this. What are you going to do?
- Me: Was thinking I'd advertise them, see if people were willing to swap me something interesting for them!
- Life: You're going to swap these cool things for somebody else's shit!
- Me: Maybe.
- Life: What about K-9?
- Me: Don't be silly couldn't get rid of him, he's like family.
- Death: HELLO.
- Life: Why are you here?
- Me: By popular request.
- Life: Danny Stagg is hardly a popular request.
- Me: Fine by request.
- Life: Well if you want to act like a puppet to somebody else's tune. That's fine. I'm outta here...
- Me: Wait don't go.
- Death: SO...
- Me: Hi...
- Death: BEEN WELL?
- Me: Yeah
- Death: SHAME.
- Me: ...
- Death: ....
- Me: ....
- Death: ...
- Me: ...
- Death: YOU NEVER CALLED.
- Me: What?
- Death: YOU WENT OFF. FRANKLY NOT DOING MUCH MORE THAN SELF ABUSE AND WHEN YOU DID RETURN YOU DIDN'T CALL.
- Me: Don't start okay. I felt bad enough.
- Death: DON'T START? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM. I COULD KILL YOU WITH A TRAY!
- Me: What?
- Death: DEATH BY TRAY.
- Me: First I've got Batman, now you're quoting Eddie Izzard at me.
- Death: WELL IT'S VERY FUNNY.
- Me: Sure, but you don't really have his timing.
- Death: TIMING YOU WANT TIMING. I KNOW WHEN AND HOW YOU DIE.
- Me: Okay and is that today with a tray.
- Death: WELL NO.
- Me: And are you ever wrong?
- Death: WRONG? NO, I AM DEATH.
- Me: So I really have nothing to worry about do I?
- Death: I COULD HIRE SOMEBODY TO DO IT.
- Me: Really?
- Death: YES, BECAUSE I AM DEATH. LORD DEATH. LORD DEATH OF CHEEM.
- Me: I'm going now.
- Life: So A-level Result day.
- Me: That's what I hear.
- Life: Remember when you got your results?
- Me: Not really.
- Life: Surely you must do, was it like on TV when you all get together and open the results at the same time.
- Me: No.
- Life: Oh, so what you had lots of people on the phone chatting about results and...
- Me: Not really no.
- Life: So you went out and celebrated with?
- Me: Didn't celebrate.
- Life: why not?
- Me: You know why.
- Life. I want to hear you say it.
- Me: Because I failed them.
- Life: what? all of them?
- Me: yes.
- Life: Even General Studies?
- Me: Yes, even...
- Life: Wow that's impressive.
- Me: I still managed to get into Uni!
- Life: Years later.
- Me: well it was for the best. I went to college.
- Life: Where you failed your A-Levels again.
- Me: I worked at Sainsburys.
- Life: didn't like 4 people turn up to your leaving do.
- Me: There was reasons for that.
- Life: There normally are. And here we are years later, failed careers, businesses, relationships. I need a drink.
- Life: So I've been thinking...
- Me: Okay.
- Life: About you.
- Me: Right.
- Life: And about me.
- Me: Yeah?
- Life: We're going to kill each other aren't we.
- Me: WHAT?
- Life: Perhaps I'll kill you.
- Me: Why are you saying this?
- Life: Perhaps you'll kill me.
- Me: Just stop this.
- Life: Perhaps sooner.
- Me: Wait a minute...
- Life: Perhaps later.
- Me: You're just quoting Alan Moore.
- Life: No I'm not.
- Me: Yes you are. And you even cast yourself as Batman.
- Life: Well out of the two of us, I would be Batman.
- Me: Well that's not, okay, that's a little true.
- Life: Want to truly know why I will kill you?
- Me: Why?
- Life: Because you make me have conversations like this.
- Me: So, Tuesday Girl
- Life: Sure why not, lets pretend im still interested in hearing this.
- Me: Well a few weeks into the new work routine and I'd almost forgotten all about her.
- Life: Almost, not actually becuase you're a freak.
- Me: Look you're clearly not interested...
- Life: I was just teasing, come on.
- Me: And i saw her.
- Life: Frak off, what do you mean you saw her.
- Me: She was walking towards me.
- Life: What actually are the chances of that happening?
- Me: Exactly!
- Life: So what did you do.
- Me: I, well i was so in shock i didn't really do anything other then watch her walk past.
- Life: ... which I'm sure wasn't uncomfortable for her at all.
- Me: And that was that.
- Life: Wait you've made me wait all this time, and that's how the story ends?
- Me: Of course not. i soon worked oput she came the same way at a certain time on Tuesdays only.
- Life: Why Tuesdays?
- Me: Women are myserious.
- Life: Wait. what do you mean you discovered?
- Me: Well I would, well, i researched.
- Life: Please tell me you didnt hang around on street corners waiting to see of she walked past.
- Me: Of course not.
- Life: Ok.
- Me: It was one street corner.
- Life: I. Don't. Have. The Words.
- Me: I really wanted to speak to her okay. Is that such a bad thing?
- Life: Explain it to the judge, see what he says.
- Me: My intentions are pure.
- Life: So what did you say to her?
- Me: Hi.
- Life: Right and?
- Me: and what that's it!
- Life: What do you fraking mean that's it.
- Me: Well it would only be Tuesdays, and it took a while to work up to the Hi.
- Life: Stop talking to me.
- Me: There was nervous eye contact. then casual smiling. then deliberate acknowledgement smiling and then there was Hi.
- Life: Ok. so what next.
- Me: Nothing.
- Life: WHAT?
- Me: Well ive started going into work another way, so i don't see her anymore.
- Life: Prick.
- Life: She broke your heart.
- Me: I know
- Life: And still you went back for more.
- Me: I know.
- Life: She was honest with you from the start.
- Me: I know.
- Life: About him, about not being available.
- Me: I know.
- Life: And you pursued her anyway.
- Me: I know.
- Life: She made you aware of what she had to lose.
- Me: I know.
- Life: And still you kissed her.
- Me: I know.
- Life: She said nothing could happen.
- Me: I know.
- Life: But still you kissed her again.
- Me: I know.
- Life: You may make her smile, but you can't provide for her.
- Me: I know.
- Life: Tonight she will share her bed with him.
- Me: I know.
- Life: Tonight you will sleep alone.
- Me: I...
- Me: What a beautiful day, hey hey, and nothing is impossible, that's all I really want to say.
- Life: It is a nice day, I'll grant you that, but there are still things that are impossible.
- Me: Okay, sure it's a song a happy song.
- Life: Especially impossible to somebody like you.
- Me: You know what is in impossible today?
- Life: What?
- Me: You getting me down.
- Life: I don't try to get you down.
- Me: That's all you try to do.
- Life: I want you to except the futility of your own situation. Then we wil get along fine.
- Me: Well life is good, it's not futile things can get better, be improved.
- Life: For clever successful people maybe. You. nope.
- Me: Can
- Life: Can't
- Me: Can
- Life: Can't
- Me: Can
- Life: Can't
- Me: Can
- Life: Can't
- Me: Can
- Life: So whatever did happen to Tuesday girl?
- Me: Well...
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By Ze Frank:
‘I received an email from a woman named Laura, who had recently moved to a new city for a new job.
She was overwhelmed with anxiety and asked me to write her a song to help her calm down.’
Read the full story at http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/
Illustrator Gidi Vigo has produced nine minimalist posters inspired by several superhero films of the last several years.
‘One of the big surprise winners at the Oscars this year was the animated short film Logorama. However, it won for good reason, because it’s a dark and awesome short film. The entire short (all 16 minutes) has made its way onto Vimeo and can be seen below. This isn’t a leak or a bootleg or anything like that, this is the fully watchable version of the short. Here’s the concept (and also why it’s so damn brilliant): the entire world and everything we see in it is made out of corporate logos and brands. The story follows two Michelin tire guys (as cops) who chase a terrorist Ronald McDonald. You’ll be very glad this won the Oscar after you see this.’Entire Oscar Winning Animated Short
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/04/05/must-watch-entire-oscar-winning-animated-short-logorama/#ixzz0mngoxMqx
Changes (for 6 Music)
By Adam Buxton and
Where tiny little men move one frame at a time
“The BBC has announced plans for a restructure of some of its services. As part of that restructure, 6 Music, a radio station that caters almost perfectly to my tastes, is to close. Adam Buxton, one of the DJs on the station, made a little song to encourage people to show their support and try to change the minds of the powers that be. I have made a little video for that little song. I have made it very quickly (by my standards) so it’s a bit wobbly in places.
For more information on how to make your voice heard and maybe grant 6 Music a stay of execution, go to http://www.love6music.com and follow the steps there to contact the BBC Trust.
I thought it was fairly obvious, but apparently not. The man with the stripe on his face is meant to be David Bowie. The tune is David Bowie’s “Changes” and the new lyrics were written and performed by TV’s Adam Buxton with backing vocals by top pop motorway man Tom Robinson. I did the moving and the faces.
Any hair that you don’t recognise, except for the Bowie one, is from Arealight’s Custom Work - google for link.
A tutorial that describes the process for the face animation is linked on the description of my Fight Like Apes film. Go there for that.
Other links: http://www.adam-buxton.co.uk for Adam and http://www.flickr.com/photos/38509565…for Pete’s Lego creations. Also http://www.davidbowie.com/ for the guy with the stripe on his face.”
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim.Know Your Meme:
Challenging a YouTube Take Down with Fair Use
For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation athttp://meme.ly/DisputeYoutube
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An 8-bit interpretation of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog” as a theoretical Nintendo game!
By Doctor Octoroc
Amanda Palmer + Mitch Benn “Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now” Live at Bush Hall
April 25th 2010.
Filmed and Edited by Drew K Forrest for KhufuMedia and Amanda Fucking Palmer.
a short stop-motion film… Music - Sleepwaking by A Fine Frenzy a Gallant + Keen ProductionLost Things
Written & Directed by - Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths
Starring - Alison Sudol
An ongoing series by British graphic design Steven Finch (AKA Fonografiks).
Watchmen; Fantastic Four; Hulk; Daredevil: Born Again.
[kirby-vision.]
“There are three ways of dealing with time travel in Doctor Who (you might want to print this out for future use.)
1. Look, it’s just a story, time travel is completely impossible, the whole thing’s a farrago of lies, ooh, look at those monsters.
2. Time can only sometimes be rewritten, and the Doctor has a vast and terrible Time Brain that allows him to see when events can be altered and when they are fixed, but for us mere mortals, such insight would turn our brains to soup, ooh, look at those monsters.
3. Ooh, look at those monsters!
I like 3. It’s quicker.”
Steven Moffat
Just Vision
Telling inspiring stories seldom seen on the nightly news, giving power and legitimacy to Palestinians and Israelis working for nonviolent solutions to the conflict.
Creative entrepreneurs are driven by a passion to create remarkable things and meaningful relationships.
They come in various types:
- Artists and creatives who make a living from their artwork
- Entrepreneurs who take a creative approach to their business
- Independent-minded individuals who want to create a unique lifestyle for themselves and their families.
Pixar’s Studio Stories: Toy Story 2: The Movie Vanishes
The short films feature animated reenactments of interesting or funny stories that took place during the making of the two films.
Read more: VOTD: Pixar’s Studio Stories | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/06/votd-pixars-studio-stories/#ixzz0kPRTO8dM
‘Our ambition is to create a live visualization of the flood of party political leaflets as they are delivered across the country during an election campaign.’
Warren Ellis VS. NASA
by @DianaMcCarthy
Designer & Comic Artist
‘The Warren Ellis vs. NASA thing began with Warren’s article on Space Travel. I liked one of his quotes and the thought of him traveling into outer space to find planet of some sort, and other life forms that could possibly save our future…because, well let’s face it, at the rate we’re going, we’re fucked. ‘
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review
by Mr. Plinkett of RedLetterMedia
Part review satire, part parody, part commentary, all prequel hating vitriolic comedy. This transformative work delves into this film in detail as well as more general topics about why the prequels didn’t quite “work” for most audiences. Part one is an overview about expectations and how the audience is left in the dark to fend for themselves as far as figuring out what’s happening in the movie.
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Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court By @democracy_now An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer.1 plays
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