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I got up today and had a million and one things planned and instead all I spent the day doing was applying for more jobs and updating my resumé which to be fair has been overdue. The good thing about having it up here is that it gives me a chance to add to it and change it as required - something I wouldn’t do if it wasn’t live on the net.

The thing is, making a resume always fills me with a conflict of interests; I don’t really enjoy bragging about my previous accomplishments yet that is the only way I will be able to go on and do anything else of note. Also I don’t really enjoy looking at the past either, I prefer to look forward to new challenges. I’m not sure if it’s the same for everyone but whenever I think back all I can see is opportunities where I could have done things differently or how much better anything I did could be now with all the experience I have aquired. Looking forward is far more natural for me as I can see the choices I have yet to make and all the endless possibilities. I guess I am just a natural dreamer or something…

I watched Kôkaku kidôtai aka Ghost in the Shell last night I think i’m in a J-pop kinda mood at the moment what with Chrono Cross on the Playstation and the Lost in Translation soundtrack in my head, hmmm I think I will watch that tonight actually. Anyway now resumé and job-seeking is out of the way I’m going to chill out to more Chrono Cross

I just remember I updated the gallery with some more film-making stuff and moved things around a bit.

I was listening to the awe inspiring soundtrack for Lost in Translation today when I realised I was singing along to a track without having a clue what I was singing about so I decided to look up the lyrics for “Kaze Wo Atsumete” by Japanese folk band ‘Happy End‘ to see if I couldn’t find a translation. I wasn’t the only one who had this idea apparently

Lost in Translation is an amazing film. The scene where Bob Harris is being filmed doing the commercial for Suntory Whisky is really funny and I always wanted to know what it was the director said when Bob was being coached for the camera and thanks to this website I can.

I watched Star Wars Episode III finally and I was not overly impressed. It is easily the best of the three new films, mainly because it acknowledges the original trilogy to a much wider degree. Therefore it is far more of a great film for Star Wars fans for everyone else its just a decent jaunt into a Galaxy far far away.

1 day to go till Graduation and all my family and friends etc are coming here today so I best get on with cleaning and organising. Wish I had an army of clones…

Todays post is brought to you by me supposed to be writing an essay. I’ll finish it in the morning, meanwhile here is some stuff:

First up Cyberpunkcafe brings you Cyberpigs:
Article which discusses the sexual advances and pornographic comments that barrage women who enter live chat rooms. When Mother Jones stepped out onto the electronic superhighway, so did a few cyberpigs. Sex and the Cybergirl

My essay is on personal ideas and issues present in the films of Tim Burton:
Q. What kind of personal chord did the material strike in you?
Tim Burton: I think it’s several themes and issues. You run it through your own personal mill. I was fascinated by the weird perverted optimism because it’s something that I started out with and has somewhat eroded, and (Ed Wood) kind of reenergized me. I liked the theme of duality in somebody’s nature: like in Batman, the idea of hiding what you have inside. And perception, how you perceive somebody-I’m interested in that theme. Also the relationship with Bela Lugosi - I romanticized it from what I read, but I related that to how I felt about Vincent Price. More of TB on Ed Wood

Always save the best till last: Greetings, pilgrim. I am Garth Marenghi, sculptor of nightmares. I hope you are sitting un-comfortably at your pc / laptop. Congrats: you have unearthed the official website of my imaginata. As many of my readership can attest, I invented the internet back in 1976 with my short story ‘Mindgrid’. Many of my predictions, alas, have since borne sorry fruit, and I, too, have spent many troubled hours distracted by erotica. Vist Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place (and I don’t mean his bumhole)

Zombie films huh, gotta love em. I have to do an essay for ‘Cult Cinema’ class and I chose to do mine on Lucio Fulci’s much celebrated zombie quartet of Zombie Flesh Eaters, The City of the Living Dead, The Beyond and The House By The Cemetery. So if you can give me any information about those films or you know anything that might help please leave a comment or even better start up a conversation on my new Cyberpunkcafe Forum

Yeah I made a new forum for the website, I figure once I redesign I’m going to start making this website entirely film orientated and ditch a lot of the personal stuff cept maybe the blogesque news posts. Time will tell. I might also get around to putting streaming versions of the films I worked on at uni up here, that’s gonna mean either getting more hosting space and Bandwidth or finding some sort of dedicated streaming hosting solution. Not to mention coming up with a redesign and finding the time to maintain it.

Anyway check out the new forum.

Just made www.souled.co.uk live so please go and check the website out.

I’ve been watching a bunch of films recently too many to mention here but it includes Shogun Assassin, Waking Life by Richard Linklater, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, O brother Where art Thou, Direty Pretty things and who knows what else.

Fun packed day today. Went to a lunch meeting with my ‘LA film executives’ over at Santa Fe at Gunwharf quays and followed up by going to the cinema with my bestest buddy in the whole wide world ‘Tom’. We went to see I, Robot featuring new master of the cheesy one liners, Will Smith - yes that 2 bit actor from Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Then tonight after games of Manhunter and watching shit uk TV we watched none other than the past master of the cheesy one liners: The man, the legend, Arnold “Come on, Kill me” Schwarzenegger himself in “Half-Naked Muscle Men with Big Guns” or Predator as its sometimes referred to.

Today was a good day, I leave you with this thought;

‘Keep on keeping on’.