No, not me.
It's three years ago today that I started this blog.
I initially planned to use it to showcase my writing, but found myself writing more about acting and then along the way I got into a routine of posting Carruthers Cameras, Pulp videos and These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things which have made this a bit of a random place. Random is not necessarily a bad thing. I've had an idea for another regular feature that I should be starting soon, which will take this already random place even further away from my original idea.
I'm looking forward to it.
P.S. I finished my tax return.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Outland Revenue
I'm having all sorts of problems with my tax return. Not with the traditional setback of working out how much I should pay, that's relatively simple. Instead I'm struggling to log on to the HMRC website in the first place. It's a long, complicated and boring story and one that I'm confident I'll have resolved before the deadline at the end of the month, but it's frustrating that I have put in a day and got nowhere.
I will be spending at least some of today telephoning automated helplines and getting irritated in the hope that I can get to the bottom of User IDs, Passwords and Activation PINs that don't seem to work.
So while I'm sorting out my taxes again and by way of another distraction, here's a portion of script for a barely relevant scene from the Red Dwarf Series II episode, Better Than Life:
Lister: Smeg! Outland Revenue!
Rimmer: Oh, oh, oh, oh! Outland Revenue!
Lister: 8500!
Rimmer: 8500? That's a lot of tax, isn't it, Listy? How on Titan are you going to pay for that?
Lister: I'm not. It's yours.
Rimmer: What? This is wrong! This is dead wrong!
Lister: Relax, it doesn't matter now. Not gonna catch you now, are they?
Rimmer: What? Just because we're three million years into deep space and the human species is extinct? That means nothing to these people. They'll find us.
I will be spending at least some of today telephoning automated helplines and getting irritated in the hope that I can get to the bottom of User IDs, Passwords and Activation PINs that don't seem to work.
Lister: Smeg! Outland Revenue!
Rimmer: Oh, oh, oh, oh! Outland Revenue!
Lister: 8500!
Rimmer: 8500? That's a lot of tax, isn't it, Listy? How on Titan are you going to pay for that?
Lister: I'm not. It's yours.
Rimmer: What? This is wrong! This is dead wrong!
Lister: Relax, it doesn't matter now. Not gonna catch you now, are they?
Rimmer: What? Just because we're three million years into deep space and the human species is extinct? That means nothing to these people. They'll find us.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Her Beauty Was Her Only Crime
Once again, being busy on my part has lead to being lazy on my part and posting a live Pulp performance from yesteryear. This is 'Sylvia' from the 1998 gig I attended in London's Finsbury Park:
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
How To Sell A Banksy
My friend, and talented filmmaker, Alper Cagatay has recently released his latest film, made with Christopher Thompson: How To Sell A Banksy.
"Banksy's work reportedly changes hands for millions, and yet he puts up his street art for free. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got your hands on one of these? Does it mean you've found a winning lottery ticket or just scraped some worthless crap off a wall?
Going up against the Art Establishment, Critics, Auction Houses, Gallery Owners and Authentication Boards in a quest for the elusive meal ticket, two filmmakers unwittingly gatecrash the murky and protective world of Banksy.
How To Sell A Banksy raises questions of ownership, authentication and the true value of art itself. Through all the chaos and incompetence comes a modern-day, true-story, crime-theft, comedy-caper.
Featuring an original soundtrack by Howie B."
"Banksy's work reportedly changes hands for millions, and yet he puts up his street art for free. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got your hands on one of these? Does it mean you've found a winning lottery ticket or just scraped some worthless crap off a wall?
Going up against the Art Establishment, Critics, Auction Houses, Gallery Owners and Authentication Boards in a quest for the elusive meal ticket, two filmmakers unwittingly gatecrash the murky and protective world of Banksy.
How To Sell A Banksy raises questions of ownership, authentication and the true value of art itself. Through all the chaos and incompetence comes a modern-day, true-story, crime-theft, comedy-caper.
Featuring an original soundtrack by Howie B."
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Carruthers Camera #21
Five more photos that I took for the Carruthers blog:
Window Shopping is a ripped covering of ASDA's window in Southgate, North London.
I took East Meets West while out walking with Mark and Brogan on a camping holiday.
Curry Favour was the eclectic menu at the Indian restaurant we ate at on the same camping holiday.
The sign featured in Buy With I was mounted near Seven Sisters tube.
Back Seat Barber was taken outside a hairdresser in Islington, sadly no longer there.
Window Shopping is a ripped covering of ASDA's window in Southgate, North London.
I took East Meets West while out walking with Mark and Brogan on a camping holiday.
Curry Favour was the eclectic menu at the Indian restaurant we ate at on the same camping holiday.
The sign featured in Buy With I was mounted near Seven Sisters tube.
Back Seat Barber was taken outside a hairdresser in Islington, sadly no longer there.
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Zombie Rabbit Award
The new year got off to nice start for me, because Jeremy of the izombielover blog has awarded me a Zombie Rabbit Award. I'm very flattered.
Here it is:
But it doesn't end there. I have to choose some other blogs to pass on the award to as well. A blogging Pay It Forward with Zombie rabbits, if you will. Hopefully they will pass it on as well...
The blogs I have chosen to give a Zombie Rabbit Award to are:
Alex J Cavanaugh
Ellie Garratt
Building Castles On The Beach
Here it is:
But it doesn't end there. I have to choose some other blogs to pass on the award to as well. A blogging Pay It Forward with Zombie rabbits, if you will. Hopefully they will pass it on as well...
The blogs I have chosen to give a Zombie Rabbit Award to are:
Alex J Cavanaugh
Ellie Garratt
Building Castles On The Beach
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Resolute
So this time last year I made a new year's resolution to read the complete works of William Shakespeare. I can't really say that I kept it. I managed to read one of Shakespeare's plays. One. I would hesitate to call it an absolute failure, because I haven't given up. Let's call it a qualified failure, but at this rate it'll take another 37 years and I'll be 67 by the time I'm finished.
So I'm making a new year's resolution, but it's the same as it was last year.
I'm making a new new year's resolution as well. I've decided that when I am between work (which has been a little too often of late, but might not be in 2012), that I will treat writing like a day job. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean a twenty-hour-shifts-of-coal-mining-with-your-teeth sort of a job. I mean a start at nine, break for lunch, finish work at five type job.
Come rain or shine, I will write.
Happy New Year.
So I'm making a new year's resolution, but it's the same as it was last year.
I'm making a new new year's resolution as well. I've decided that when I am between work (which has been a little too often of late, but might not be in 2012), that I will treat writing like a day job. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean a twenty-hour-shifts-of-coal-mining-with-your-teeth sort of a job. I mean a start at nine, break for lunch, finish work at five type job.
Come rain or shine, I will write.
Happy New Year.
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