Phonic Fear.

A quick early post just to point you in the direction of a audio horror experment I did with a friend of mine name Sharon.
I recently heard a piece she did as an audio tale and I really liked her voice I thought she had a distinct ability to convey feeling and atmosphere in the way she spoke. I had also tried converting one of my stories (Beggers Banquet) in audio format and it did get recorded albiet unedited but I am no longer in contact with the person so unfourtunatly that recording won't ever see the light of day.

Regardless I approched Sharon with the idea of reading a short draft of a piece of my work and she kindly agreed. I am really pleased with the outcome,it is as a piece of work in rough form (to be honest not so much Sharons voice as my written piece) and needs a little attention but I feel good about trying something a little bigger and complex.

Please try it yourself it will take less than two minites of your time ;)

http://ellya441.fileave.com/Departed.mp3

Cheers

Picture for web.

Just a quick one on the subject of my story W.E.B,Rog Pile of the Workshop of Filthy Creations has created a stunning picture for the story I have in the upcomming edition of Filthy Creations 5.





I am more than happy with this it's a great piece of artwork that represents my story very well and I always get excited when someone illisurates a story of mine.

Thanks Rog :)

09 and German for o No (well ish)

- Hope you had a grand Christmas.

- Hope you had a grand New Year

First off my story didn't make it into the next edition of The Black Book of Horror it feels a bit odd as this is my first decilned story and no doubt not my last but I guess it's now a matter of picking up my heels and writing something else.
It does have to be said and not at the detrement of the other two publications I have written for but Black Books was a step up for me and I think I should have thought about the story a bit more before I submitted it.

Anyhow I wish Charles Black and the Black Books lot's of succses with the forth edition it is indeed a grand superb publication.

However I am going to try my hand at putting a story or two of mine into an audio medium as a big fan of audio horror it's something I have always wanted to do and with a little luck and lot's of help I will be doing one later in the year.
The story is currently being written and should be finished quite soon....it's no epic :P

Here's to your progress and mine in 2009.

Don't forget this year is unwritten and you're the writer ;)

Hulk:Countdown

My mind has been turning to things that can get me though the next couple of months while I don't have work,I don't sign on due to a recent vicious social stigma against people who claim benifits.



Despite the fact I do look for work I can't take the way I am looked at by the dole office folk and the scape-goatting headlines in papaers like The Daily Hell.



So until I get work I need some cash just so I can do basic things and I have basicly sold all the things I want to sell and now I am thinking of selling the things I don't want to sell.



...and that means thinking about selling my collection of Hulk comics and if I do I need to highlight my favourtie story in my collection so maybe you can pick it up somewhere (maybe off me) and enjoy it as much as I did...well still do:



By the late 80's and early ninties the Hulk was Gray,shorter and a tad weaker but he was cunning,smart and played the world on it's own cruel terms. As a side note he wasn't even that weak it just took him longer to get as strong as he used to be in his green days.



Anyway as this different persona of the Hulk now relocated to Las Vegas as an enforcer and only come out at night this left Bruce Banner with the day to figure out a cure to his curse. After one brutal fight with a demon in Las Vegas which saw The Hulks boss' casino damage to great expense The Hulk was fierd.



Again Hulk and Banner wonderd the Nevada dessert and Banner managed to get work as a caretaker in a scinetific complex and managed to befriend a scientist there.

Try not to....

Some vauge rules that lead to inactivity:

Try not to think/worry too much about doing things and just do them.

Try not to compare where you are to where they are.

Try not to look back or else walking foward is difficult.

Try not to hate yourself.

Try not to take notice of what you think people think of you.



There are others actuley lot's of things but in my opinons these things are really important and mostly unmasterd by myself but it doesn't stop me trying.

I suppose another important one is:

Try not to stop trying :)


Well I am off to try and finish this story I promised to finished by the end of month.

The Trick Trick to being homophobic.

Strange how politics is distracted with the phantoms of violent Hip-Hop lyrics supposedly sending all our children to grasp their AK'S and Glocks.
The truth being is that both Hip-Hop and gang violence are a simultaneously reflection or to make it sound more cliché chicken and the Egg.

I think the main danger of violent,gun and gang celebratory music is that it stays and dulls the musics culture. Nobody wants to hear the same thing over and over so 50 Cent and your ilk take a step back and let the creative types breath you will end up saving your scene in the end.

Anyhow I find concentrating on this aspect of Hip-Hop odd when there is a much more important problem at hand with Rapper Trick-Trick being the latest spokesman for it.
Telling the world that he didn't want homosexuals to purchase his new album...[i]“Homosexuals are probably not gonna like this album. I don’t want your faggot money any goddamn way. I don’t like [homosexuality]. Carry that shit somewhere else.”[/i].

To be fair he isn't the first person to display such aggression to homosexuals,which is depressing Busta Rhymes being another artist who doesn't want "The Pink Pound" it's bullshit but it's harmfull bulshit. I scratch my head as to why this is tolerated when an outright racist comment by a musicians of similar stature would be met with the full ire of a furious public.

This is a healthy response to as racism has no place in any society so why would be put up with it in music.
In this case you can tell it's men with deeply flawed masculine insecurity's because when you take a look at their musical persona's they so desperately need you to think they are all powerfull titans of the street,the ultimate alpha male if you will.
Which in a lot of cases is just a hollow image because of their total and utter fear for gay men and they final strike of hypocrisy is their attitude to lesbians.
They celebrate woman having sex with woman....but not in a way that says yeah your like us but in that freshly baked in a porn oven way.

Yep that's right made for a guy and having nothing to do with actual lesbian culture or sexuality.

So why does this bother me soo much???

Not just because I have good friends how are homosexual...partly but also because without the Lesbian and Gay community the whole music industry would be but a fragment of what it is now. Mostly however it's because I see this whole homophobic culture not only accepted in the Hip-Hop world but sadly thriving. :(

Something tells me a few people need to grow up and be more accepting.

In praise of Mills.

No not a tribute to a dead comdian,Bob Mills to the best of my knowledge IS alive and well and I hope it stays that way for many years to come (and I guess he does too).

Bob Mills is a man who has seemed to creep under the radar of main stream entertainment,he has flirted with prime time T.V but for the life of me I can't recall that much of his work in that time slot apart from an apprence in They Think It's All Over sometime in the mid-nineties.

I am well aware that he has done a lot of stand up work and is as much of a work horse of the comdey circuit as any other more celebrated comedians. The Programme In Bed With Me Dinner and it's follow up Still In Bed With Me Dinner are to me and the member that make up it's cult following forgoten classic television.

Broadcast for students,drunk heads and those who who lurk around the television set in the late hours of the night In Bed With Me Dinner used Bob Mills rye and lightly burning take on the world to make fun of some of the most obscure and stupid television clips from the U.K and abroad.

If you think this is some Tarrent on T.V style tosh your utterly wrong because where as Tarrent (and before him Clive James) basicly said "oh look at those funny foriegners good job were sane" Bob Mills just looked at the inanity and diliousion that the people in his programme clips displayed.

Yet I only know a handful of people who know about this show and only one other person who loves it as much as I do. To me that's a crime and poor old Bob Mills can't still get a look in on a new televison show,oh what I would give for this to come back.

So Bob Mills from me here is a place on the internet in praise of your work and one in the eye for those who over look you and your programme.


....oh yeah as a point of intrest Russell Brand made a show last year that was give or take an eye liner smudge or two a carbon copy of In Bed With Me Dinner....!?

It was a good programme and I do find Russell Brand funny but it just wasn't the same....it wasn't Bob :(


Oh and how could I forget my favourite word....Muggy-bonehead :D