30.1.06

I HAVE A HOUSE!

just a quick blog before i go to film tech to say that, as of yesterday, i have a house for next year!

saturday night i got a call from John saying "do you want to live with us?" so i obviously said yes, then he said "get to Sanchias for 1 tomorrow with £100 and we'll all go to see the houses and get the contracts signed".

long story short, im now sharing a house with Luke, Rachel and Phil and John, Sanchia, Damon and Jenny are in another house just down the road.
im really looking forward to this now. its gonna be great fun!

and to make a great day even better, i got paid to eat a quarter pounder :P
i gave the bloke a tenner and he gave me change for a twenty. AND he was a manager. he should know better...

i was going to put up some photos of the house, but somehow all the photos i took managed to miss all the important stuff :P

now im going to read my chat logs from the convo i had with Andrea last night because i had a few strongbows to celebrate no longer being homeless and i cant really remember what was said...

24.1.06

blah

as usual, i havent had much to say, so havent said anything.

on saturday Andrea arrived from luffbra to stay for a few days because she is a lucky bum and has the week off.
after her arrival our days were pretty much full of wandering into town and back, eating chinese takeaway, watching films and TV programmes (mainly Family Guy), eating bacon sandwiches, getting drunk, eating pizza, quoting Family Guy at each other, annoying each other and generally having a good time.

this afternoon we walked into town and she caught the train back to Portsmouth to visit there for the rest of the week before returning to uni.
now im feeling a little lonely and depressed because i have no one to watch Family Guy with....
however, we have decided that next time i go to visit her were going to watch all for series and the film back to back, so that will be fun.

last week i went to my first lecture in my elective module, Introduction to Programming 3D Applications. it was FUNKING boring. i switched modules asap and am now doing Geometry and Dynamic Character Design.

i had my first tutorial in Char Design today, which is pretty much how to draw manga, and its a lot of fun.

My first attempts at manga


and the profiles


and finally three quarter views. ive been told the top one looks a lot like me....

cant wait for next weeks tutorial, but before that i have to endure an hour of History of Film tomorrow morning...

speak to you later, you ragamuffins. hopefully it wont be so long til my next blog.

14.1.06

Im Back in Staffs

so heres a film related viral questionairre:

ONE (1) earliest film-related memory:

im ashamed to say....going to see Mrs Doubtfire at the cinema.

TWO (2) favorite lines from movies:

either "im a Derrek, and Derreks dont run" or "its Derrek! and hes gone apeshit!" from Bad Taste

"good....bad....im the guy with the gun" from Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness

THREE (3) jobs you'd do if you could not work in the industry:

sculpter.
second hand bookshop owner.
cartoonist

FOUR (4) jobs you actually have held outside the industry:

erm...ive only ever worked in McDonalds

THREE (3) book authors I like:

Robert Rankin
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams

TWO (2) movies you'd like to remake or properties you'd like to adapt:

the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin, although technically thats 7 films :P

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, but hopefully Terry Gilliam will get a chance to do that first

ONE (1) screenwriter you think is underrated:

erm.....i dont really know of many screenwriters. perhaps if they werent underrated i would have heard of them...