Archive for March, 2008

The grass is always greener… why film directors buy art, and artists want to direct

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Once you’ve ‘arrived,’ once you’ve battled through the terrible funnel of Hollywood – so narrow it makes the Spartan-defended mountain pass of 300 seem like an endless open savannah – once you’ve trodden tooth and claw on the shoulders of others, shielding their […]

How it ended with me and comics

Friday, March 21st, 2008

What do you do when the love grows cold? What do you do when passion congeals into apathy and you find yourself going through the motions? Is it possible that a love that burned so bright and strong can truly die? And what does that say about me if it does; am I a superficial […]

(Because one man’s Monster Truck Rally is another man’s Mona Lisa…)

Friday, March 14th, 2008

There’s a saying (in England) that “There’s no accounting for taste”; a phrase normally used in conversation when one person tries to excuse somebody else’s unfashionable advocacy of a product or thing as being judged to be a little outside of conventional social mores. Usually it’s accompanied by a bemused shrug of the shoulders, and […]