Chain flic 11?

Sitting there with a kid on his lap and a flute in his mouth, blowing the tune that all the kids are finding so enticing. I'd been outraged by the way, when the old man made pedophilia legal. It was all my fault of course, as everything always was in this fucked up little world. My father thought that it would stifle Neo's sexual interest in me if he was allowed to play with the other kids. It didn't of course, nothing could. But after the third time i stopped telling daddy, as the solutions he was coming up with became more extreme, and Pedophiles and rapists and dickheads were all allowed to run free. It was around about then that i first created my world of escape, and a little town i called London, and Gareth and Wil and Matt and Reda and Lucy and Luke. And i made them all write stories about me.

Traffic

A number of you guys have introduced writing exercises in your blogs, with varying degrees of success. I was listening to The Stereophonics earlier on today and during Traffic (Track 5 on word gets around) i realised that the boys had written what could easily become a writing exercise. Listen to the song and the lyrics describe Kelly's opinions on a stranger he drives past but only sees for a second. Do the same.
But of course, this is very similar to what others have tried to implement on their blogs, so the spin is it needs to be written in lyric format, with the same pentameter scheme used in the song. i know that this is weird because it is more interesting for a poetry student but, who cares. Good luck.


And listen to Dogs- Turn against this land.

The number 23

Also, while I'm posting, has anyone seen the recent Jim Carrey film The Number 23. If not, it basically tells the story of a guy(played by Carrey) who is obsessed with the number 23(as the title would suggest) after reading a book about it. And while the film itself peters out towards the end, as inevitable conclusions need to be made, Jim Carrey is on fine form as the obsessed dog catcher, and shows that he can actually act. (I should really point out that i hate slapstick, and slapsticky stuff, so films such as Liar Liar, The Mask and Ace Ventura are incredibly bad in my opinion. However, when he is actually acting and not prancing around like a twat he can be excellent- The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.)
Anyway, the point of this post is that the film struck up a bit of paranoia in myself, for example, my house number in wales is 23, The number 23 comes up in my phone number, and perhaps most strangely i watched the film late last night, just because i was bored in my house, and it was late enough to technically be today when i watched it.
The 11th of December.
11,12.
11 +12 =

Watch it, and the same will happen to you....

P.S Listen to a band called Dogs.

It's happened, and i am not ashamed of it.

So, after exhausting the supply of Martin Amis novels, (M.A's the king) i found myself with a spare hour in the library with nothing to pick up off the coveted M.A shelf apart from a book of essays, which i unbelievably picked up and skimmed through. You know when we spend four days writing an essay, (Which I'm sure many of us will be doing over crimbo) and think it's something pretty fucking special?
Yeah, well it's not, this guy can not only write great short stories and novels, but he can write unbelievably good essays too, which sucks for me and you, but, credit where it's due. Kudos.

Also this week i branched into the world of the elderly Amis, reading one of Martin's father Kingsley Amis's novels Lucky Jim. And i must tell you, it's really good as well. i started reading it yesterday afternoon in order to put off starting one of the three essays i have to write, and by two o'clock today i was finished, and i thoroughly enjoyed it, and will start on another one of his novels in the next couple of weeks. Which raises the question, Who's better? Anyone who's read a book by either of them feel free to vouch an opinion.


Also, listen to a band called Dogs.

Ben Markovits and the jazz

right, i haven't really done any work promoting the markovits project so the last couple of days i have got off my arse and done a couple of things. Firstly i made a bit of a speech about it my hemingway seminar, which seemed to go really well, and i think a couple of people showed some good interest. Secondly, i've sent a message request to message of the day about it which should be up in the next day or two. Also if anyone wants me to do any of the errandy stuff like handing leaflets out then i look really friendly with my new haircut so i'll do it.

p.s i've got a few action doll ideas in the planning but i don't know whether i've got enough production time so...

London's calling

Free literary magazine for London
"December will see the launch of a London-based "creative writing tabloid", to be distributed for free to commuters and edited by two recent university graduates, Tristan Summerscale and Christopher Vernon. Notes from the Underground, a sixteen-page tabloid-format publication, will contain "a broad variety of high quality content, ranging from short stories to cartoons and stimulating non-fiction, from both up-and-coming young writers and more high-profile published authors". The pair received hundreds of submissions, and at least three household names are in talks to contribute short stories free of charge to the debut issue, out on 17 December. Thereafter the publication will be bi-weekly, with a print run of 100,000 copies printed on 100% recyclable paper that will be distributed for free at over 30 commuter locations"

This is something that i stumbled upon whilst searching for literary magaziness online and i think that it's great news, imagine appearing in a magazine that will be thrust into the arms of commuters in one of the busiest cities in the world. However, does anyone really think that anyone will take the time to read any of the magazine at the end of a busy day. I mean if most people can't be arsed to read the London lite after a hard days work then is something a little more intellectually challenging really what they want. Does anyone have any thoughts on the matter?

You lot should be ashamed of yourself.

so the last time i was in we were set the task of thinking of a way to promote a book or to increase the sales of a book. i decided to perform a little experiment to support my idea, and insulted Luke on my blog. Now, i thought that the creative writing class would all rally behind our innocent victim and call me a wanker in repost. this was not really the case though, as, apart from an anon and to some extent Tom, no-one really stepped in to target me.
Anyway, i digress, the point is that in order to sell books or promote discussion and publicity it sometimes helps to be CONTROVERSIAL. look at some of the biggest books we know, 1984, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange; even the sodding Da-Vinci code relied on it's controversy for its publicity. Besides, you should have all known that nice ol' me couldn't be horrible even if i wanted to be. I'm just too much of a kind soul with big ideas.

P.S thanks for being an unknowing guinea pig Luke.

Shwmae.