Monday 28 February 2011
Sunday 27 February 2011
Rainy Day Man 8, Violins, Frankenstein
Rainy Day Man 8 is in the planning stages. well, i say planning stages, the only things i plan are the villians and about a one sentence overview. i can reveal some details - it wont be told by Hugh Buxton-Wells! it will feature a past villian! and a new one!
listening to violin string quartet covers of famous songs. exceptionally good. might bring my violin up to liverpool, to be more Sherlock Holmes-like.
speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Hawking) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Dexter) are in Danny Boyle's Frankenstein, a stage production where they switch between the roles of Frankenstein and the monster each night. It will be showing in cinemas on the 17th March, and ive heard excellent reviews. here is a trailer (courtesy of youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FEakgJj-uA&feature=player_embedded
have a fun few days!
listening to violin string quartet covers of famous songs. exceptionally good. might bring my violin up to liverpool, to be more Sherlock Holmes-like.
speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Hawking) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Dexter) are in Danny Boyle's Frankenstein, a stage production where they switch between the roles of Frankenstein and the monster each night. It will be showing in cinemas on the 17th March, and ive heard excellent reviews. here is a trailer (courtesy of youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FEakgJj-uA&feature=player_embedded
have a fun few days!
Saturday 26 February 2011
Rainy day man 7 ready for reading
the next Rainy Day Man adventure, He Who Dares, is ready for reading! email me if you want a copy.
Friday 25 February 2011
success!
the Rainy Day Man 1: Pandora's box is now available on Crumpetsandtea.me
i'm attending the Liverpool Hope Creative Writing Scociety on monday, and im going to try to submit the first collection there aswell. Exciting!!
i'm attending the Liverpool Hope Creative Writing Scociety on monday, and im going to try to submit the first collection there aswell. Exciting!!
Thursday 24 February 2011
Florence Knight, writing, and an apology
hello!
first of all, sorry if you find yourself in a Rainy Day Man story. i frequently use characteristics from my friends that i find interesting in rainy day man characters. hopefully no one minds.
designs for Florence Knight, the Rainy Day Man's love interest in the current block of stories, are nearly done. soon we'll have our first image of her in all her big hair-ed glory! big hair is so much fun to draw. also, i will try and put up some other doodles of caracters, new and old.
work is done and writing has rocketed full steam ahead on rainy day man seven. just written a life-changing event for Hugh Buxton-Wells. not wanting to sound snobbish or uppity or anything, but i think im improving!
na-night everyone!
first of all, sorry if you find yourself in a Rainy Day Man story. i frequently use characteristics from my friends that i find interesting in rainy day man characters. hopefully no one minds.
designs for Florence Knight, the Rainy Day Man's love interest in the current block of stories, are nearly done. soon we'll have our first image of her in all her big hair-ed glory! big hair is so much fun to draw. also, i will try and put up some other doodles of caracters, new and old.
work is done and writing has rocketed full steam ahead on rainy day man seven. just written a life-changing event for Hugh Buxton-Wells. not wanting to sound snobbish or uppity or anything, but i think im improving!
na-night everyone!
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Mark Gatiss, the Brigadeer, Sheridan Frogcott
hello!
First of all, the sad news that Nicolas Courtney, best known as Brigadear Lethbridge-Stewart, died yesterday, aged 81. you can read more about it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12549622
Bieng a massive Mark Gatiss fan, I decided that I will reread the Lucifer Box Trilogy every year. its fair to say that without Mark Gatiss, there would be no Rainy day Man. the Rainy Day Man stories are shamelessly based on the writing style in the Lucifer Box trilogy. hope that Mark Gatiss isn't to angry about it.
the main sotryline in this collection of Rainy Day Man stories will involve the Villainous Sheridan Frogcott, who is set to appear in the fourth story, but has already been mentioned before in the first collection story "Irwin". Also, Readers of the stories will hopefully be pleased to know that the unanswered questions from the first collection will be tied up in the third and last stories. not yet decided if this collection will have five stories or six.
hope to hear from you soon!
First of all, the sad news that Nicolas Courtney, best known as Brigadear Lethbridge-Stewart, died yesterday, aged 81. you can read more about it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12549622
Bieng a massive Mark Gatiss fan, I decided that I will reread the Lucifer Box Trilogy every year. its fair to say that without Mark Gatiss, there would be no Rainy day Man. the Rainy Day Man stories are shamelessly based on the writing style in the Lucifer Box trilogy. hope that Mark Gatiss isn't to angry about it.
the main sotryline in this collection of Rainy Day Man stories will involve the Villainous Sheridan Frogcott, who is set to appear in the fourth story, but has already been mentioned before in the first collection story "Irwin". Also, Readers of the stories will hopefully be pleased to know that the unanswered questions from the first collection will be tied up in the third and last stories. not yet decided if this collection will have five stories or six.
hope to hear from you soon!
Tuesday 22 February 2011
new title, Rainy Day Man, new section
hello!
ive changed the blog title to "The Geek Speaks". I prefer it. what do you think? let me know what you think.
the blog will still focus on the rainy day man, though i will be adding a new section to the blog: reviews. hopefully, they will be of works form friends. if you want anything youve written reviewed, let me know at therainydayman@googlemail.com. ill do other reviews aswell.
hope to keep you posted soon!
Izaak
ive changed the blog title to "The Geek Speaks". I prefer it. what do you think? let me know what you think.
the blog will still focus on the rainy day man, though i will be adding a new section to the blog: reviews. hopefully, they will be of works form friends. if you want anything youve written reviewed, let me know at therainydayman@googlemail.com. ill do other reviews aswell.
hope to keep you posted soon!
Izaak
Monday 21 February 2011
the geek speaks: He who dares, tables, coffee shops
afternoon all!
gonna continue on "he who dares" when ive got work done, but at the moment i have a bit on my plate. shouldn't take to long to get it all done. (better not do, anyway; deadlines n things). so if anyones eagerly waiting the next short story, fear not! it'll be ready soon.
found the perfect laptop table. its the glass table we have in our kitchen. its perfect to write things on because it makes you feel cool. also, its very close to the kettle!
applied for jobs at coffee shops. 2 nero's and a costa - don't really need a job, but i'd like one. it'd be nice.
anyway. back to work. in a mo!
gonna continue on "he who dares" when ive got work done, but at the moment i have a bit on my plate. shouldn't take to long to get it all done. (better not do, anyway; deadlines n things). so if anyones eagerly waiting the next short story, fear not! it'll be ready soon.
found the perfect laptop table. its the glass table we have in our kitchen. its perfect to write things on because it makes you feel cool. also, its very close to the kettle!
applied for jobs at coffee shops. 2 nero's and a costa - don't really need a job, but i'd like one. it'd be nice.
anyway. back to work. in a mo!
Sunday 20 February 2011
the geek starts to ramble
There is a mad thing that happens in you mind when you do something that scares you. When you do something that really makes you quiver inside, something so powerfully against what your character knows, when you are so far out of comfort zone that you cant think straight at all.
Everyone has characters. Like how fictional people have characters in books, real people have characters. All their characteristics merge together to make them unique and special. Its probably the best thing about us as a species. We are amazingly complex when it comes to our psychology.
As far as I can tell, people have two main characteristics that drive them. The first is the thing that they love to do, their passions. The second is their fears. These things connect together to make them special.
For me, the first is a desire to make people happy. Whether it is a friend, or someone you don't really know, I love to make people feel better. Probably because I was bought up to think this. Cheering people up is really easy, when you think about it. Usually its a good laugh that does it. Sometimes all you have to do is listen to them and let them rant. I have a good memory for the little things people tell me that don't really matter, but I can bring them up in conversation to make people feel better. Its a very good tool.
The second is my fear of rejection by friends or others. I hate to see friendships die, or not come to anything at all. I hate when I miss out on making friends, and I regret not knowing people better. Added to this is my unluckiness in love, that makes my nerves worse than anything else. I have bad nerves. You can tell when I'm nervous because I stutter a lot.
Put these two things together and you get a basic description of yourself. For instance, my two things added together make me someone who is desperate to spread optimism, and hates losing people, or not making the friends you want. I myself am very optimistic. I have high hopes for the future, and don't really worry about things that could depress me. If I don't like it, I don't think about it. Ignorance is bliss. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone is this way though. I think everyone wants to make people happy.
Back to the scares you theme that I started with. I got a bit sidetracked. What I was going to talk about is the mad energy that you get. It makes you feel alive and excited. Something is amiss. Something is happening that is new. My rule of thumb is to never underestimate the importance of the new, and to never forget the importance of the old. There has to be a place for the original and exciting but consider the past all the time.
It is one of the best feelings to be scared. I love it. Your mind runs better, faster and more efficiently when your scared. You get an unlimited amount of energy.
I'm not a thrill seeker though. You wont find me throwing myself off things or jumping into things. I'm way too nervous for those sorts of things. I like fear in small doses.
How about you? What are your main passions, and fears? What do they make you like? I'd love to hear about it.
mad energy!
full of mad energy! whats going on!?!
feeling...nervous, for no reason. you know that panic energy you get when you anticipate the worst, or when your about to do something so incredibly important that you feel that the whole of your life balances on the end of a question or a movement or a suggestion... i have that. and im not doing anything.
its, reaolly lovely. i love it. i thrive of the panic energy. feel like i should write but i cant think of anything.
feeling...nervous, for no reason. you know that panic energy you get when you anticipate the worst, or when your about to do something so incredibly important that you feel that the whole of your life balances on the end of a question or a movement or a suggestion... i have that. and im not doing anything.
its, reaolly lovely. i love it. i thrive of the panic energy. feel like i should write but i cant think of anything.
Rainy Day Man Film In production, crumpets and tea, no followers, more tea
hello, blogophiles! ooh, hang on, is "blogophiles" right? i should probably think of some other term for people who read blogs that sounds less like "Paedophiles".
...
hello, bloggers! yes, that's much better.
Anyway, as the title suggests, i have started to produce and direct a rainy day man film.
the film will be made entirely out of another love of mine, Lego! the film will be a Lego stop-motion production, one of many that I have planned to do. at then moment, I have forty seven seconds worth of footage, and i am hoping to get about 4 minutes for the completed film. details at the moment are sketchy (i make films like i write; i make it up on the spot. i don't recommend it as a useful method of writing, but i have tried planning and i cant get it to work.) though i can confirm the name of the villain: The Terrible MahJong! i have wanted to use him for one of the stories for a while and thought this would be a good introduction for him.
i have sent the first rainy day man story to a website called "Crumpets and tea", which showcases unpublished work from writers, artists or other creative people. hopefully, my rainy day man stories are considered good enough to get mentioned. fingers crossed!! the website, for anyone interested, is crumpetsandtea.me
still don't have any followers yet. not 100% on what that means, because this is my first blog and i haven't worked out what everything means yet. it sounds bad though. hopefully, someone will come along and follow my little blog. that'd be nice.
it is definitely time for my fourth tea of the day. see you all soon!
...
hello, bloggers! yes, that's much better.
Anyway, as the title suggests, i have started to produce and direct a rainy day man film.
the film will be made entirely out of another love of mine, Lego! the film will be a Lego stop-motion production, one of many that I have planned to do. at then moment, I have forty seven seconds worth of footage, and i am hoping to get about 4 minutes for the completed film. details at the moment are sketchy (i make films like i write; i make it up on the spot. i don't recommend it as a useful method of writing, but i have tried planning and i cant get it to work.) though i can confirm the name of the villain: The Terrible MahJong! i have wanted to use him for one of the stories for a while and thought this would be a good introduction for him.
i have sent the first rainy day man story to a website called "Crumpets and tea", which showcases unpublished work from writers, artists or other creative people. hopefully, my rainy day man stories are considered good enough to get mentioned. fingers crossed!! the website, for anyone interested, is crumpetsandtea.me
still don't have any followers yet. not 100% on what that means, because this is my first blog and i haven't worked out what everything means yet. it sounds bad though. hopefully, someone will come along and follow my little blog. that'd be nice.
it is definitely time for my fourth tea of the day. see you all soon!
Friday 18 February 2011
Radiohead, Gin and Tonic
it is why I sit here, listening to Andy, Gareth and James compile "the list", that, after a joke about names, the character "Cherry Bakewell" is added to the soon to be continued rainy day man 7. while on the subject of it, the title of Rainy Day Man 7, which I Have the honour of being helped by the genius Luke Clayton, will be called "He Who Dares".
put "Kid A" record on. i don't know what it is about this whole record, but it is the most magical and chilled out record i have ever listened to. i can't stop listening to it. on the subject of Radiohead, i cannot stress enough how good Amanda Palmer's covers are. search "Amanda Palmer idioteque" on youtube.
finished my first gin and tonic. i think the list is on "V" now. need to carry on with "He Who Dares"...
put "Kid A" record on. i don't know what it is about this whole record, but it is the most magical and chilled out record i have ever listened to. i can't stop listening to it. on the subject of Radiohead, i cannot stress enough how good Amanda Palmer's covers are. search "Amanda Palmer idioteque" on youtube.
finished my first gin and tonic. i think the list is on "V" now. need to carry on with "He Who Dares"...
Tuesday 15 February 2011
the biggest fear known to man
is everyone else scared of hot drinks in take out cups?
its only the first sip that brings fear. the horror of not knowing whether your drink will be too hot to drink, and the worry that if you leave it too long, the drink will no longer be nice and warm, but insted luke warm, sorry drink, that is both unpleasant and dissapointing.
what you are left with is a Russian roulette scenario - do you dare drink the first sip? you cant see the temperature, you have to take a deep breath and go for it. about six times out of ten you lose the game of roulette with the cup and you burn your mouth, which leaves a horrible sandy texture in your mouth for about three days.
there is, probably, no way around this challenge. the only option is to drink and hope.
its only the first sip that brings fear. the horror of not knowing whether your drink will be too hot to drink, and the worry that if you leave it too long, the drink will no longer be nice and warm, but insted luke warm, sorry drink, that is both unpleasant and dissapointing.
what you are left with is a Russian roulette scenario - do you dare drink the first sip? you cant see the temperature, you have to take a deep breath and go for it. about six times out of ten you lose the game of roulette with the cup and you burn your mouth, which leaves a horrible sandy texture in your mouth for about three days.
there is, probably, no way around this challenge. the only option is to drink and hope.
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