Hey dudes and dudettes,
you know how people will endlessly hype a movie and you will avoid seeing it because there’s no way in hell that it’ll live up to the hype?
Don’t do it to Mad Max: Fury Road.
It’s seriously awesome.
That is all.
Month: May 2015
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Moleskine
So I got a Moleskine for my birthday. You know, one of those superfancy notebooks with a leatherlike black cover and a little ribbon for a bookmark. Classy shit – especially for someone who’s been using the cheapest ring notebooks on the planet.
It was so classy I was afraid to use it. After all, Moleskines are the Apple of notebooks! This was not the notebooks to make soap character sheets or keep studio count or hand out to my pupils to write their math homework in.
Whatever was going in there – it had to be me.
So I took a pen (a cheap bic, I mean, a man has limits) and I got to work. Now, two weeks later, it’s filled with the crazy ramblings of a madman – ramblings about pirates, trips through the desert and switchboards inside people’s heads. That’s right: I’m continuing my work on Caravan!
Caravan is a weird project. I’m completely enthralled by the idea, but I haven’t managed to write anything fluently yet. It’s very unlike me – I usually write like a freight train. This project is different. It’s hard. It’s long. It’s complex. And one of the scariest, most paralyzing things: For the first time since I wrote my graduation screenplay in 2012, it’s a story I really really really want to tell.
Usually, I start up Word, write half a page, stare at the words for a bit, loudly exclaim “NOPE!” and then delete everything.
If only there were a way to not be able to delete everything, I used to think.
Some way I can write the words down and they’d be permanent, I used to think.
Well, past me, think no more. Just take a pen and jot it down in style. Whatever you have written will be on the page forever, and ever, and ever.
Unless you burn it.
Maybe you should burn it?
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Majora’s Mask
Allow me to give you the lamest shock ever: I’ve played pretty much every Zelda game. I kicked blue knights’ ass in Adventure of Link, I spanked the Dark world and Lorule, showed the underwater Hyrule who’s boss and went back and forth through time more than I can remember.
But I have never. Ever. Ever. Played Majora’s Mask.
Which is weird, because I absolutely adored the concept: A compact world where you get three days to do as much as you possibly can before the moon crashes onto the earth and wipes everything out, forcing you to turn time back to the beginning. (I don’t watch Doctor Who, but I think wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey is in order.)
It just never happened.
Until the most elementary schoolish thing happened: I got it for my birthday. It was wrapped and everything – I can’t remember when I last unwrapped a video game! Hell, I didn’t even know they still came in boxes!
So I’ve been plowing through Majora’s Mask. And loving it. Dark, twisted, hilarious… And an absolute blast to play.
Thanks, friends, for knowing that you’re never to old to feed your inner child.