Movies
Terror At Bell’s End
It’s a new project! Although, it has its roots a few years ago. (More on that some other time.) A filmy type project. A grindhouse thing.
“Terror At Bell’s End”
It may be the cult independent horror movie sensation of 2013! It probably won’t win an Oscar. The budget might be about £13.75 and a packet of crisps. But, ladies & gents, we give you—Terror At Bell’s End.
In March 2012, I have mostly…
Okay, I thought I’d try to offer a bit of rambling. As I’ve said before, I do keep intending to write more often. I have a few ideas but it hasn’t been coming together so far.
What I’ve been watching: season two of Lost Girl. Intellectually (hah), I’m sure this show doesn’t hold up for a second. And yet, I love it loads. It’s been getting better and better lately—I watched eps 19-20 last night. Also enjoying the Nikita reboot, and again, it’s a ‘leave your brain at the door’ deal, but I don’t have a problem with that. Maggie Q is great and Xander Berkeley is always fun to watch. What has not grabbed me, although I’ve only watched two (or is it three?) eps, is season two of The Walking Dead. Yeah, yeah, season one was quite good. It’s nothing George Romero hadn’t already done in 1978 and 1985 but, the atmosphere and pacing was solid. This time round I’m struggling to care.
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Marlene Dietrich Portrait
Somewhat inspired by Paul Gulacy‘s Master of Kung-Fu run (which I’ve been re-reading), and especially his use of famous likenesses on various characters including, in #38-40, Marlene Dietrich… plus his occasional use of stippling / pointillism… I had a go with the technique myself…
Listen to This
On the other hand, I heart my sound & vision system. My new DVD/CD player came today from Richer Sounds. Like the amp/decoder (also from Mr. Richer’s emporium), it’s a Sony model. The whole system, including speakers, as it stands, cost 240 quid, which is a good deal.
Sony’s name speaks for itself, but what I like about their gear is that they’re so user-friendly, and the manuals (for once) are really comprehensive and helpful (rather than the usual badly-written sketches in several languages). For instance, the player was not automatically sending a 5.1 signal to my amp, but the manual pointed the way in seconds. I have so many issues with instruction manuals that this makes a big difference to me.
The new player is impressing me a fair bit. While the old player was perfectly acceptable, the Sony’s sound output has a definite edge. I am hearing things on my CDs I hadn’t heard before. The amp is not a powerful one (you couldn’t shake the walls with it, but in a residential setting, this isn’t a great idea anyway), but I love the complete ‘wall of sound’ I can get from the set-up, which includes a cheap-but-effective sub-woofer.
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