Flashback Friday#2- Al and Ned’s Balding Fringe
In 2009, myself and a good friend of mine decided to write a piece about a comedy double act who had been friends forever, but who fell out after years performing on stage together.
In 2009, myself and a good friend of mine decided to write a piece about a comedy double act who had been friends forever, but who fell out after years performing on stage together.
I laugh at myself, apparently, the older me has regained a sense of humour that I seem to have lost.
My life has become an algorithm. A predictable spreadsheet of formulaic transactions that signify nothing. I code and I code and I help technology flourish. I drive the future, but not the present. Not my present. Zeros and ones are not heartbeats.
So I guess I’m on a precipice. I like that. A big goddamn word. Like plateau. How do you like that fanciness?
The world record for most words read per minute was set by Stephen Berg and stands at twenty-five thousand words per minute.
There have been over one hundred and thirty million books published in modern history. Every year that number grows by an average of two and a half million.
The King James bible has seven hundred and sixty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-seven words. Between March the fourth two thousand and two and March the fifth two thousand and two, I read for forty one hours and twenty three minutes. No sleep. No food. I used the toilet twice.
On Saturday, I was fortunate to have the opening on the first draft of my current project read by a great bunch of actors. It was great to hear the… Read More »Sky Edge- Progress
These photos are taken from Sky Edge, a small grassy area which overlooks Sheffield. I drove up there for the first time on Sunday. I lived in Sheffield for 5… Read More »A View From the Edge
I’ve just changed the theme of my page for the third or forth time in a month. A productive waste of time! Each time I have changed the theme, I… Read More »A Long Overdue (Long) Update
Tom and Laura Get Engaged Screenplay for a short film It is a perfect day for Tom and Laura, a romantic picnic on the beach proves a great opportunity for… Read More »Tom and Laura Get Engaged
Here is an excerpt from my current work in progress, feel free to take the time to give me any feedback you may have on this. Thanks. Three Miles to the Horizon… Read More »Three Miles to the Horizon
*I do not own the copyright for any of these images. Images taken from Google Image Search.
Spiral Jetty is a piece of art by Robert Smithson. I bring it up here because I am currently half way through the first draft of ‘Three Miles to the… Read More »Spiral Jetty
Again, I am looking at how the themes of the Donald Crowhurst story have been used previously. Here is a song from the band iLiKETRAiNS called The Deception, and its… Read More »iLiKETRAiNS- The Deception
I am aware of two plays which are loosely based on Donald Crowhurst, several songs and a poem. One play, Jet Lag, combines the story of Crowhurst with the story of a… Read More »The Other Crowhurst’s….
Taken in 1999, this is Donald Crowhurst’s Trimaran ‘Teignmouth Electron’ from Tacita Dean’s work -Disappearance at Sea At 7:50am on 10th July 1969, Teignmouth Electron was found floating, empty, in… Read More »Teignmouth Electron.
‘Listen to the silence, let it ring on. Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun. We would have a fine time living in the night, Left to blind destruction,… Read More »Donald Crowhurst: Listen To The Silence, Let It Ring On