Watching, Reading, Being
WATCHING
Busy, busy, busy! In ten minutes I'll have soap in my eyes as I get ready to go and watch The Martian. Hurray! But don't feel let down thinking I never watch anything on the little box in my living room, because I totally do. There's been some great stuff on lately: Fargo has restarted with a bang on Channel4. The Returned and The Leftovers and Vikings and The Last Kingdom are all under weigh, but I have yet to catch up with them.
Even better than all of these is an amazing little detective series on BBC called River. Holy moly! I think it's the saddest thing I've ever seen, but so bloody good and so clever that I can't tell you a single thing about it without spoiling everythig for you. If you have a chance to watch this one, please give it at least one episode to make up your minds. I think it's brilliant.
Other than that, I really loved the hilarious New Zealand comedy What we do in the Shadows. It's a mokumentary about four old-fashioned vampires sharing a flat in a modern city. I laughed and laughed and my only regret is I didn't save this one for watching with friends. It would make a great party movie. It's on Netflix if you're interested. And you should be!
At the opposite end of Netflix's humour scale, we have Beasts of no Nation. The story of a child soldier. Gorgeous cinematography only augments the absolute horror of the situation. It rambles. It's hours long. But I was never bored and feel it does justice to the traumatic subject matter.
READING
I've just got hold of Adam Neville's latest, Lost Girl. Looking forward to getting stuck in to it.
BEING
All my cons are fled and I'm left with a long winter of shivering, writing, and wishing I were elsewhere. On the bright side, however, life is awesome and full of stories. Seriously, Peadar, cop on! Oh, and you'd better come out the other side of this with a new book.
More soon.
Busy, busy, busy! In ten minutes I'll have soap in my eyes as I get ready to go and watch The Martian. Hurray! But don't feel let down thinking I never watch anything on the little box in my living room, because I totally do. There's been some great stuff on lately: Fargo has restarted with a bang on Channel4. The Returned and The Leftovers and Vikings and The Last Kingdom are all under weigh, but I have yet to catch up with them.
Even better than all of these is an amazing little detective series on BBC called River. Holy moly! I think it's the saddest thing I've ever seen, but so bloody good and so clever that I can't tell you a single thing about it without spoiling everythig for you. If you have a chance to watch this one, please give it at least one episode to make up your minds. I think it's brilliant.
Other than that, I really loved the hilarious New Zealand comedy What we do in the Shadows. It's a mokumentary about four old-fashioned vampires sharing a flat in a modern city. I laughed and laughed and my only regret is I didn't save this one for watching with friends. It would make a great party movie. It's on Netflix if you're interested. And you should be!
At the opposite end of Netflix's humour scale, we have Beasts of no Nation. The story of a child soldier. Gorgeous cinematography only augments the absolute horror of the situation. It rambles. It's hours long. But I was never bored and feel it does justice to the traumatic subject matter.
READING
I've just got hold of Adam Neville's latest, Lost Girl. Looking forward to getting stuck in to it.
BEING
All my cons are fled and I'm left with a long winter of shivering, writing, and wishing I were elsewhere. On the bright side, however, life is awesome and full of stories. Seriously, Peadar, cop on! Oh, and you'd better come out the other side of this with a new book.
More soon.
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