that book...

i finished that book...

the one that took 300 pages to get good.

it didn't burn itself out...

quite the opposite in-fact... the tension was continually cranked up, and the story itself continued developing right until the end...

and then some seriously fantastical sh!t happened real quickly, was kind of brushed over, and we hit the epilogue...

seriously, wtf is with that?

hack out some of your bibbly description of the WI countryside, and hit me up with more of the flame-throwing rings and mutant supernatural bad guys...

its like peter jackson's lord of the rings all over again... they could have largely hacked out most of the first movie... "yes, new zealand is beautiful... wow, there really is some rugged scenery... with some hairy-footed people walking on it"... cut-out some of that business, make up the rest of the time with cool as you like slo-mo fx shots...

or remember that the trilogy rocks in at over 9 hours long, and just trail a bit on the cutting room floor...

i always liked the 1978 animated version... 'sa bit dark and everything. the orcses are proper random and a bit spooky...

i especially liked the version i had recorded on VHS (complete with spongey box bold adverts) where the channel four announcer pointed out they'd never had enough money to finish the project and filled we, the viewers, in on the remainder of the story line before the credits had even finished...

now that's story-telling...

two beings out of time...

the moment that started the end of not just our world, that of quintessa (not such a bad thing... esp as it happened a long time before the destruction of earth), but also the end of time itself...

two beings 'out of time' having travelled back from the year 2008 to seek out galvatron (also from 2008), and having by-passed the usual one for one exchange principle by which radical time-travel is regulated, the death of cyclonus years before he was even created was too much for the delicate fabric of space-time which ruptured...

but that's alright, because time-travel is not possible...

oh wait...

CERN broke science (twice), and doctor cox could only explain the first event away as 'mis-calibration'...

oh no... 

and, perhaps most disturbingly of all, it seems to have seriously 'messed with the processes' of the uber-cool cyclopean transformer shockwave...

and that's just not cricket at all...

not getting eaten by bears...

following the whole 'Bullet' experience, i think its safe to say that i don't always have the best time of it when it comes to woodland... (but really... how the hell does a mermaid get up in a tree anyway?!)

but i'm aware that this is my dysfunction, and as such have been taking steps to tackle it...

one such step was the scheduling of a photo-shoot with the lovely jo masey, in that most dreaded of locations... nature.

my mission, was simply not to get dive-bombed by a mermaid...

one of the key differences between this and the bullet video being that this time i was dressed... the other, and probably most important was that this time i was armed... i had a guitar! this simple fact opens up two interesting possibilities in the event of mermaid/fantastical creature attack...

1. i could sing at them, hope that the dig the thang-shaking thing (it being a new sound completely unheard in their natural realm) and that i can distract them long enough for something shiny/not me to appear and catch their attention

2. use it as a club... although i love my guitar, so this is very unlikely... i could wield it and make like an angry gaz from supergrass (so i've been told) in the hope that they go away... 

did i feel less 'safe' when my guitar was out of reach?

uhm, yeah... slightly

did i stop me from resting my ass up against a tree and getting down with some nature groove?!

hell no...

i was like [to the guitar] "you sit hear a sec while i space me out some jazzy beats..."

and there was this definite kind of jazz thing going down... well that, and a slightly disturbing feeling of unsure footing... that'll be the logs, and the chips, and the foiliage...

all in it was a lot of fun, you can view the full album via the magic of bookface, here...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150407386988470.383327.15364453469&type=3

and just in case you're wondering what in the devil this mermaids and fantastical creatures business i keep going on about is, well, here's a lil' reminder...

if you go down to the woods today...

peace-out y'all 8)