Booky Wooky:

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
SlowBurn by Victor Kelleher
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

I want to say that I found striking similarities between Stranger and Spyglass. I loved both books greatly, but the similarities were aspects that I liked less, or at least parts which i couldn't embrace as fully as the rest of the books, and it was very weird to find almost the same exact things occuring (perhaps not narratively, but in essence) in two completely different books!


Filmy Wilmy:

Mary and Max
Samson and Delilah
Australia
Harvey Krumpet
(I'm sure i saw more, but still haven't learnt form my mistakes and fail to keep a record as I go)

Makey Shmakey:

ummmm.... *sigh* probably nothing. some unfinished stuff, that's it. ?? Oh, except for "pants", which I didn't go to animation club for and don't know if it was shown or not, nor what this months topic is. SIGH again.

oh and also I put hair on a doll who's been waiting for ever and ever. I also made her a red coat, but she is still unfinshed really.

Writey Bitey my Arsey
because I don't think I did...write. anything.

So I am already getting bored of this.... plus i forget to keep records as I go and thus forget much of what I ought to record. *sigh*

BOOKS:
Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
Dexter by Design (book4) by Jeff Lindsay
Pollen by Jeff Noon
London Dust by Lee Jackson

FILMS:
Lost Boys 2: Tribe    - oh, yeah! its as bad as it sounds. lovin it. one word: Corey
The Incredible Hulk
City of Ember
Mongol
Goodnight, and Good Luck
Shaun of the dead (but only for sound recording, which I never used anyway!)
Chronicals of Narnia; Prince Caspian (because I forgot I'd already seen it!)

STUFF I MADE:
My Dinosaur animation.
A chunk of Goonie/Labyrinth art, not yet to be shared, unfortunately. (but soon!)
A blue dodo.
Some drawings...








these are all effing cheats, btw. They will always be CHEATS CHEATS CHEATS! they couldn't even raffle a chook in a pub, but... i like em anyway. :P

There is a pic of me. 3 of Rik Mayal or rather, Rik of the Young Ones. 3 of Edgar Wright, pen man and director for spaced, shaun, hot fuzz, etc etc etc...!!
there is not a photo of my dodo because they are on my other computer, and i am lazy. I'm sure i made more stuff, but this is what you get.

My post was hiding, so heres a link to it...
http://mr-eccles.livejournal.com/41072.html
if you're interested in knowing what books I've read, what films I have watched (etc) this month.

I have READ:
The_Reasons_I_Wont'_Be_Coming by Elliot Perlman
The_Subtle_Knife by Philip Pullman
I_am_Legend by Richard Matheson
Death_of_the_Author by Andrew_Masterson
Farenheit_451 by Ray Bradbury
The_Scarlet_Pimpernel by the Baroness Orczy
and some short fanfics.


I have WATCHED:

The Labyrinth (dvd)
Watchmen (c)
Drop Dead Fred (?or did I?? oh well, here's a video anyway...)
Burn After Reading (dvd)
HellBoy 2 : the golden Army (dvd)
City Slickers (tv)
In Bruges (dvd)
Son of Rambow (dvd)
Wall-E (dvd)
To Faro (mqff)
Filth and Wisdom (mqff)
Juno (dvd)

 

okay, I got bored at finding intersting links.

I have WRITTEN
again, almost nothing. Some more work on various on going projects, but nothing finished. sigh. this is beginning to get me down.

I have MADE
this icon. And this Dinosaur... that's about it. sigh. ANNOYED GRUNT (D'oh!) My camera is refusing to talk to my computer, or vice versa, and I can't get a photo of my dinosaur. grrrr. I'll add it later, I guess.

THIS FEBRURUARY;

I have read...
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde http://www.jasperfforde.com/bookshelf/tn1shelf.html
The_Big_Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
Storm_Front, by Jim Butcher
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by JK Rowling
  and 1/2 the stories in Elliot Perlman's 'The Reasons I won't be coming.'

I have watched...
Fritz_the_cat (dvd, a gift from my librarian!)
The_Matrix (v)
Shaun_of_the_dead (dvd)
Milk (c)
DogTown_and_Z-boys (dvd, docu)
Click (tv)
1/2 of the_goonies before my dvd carked it. :(((


I have made...
Nothing. But I have made a fair amount of art and fanart. So that will count. you know, because I say so.
some_top_gear_pics


what I'm not putting up is all the goonies in the labyrinth art, not yet. but mch is done.

I have written...
Very Little and nothing have I posted on here. And no work on major projects either. But a few hundred words here and there, amounting to nothing. :(

All I can say is, What the Hell DID I do this month?

Here we are on the last day of January, so here's my 'stats', as it were.

I have written NOTHING. (omg, this cannot continue!) Although I did decide to split a previous idea into two and have been nutting out bits and pieces for the half I had almost previously discarded.

I have read
1.  'End of the World Blues' by John Courtney Grimwood. it was ok. i actually read most of it in december, but finished it in jan, so it counts here.
2. 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter' by Jeff Lindsay. it was not quite the same as the tv show, but more or less the same.
3. 'Dearly Devoted Dexter' by Jeff Lindsay. it was even more not quite the same as the show, but with strange parallels. THe books are not as indepth for other characters (bar dexter, and even then...) but they're still fun.
4. 'Eucalyptus' by Murray Bail. it was good/annoying/boring depending on my mood, but it was not difficult to keep reading, so not bad at all.
5. 'Dexter in the Dark' by Jeff Lindsay. it was even more not not not at all the same as the show. omg. i bet the show will never ever go there.
6. 'Obernewtyn' by Isobelle Carmody. well, it was... obernewtyn. surely you've read it yourself?
also a goodly amount of the book about Graeme Base and his art/books.

I have made again, NOTHING, that I can think of. But today is not over yet and I am determined to have something to edit into here by midnight! Even if it is something incredibly crap, like a sculpture made from alfoil, or another dog-fur-felt heart (perhaps this time with clean dog fur!)  
...(take two)... a mini-bear wool-felt head, then my needle broke so he gets no body. Looky:
 

I have watched *
1. - 8 9  10!. ok I can't remember what order I watched these in. Next time I'll write them down, and who knows how many i forgot altogether?! I really can't remember. Brain, you fail.
Slumdog_Millionaire (c) awesome.
WALL_E (dvd) awesome.
THe_year_my_voice_broke (dvd, 21st anniversary edition). pretty neat :)
I_am_Legend (dvd) pretty good.
Away_from_Her (dvd) yeah good, but unsatisfying ending!
The_Contender (tv)
Bitter_Harvest (or how harry became a tree, the alt. title, which would have warned me of the strange ending) (dvd)
Billy_Madison (tv)
Fido (dvd) awesome. ggrrrraaahhh, get sum zomB lovin.
The_Devil_Wears_Prada (dvd)

*I am including only FILMS in this list, (although that can include feature documentaries, of course. like that's going to happen. So my list does not contain copious amounts of the Simpsons, Arrested Development, Dexter, Black Books and sundry what have yous. And amazingly still doesn't include Shaun of the Dead, Goonies or Monsters Inc! How bout that!)