Don't get your hopes up dear.

http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/

A child's dictionary to prepare them for the real world, so it won't come as a shock later. excellent work.

Irregular update

There's been little activity on here recently, partly because i feel i have little of worth to say at the moment. Mostly i've been working, seeing the girlfirend or working on the film that will eventually get made at my cinema.
This is what i felt was worth writing about today, as yesterday Dan and I bashed out most of the plot for the Cineworld Zombie movie, which just proves that we love to make things difficult for ourselves, we decide to make a movie on no budget and it immediately has to have extras and effects make up. oh Well, at least we're not trying to get inot a festival or anything this time, we're just doing it for oursleves. When there's a properly written plot outline i'll post it here if people would find that interesting?

In the meantime i seem to now be officially in a band, after much talking about it the Z Stacks (pronounced ZED) have now actually got together and played together a few times. As a person with no knowledge of music theory it sounded pretty awesome to me, though now i have to write some words to these songs.................

Lux Interior RIP

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QbZCPrvl0

Guess I never will get to see them live then. Bugger.

posters!

Now, to make up for a lack of activity recently i shall tell thee about my favorite part of my shitty job, namely, i get to change all the posters and things every week :), this is good because it helps top me up with some actual enthusiasm on a regular basis, a thing which is hard to come by in my cinema, where most of the staff and especially the general manager have very little interest in films and i sometimes feel like i'm butting agaisnt a brick wall of general indifference.

The posters are my escape from that, a way to have little creative control of a sort, or promote films i want to do well, things i'm excited about, though of course the art of it is keeping a good balance of movies that will attract everyone, though the idiots in charge have been obstructing me there as well lately.

Apparently we are no longer permitted to display posters

for horror films, at any point, regardless of the fact that we do very well off of them, because we have now been arbitrarily designated a 'family cinema' and these posters (which are approved for ALL AUDIENCES by the bbfc) may frighten small children, this is bullshit.

Now i'm not a huge fan of horror films, i find them to be for the most part lazy and unimaginative, though when they are i can enjoy them very much, however i resent being told i can't display a picture of a hockey mask with a date on it because its 'frightening'

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/wildheart192/?action=view&current=friday13thposter.jpg what do you reckon?

a huge part of our audience is for those shitty horror films, they usually come on a friday night, buy loads of food then leave complaining about how shit the film was, then come back next week to watch another one. By intentionally excluding this audience we may really harm ourselves, by comparison in my three years of cinema life i have never once encountered a child disturbed by a poster, not even the ones for Saw or Hostel, nor was i ever disturbed during my childhood by any of the posters for late 80's early 90's shit horror films, and they could be quite twisted.

In Conclusion if anyone wants to really do me a favour you could wander down to my cinema (cineworld rochester) and start kicking up a fuss about why there's no friday 13th poster, preferably to a manager please :)

today i have been listening to the TECHNICOLOR WEB OF SOUND, a truly wonderful psychedelic web radio station, the random old 60s adverts that sometimes pop up between songs are what really top of their excellent selection

http://www.techwebsound.com

thats all for now, i'll probably see yas next month