Cast & Crew & Even You
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At 8pm sharp this Thursday the 5th August, there will be in Filmbase a screening of Dead Load, the short film I wrote with it's director Greg Corcoran. It's the cast & crew screening, but there will also be some room for the general public, so if you'd like to head along give Greg a shout at gregcorco@gmail.com .
Ambition/Genius
Song of the Week: Mushrooms & Roses by Janelle Monáe
My housemate was talking about the new Janelle Monáe album a few weeks ago. He was writing a review for the excellent Ragged Words site, and was proclaiming that he was going to give it 10/10. That evening I listened to the album for the first time, and rushed home to tell him: Don't give this 10/10. Don't confuse ambition with genius. I was too late – he'd already posted the review – and I had no chance of swaying his opinion anyway.
Economists/Philistines
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Dr. Colin Hunt
In the news today, we learn that the Hunt group, a panel hoping to establish a new framework for higher education for the next 20 years, is set to back a return of student fees. Dr. Colin Hunt, the chairman of the group, is an economist. The article then quotes a senior academic who also backed the reintroduction of third-level fees: Dr Declan Jordan of the department of, of course, economics.
XXX
.I feel stupid going on about it, especially
To those who have already turned thirty.
It looks different from their point of view
Than from where I'm standing today.
I feel stupid going on about it,
But I fully expect it to be
Distressing,
Humbling,
Underwhelming,
Emptying,
And I will avoid engaging
By drinking,
And joking,
And laughing,
And loving,
And falling
Asleep.
A climax wrapped in anticlimax.
I'll wake up on the other side, and
I'll know, having gone through it, that it doesn't matter:
One more thing I can shrug my shoulders at.
Does this remind me of anything?
Yes.
Everything.
Jabulani
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A short story I've written has been published. I am now a published author. How did this come about?
