Oh, hello narcissism!

kendrawcandraw: Stop sexualizing my body stop shaming my body...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 08:35:07 +0100

kendrawcandraw:

Stop sexualizing my body stop shaming my body stop policing my body

~*~*~Summertime~*~*~

Inordinately proud of this.

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:01:32 +0100

Inordinately proud of this.

My Man

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:30:16 +0100

You can keep your romantic dinners, expensive holidays and lavish jewels, your boozy weekends and daredevil attitudes. You can keep your sonnets, declarations and empty promises. You can keep your good dancers and letharios, your good flirts and charmers. You can keep your flowers and chocolates and pet names. You can keep them all.

For I’ll take my man, my wonderful man demoulding the bathroom ceiling, in his pants, any day of the week.

I love my man.

The American Film Institute: Catching up with Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Mon, 27 May 2013 04:56:20 +0100

The American Film Institute: Catching up with Jordan Vogt-Roberts:

afi-afifest:

Filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ short film SUCCESSFUL ALCOHOLICS was an official selection at AFI FEST 2010. His feature film debut THE KINGS OF SUMMER premiered at Sundance earlier this year. We caught up with Jordan in anticipation of his new film’s upcoming theatrical release.

Yo…

We were just young, is all

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:26:15 +0100

Turns out that in the deepest, darkest recesses of my laptop is a folder of videos and pictures I took while in the throws of my last big relationship from my early twenties.

They’re all from the first year when things were great. I’d forgotten how good we had it and let the latter half of our time together mar the memories. Looking through these… it WAS good. I had forgotten.

Everything that went wrong was no one’s fault in particular. We weren’t the first golden couple of our little era to end and we weren’t the last. That doesn’t mean it stung us any less, but we were hardly unique.

Looking back at old videos doesn’t make me angry or upset (except at how I clearly didn’t appreciate how great my body was at the time), it just makes me a little nostalgic, and it makes me pity that kid who threw herself into love with complete abandon.

But if she hadn’t done that, where would I be now? And who would I have ended up with?

We were just young, is all.

That whirlwind belonged to that time.

We were just young.

shivainlondon: “One child is holding something that’s been...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:58:24 +0100

shivainlondon:

“One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them. Guess which one?”

Photo

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:00:04 +0100

Oh yes, I was a drama student.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:30:30 +0000

Oh yes, I was a drama student.

The Space Jam website hasn't changed since 1996.

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:40:00 +0000

The Space Jam website hasn't changed since 1996.

“A man is walking along and he falls into a hole. He tries to climb out but the walls are too...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:31:46 +0000

“A man is walking along and he falls into a hole. He tries to climb out but the walls are too steep.

A doctor walks past, the man calls out to him. ‘Doctor, can you help me? I’ve fallen into this hole and can’t get out.’
The doctor writes out a prescription and tosses it into the hole.

A priest walks by, and the man calls to him.
‘Father, you gotta help me. I’ve fallen into this hole and can’t get out. Will you help me out?’
The priest writes out a prayer and drops it down into the hole.

The man’s friend walks by and the man calls out.
‘Buddy! I’m stuck in this hole, you gotta help me out.’
His friend, without hesitation, jumps into the hole.

‘Are you crazy?!’ says the man. ‘Now we’re both stuck!’ To which his friend says, ‘Yeah, but I’ve been down here before and I know the way out.”

- Leo McGarry
The West Wing

Admitting there’s a problem is a heck of a way to start alleviating said problem. You get to...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:26:49 +0000

Admitting there’s a problem is a heck of a way to start alleviating said problem. You get to start feeling a little better, day to day.

Getting a good night’s sleep, though, going the night without letting bad thoughts and memories wake you up, well… that’s the kicker.

The 85 Best Pictures Challenge... and you're invited.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:57:32 +0000

The 85 Best Pictures Challenge... and you're invited.:

In my film blog today, I’ve set us a challenge. Want to take part?

Depression & stuff

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:08:20 +0000

thezombiemessia:

Come one, come all, click through to read more about how I hate myself
Read More

My Film Blog

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:41:10 +0000

My Film Blog:

This here is my personal blog, but over at Scripts and Things you can read my film blog, which is a lot more informative and entertaining.

My favourite POV.

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:36:12 +0000

My favourite POV.

"Can we get Brad for the Martin Luther King biopic?"

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:50 +0000

"Can we get Brad for the Martin Luther King biopic?":

In my latest film blog, I wonder about recasting a person’s ethnicity.

I’m investigating an accident claim at work. The official...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:12:25 +0000

I’m investigating an accident claim at work. The official flowcharts aren’t helping, so I made one of my own.

Updated my CV for an important opportunity thing. Made it...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:03:10 +0000

Updated my CV for an important opportunity thing. Made it swish.

p.s. Have blocked out my address/phone number for obvious reasons.

The Eswyn Ladies and I are going to run for charity again, SO I...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:04:19 +0000

The Eswyn Ladies and I are going to run for charity again, SO I MADE A TRAILER.

ESWYN LADIES GO RUNNING 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Obligatory Resolutions Post: 2013 Edition

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:03:00 +0000

Last year I made a VIDEO outlining my resolutions for 2012. Here’s a quick review of the more pertinent ones.

EXERCISE MORE, which I did in an effort to raise money for The Stroke Association. This led to a small series of videos to make people chuckle and dig deeper, including this guide to making muesli sexy.

STOP BEING A DICK I was a dick. Apologies.

APPROACH THINGS IN A MORE MATURE MANNER Directly relate to being a dick, I failed here too. I was not always the most mature, reasoned and sober as I could have been. I formed opinions on people based on hearsay, I made irrational choices, and was generally a dick (see previous).

WRITE BACK TO YOUR FATHER I didn’t. My birth father actually got in touch with me via text several times over 2012, and I did not always handle it in the best way. My go-to response was to get hurricane drunk and make bad choices, mainly because I have put off dealing with our estrangement for a very, very long time. Textbook Daddy Issues/damaged goods, whatever pop psychology you want to attach to it, I was it. This all culminated in a very emotional phone call in the latter half of the year when he made a direct plea to be in my life again and I ended up in a blubbering heap on the deli kitchen floor. Healthy!

START FIGURING OUT WHAT IT IS YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO DO Nailed that one down, just haven’t grasped the DOING of that thing, yet.

WRITE MORE COMEDY STUFF I didn’t. I wrote horror stuff instead, but depending on your point of view you could argue that my attempts were comedic.

SPEND MORE TIME WITH MR. COLLINS Nailed it. I even live with him now. We had one or two teething problems to begin with, but now we’ve got cohabitation down pat, even if his interpretation of “a reasonable temperature for the flat” differs vastly from my own.

GET OVER YOUR CRUSH ON PROFESSOR ROBERT WINSTON I may as well give up ever shaking his vice-like grip on my heart.

FIND OUT WHAT A CLEVELAND STEAMER IS Found out… not happening.

So… not a hugely successful run of resolutions. Let’s see what’s in store for 2013 *cracks knuckles*

MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT TO MAINTAIN GOOD FRIENDSHIPS I spent two years not talking to someone who is smart, funny and weird in a way I understand, for silly reasons that the two of us are now so very over. We hashed it out over a heckuvalottawine and are now back to sexually harassing each other like the past two years haven’t happened.

And in that spirit I will make sure that I don’t let other friendships fall by the wayside. Too much time has been wasted on silly, pathetic reasons such as time, distance, and playground politics. Time to be more, y’know, grown up.

HAVE AN OPINION OF MY OWN I spend way too much time on the fence to avoid confrontation. Or maybe I don’t. I don’t know, whatever you think is cool with me.

GO SEE MY FATHER At an as yet undetermined point this year I’m going to make a long overdue trip to Germany to lay some old ghosts to rest and put some water under bridges and other turns of phrase.

WRITE MORE The wonderful Blonde has resolved to write more this year (which can only be a good thing because she’s already a fab writer) and I’m going to follow her lead. I love writing and have had no shortage of inspiration in 2012, I just… I’m a bit rubbish in that I’m afraid to fail, which is very likely why I keep rising up the ranks in a job that I only really enjoy rather than love, when I could be having a mad time trying and failing (and hopefully succeeding) at something I really love. Writing. Developing. Creating. Which leads me to…

DO THE THING YOU’VE FIGURED OUT YOU WANT TO DO Film development. Cut my teeth as a script reader and get knees deep into writing, editing and developing films. I can’t still be in the same job this time next year. I’ve got to start doing what I came to London to do.

Wish me luck, pickles.