Hieronymus Bosch
One of my all time favourite crazy-ass artists, whose paintings of subjects as surreal as people climbing into a ceramic man’s backside, or of a fat guy and his wife riding a flying fish through the background of a major painting, are enough to make Noel Fielding look 500 years out of date.
And someone should definitely create a videogame out of this artist’s imagination.
Imagine that.
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Great Scott!
Robert Zemeckis is intending to create a Back To The Future Musical, to go live on Broadway in the coming year.
I’m sure i’m not the only one to think this is both an AWESOME and TERRIBLE idea at the same time.
Jig-jig-jig-jig-jiggawatts!
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“‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.’ … The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we are all damaged.”
Captain Jean-Luc Picard - On Freedom
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“What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets!”
The Last of the Great Existentialists - Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (Dracula)
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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish.”
The Gentleman Stephen Fry
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“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
The Wisdom of Douglas Adams
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With e-books taking such a huge share of the market for new novels, the art of the beautiful book cover has become an important part of selling hardbacks. Books will once again become treasured items, rather than throwaway products, at least, that’s the hope.
We have;
Quay: Food Inspired by Nature, by Peter Gilmore
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
IQ84, by Haruki Murakami
Jamarach’s Menagarie, by Carol Birch
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
“If you want to make your bad guy interesting and menacing and exotic, don’t waste hours gluing prosthetic dice to his eyelids and giving him a name like “the Quizzlestick”. Just show him masturbating into an oven glove while watching earthquake footage on CNN. Then you’ve got my attention. And automatically made a film worth watching.”
Charlie Brooker, on Writing for Film.
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“The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a Fucking Lunatic.”
The Gentleman Stephen Fry, on Swearing
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Anyone seeking a brilliant collection of short stories could do far worse than take a look at Black Words on White Paper, a free-to-read journal featuring short fiction from all over the world, including a short story by myself entitled ‘Cafe’.
Also, for any would-be writers looking for a list of potential markets, Duotrope is a practically complete list, with well over a thousand magazines, journals, websites, and poetry collections for you to submit work to.
