100 Days to Get My Shit Together!
For a while now, I’ve been trying to get my shit together. I’ve been reading up on time management and decluttering and personal development and other stuff aimed at, you know – helping you get your shit together. I’ve also been trying to improve this blog and post more regularly. I’ve been making slow progress. ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 3 – A Good Face for Radio?
In the previous installment I talked about what I got up to while I was at college (in between pub crawls). I had also managed to secure a decent bit of work experience with a radio production company called Unique. The course itself made no provision for this, but I was lucky enough to have ...
A brief history of my creative efforts Part 2
This is part 2 of the exclusive serialisation of my unwritten creative memoirs (it might make a bit more sense if you read part one) FILM OPENINGS After deciding that I didn’t have the excessively extroverted character necessary for a career in the theatre, I decided that being behind the camera might work better. ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Part 1
So what is all this “Gaseous Brain” nonsense all about? What does it actually mean? Good question, and the lack of a clear answer reflects my own confusion over what it is I’m trying to achieve, both here on this blog and in life in general. To be honest, if I could come up with ...
The Cottage (a personal video)
At the weekend we went over to visit my dad and relatives over in Derry in Northern Ireland. We also visited the cottage where I lived for 3 years (between 11 and 14) in a very small village called Culoort or Killourt (depending on how you want to spell it) which is in Malin Head ...
New York Travelogue
“All of us had such a fine time wining and dining around the city that I have no recollection of any daytime hours, and even my recollections of nighttime are foggy.” Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Okay maybe that isn’t a completely accurate description of our New ...
The Big Apple
On Thursday Mel and I are heading New York City for the first time ever for five days. To say we’re excited is something of an understatement. We’ve both discussed going there many times since the day we got together – and we’ll be celebrating 11 years since that fateful day while we’re there (yes ...