A (Not So) Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Recap
Seeing as I’ve not had a chance to properly research a ‘Gaseous Brainstorm’ post this week, and am off to Aberdeen for a stag weekend tomorrow morning (weather and liver permitting) I thought I’d delve back into the archives. Those of you who’ve been reading a while and have particularly good memories might remember I ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 4 – Fear and Loathing on the Job-hunting Trail
Read part 1, part 2, part 3 A Novel Idea In my final year of college I also started writing lyrics and other random stuff in a bit of a creative outpouring, due perhaps to the fact that I’d kept my creativity bottled up for so long (or drowned it in a sea of booze ...
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 ...