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12:39 GMT, Friday 3rd March 2009. Just come back from the Boston Tea Party (Bath) with a half-drunk Americano. I'd settled down at a table there but then a really loud pair of women took the table next to me and shattered my concentration - I could even hear them through my headphones.
My head's in a bit of a swirl - a thousand ideas for a string of creative projects I'm pushing along at the moment, and not much progress because I've been out most nights this week. So I'm hoping this weekend allows me to get a handle on it all.
I received a fantastic review on the last novel - EDGE – this week; and feedback from the playtesters for Shadows of the Quantinex is proving wonderfully positive – I’m working towards a final release for the 1st Edition for that…hopefully end of April.
I saw the film "Traitor" on Wed night. Very good film. Lacks all Hollywood gloss. The integral story is well-crafted although it perhaps leans heavily on the plot meme of "radicalisation of Muslims". It has only one possible ending but the "getting there" does leave you on edge and guessing. If I was hyper critical I'd say it was like watching a well-crafted drama for TV (HBO or something like that), but I walked out of the cinema feeling satisfied. Don Cheadle was superb.
Last night I saw the film, "Knowing". A Hollywood special effects package with a thin storyline, but, to give it credit, it pulled all the right levers and was an enjoyable flick, shocking in places with the scenes of mass catastrophe. The spooky "whispering watchers" in the shadows were also very well done.