I’m home now and on the mend (hopefully). I’d like to thank all those who helped me get here, especially those wonderful people at the University College London Hospital.
While it could be a few months yet till I’m fully functional, I’m already feeling substantially better than before.
08
May
11
Beyond Crazy
16
Apr
11
Crazy times
As many have realised, I’ve not had much time to blog in the last couple of years.
But I have a little enforced downtime, so I thought I’d post to keep more distant friends in the loop.
So where am I? There’s a clue in my attire.
On the 16th of April 2011, I’m ten floors above the Euston Rd, a resident of an NHS hospital.
Oddly this isn’t a bad thing, because the alternative is not to be here at all.
A while ago I made some poor lifestyle choices, and then a worse one when. I started to have a medical issue that could easily have killed me. I’ve just paid some of the due on those actions; I’ve spent a year turning myself into the paragon of male lifestyle virtue and ditched 90lbs of fat in the process. That was all to spend 5 hours on the operating table, and two days on morphine, but live.
This picture is me at surgery +3, and while I’ve got some scars that trumps anything I that famous Jaws scene, and a few excess external connectors, compared with others in my ward this is small beer.
I wasn’t looking for fallback, just to tell those who don’t see me often that I’m fine. Onwards, and upwards.
14
Mar
10
Kick-Ass!!!!
Got to see this superb movie about two weeks back, and at last I can tell people about it.
My review on Den of Geek is here.
20
Apr
09
Star Trek Review
Last week I was lucky enough to get invited to a press screening of Star Trek
You can find out if I thought the phasers were set to stun or kill here
On Den of Geek I’ve been reviewing Merlin for my sins. Here is the complete list of my Merlin Reviews.
08
Sep
08
Spooks: Code 9
My review of The Sarah Connor Chronicles on DVD is on Den of Geek here…
This is a great show, even if the DVD release doesn’t actually build much on that.
31
Jul
08
Vantage Point on Blu-ray review
I’m going to keep this review as spoiler-free as I can, so I’m not be divulging the plot twist that is supposed to be the highlight of this movie. Partly because in my opinion it’s not worth actually telling people, and everyone should get the chance to shout at the screen Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot at that juncture.
But to be honest it wasn’t the only time I was forced to voice my incredulity as the events portrayed in this movie, whole sections make about as much sense as Amy Whinehouse does after a complete bender.
If you didn’t catch the promotions for this movie the premise is simple, if not borrowed from at least three other movies I can think of. We’re presented with 23 minutes or time which usually runs to about 10 minutes of screentime, in which the same events are seen from a different perspective. With each ‘vantage point’ we get more information about the characters, their motivations and additional clues to what’s actually going on. Which, unsurprisingly, isn’t what we’re initially drawn to think.
31
Jul
08
Been Geek Busy…
Here are a bunch of things I’ve written on geek recently…
10 Great Geek Moments in Movies
Gotham Knight Bluray review
Sweeney Tood Blu-ray Review
Men in Black Blu-ray Review
27
Jun
08
BBC super-sizes Marcello Lippi
While surfing the BBC website yesterday I came across this muck-up! I’m not a big fan of their revamp, but it shows that they’re big Lippi fans, and aren’t sure what the word ‘resolution’ means. Twits. Click through for the full picture…it’s BIG!
24
Jun
08
AMD unleashes 800 digital demons
Today I received something special, a Gigabyte Readeon HD 4850! I’ve had this little monster on the test rig and it bitch slaps anything that Nvidia makes for less than £250. I’m putting together a feature for MIcro Mart on it, which will appear in a couple of weeks.
24
Jun
08
The Professionals on Blu-ray
I’ve not seen a old movie on Blu-ray before, so I’m glad the first one I did see was this one. Read about it here.
20
Jun
08
I, Robot on Blu-ray
At last some decent movies on Blu-ray. My review of I,Robot can be found here.
20
Jun
08
Stan Winston R.I.P.
It was with great sadness that I learned of the untimely death of Stan Winston, who’s work in fantasy films enthraulled a generation. So I was insipred to write something about his work on Geek, here.
09
May
08
Bring on the DogWelder!!!!
I love comics, but I’ll accept that some characters aren’t destined for the big screen!
Here is my run-down of 10 Comic Book Characters Who Should Never Make It To Film
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