Posts in Movies
Of pumpkins and boxes

Hey, Internet, it’s good to be back amongst you.  After a couple of chaotic weeks and some incredibly painful days without any sort of signal that belongs in the 21st century, The Blank Page is up and running again.  I’d call it 2.0, but let’s not fool ourselves.  We’re in for more of the same here.  The overly long posts and occasional reveries that don’t quite add up to a bigger pay cheque.  Still, that’s hardly the attitude to start on.  The Longs have moved finally moved house.  Let’s begin there.  

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Hyper Bowl

Expectation is a tricky thing.  We generate it ourselves, but we don’t have a lot of control over it.  We merely light the fuse.  Our subconscious does the rest.  It fans the flames and spreads the fire.  It makes us crave what lies ahead.  Before we know it, we’ve taken something we’re interested in and turned it into something so much bigger.  Something that feels bizarrely pivotal to our happiness.  Sadly, this process doesn’t always work out well for us or the thing we’re waiting for.

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Mr Gilliam

I want to talk about a man who’s been inspiring me since I was a kid.  Mr Terry Gilliam.  There are a lot of people who have shaped my brain.  The Marx Brothers.  Roald Dahl.  Bill Hicks.  Woody Allen.  Neil Gaiman.  Alan Moore.  Arthur C Clarke.  The list can go on and on, but Terry Gilliam is something special.  In fact, he’s such a cornerstone of my desire to tell stories that I’d forgotten how big an influence he was until recently.

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Those old familiar faces

Our language gives us the capacity to bottle pure lightning in words.  There are people who will tell you this is the final act of magic our modern world will allow.  They’re words that were created to allow us to express terror or wonder.  They are words that feel like they’re carved from the foundations of the world under our feet.  Words like genius or awe.  Words like love and spirit.  Words like monster. 

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