Hello everyone! Exciting news! I’m super happy to announce that ‘To the Victor’ is now available for you to enjoy on DVD!

That’s right, I am selling copies right here on this website and for $10 (Aus) this gritty sci-fi short can be yours. There’s some extras on the disc like the trailer, commentary and full length music tracks from the film as well as three other shorts that I have directed! The other films on the disc are Bulb, Junk and Blindsight. The disc is pretty cool looking and comes presented in a super spiffy case with some awesome cover art from the graphic designer on the film, Mark Young.

By purchasing a copy you will be directly funding my further film pursuits and I promise that this is where the money will go. So if you like what I’m doing then please help me to continue making movies and consider buying a copy of the DVD! It’s definitely my best work so far.

If you’re keen all the details and how to buy is over on the To the Victor page.

It must have followed me.

The wind moans at me in human tones through the gaps in the bus stop rain cover. It is cold as death this night. The devil is on my back! I jump as a leaf scrapes by on the pavement. Such chills.

I shouldn’t have opened that door in the theatre basement.

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007, Mohsin Hamid’s second book The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a tale told by a young Pakistani to an unnamed, unspeaking, unknown American; about his journey from the American dream to political fundamentalism in Pakistan.

Changez is a Princeton graduate who wins a job at a prestigious management consultancy.  For a time, he lives the high life in New York, with an expenses account and a tentative romance with an upper-class American girl, Erica. Then someone flies a plane into a building.  Changez becomes an outsider in his adopted city. Erica is drawing away from him into deep depression.  America attacks Afghanistan. Changez becomes obsessed with following the news from home, and can’t find meaning in his job any more. Erica disappears.  Changez resigns, and leaves New York for his home in Lahore.

As this story unwinds, the tension slowly and imperceptibly increases as darkness falls around the cafe in which Changez and his American listener are sitting. Hamid is leading the reader somewhere, just as he leads his American listener back to his hotel, along a dark street where menacing shadows are drawing closer to the pair.  The story ends with a threat of violence which suddenly reveals what Changez has become and exactly why the American has been so interested in his story.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is one of the best books I’ve read this year. The story seems simple but  Mohsin Hamid builds it towards a stunning and terrifying climax that left me holding my breath for the last few pages.  It is also a clear and nuanced analysis of the tensions between Islamic countries and the West as they are experienced by ordinary people. It’s a short book at only 184 pages – Mohsin Hamid has said ‘I’d rather people read my book twice than only half-way through’, and I would defintely read it again.  Highly recommended.

Further reading: ‘Why do they hate us‘ – Mohsin Hamid, Washington Post

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
Hamish Hamilton, 2007

It is a little puzzling as to why so many people are astonished of find the Dubai World debt issue a surprise or problematic. Didn’t we have all the clues of that desert dream laid in front of us. Tens of billions of dollars in loans to build projects that can not possibly pay or be profitable. Have them constructed. Then say “sorry we can not pay the service on the debt”.

Dubai is a prime exemple that one would think Europeen banks and other greedy investors would have stay away from. The increase in real estate prices are absolutely similar to the boom time of the Florida and Nevada cases. Increases to prices that are no longer logically sustainable, but yet large investments firms and banks poured billions into these schemes (British meaning, or maybe not).

Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum (the supreme ruler of Dubai, one of the emirates of the UAE) managed to do it again. And I must say, I tip my hat to him for having sold the dream to people who should have know better and are just getting out of the previous debacle.

Once again financial market act surprise and we have big drops in Asia of almost 5% on that news. We knew about these bad deals that can not yield any profits, are that are way too costly. Why are the markets surprise? Or were market makers and interested parties glorifying the Dubai story to the limits so that they could set lofty short positions.

The answer to the posting is. no. We will not and will have RBS, HSBC and others commit to other crazy projects under the pretext that they have to try to invest the many they have on hand. I only thought they would smarter in their placements choices.

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Interesting Phrases And Love Quote

Seen on the back of a biker's vest:If you can read this, my wife fell off
Interesting Saying

Show a little bit of your anger everyday instead of showing a lot of it on one day
Men Quotes

Some people are bitter, some sour, others are sweet. Who you hang out with depends on your taste
Wisdom OneLiner

The Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math

The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay.Love isn't love till you give it away

Time is like money: you can either spend, waste, or invest!
Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students!
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once

Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane

When your Mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair

A good conscience is a soft pillow

All mothers are working mothers

America is a land where citizens vote for Democrats but hope to live like Republicans

A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked

Did you hear about the man who lost his whole left side? He's all right now

Don't limit your challenges – challenge your limits

Don't tell God how big your problems are…tell your problems how big your God is

Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy

I believe in the Big Bang theory. God spoke and BANG! It was

I'd like to help you out, which way did you come in?
I'd love to make up my mind, but I can't remember where I left it

I have changed my mind a dozen times. It seems to work better now
Quotable Quotations

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Daily Phrases And Cool Quote

Relationships can be boring – not people!
Remember that failure is an event – not a person
Men Sayings

Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants
Daily Quotation

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It's becoming the right person
Favorite Phrases

The fellow who has no money is poor; the fellow who has nothing but money is poorer still

The meaning of life is not a question to be answered, but an event to be experienced

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket

What is the most important thing to learn in chemistry? Never lick the spoon

Where God guides, He provides

A good way to change somebody's attitude is to change your own

All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come onto Church for a FAITH LIFT!
A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least

Atheism is a non-prophet organization

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired

Don't limit your challenges – challenge your limits

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic

Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet?
If innocence can leave guilt can come

Immature love: I love you because I need you.Mature love; I need you because I love you
Favorite Saying

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Wisdom Quotes And Romantic Saying

Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research
Wisdom Sayings

Share your smile with everyone, but save your kiss for only one
Men Phrase

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed
People Phrases

The heart has reasons which reason does not understand

The only stupid question is the question you don't ask

To think too long about doing a thing, often becomes its undoing

True power is when what you say is only the tip of the iceberg of what you really know

When someone says, do you want my opinion?- it's always a negative one

A good friend see the first tear, catches the second and stops the third

A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing

As a man begins to live more seriously within; he begins to live more simply without

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous

Dieting is wishful shrinking

Dogs have masters.Cats have staff

Drive carefully, we need every taxpayer we can get

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes…

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet?
If innocence can leave guilt can come

If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same?
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me
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Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing
Quotable Quotes

Smile…. it makes others wonder what you're thinking
Memorable Quotations

Some people grumble because roses have thorns. Be thankful instead that thorns have roses
Memorable Phrase

The key to happiness is not fixing your problems but changing your attitude towards your problems

The mind is like a parachute, it's no good unless it's open!
The Miss Universe pageant is fixed. All the winners are from Earth

To hate a person is a waste; half the people you hate don't care, and the other half don't know

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

When you can't trace God's hand, trust His heart

A goal without a plan is just a wish

All the so-called secrets of success will not work unless you do

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost

A signature always reveals a man's character… and sometimes even his name

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on

Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself

God loves everyone, but probably prefers fruit of the Spirit over religious nuts!

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional

Herblock's Law: if it is good, they will stop making it

If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms

I have changed my mind a dozen times. It seems to work better now
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Short Sayings And Motivational Phrase

Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired- it can only be earned
Long Quotation

Sign on a church bulletin board: Planning to go to Heaven? Get your flight training here
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Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can shatter my soul
Long Sayings

The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it

To think too long about doing a thing, often becomes its undoing

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water

A goal without a plan is just a wish

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing

Atheism is a non-prophet organization

A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go

Don't attempt to run from the past, it is always behind you

God's will will not lead you where His grace cannot keep you

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have

Herblock's Law: if it is good, they will stop making it

I don't need your attitude I have one of my own

If we don't control our money, it will control us
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Hey & Happy Thanksgiving! I guess the Holiday Season has begun officially. Yay! To kick it off, DuckDuck Collective just posted our mini film and I wanted to share it with you all. I don’t think we’ve got a super huge blog following at this point, so if you happen to stop by and leave a post about what you think by Monday 11/30, we’ll give you a 40% off coupon for our shop. Be sure to include your email so we can get a hold of you.

In this video you’ll see my metals studio, our messy laundry room, a quick walk through our tiny home, and The Wolf-our vintage pink & teal trailer office/jewelry assembly space. Crashdog is the cutest thing ever so check him out. I told Elijah I kind of look like MR. F in this video, he just laughed.

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Ok I definitely never thought I would say this on a Thanksgiving Day, but I’m actually hungry again. The only reason I’m not getting more food right now is because I’m all warm and cozy in bed and my teeth are brushed, and hauling out the leftovers sounds like way more trouble than it’s worth. You might ask why I don’t just grab like the turkey or get a couple of bites of yams or something, which I won’t even deem worthy of a scoffing retort. Some things just can’t be eaten alone, and Thanksgiving dishes are some of them. If you give me turkey, I want dressing. Which requires cranberry sauce. Which requires mashed potatoes. Which requires green bean casserole. And on and on! I DON’T MAKE THE RULES PEOPLE. Although if, like other recent nights, I’m not able to get to sleep, Tryptophan does seem like a good way to counteract the insomnia, so maybe I’ll change my mind.

Today we, like most American families I’m sure, went around the table and, between shoveling loaded forkfuls into our drooling mouths, paused to say what we’re thankful for. My mom, dad, sister, and Lance’s answers all went something like “God, this country, my family and friends, the new baby on the way, my job in this economy, our new house, etc, etc.” When it was my brother’s turn he said, without pause for reflection: “my car.” We all laughed, waiting for him to finish. But it turns out he was not kidding, and he WAS finished. I should point out here that every year at this time, when normal people are looking forward to mouthwatering traditional Thanksgiving dishes, my brother is dreading it. I’ve never met anyone like this, but he hates all Thanksgiving food. This year I snuck a look at his plate (always a source of entertainment for my family) and here’s what was on it at the beginning of the meal: a piece of turkey, two rolls, one spiced apple slice, and four cranberries. NO I AM NOT LYING. At the end of the meal, the four cranberries and half a spiced apple remained, along with all but like two bites of the turkey. WHAT A WEIRDO. Later, he made himself a snack out of a FROZEN GYRO KIT. I think a person with these crippling tendencies could only be thankful for his car, nothing else, without blowing a central fuse somewhere inside his gray matter. Like if he had tried to say “my dog” or even “my ability to read,” Thanksgiving dinner would have been interrupted by the explosion of his head.

When it was my turn, I kind of repeated everything everyone else said, with the obvious exception of the aforementioned brother, because yes, I am most of all thankful for my Jesus who loves me, and I’m extremely thankful also for my house, my healthy baby, my pets, my family, and Michael Buble’s Christmas album. But there is one person that I could not survive my life without, and this year I’ve been increasingly aware of how incredibly thankful I am to have him in my life. In fact if I had to tell you only one thing that I’m thankful for this year, it would be Lance.

Lance, a girlfriend of mine just asked me the other day how I knew I wanted to be with you for the rest of my life. I can only say that it’s a knowledge that comes to me new and fresh every single time I see your face, or laugh with you, or collapse into your arms. Life is far from perfect, and we both know there are bound to be hard times ahead. But knowing that I’ll face my challenges with you makes me know that I’ll survive whatever the future holds, as long as you are with me. I love you, and I don’t tell you enough, but I’m more thankful for you than I can ever express.

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National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first.

The novel opens in England in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause. Her choice echoes in the stories of her descendants interwoven throughout: a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother’s infamy by immigrating to America just after World War I to begin a career in science; a niece who chooses a conventional path — marriage, children, suburban domesticity — only to find herself disillusioned with her husband of fifty years and engaged in heartbreaking and futile antiwar protests; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of the times while getting drunk on a children’s playdate in post-9/11 Manhattan. In a kaleidoscope of voices and with a richness of imagery, emotion, and wit, Walbert portrays the ways in which successive generations of women have responded to what the Victorians called “The Woman Question.”

As she did in her critically acclaimed The Gardens of Kyoto and Our Kind, Walbert induces “a state in which the past seems to hang effortlessly amid the present” (The New York Times). A Short History of Women is her most ambitious novel, a thought-provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century to reflect the tides of time and the ways in which the lives of our great-grandmothers resonate in our own……..
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 “”A Short History” Says Little About Women” 2009-11-21
By Tia (Secane, PA)
Covering five generations of women, “A Short History of Women” presents the thoughts of the descendants of Dorothy Trevor Townsend (a woman who starved herself for suffrage), and Dorothy herself, as they navigate their positions in the world as women.

Although “A Short History” received a favorable review from the New York Times and other reviewers, the novel illustrates some of the disconnect between “good” literature and literature people actually want to read. Although Walbert writes well, the dreary and incessant brooding self-reflection that dominates her novel just felt old. Women are typically granted this behavior even more frequently than men, and as Walbert’s novel is narrated almost entirely by women (a husband’s point of view is somewhat inexplicably included mid-way through), I almost felt defensive: do women’s lives have to be reduced to this?

The book focuses primarily on the first three generations of women, and in a book proposed as “A Short History of Women,” I began to think no younger voices would be heard. The fourth generation gets a few quick chapters toward the end, but the fifth generation, a new college student, gets one page mimicking a Facebook profile. I don’t know if this is a statement about technology’s influence, or a dig at the current generation’s supposed vapidity, or what. Maybe Walbert just wanted to show off how hip she was. I would think modern young women should have some say in all this dreariness.

Walbert also employs the obnoxious technique of giving everyone the same name (a nudge at the patriarchal history of passing down names?). I don’t care what the point is; it’s annoying. I had to refer back to the lineage chart at the beginning of the novel (if you need to include one, your book is not clear) every time I began a new chapter. I want to enjoy the book, not keep notes.

The chapters I enjoyed most concerned the oldest generations and their life experiences. The historical content related to suffrage and women’s positions was especially interesting. I could have taken a novel just of that.

 “Emotionless book” 2009-11-19
By Delores A. Daniel (Houston, TX USA)
I could not get into this book. I plodded my way through it because so many critics proclaimed it to be wonderful. I seriously doubt that any of them really read the book. So much feeling could have been put into this book, but it is without feeling. It was terribly boring and without emotion. The sentences ramble so that in so many cases you have to re-read them in order to grasp the meaning.

 “Wholly Unenjoyable” 2009-11-05
By Stacey @ Tree, Root, and Twig (Houston Metro, TX)
I can’t get past the feeling that I am *supposed* to like this book. “Literary fiction” as it’s called – and I’m a literary person, I appreciate a well-crafted novel as much as the next English major. But I could never manage to muster the same kind of adoration that has been heaped upon this book by so many other reviewers. In fact, I could never manage to muster any kind of positive emotion at all.

This is one long generational line of messed-up women. I think I’m supposed to believe they are layered and complex. But they all just came off as selfish to me, living totally for themselves. Leaving children motherless, leaving husbands who had lost their fancy. That’s not to say that women should only live for their children and husbands – no, in fact I think the most responsible character was the one who never married OR had children. BUT, she also never reconnected with her brother, who was trying to reach out to her. Why are all these women completely unable to care for other people?! I did not find one likeable character in this book, and it felt like an ultimate waste of time.

The book plays on the them of “The Woman Question” over and over. My only question about this book is: Who Cares?

 “Absorbing, cross-generational novel” 2009-10-13
By RadioNDN (Midwestern USA)
In general, I tend to gravitate towards short novels, as some of my favorite writers, Flannery O’Connor, Jean Rhys and Carson McCullers all worked with this form. Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women falls into this category, and it’s a solid read, if not quite up to the best work of the aforementioned writers. As other reviewers have pointed out, it’s a multi-generational look at a family affected directly and indirectly by an ancestor/suffragist’s hunger strike related death at the turn of the 20th century. It’s necessarily episodic, and while no part of the novel is quite as compelling as the opening section, it’s still a generally absorbing read. Recommended for those interested in short novels, and those interested in the development of feminism throughout the 20th century.

 “What a wonderful experience.” 2009-09-09
By Schmadrian
Singer vs Vocalist.

Guitarist vs Guitar Player.

Chef vs Cook.

Novelist vs Writer.

For me, there’s a difference in all these situations. While the degree of this difference is wholly subjective, and many may not agree with the way I’m slicing things, final of these two comparisons can mean either something utterly engaging and transportive or something merely satisfying.

‘A Short History of Women’ comes from a novelist who is in obvious control of her craft, has a particular vision in mind and weaves a fascinating tapestry with that craft and that vision. It’s a slim affair, but there’s something additionally delightful in its brevity, how Ms Walbert doesn’t try to present all manner of insight, instead choosing to focus on the particulars of the family of women comprising the main characters of this tale that spans three different centuries.

Once again, as seems to be the case lately, I was stunned by the effects of a style of writing at the opposite end of the spectrum than is my default preference, but even in wanting more, I’d have wanted more from the author herself.

(Personal rating: 9/10)

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Acaba la setmana amb el divendres i el programa 452 d’El crepuscle encén estels · IB3 Ràdio, 21:00 · en el qual ens visita el mag GERMÁN RÉHERMANN, especialista en hipnosi. La hipnosi és un estat mental constituït per un grup d’actituds generades a través d’un procediment conegut com inducció hipnòtica. La primera meitat del segle XIX va esser quan l’escocès James Braid encunyà aquest terme i quan escriptors com Edgar Allan Poe qüestionaren el caràcter omnicomprensiu del mètode científic. Per exemple, Julio Cortázar, traductor al castellà de La veritat del cas del senyor Valdemar (1845), considerava aquest relat com un precedent de la ciència-ficció, que inclou l’estat hipnòtic del protagonista dins un discurs racional i científic, però acaba amb un final propi de literatura fantàstica. Si voleu aprofundir en la relació entre hipnosi i ciència a l’obra de Poe és ben recomanable l’article de Joan Ferrús a la revista electrònica …452º F, que fa referència –amb un grau més– a Fahrenheit 451, la novel·la de Ray Bradbury i de la pel·lícula de François Truffaut

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As the tube train rumbled into the platform he stood up.

While waiting for the trains, he liked squatting down. Often it gave his legs a rest from the many miles that he did, pounding the unforgiving streets of the city. His trainers were worn out, after all, they were a cheap pair that he bought in some discount shoe shop a while back. Still, they came in handy for running, when the need arose, which was unfortunately for him, becoming a more frequent occurrence. The vantage point from a squatting gave him an unusual view of the tiling that adorned the tube station and he also got to see up the nostrils of his fellow passengers, also waiting on the platform.

The doors hissed open and there was that usual embarrassed semi-scrum that always accompanied the ritual of embarkation onto and disembarkation off a tube carriage. It was the proper thing to let passengers off first, but there was always that worry that the driver might be in a temper and shut the doors on you, so leaving you behind on the platform, stranded underneath the streets of London. Of course, this had never happened to any of the passengers on the platform. But the mere fear of having to wait three minutes until the next train was too much to bear and so as the last of the passengers were trying to alight, the crowd surged on. He joined them too, riding the wave, almost euprhoric, of getting one step closer to a destination.

And what was that destination? The doors gave their warning before slamming shut and
as the train slowly rumbled out of the platform, he began to think of where he was going. Life had not turned out all happy go-lucky. Those rosy-tinted days of looking forward to a future had given way to something more realistic – ‘life’. For all the optimism that he should have felt, he in fact felt very lonely, despite the fact that his carriage was as crowded as ever. Standing, crushed against the plastic-enamel interior of the carriage, he may have shared the same thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears as his fellow passengers, as well as the same final destination, both literal and metaphorical. But of course, this is London, and while the whole train may have felt the same, for him, it felt that he was the only one that was experiencing it so vividly, with his heart racing away, as drip by drip, one second at a time, life itself slipped from his grasp.

The doors opened and he got off. He rushed towards the escalators, but for once, decided not to climb up and instead held onto the handrail and watched a few others overtake him on the left. The breeze from above ground hit him in the face, his nostrils picking up the scent of fried chicken and exhaust fumes wafting down the shaft from the street above. On reaching the concourse, he tappped his oyster and headed outside. It was a chilly night, and as he felt the sharp whip of the wind, he drew his collar close towards him. He still had a long way to go until he reached his ‘destination’…