Brand new blog!

Man, it's tough to keep up to date with this blogging thing, i'm going to try do this more often, perhaps in smaller increments (in time and length) A bit like twitter, except here... and propably a bit longer than twitter. Perhaps i'll conjunct my name with tweet. So mattweat. And it can double as breakfast cereal. Or something.

So what's up that was worth me actually logging on and blogging, considering that the last one was almost 2 months ago... I'm not sure. I felt bad I guess, and also I felt like writing a bit. So here I am writing, and i'm not having as much fun as I was expecting. The thought of writing something for fun, is waay more exciting than the actual writing part, which is where you are forced to use your brain to put together sentences that make sense. And make sure that your words have the correct number of letters in them... and at 1am in the morning, both of these things get expontentially more difficult. Also it's not as fun as writing it down with a pen. Because with a pen there is always a hint of danger. What if you run out of ink? What if you're left-handed (like me) and end up smudging half a paragraph as you try too add a more interesting flourish to capital Y.

Or what if you run out of ink? and decide that the best course of action is take the pen apart; then suck on the one end of the ink-holding-plastic-tube to somehow 'encourage' the ink to start flowing again, and then you end up with ink on your shirt, your hands, in your mouth, your hair, your nose... Like I said: a hint of danger...

Well this post has certainly taken a course towards the obscure and/or asinine. This always happens. Well let me just tell you about events like a normal person would. Okay here goes... I went to Paris last week to reunite with my teammates from Team Europe from that MTV's Engine Room show (that is probably chillin if you scroll down towards the older posts)It was an amazing weekend. We drank, ate, partied, arted and smarted. And took silly numbers of pictures. It was so cool to see those friends again, it reminded me that you've got to keep in touch with your people, wherever they are. It's so easy to fall under the whole, 'out of sight, out of mind.' quip, when describing foreign based friends, but in the age of the 'book of face' and the 'i-chatting' and the 'skyping', it no longer cuts mustard. Not that you'd ever need to cut mustard. It no longer ~spreads~ mustard. I think that might be less of a saying, and more of a euphamism, but for what i'm not sure. Maybe something illegal.

This is sounding more normal now right? What else are people interesting in hearing about from me on here? New developments professionally? I am now semi-actively seeking a literary/film agent ( semi-actively means thinking about, but while doing other work - when this should be my priority...)I have a tendency to work really hard and diligently on a project and then sort of stop once it's finished. I have two feature screenplays and two illustrated children's books that need homes. I think I need to open up some sort of dog shelter, like a pound, except where all the dogs are amazing and very well written, and you have to make them into movies or read them to your children, otherwise you can't take them home with you. So yes, i need to spend time on this idea. Or rather on the agent finding. I doubt some sort of ~build it they will come~ literary dog shelter is the best way forward for me professionally.

I'm hoping to do another short film soon, probably this Summer, and i'm hoping it will look as good as it does in my head, and that it will get into as many/or more festivals than the last one did. (Which by the way will be fully available to watch on this site at somepoint soon - it's running the last few legs of its life, and to continue this 'my work as dog analogy' it needs to be taken 'round back...)

I'm still working on this design series that you can see when scrolling down, I got an awesome image in my head for the next one, that screams awesome, i'll post it soon! But in a similar style at least, i completed this webpage recently for some work friends: www.helpusmakeahome.com




It's to help them 'make a home' for their wedding! It's a great idea too, so good luck Dre and Jorien if you read this. I genuinely do think it is a really good idea. And the illustration and design is amazing. ;)

Do I have anything else worthy of noting? Ummmmmm my Goldfish film is on the front cover of the KidsFirst Programme! Which is pretty shway, and also i bought a pair of red(ish) cowboy boots, which make me feel more manly, even though technically they're man heels. Also I think i'm gonna buy a pair of rayban Wayfarers and possibly a video recording dslr because I can't wait for a Red Scarlet.~
Yes, that last sentence was supposed to be greek, just to test if you were still paying attention.


So all in all, where this post might have lacked in ink, it made up for in dog. Thus creating a smidgen of danger. Because dogs are evil. Just ask Jono.

And happy earth hour! Also clocks go forward 40 minutes ago, which means i'm posting this around 2.45am, which makes me waaaay more lame than if i was posting at the gentlemanly time of 1.45am.

Oh one more thing, congratulations to my buddy Darin who's going to be a soldier in the new George Lucas Movie!! (and to add to that, last week i visited Elstree Studios and went on the George Lucas stage, and stood where Han Solo was frozen in Carbonite -geek out) Also, is is Han short for something, like Hans? or Hansel?
Hans Solo sounds a little gay porn to me... thoughts?