Very cool little animation by Tokyo Plastic.

It's official. My personal website is up and running. Out there in the world for anyone to see.
Please leave your comments here!
Thanks,
Patricia

Just saw this remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film on dvd, and phew! they managed not to ruin it too much. It was actually quite good, and the casting certainly helped. Lawrence Fishburne's Marion Bishop is almost as creepy and scary as the original Napoleon Wilson.
What really lets this new version down in the inevitable comparison is this Hollywod insistence on explaining everything, putting a face and a reason behind the bad guys. It seems to dilute the pure tension John Carpenter managed to build up in the original, where the enemy is faceless and driven, not by the need to protect himself, but by unexplainable violence and pure evil. Same goes for the main characters: no backgrounds, no atempt to explain beforehand why they are how they are. A bunch of very different people is thrown into a very extreme situation, and you just have to figure them out by yourself as you go along. And this made it a far less predictable film than this new, machine processed, yet still enjoyable new version.

John Carpenter's The Fog also got a recent Hollywood makeover (what's with all the remakes??? no imagination left??). As it's one of my favourite movies ever, all I can say is I'm not looking forward to it at all! Ugh!

On another note... did anyone notice how Ethan Hawke looks a lot like Tom Cruise? More than that, he sounds exactly like Tom Cruise. Just close your eyes and you won't be able to tell the difference. How soon will Hollywood spot this and cast them as brothers??

This website turned out to be a bit of a puzzle, and the pages are taking a bit longer than I thought to fill up. Still, it's quite a fun job... gathering, organising, testing.
Can't wait to finish it and opening it to the public. Maybe this week, who knows?

It's now official... I'm the proud owner of my very own little blog! And as always, I've exaggerated a bit, turning what could have been just a simple news section on my site into a big five page extravaganza. Greedy, I know...

Still, I'll be using them as my personal bookmarks pages, as I keep switching between the mac and the pc, or somehow losing all my IE favourites. So, even if no one reads this, all work is not lost.

As for this little section, the actual blog, I'm not sure what's really going to go in here... I've never been one for clever witty commentaries on world events or trivia facts, and as people tell me, I'm only funny when I'm not trying. But I guess I do run into lots of witty of funny stuff over the internet, so sharing that appears to be the next best thing. Time will tell if anyone is interested!