To everyone who stops by and checks out a ffew of this posts I wish you a Maryy Chirstmas and Happy Holidays for what flavor of winter Solitice you celebrate.
May love, luck, and happiness be yours.
In case I get too busy…
Author Archives: Bob Evans
Four good years
Today was the forth anniversary of me and my sweetie-wife getting married. IT’s been a good four year and I can say that I am a happy mna.
Into the breach once more
So after a couple of years away, I have submitted another story to The Writers Of The Future Contest.
It’ll be about three months at the earliest before I hear anything. Luckily I have plenty of stories to work on while I wait.
Sunday Night Movie: Diamonds are Forever
So here is the return of my Sunday NIght Movie  postings. Last night I booted up the PS3, logged into Netflix and started the next of my Bond Movie series, Diamonds Are Forever. This is a Bond film that I have never seen in its entirety. I can recall seeing bits and pieces of this movie on cable as I flipped through the channels, But I had never sat down and watched the film from front to finish. Now, it turns our that I had seen very little of this film and most of it was a total unknown to me, a very pleasant unknown I might add. Continue reading
The danger of being a dreamer…
Is that against all rational hope and expectations I am looking at this teaser for a trailer and really wanting to see this movie.
Experimental
So I’ve been playing with the themes again for this blog. Any opinions on this look?
A sentiment I heartily agree with….
The Wicker Man
Last March one of my Sunday night Movies was The Wicker Man a film I have enjoyed since I saw it on HBO back in 1979. Now when I watched it last year it was the ‘director’s cut.’ In actuality I’m not sure if this represents the director’s true visions but I know it is the closest surviving print of that version. Sadly, the studio accidentally destroyed the negative this cut was made from a 1″ videotape duplicate, so the visuals suffer.
Late laste year or early this year I picked up the theatrical cut on DVD so that I could have all the bonus material. (the boxed set I had purchased seven or eight years ago came with two discs, one with teh bonus material and the theatrical cut and the second disc with this ‘director’s cut’, sadly only one disc worked.)
Of course I had to watch the theatrical cut in addition to the bonus materials.
I am so torn. In a perfect world there would be a high quality print with material from both cuts. I can’t honestly say if one is better than the other. Each stresses different points, and each omits scenes that I think are really really important.
(Ignore the fact that there was an American *ah hem* remake. That was pure garbage and ignored the themes of the film replacing them with its own misogynistic malevolence.)
I doubt that there are many fi any people reading my blog who has seen both, but if there are, do you have a preference and if so why?
What I am really excited about is next year….
No Sunday Night Movie this week.
Life has been busy and my writing has taken up quite a bit of my time. (that’s a good thing for me, not so good if you enjoy content here. Sorry.)
I’ve got a couple of short stories in the fire, and my next Seth jackson novel, Command and Control is coming along nicely in the outline stages.
See you all later.
Headache Log 12/14/11
Started getting a headache after prolonged exposure to the aroma of cooked food but without eating any of it. Took 1 treximet at 14:10.