I've just renamed the third section of my Oscar Wilde chapter "Books and Ownership, or, what would Jesus do?"

I think it's time to call it quits for today...

Last night, I was watching the episodes of Doctor Who where the Master becomes Prime Minister. Apart from how amazingly tight and well-written the script for 'Utopia' is (I've seen it about half a dozen times and the revelation of the Professor's watch still hasn't lost its effect), I was struck by how remarkably timely 'The Sound of Drums' is - a ( Read more... )

Off to Builth this weekend. Last weekend, Chris had a reunion, so I went to Cardigan to visit Hywel. Had a nice night out, but missed Doctor Who. Saw it on sunday though - really, really good and best pre-credits sequence EVER!

On thursday night I managed to slit my finger open with the foil on top of a bottle of wine. This wouldn't have been a ( Read more... )

I've been on holiday for two weeks. I had an amazing update planned with old Doctor Who episode titles for each day of the trip. Thankfully, I'm too busy to do that, so you're all spared. Except you're not really, because I'm going to put them in brackets where appropriate. Basically, I spent one week in Tennerife ('Coronas of the Sun'), lounging ( Read more... )

Had a rather lovely Christmas, despite the mother of all colds which is only just starting to go away. Didn't really do much until the New Year though - and I won't regale you with a list of presents, because I didn't really receive anything particularly exciting, but they were well-chosen and pleased me.

New Year's was spent in Birmingham. We had ( Read more... )

Well, my musical is imminent. We've had two full run-throughs (the second an improvement on the first) and the dress rehearsal is tuesday. I know it's only an amateur production, but I can't quite believe I've finally got the bloody thing performed. If I'm completely honest, my writing and my composing's improved a lot in the six years since " ( Read more... )

My name is Dewi Evans. Erm... about three hours ago I went to see a film in which some... thing attacked a city. If you've watched this, then you probably know about as much about it as I do. It disappointed my friend, Amy Jones. It disappointed the guy sitting behind me. Oh, and Mark Kermode. If you want a more detailed review look under the ( Read more... )

I never did a review of 2007, so it may start to appear sporadically throughout 2008. Starting with these musical selections:

( Top 40 of 2007, plus favourite albums of that year )

Now THAT's how you make a film musical!

( Sweeney Todd review )

I love Russell T Davies - I want to be him when I grow up ( Read more... )