Signs of returning to standard hermit mode: filling the office with new film purchases.
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THE BATMAN’S GRAVE 6 came out yesterday, which I didn’t properly memorialise because I was too busy writing future issues of THE BATMAN’S GRAVE. Which I’m also doing today, and also probably Friday, before giving myself the weekend to do development on other stuff, before I go back into HEAVEN’S FOREST. Regimented days.
Please admire Bryan Hitch’s world class work on this book. Please also observe that it’s coming out like clockwork — next month is a pre-planned and pre-announced skip month. Bryan is putting out work of this shocking quality, easily the equal of anything else he’s done in comics, like a machine.
Last night before bed I was reviewing and clearing materials on another show I’m attached to, because this is how my days go now. Something new every hour or two. Kel said to me the other day, “you’re in your happy place,” and while I would personally never agree that I experience human emotions — 1000mphclub is fast and chaotic and demanding and I’m not hating it. Content distant hermit.
Inbox at a bullshit 22.
Comments closedI’m finishing Lavie Tidhar’s BY FORCE ALONE, which is like a New Weird Britain take on Arthurian mythos with additional crime-family drama. It is knowing about the legend of Arthur, and knowing about the uses that legend, and the Matter of Britain in general, are put to. It pokes at other adaptations – the opening section can be read as a miserable low-key take on EXCALIBUR, the middle section as a read on that recent King Arthur movie that was set in the somewhat ahistorical Londinium. In this sequence, the political gag of the sword Excalibur Lavie invents is greatly amusing. He even nods to THE SWORD IN THE STONE Disney film. There’s some great wordplay: for example, as the Unseelie Court of fairy legend becomes the Unseemly Court.
I once talked about a take on the Arthur story I read in some local small-press book from Cornwall about 35 years ago, which presents Merlin as the head priest of St Michael’s Mount, who convenes negotiations as what was once referred to as “a political wizard.” There’s some of that, too. It’s an immense remix of the myth, done with an extremely ruthless eye. Lavie is an extremely clever writer, and, for all the book’s genuine wit and humour, it is very very cold and it very much knows what business it is about. It is not to be fucked with.
BY FORCE ALONE (UK) (US – out in June)
Good news: there’s a new Novella piece streaming at Adult Swim, “Effektology.” It is massive and glorious. Sarah Lipstate makes the world better just by thinking.
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Slightly more springlike out here today, but we’ve been fooled before. Inbox 15. Big BATMAN’S GRAVE day today. Which is funny, as issue 6 is out today. One month break following that, and then we do the next six. Time to throw some Bela Tarr on the big screen and some Phurpa on the speakers and get it done.
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Already sent a dozen emails and set a phone conf time for next week. I have at least one phoner this afternoon, so I need to get a bit of this script done and then go out for supplies then phoner then cause dinner then back to script while fielding emails and messages and picking at a couple of things I have on deck for development this week and wow I’m going to need more coffee
Inbox 15. Protip: on web-based Gmail, drag your Spam and Bin folders down below the fold in the left hand panel so you can’t ever see them. They take care of themselves, and it requires you to make a specific effort to go in and check them, reducing the number of procrastinatory whim-clicks you make inside Gmail.
Comments closedAgain, sad that there isn’t a massive CD set of this suite, but this deep ambient atmosphere is making for great thinking music today. Click through to buy the download for seven American dollars.
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This gorgeous piece, painted with gold on silk paper, was brought back for me from India. Apt, since I’m currently working on HEAVEN’S FOREST, an adaptation/remix of The Ramayana, commissioned by Netflix International/ Netflix India, originally asked of me by Adi Shankar. It now sits overlooking me on a shelf in the office.
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Well, the show is well and truly launched, and is currently sitting at 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It’ll be a while before we find out from Netflix what kind of position we’re in, though I’ve been told by others that the show has been either top 5 or top 10 globally this weekend. Anyway. It’s out in the world, and I move on to other things.
Filed a HEAVEN’S FOREST script draft over the weekend, and today I get into BATMAN’S GRAVE and some development work on two other things, and a pile of HEAVEN’S FOREST concept work that I have to review and annotate. Inbox 14. Currently in that period of confusion where North America has gone to daylight savings time but we here in the seat of civilisation have not. We invented time, people. You don’t get to just change this shit on me.
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