Wes Brown is a writer, a publisher, and a wrestler. He smashes people’s minds and faces and is also a pretty charming fellow.
We spoke about:
- Wes’s first novel Shark
- What is Anti-Literature
- The story structure of a wrestling match.
- Modern Publishing.
Read MoreI remember reading an interview with Richard Herring about how he and Stewart Lee came up with their sketches for the show Fist Of Fun.
I can't find the source material so you'll just have to take my word for it.
They made a list of all of the themes, jokes, ideas, etc, that were commonplace in sketch comedy at the time, and decided to proactively avoid using any of them. It became their what-no-to-do list.
Read MoreAnother fun talk with a writer/director about making your way in the world as a freelance creative.
James Sharpe has worked on some wicked projects including Russell Howard's Good News, a Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip music video, and some awesome original work too.
Read MoreThe other day I saw that a fellow filmmaker of mine had made the leap to being a full-time creative. For a lot of people I know, this is the ultimate goal. To make a living from doing the thing they love. So I thought it would be great to get that friend on as a guest on the Storyteller's Podcast - enter ... Sophie Black of Triskelle Pictures.
Read MoreChris Jones is one of those guys. Y'know ... one of those guys who you could just sit and talk to forever. Infinitely knowledgable and a helluva lot more eloquent than myself.
Read MoreNathan is currently one of my favourite directors working the independent scene. I fell in love with his work after losing myself in the immersive website for this project Loves Of A Cyclops. A story about a one-eyed man who can see into other dimensions.
Read MoreI've started a thing.
It's a podcast.
It's called The Storyteller's Podcast - A Series Of Interviews With Writers, Directors, Comedians, Poets, Games Designers & Other Storytellers Of The 21st Century.
Read MoreIt seems that a lot of filmmaking (at my level) is about applying for funding. It's a little like panhandling. Holding out your little copper tin asking for some money from a group of complete strangers to get some nourishment.
The problem is there are too few funding bodies and too many panhandlers. Each time you apply for a scheme you hold your breath, wait two or more weeks to hear back, and the odds are, that you haven't won. Ouch. Aspirations hurt much?
Read MoreThere isn't anything wrong with NoFilmSchool, Film School Rejects, or MovieMaker. I often visit those sites and I've got a lot of use out of them. But reading the film-tech news, the latest reviews, and interviews, I've often felt like a big part of my filmmaking passion wasn't being satisfied.
Enter A-BitterSweet-Life.
Read MoreMy fitness goal this year was to put on 5lbs of muscle.
Easy right?
Well you'd think so.
Since the start of the year I've been doing four gym sessions a week and I've been eating like a pro. Chicken, turkey, tuna, sweet potato, brown rice - all the good stuff.
When I weighed myself at the start of the year I was 11st 5lbs, and when I weighed myself a month ago I was ... 11st 6lbs.
Jesus Christ. All that hard work for what? One pound?
You could argue, that I was losing fat and gaining muscle, but this wasn't good enough for me. I decided to take the next step ... the GOMAD diet.
What the flip is a GOMAD? It translates to a Gallon Of Milk A Day. That's 8 pints!
What happened?
One month later I jumped on the scales and I was ... 12st 4lbs
That's nearly a whole stone. Obviously it's not a stone of pure muscle. It's likely a mixture of muscle, fat, and water, but with a bit of cutting this next month, the results should be a little clearer.
One evening my girlfriend caught me struggling to hold down a particularly eggy mouthful of milk. She said 'why are you putting yourself through this? Just to look better?'
'No, not at all,' I said.
I'm not a vain person. I'm a balding twenty-six year old with a patchy beard and a poor sense of fashion. I'm not lifting for vanity, so why then?
I've come to realise that lifitng is a metaphor for life.
If I'm not willing to go to the gym, not willing to lift some weights, eat some raw eggs, drink some milk, then I'm wasting my time. If I'm not willing to do these relatively simple things, then who the hell am I to want to do bigger things in life? I have to do this, to prove to myself that I can do more.
