Kevin Pocock

Hello everyone. I found out something very interesting over the weekend: If you publish posts, traffic increases. Marvellous. Now that I realise exactly what this space is for, let’s keep doing…that thing that it’s for. Incidentally, the other thing I found out over the weekend is that a coalition UK government is quite clearly doomed.

This is based on a highly scientific experiment which involved consuming a coalition glass of red wine – majority shiraz, minority pinot noir. Then the beers wanted to have their say…and then gin called for shot-glass proportioned representation and…the result? Complete alcoholic fallout. It could be some weeks, or even months until any of those parties will be elected again.

Anyway, onto writing matters. The fine people at Den of Geek have allowed me to have a look at the new footballing film: One Night in Turin, a revisiting of the events surrounding England’s tumultuous journey through the 1990 world cup. You can wince at my footballing pun in the intro, and read the rest of the words after it here.

If you do, thanks. If not, well thanks for getting this far. If you didn’t even get this far, then you smell. And if you just read that as you smell, well don’t worry about it because in reading it, know that it means you don’t smell. Blimey, now I know how hard those Choose Your Own Adventure writers had it.

One person who clearly did choose his own adventure, is a gent called Tom Perkins, of  film vid-blog FILMXTRA. This morning he found himself drenched in a plagiarism downpour of which The Following Preview blog has all the details. Do read that post, it’s very,  very interesting.

Essentially Tom took film reviews from several sites and writers and read them allowed to camera in a presenter style, truly fit for the 21st century YouTube generation. What he didn’t do was ask anyone if he could present their views, and went about claiming the reviews as his own. Oh sorry, I’ve made a typo. He read the reviews ‘aloud’, it wasn’t ‘allowed’.

Den of Geek was one of the sites affected, but there were others who are also a tad disgruntled at his brazen attempt to make a name for himself, and his blog, off the back of others’ works. Bizarre, it really is. Tom has since ‘apologised’…in a way, but the matter will probably end his film review ‘career’. Similarly I feel a little sorry for him in a way. But not in much of one. ‘Til next time.

Kev.

Yep, you read that right, and if you’re interested, The Muppets will be releasing this as a single. Err, I can’t really say much more (except, thanks Simon for consistently reminding me that I should post this – it being far more important than any of the other Picks Of The Week….clearly :)

I’ve been tired this week. It’s no excuse, but it’s a reason for my lack of posting. Ironically I currently have in draft a post about why I don’t post everyday…but, yes, it’s not been posted yet. 

I don’t know why it is that I’m so tired either – surely not the one hour lost last weekend? One sleep related event did occur last week though which can account for my tiredness earlier on this week. After a successful night out up town in Camden, I and a few friends decided to push the evening into the morning and head to a bar. After the bar we headed to a club (Fabric), and after the club we headed to the train station for the  first train home. Yes. That early. The train left London Charing Cross at 5:14 and should have pulled into our station at about 6:00. We got on the train; we fell asleep.  

Imagine our surprise on waking up at 7:00 only to have moved two stations – a distance that normally would take ten minutes. And if you’re not laughing by now, you should know that our watches weren’t wrong  and that there were no delays to the train service. So early was it in the morning we were alone on the train with no do-gooders to check where we wanted to get of..so yes…we fell asleep on the train, went all the way to the end of the line (18 miles or so as the crow flies) and back up again before waking up! Oh, how we fretted through our aching eyelids. Still, that was almost seven days ago. 

Now I’m still tired and I’m not sure why, but is does mean I’ve been listening to dream-like music this week. My YouTube pick of the week reflects this in ‘The Servant’ by Cocosuma:

The other thing of note you might be interested in is my review of Becoming Batman for Den of Geek. Good book that, though not what you might expect. 

Right, nearly the end of the day for me and then onto the weekend. Have a good one. 

k