This week the CD turned 30 years old. It’s only a year younger than I am but I didn’t buy my first CD until 1996 when I was 15. With the obligatory “technology turns a milestone age” articles across the news sites, the question was raised “What was your first CD purchase?” between my workmate …
When I heard about Bait 3D, the new Aussie made shark movie, I was reeled into the idea months ago. Hook, line and sinker. The thought of an Australian, high concept, action/horror movie that can be best summed up with the phrase “Sharks in a supermarket” had me chomping at the bit to get my …
Let me start with a disclaimer. I don’t like people telling me what I can and can’t do on my accounts on social media. They’re my accounts and I will damn well tweet and pin and Facebook and Instagram and blog and check in however I damn well please. So I get the hypocrisy of …
I have a vivid imagination. This, at time, can suck. Mostly it is a bad thing after watching a scary movie. My mind races when I go to bed. Now serial killers, aliens, monsters and physical beings I can somewhat handle. Ghosts and demons however… I will freak out for nights afterwards. I don’t like …
I think I need some more brain fibre. As you can see, from the span of time between the last post to TroyTyped and this one, I’ve been a bit blocked up and nothing has been flowing from brain to keyboard to interwebs. I’m clogged up somewhere. Lord knows, like the about page of TroyTyped … Continue reading »
Everyone else is listing their most beautiful for the year and I’m well known for my fickle and constantly changing celebrity crushes. So here are the ladies of 2011 that make up my inaugural Bevy of Beauties List Kat Dennings Anyone who knows me personally knows that over the last few years Kat Dennings has … Continue reading »
Last night I fell asleep after copious amounts of red wine with my iPhone next to me playing my Christmas playlist on repeat. I woke up in an incredibly good mood this morning. Had the cheeriness of a night full of subliminal Christmas carols put me in this good mood? Perhaps. Then I checked the … Continue reading »
This morning in Part 2 of this “blog trilogy” I argued that Citizen Kane is such a great movie that it could possibly be remade today and still be fantastic. I argued that if a story is timeless then it should be able to be told over and over again, from many a perspective, in … Continue reading »
(back to Part 1) Until half way through writing this blog (which was originally intended to be just one entry and not this trilogy that it has since turned into) I had not seen Citizen Kane. I was barely half way through when I started to fall in love with the movie. It was at … Continue reading »
Remake. In film circles the word is pretty much mud. Remakes are rarely given the time of day. Of course there are very good arguments supporting the view that remakes are horrible, especially if it involves a “classic”. The 1998 Gus Van Sant, shot for shot, carbon copy of the 1960 Hitchcock thriller Psycho comes … Continue reading »
