Sleeping, Eating, etc. (4 hours)
Building editing tools for Wildlanders (3 hours)
Clicking the “Generate Example Character” button in the character editor (8+ hours)
(Character graphic left out of image because, y’know, secrets and stuff. It looks awesome, though.)
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has influenced the way teenagers imagine their adult lives for generations, and I was no different. I have mostly hazy memories of the year I spent trying to live up to On the Road’s story of travel, sex, destitution, poetry, and drug-abuse, but one thing is clear: it was Kerouac who pushed me through moments of hesitation. I had some pretty awful times. I had a lot of fun, too. Without those experiences, I doubt I would have the confidence to leave the UK for a year.
I suspect that the American road trip is dead. If it isn’t, I’m ready for it.
I’m not sure how it happened, but my all time favourite book was not written by Neil Gaiman. Two Little Savages is the simple tale of two children who like camping out in the woods. Interwoven with charmingly detailed instructions on things like making moccasins, or stuffing owls, it acts as a step-by-step guide to being a modern day adventurer. It taught me hedonism and responsibility, caution and daring, and finally articulated my love of the outdoors. Every time I read it, it sends me to the mountains.
Fathers, read this to your children.
Jason Schwarztman is the opposite of Jude Law in that he is always funny and has never been in anything that was bad, ever. He is so good that my housemate and I watched both seasons of Bored to Death over just two days.
It probably helped that we had hangovers.
Five months into my secret project Wildlanders, and finally contracts are starting to be put together. Exciting, but also scary - this is a spare time project, so I’m glad I’ve got the next 3 months spare to work on it before I move to America for a year. I can’t wait for it to come together enough to start blogging about it regularly here.
Sadly, it also means that my writing project, DayQuest, is on hold for a while. Oh well.
Jude Law is handsome and bland and worthlessly mainstream.
Here are some movies that he is in that are so good it hurts:
Let me be clear: these are not guilty pleasures. I hate to love Jude Law, but I do.
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1) I was bulk buying domain names yesterday and I feel empty inside unless I own at least one that has my name in it (chrisb.tv expires at the end of this month)
2) It replaces the dev blog for my super secret project
3) BECAUSE, that’s why.
