Corner of solitude

Probably, and some smartarses will say definitely. Anyway thats not what this post will be about, despite the title. You may have noticed that I’ve posted the fiction page again, yes that’s right folks, again. Because I’m thinking I may be able to make a go of it this time around. The fiction page will have the links to each chapter of the story I’m writing.

The overall title of the story is Post Modern Fantasy although each chapter will have their own because they can be read as a standalone. Each chapter will tell a different story, but is a piece of the whole Post Modern Fantasy. The reason why I called it Post Modern Fantasy is twofold, one I don’t have much of an imagination, hence I couldn’t come up with another better one. Two, this is the most important reason, is because it sounded good. I wanted to be post modern (whatever that means) so to speak, art imitating life imitating art that kind of stuff.

The first two parts of the story has been posted and ready to be read, one is a prologue and the other is the first chapter.

The prologue deals with the creation of this story’s universe. As a kid I used to be engrossed in stories (think of the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Viking myths) that told of the creation of the universe, the world and everything, and I always wanted to do one. I’m also a very big fan of Terry Pratchett and his Discworld novels, and as a kind of homage I’ve named the spirit beings after Terry’s second discworld novel, the Light fantastic, the one that got me hooked on all his stuff.

The first chapter is the beginning of what will be a series of adventure slash detective stories involving the unnamed protagonist private eye detective. Kinda like the Maltese Falcon meets Indiana Jones. I’ve written so many versions of this beginning (way back from primary school) that it was hard to decide which one to post, but I’ve finally settled on this one. It’s a good way to establish the setting of the story, which happens to be in hell.

The above is one of my all time favourite amv’s, entitled Shinji’s big ass rock, an Eva themed music video. It’s great for a laugh especially if no one is around and I’m ever down and out and in need of cheering up. If you know anyone who feels suicidal then show them this, and they’ll probably realise the craziness of it all.

The song is taken from the Full monty the musical. I don’t know who Jason Drakster is, the one who made this, but I’m sure he won’t mind me dedicating this to a very special friend, Melinda, who I wish I had the chance to show this to. She was loss to us on this day, six years ago.

Song of the day: Big ass rock from the Full monty the musical

I love summer, I can’t wait for it to arrive, two more months, it’s the best season of the year. Because it means holidays, the beach, bushfires, good times with friends, sun, icecream, cricket, etc.

When I was a kid I used to spend my time in front of the idiot box watching cricket, but mostly I was lazing about at wanda beach. It wasn’t cronulla beach because it was too crowded, wanda beach was more deserted, and it offered better opportunities for surfers.

Nowadays I can’t really do that anymore, what with work commitments. Although occasionally I take the opportunity after work, thank god for daylight savings eh? You beauty! I can’t wait for summer, only one month to go.

The url whatareyoudoinghere.net won’t be mine for much longer, but waydh.net will still be around. My account for it will expire in thirteen days and due to some financial constraints won’t be renewing it, but I’m glad to rid of that vehicle and can now run my current baby cornerofsolitude.com. All the contents from whatareyoudoinghere.net will be moved here, but in a different format so that the main focus will solely be on my blogging, thus the other content, such as B&T, NGE etc. will be extra content. Because I’m too lazy, there will be no content at all on waydh.net, instead the hompage for waydh.net will lead back to here.