October 2010
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A Preview is not a Press Release
So for the last four months I’ve been doing what I’ll self-importantly call the preview circuit. And to be honest, I really think the title of this tumblr post pretty much sums up my thoughts on the whole thing. For goodness sake, if you’re not going to offer a smidgen of judgment on what you’re seeing, why not just list your job title as PR?
The thing I learnt this last...
Cripplingly Shy
Today - well, yesterday as I’m typing this up at 5am, thank you fucking erratic sleep cycle - was the first day of this year’s Eurogamer Expo. And it was very fun. I got a good interview, played a few games, met a few people, and listened to Peter Molyneux make spectacular comment after spectacular comment.
Afterwards Lewis Denby, who’s currently sleeping on my sitting room...
September 2010
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August 2010
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Living With Complications
They don’t tell you what life will be like as a grown-up.
I’ve spent the night round my mum’s house for the first time in 5 years. I can’t sleep. Just keep thinking about stuff, very annoying. So I’ve been browsing through some of the crap that’s still here. Some of it’s a treasure trove: an old Final Fantasy IX soundtrack. Others resurrect painful memories: a photo of a cute girl I lied to when I...
July 2010
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Social Limbo
I don’t think my social life has ever fully recovered from leaving university.
I was in a long course. Add on top of that some external medical problems which kind of knocked me out for a good year and it’s safe to say that I was chained to uni life for a while. I made a lot of friends there, friends I spent a long time with. I was also blessed with my best friends from school being...
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Engagements, Marriages, Weddings, That Whole...
The problem with life is other people have lived it before you. It’s easy to fall into the cliches of growing up. And so I find myself 27 years old, in the middle of a relationship of six plus years with a lovely and utterly patient woman, and we are not yet engaged. Not even close. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Everyone around us, everyone we know and love, is either...
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Italy
This moving-abroad-for-a-bit idea is starting to roll.
Italy has taken a lead in what I would call the practice round of this idea. Not for reasons beyond the most simplistic. I liked Italy when I visited it about 8 years ago. Stayed in Milan and Bergamo. Fond memories of playing poker on the balcony of a classic bar that was understatedly beautiful with its arched gate and greenery going just...
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The Stasis of Still Having Electricity
I’d written off today as I didn’t have any work, and the builders doing refurb on our flat said they were going to turn off the electricity at 9am. I was all set to go into London and paint the town a shade of red. Probably a light red, it is a Wednesday after all.
It’s now 11am and we still have power. I have completely wasted the last 2 hours waiting for the power to go off. I...
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Bored of Moving Inches at a Time. Relocating...
My girlfriend and I are deep into the slow, tedious process that is moving house. It’s not even really moving house. First of all, we live in a flat - but moving flat just sounds dumb. Second of all, we’re moving to another flat within the block, one a half-flight of stairs below. So it’s not really a proper relocation.
And yet in terms of effort it’s every bit as...
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