Just in time for Halloween PodCastle have released my reading of William Shunn’s creepy tale Colin And Ishmael In The Dark. I’ve had the opportunity to read for Escape Pod a couple times in the past, which only leaves a Pseudopod invite for me to complete the trinity (hint hint).

Anyway, hope you enjoy the story and if you do be sure to hit all three of the pods for more tales - I promise the other readers are much better than me.

• EP97: Cinderella Suicide
• EP107: Eight Episodes
• ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann
• What are words worth?
• We have a look

After last weekend’s screening at the Dislocation Festival - the films went down great, thank you for asking! - we could get used to stretching out of the podcast feed for some more face to face time.

Thanks as always go out to all the directors who’ve given us permission to screen their films, OFVM for inviting us back and the onedotzero folks for sending some good tips our way. If you’re going to be in attendance check out the posters for the screening line up and any one at Reading hit me up on the Twitter so we can meet over beer and music.

• Dislocation Festival
• Twinklebum in New York
• Carling Reading & Leeds Festival Films
• What are words worth?
• We have a look

It always makes me well up with pride when I find out that past guests and their films are getting more of the recognition they deserve, so it’s rather puff chestedily (yeah I know that’s not a ‘real’ word) I’m telling you that Alex Reuben’s documentary dance through the Deep South of America Routes has been given a UK cinema run through the Picture House chain. As you can hear in our interview I really loved this film despite my completely unfounded fears about dance films, so if you’re about I highly recommend you check it out at one of the dates below.

You can watch the sneak peak clip Alex gave us and also find out even more at his site. You’ll definitely be pleased you went along and perhaps even inspired to get a bit light on your feet yourself.

GATE PICTUREHOUSE, NOTTING HILL
Fri 18 July 5pm with intro
Sat 19 July 5:30pm with intro
Sun 20 July 5:55pm with intro
Mon 21 July 5:30pm
Wed 23 July 5:30pm
Thurs 24 July 5:30pm
Sat 26 July: 5:30pm plus Q&A
25 — 31 July: times tbc.

FACT, LIVERPOOL
Fri 8, Sat 9, Sun 10 Aug

RITZY, BRIXTON
Fri 15 — Thurs 21 Aug
Q&A on Sat 16 Aug

DUKE OF YORK, BRIGHTON
Sat 16 Aug 4:30pm with Q&A

CAMEO EDINBURGH
Mon 18 Aug 6:30pm

TYNESIDE CINEMA
Mon 22 Sept times tbc
Tues 23 Sept times tbc
Wed 24 Sept times tbc

• Routes - Alex Reuben
• DN EP 070: Routes - Alex Reuben
• INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin’ Convention Screening
• Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott

It’s my Short of the Week rotation again and this time I fess up to my obsession with beauty in the moving image through Igor Zimmermann’s experimental piece Daylight.

Have a read and watch.

• SotW: I Love Sarah Jane
• SotW: En Tus Brazos
• Short of the Week Piece
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• Weightless - Erika Janunger

It seems like only yesterday, I was kicking back with my slippers and pipe listening to the first episode of DN, when MarBelle interviewed good friend of the show Justin Doherty about the short Clandestine. Directors Notes has come a long way since this first show and I think the majority of our regular listeners will have noticed improvements not only to the Podcast, but also the site, over this time.

My input into the site mostly involves lurking in the background, sniffing out new films and posting my occasional rambling thoughts and opinions (and boy can they be rambling, as you’ll probably find out over the next couple of paragraphs). Being a technical person, my interview skills are pretty lacking to say the least and lets not even get started on how whenever my voice is recorded I suddenly sound like some mockney barrow boy. So to be honest, I’m more than happy to keep dwelling in the background, as I think MarBelle has got his interview/presenting style down and is sounding more and more like a smooth Jazz DJ every day (NICE!).

Even though I am pretty strongly connected to the DN site, I do honestly believe that even if I wasn’t, I’d still be an avid follower, as there aren’t many places out there where you get to see such a variety of Independent films, let alone get to hear about the process of making them. If I wasn’t involved in Directors Notes I shudder to think about the fact that I might not have got to see some of the jaw dropping, mind-altering films that we’ve covered over the last 100 episodes. I think every film we’ve covered, in podcast or post, has been put on the site because we really believe that the films not only deserved to be out there gaining recognition, but also truly need to be seen. We believe these are films that must be viewed, must be shared and must be discussed, whether they will simply leave you with an uncontrollable smile on your face or leave you pondering your very existence on the world.

I like to think in someway, we’re playing our part in making the Independent film world a bit more accessible to its adoring public. Back in the day if you wanted to see films of this ilk, you’d have to go deep into London to an Arthouse cinema or buy yourself a Tartan/Artificial Eye DVD – both of which I still do regularly by the way (I love my rows of Tartan/Artificial Eye DVDs – you know what I’m talking about MarBelle). So hopefully, we’re bringing a fine slice of Indie film to your computer/ipod screen, which you all enjoy and best of all…….it’s FREE!

Anyway, that’s enough rambling, hope you enjoy the site as much as we do. Please any comments, feel free to post them, we’re always interested in what you have to say.

Here’s to another 100 episodes, keep up the good work Marbelle.

Rice and Peace
El Vez

• What are words worth?
• We have a look
• Twinklebum in New York
• Sorry I’m late :-(
• PC031: Colin and Ishmael in the Dark

Nobody’s Perfect is a newly launched charity short film competition that’s open to 16 - 25 year olds interested in directing, producing, acting, writing or composing regardless of previous experience.

Submitted material will be judged by musician Sandi Thom (‘Punk Rocker’), actors Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter), Tom Hardy (Band of Brothers), JJ Feilds (Northanger Abbey) and Georgia Groome (Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) and director Paris Leonti (Daylight Robbery), who’ll be choosing 6 winners to come to London at the end of September to work on the Nobody’s Perfect short films, which will ultimately have a red carpet screening at the Odeon Cinema in Covent Garden, London on October 21st 2008.

Head over to the Nobody’s Perfect site for full details.

• What are words worth?
• We have a look
• Vote for Duelity!
• Twinklebum in New York
• Tracey Re:Fragmented

Back on DN043 Peter Bunzl took us through his long nurtured animated thought experiment piece Mind Games, which has made it through the initial short list process of the Virgin Media Shorts competition and with your support Peter could walk away with the top prize of a cinema release and a pocket full of cash to make his next film.

Head on over and throw some votes his way!

• Mind Games - Peter Bunzl
• DN EP 043: Mind Games - Peter Bunzl
• Peter Bunzl’s On The Upside
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• Virtuosi - Marcelo Garcia

As part of my effort to get some of the Directors Notes’ films out to a wider non-podcast audience whilst trying to become cool by association, I’m getting to curate some films for the Dislocation Festival which is being hosted by VSTM Records in my old stomping ground of Luton.

As well as the afore mentioned films, the festival will feature a blend of experimental music and multimedia performances from a variety of artists on the label’s rosta between August 14th and August 16th. You can get hold of advanced tickets right now as well some festival swag.

If you can make it be sure to let me know so we can share a beer or two.

• DN Hits the Festivals
• Twinklebum in New York
• Carling Reading & Leeds Festival Films
• What are words worth?
• We have a look

Since I interviewed Craig at the Filmstock festival last year, he has not only had What A Freegan Waste shown at the Slow Food on Film Festival in Bologna, but has also had his Freegan documentary idea commissioned by ITV Anglia.

Based around the same ideas as What A Freegan Waste, Craig’s new documentary Bin Appetit follows a group of Freegans who travel across the East of England in a camper van, living off free food they find along the way. Bin Appetit not only focuses on how Freegans Alf, Ash and Bob manage to survive without paying for food, but also examines how Freeganism explores other aspects of ‘Free Living’, such as Free Work, Free Hugs etc.

Bin Appetit is shown Thursday 3rd July, 11.10pm on ITV Anglia, if you live in the Anglia region please tune in and support one of our directors and let us know what you think.

• Filmstock #8
• DN EP 064: What a Freegan Waste - Craig Rook
• What a Freegan Waste - Craig Rook
• Filmstock 9
• DN Festival: Filmstock 2007

Have a read and watch.

• SotW: I Love Sarah Jane
• SotW: Daylight
• Short of the Week Piece
• Auto Pilot, Distortion, Ping Pong & Biker Mike - Mike Chan
• _grau - Robert Seidel

Anyway, Ryan and Zach are back, (sorry for the rhyme!) with what has to be the most kick arse episode of The West Side to date. There’s the atmosphere we’ve come to expect but this time laced with action aplenty so lock the door and go watch Episode Four (sorry again, I just can’t help myself).

• The West Side Episode 3
• The West Side Back…Again
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• DN EP 053: The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• Bendito Machine - Jossie Malis

Filmstock is a festival that prides itself in supporting the Independent Film and like Directors Notes, does everything in its power to champion the best Independent Filmmaking that comes its way.

Films. We want them all. Let us worry how they all go together. If it is good and has soul, we want it. Click here to read more about sending your work.

At last years Filmstock (find out more about last years event in my Filmstock 8 coverage and DN Festival Podcast) there was a eclectic  mix of Independent films on show and the festival as a whole had a real community feel to it (lots of discussions between filmmakers, festival organizers and audience memeber about all things filmic). So if you have a film, enter it! if you don’t have a film, get yourself down to Luton in November and join in the Filmstockage (It really is worth it!).

• DN EP 036: LIEBESTOD-Four Acts - Stathis Athanasiou
• The Ten Steps - Brendan Muldowney
• Nine Inch Nails’ Festival of Ghosts
• Mercy - Candida Scott Knight
• Filmstock #8

Have a read and watch.

• SotW: En Tus Brazos
• SotW: Daylight
• Short of the Week Piece
• ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann
• SotW: Unlocked

A Gift for Dickie is an ambitious and inspiring project, which aims to provide the legend that is Richard (Dickie) Attenborough with the funds needed to make the film of his dreams (What is the Film Project?).

It’s almost impossible to believe that someone with a reputation as glowing as Attenborough’s could struggle to get funding for one of his projects, but such is the nature of the film industry. After hearing Attenborough speak at a press conference late last year, the Filmstock boys were so inspired as he recalled his ongoing struggle for funding (something Neil, Justin and most of us filmmakers relate to) a project he was obviously so passionate about, they decided to do something about it. A lot of people might be surprised when they hear the aim of the initiative is to raise £40 million in 400 days, but why not? This project almost certainly wouldn’t have worked before the dawn of the internet, but now if enough people see it, tell a friend or 10, who knows?

As the A Gift for Dickie site breaks it down:

Yes, that is a lot of money, but it is simply a target. Anything could happen along the journey to influence and effect that target figure, maybe we don’t need to get all they way, who knows. But we need a big number to aim for, and this is a ’suggested’ studio costing for such an epic period piece.

How about this…
25 x 50,000 people
50 x 50,000 people
200 x 5000 people
5000 x 3000 people
15,000 x 1000 people
…If this happened we’d be nearly there

If you love watching films, love making films or just love the idea of being involved with a Dickie Attenborough film, please visit the site for more information and give Dickie a gift.

• Filmstock #8
• After all this, won’t you give me a smile?
• Filmstock 9
• DN Festival: Filmstock 2007
• DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut

I’m gonna be going along, but if you plan to join in the fun make sure you sign up via the Film Friends Forever website as it’s strictly guest list only.

Date: Tuesday 6th May 2008
Time: Doors open 18:30
Venue: Corbert Place, Truman Brewery, E1 6NH
Admission: Guest list only, £2 donation

• Twinklebum in New York
• The Darkside - Shane Sheils
• MarBelle 2007 Top Ten
• INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin’ Convention Screening
• Filmstock #8

Raindance will be accepting submissions until the 20th June, with reduced early bird submission fees before the 1st May. For more information visit www.raindance.co.uk/site/submissions.

• INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin’ Convention Screening
• Film Festivals for Free
• DN Special: Screen South - Digital Shorts 2007
• DN Festival: Birds Eye View 2007
• Twinklebum in New York

Luckily though, I overcame my inner sloth and caught Marcy Garriott’s INSIDE THE CIRCLE at the beginning of this month when it played at the Brixton Ritzy Cinema. Even better, after 102 minutes of the sickest moves, wrapped in a thoughtful documentary about friendship, ambition and finding your way, I got to meet Marcy (and B-boy Omar) who I can’t wait to get on the show for an interview very soon.

Yes I know there’s nothing worse than someone harping on about how great a screening was that you didn’t attend, but if you’re anywhere near London on Thursday 1st May, the Breakin’ Convention guys are screening INSIDE THE CIRCLE at Lilian Baylis Theatre (details below), so get over there and show your love!

INSIDE THE CIRCLE presented by Breakin’ Convention
Thursday 1 May, 19:45 pm
Lilian Baylis Theatre (Stage door entrance) at Sadler’s Wells
(Rosebery Avenue, Islington, London EC1R 4TN)
Tickets: £5

Follow the link for more information, grab the directions so you don’t get lost and check out the trailer.

• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• DN LFF07: The English Surgeon - Geoffrey Smith
• DN EP 070: Routes - Alex Reuben
• Routes Hits a Cinema Near You

Anyway you can watch the review here. We’re last, which is obviously the position you save for the best…isn’t it?

• _grau - Robert Seidel
• ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann
• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• What We’ve Found Out About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick
• Weightless - Erika Janunger

On The Upside is now finished and there’s a clip over at Peter’s website or you can watch the full film on Babelgum. Enjoy!

• Mind Games - Peter Bunzl
• Vote Yes to Mind Games
• DN EP 043: Mind Games - Peter Bunzl
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann

You know it’s the right thing to do!

• Duelity - Boca & Ryan Uhrich
• DN EP 076: Duelity - Boca & Ryan Uhrich
• Virtuosi - Marcelo Garcia
• Tracey Re:Fragmented
• Nobody’s Perfect

• The West Side Back…Again
• The West Side - Episode Four
• DN EP 053: The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• Time Piece - Kat Mansoor

BRITDOC, one of our favourite film festivals will be kicking off its third year on the 23rd - 25th July at Keble College, Oxford and are now on the hunt for films to screen in their British Feature Documentaries and FourDocs Short Film competitions. In their own words: “We’re looking for films that explore the world we live in and the people we share it with, and we are always keen to see experimentation.”

So get over to www.britdoc.org to apply and while you’re at it have a listen to Jan’s report from last year’s festival.

• DN Special: Screen South - Digital Shorts 2007
• DN Festival: Britdoc 2007
• DN EP 088: All The Drunken Horsemen - Tomas Leach
• DN EP 056: Time Piece - Kat Mansoor
• DN EP 039: Talk to Me - Mark Craig

Far from content to wreak havoc solely on the music industry, Nine Inch Nails have announced the expansion of the Ghosts project with the launch of a YouTube based virtual film festival comprising entrants’ inspirations to tracks from the album.

“This isn’t a contest and you don’t win elaborate prizes - it’s meant to be an experiment in collaboration and a chance for us to interact beyond the typical one-way artist-to-fan relationship. We’ve discussed some interesting ways this could go, including multiple installments of the online “film festivals,” to broadcast TV specials, to a one-time live performance of the entire Ghosts record with your visuals involved. It really depends on how this progresses and develops.

We are all very much looking forward to what you come up with, and hope you enjoy the experience.”

Visit the NIN YouTube page for information on how to participate.

• Weightless - Erika Janunger
• Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles
• DN EP 105: Weightless - Erika Janunger
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• DN EP 043: Mind Games - Peter Bunzl

Chances are that if you’re into music, but have had your fill of the sanctioned, glitzy, over produced pop promo you’ve at some point stumbled over the work of director Vincent Moon co-creator of The Take-Away Shows (Concerts A Emporter). Beginning back in his photography work and now in video, Vincent has re-define the approach to capturing live music, mutating it into a new form that’s best described as a performance documentary of the moment, in which multiple takes and planned setups are unwelcomed conceits. He joins us this week to discuss his work.

Showlinks
Vincent Moon
La Blogotheque
The Take-Away Shows
William Klein
Michael Ackerman
Antoine D’Agata
The National
Chryde
Arcade Fire
Banksy
Marla Hansen
Sony HVR-Z1E
Sony HVR-A1U
Scout Niblett
R.E.M.
Supernatural Superserious
Step Across the Border
Gimme Shelter
Dont Look Back
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

• The Take-Away Shows - Vincent Moon
• Taxi!!
• DN LFF08: Largo - Andrew van Baal
• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• Routes Hits a Cinema Near You

• Time Piece - Kat Mansoor
• The West Side Episode 3
• The West Side Back…Again
• Stagnate - Miranda Bowen
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten

• The West Side Episode 3
• The West Side - Episode Four
• DN EP 053: The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• Time Piece - Kat Mansoor

Marc I salute you

• We’ve been ‘P.A.P. Smeared’
• DN EP 045: The Upper Hand - Lana Schwarcz

So I’m writing this in between finding unbent tent pegs and making sarnies, which can only mean that we’re about to say bye to the summer with a massive 3-day music festival in the heart of Reading (or just outside of Leeds if you’re one of those northern types). But while this will mean the inevitable switch from t-shirts to jumpers soon, it also means that Directors Notes has sat down in our little think tank with OFVM and onedotzero to collate some of the best shorts out there to play each night in the cinema tent at both Reading and Leeds.

Needless to say if you’re in attendance make sure you find a comfy spot nice and early - preferably dragging some friends along - and sit back to enjoy the show. I’ll be hanging around the Reading site all weekend looking nervous, tired or drunk depending on the time of day, but will have limited contact with my email so if you fancy meeting up to chat film and music over a beer drop me a line. And of course let us know what you thought of the films once normal living commences again next week.

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Obviously a screening without films is just a silent black rectangle so I’d like to thank all the directors who said yes.

Jon Yeo
Beauty is the Promise of Happiness - To kill God intellectually, and to think philosophically beyond religion, is arguably the path to raised consciousness. To confront these structures is a potentially liberating path, towards a more fulfilling relationship with the natural universe. Beauty is the Promise of Happiness is a visual, metaphorical exploration of this psychological journey.

David S. Blanco
Braintax: Fade to Grey - Music promo.

Brent Green
Carlin - This is the house where I grew up. My Aunt Carlin moved in there with us when she was 35. She had diabetes and she just wanted to die.

Andy Huang
Doll Face - Doll Face follows a machine’s struggle to construct its own identity. The machine with a doll face mimics images presented on a television screen and ultimately self-destructs from its inability to adopt a satisfactory visage.

Dan Gitsham
Film Eight - One man’s incredible ability to make every wrong decision you could possibly imagine and then some… A black and blue comedy where anything goes!

Jonathan Hodgson
Forest Murmurs - A 12 minute animated exploration of Epping Forest’s sinister past sparks off a journey into the dark side of the artist’s mind.

Ian W. Gouldstone
Guy 101 - A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

Simon Hill [Halfuncle]
iChav - A reworking of the iconic iPod adverts.

Alessandro Pacciani
Jinniku No Umarekawari - A super-condensed expression of high-tech J-Horror with a prologue that offers a disembodied meditation on reality as an entity in and of itself… Inspired by a nightmare involving a breathing washbasin and slithering meat. The film challenges expectations and perceptions by violently splicing together the worlds of live flesh and CG effects against a score of explosive white noise.

Jonas & François
Justice: D.A.N.C.E. - Music promo

Lee Kern
Lee Meets the Psychics - Join Lee as he meets a psychic and narrowly escapes being predicted with cancer. An eight minute film bringing us into the world of Madame Mercedes - who meets dead people, sees birds with human heads and once had a “psychic affair” with Derek Akkora - the presenter of UK Living’s Most Haunted series. It is a world where everything is possible - as long as you don’t bother yourself with mundane things like “proof” and “evidence”.

Tokyoplastic
Little Fella - The little fella is a mutant cyber-dog who creates his own soundtrack to life by scratching and snuffling out a unique beat.

Eric Lerner
Mr CityMen - A collection of short stories depicting the lives of different characters all living in the city.

Adam Smith
North of Ping Pong: What Goes Up Must Come Down - A comedic opus set in late night London, this Cockney rap narrative revolves around a variety of bizarre yet familiar characters, who are the successive passengers of a world-weary taxi driver.

Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno
Pikapika - An abstract animation film made with the flashlights.

Mike Chan
Ping Pong - A ping pong match takes place between two televisions.

Kurtis Hough
Stumble Then Rise on Some Awkward Morning - An organic, dreamlike journey spiraling from life to death.

Scott Ludden
The Big Day - You are cordially invited to watch the wedding of Jimmy Michael Boken and Mandy Eve Quinn. It’s not your typical wedding. A cardboard preacher will be ministering the service.

Motomichi Nakamura
The Knife: We share Our Mothers’ Health - Music promo

Nick Childs
The Shovel - When weekender Paul Mullin discovers his neighbour digging a hole in the middle of the night, he writes it off as simply a bizarre encounter. Until the neighbour… and his cheating wife… disappear. Worried he’s stumbled upon more than he’s bargained for, he calls on the local sheriff to help unearth the truth and finds out that, in a small town, some secrets are better left buried.

Lana Schwarcz
The Upper Hand - When the ordinary no longer sustains its audience, the ultimate performer will do almost anything to get them back on side. Mistress Marvel’s Burlesque Club and MC Randy invite puppets to mingle with live humans to see Lulu Fountain (pron. FounTAINE) vs Capability Brown in a competitive strip-off that is sure to blow things all out of proportion. The giddy heights of theatrical fame will no doubt be achieved by one of these sexy ladies, but which one?

Benjamin Stephan & Lutz Vogel
Trusted Computing - A motion graphic documentary about Trusted Computing.

Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley
Who I Am and What I Want - This film is about who I am and what I want. it’s not about who you are and what you want.

• DN EP 049: La Primavera - Rubén Obregón Casas
• DN Ep 033: Lee Meets the Psychics - Lee Kern
• DN Ep 034: Carlin - Brent Green
• DN Ep 021: Forest Murmurs - Jonathan Hodgson
• Auto Pilot, Distortion, Ping Pong & Biker Mike - Mike Chan

Enjoy and feel free to let me know if you prefer it this way!

So it seems that the plugin I wanted to use vPIP conflicts with Google Analytics for anyone on Windows, which means the site video playback will stay the same until I can figure a way round it.

• DN Ep 017: Beauty is the Promise of Happiness - Jon Yeo

You’d have heard in my intro last episode that I was invited back as a reader for Steve Eley’s fantastic Science Fiction Podcast, Escape Pod, which must mean he didn’t lose too many listeners last time round. I read Robert Reed’s Hugo Nominated story Eight Episodes which Steve’s running as part of Escape Pod’s annual Hugo Nominated Stories and is a strange tale of an alien produced TV series, which has to be a step up from some of the shows we’re subjected to now.

If you like it, be sure to head over to the Escape Pod site and subscribe, as Steve Eley does this with a new kick ass story each and every week!

• EP97: Cinderella Suicide
• PC031: Colin and Ishmael in the Dark
• What are words worth?
• We have a look
• Twinklebum in New York

Somehow I thought that I’d be able to decorate and move into my new house, finish at my job, try to sort out new work, record a couple new interviews, edit the Birds Eye View festival special and release a regular episode all by today!

As you can see that has in no way happened. Don’t despair however, I’m still planning to get the Birds Eye View Special and this week’s episode out to you by the end of the weekend definitely, but while you’re waiting you should check out the work by editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett, whom I stumbled across when looking for a picture to go with this post that summed up how well my house move is going. To quote from the mighty Wikipedia; Bennett is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning and was suddenly fired from the St. Petersburg Times after 13 years because of his far left political leanings. Well worth a look.

• What are words worth?
• We have a look
• Twinklebum in New York
• PC031: Colin and Ishmael in the Dark
• Nobody’s Perfect