sailorette’s diary - a diary writen by a sailorette for her loved ones to read after returning safely home from sea

21st Century Fife

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of the company of my oldest and very good friend, Miss Fife. Her visit came about for two reasons - I am moving to Sweden, and Miss Fife is becoming Mrs Donaldson.

So to celebrate the occasion, the weekend was spent visiting food markets, eating lots of fine food, chatting over afternoon tea, picnics in the park and a boat cruise down the thames in the company of even older friends, the Helen Lawrence and Amy Hemmings. It was really nice to hang out with Lucy, Helen and Amy together and to see how we haven’t really changed that much, only become ‘more’ of ourselves. It also brought home just how easy it is to pick up where things left off with really old friends, and how the place you grew up in, is a strong root ingredient in your friendship. The Dandelion and Burdoch of friendships.

We had some grand plans to set up a mini-cinema, as Lucy is an ultimate film buff, but due to erratic equipment, this was scaled down to watching The Eye on our 24″ iMac. In anticipation of the mini-cinema I’d decided to ‘brand’ the experience by personalising the intro sequences of 20th century fox and the classic Ppppppppppppppppppppearl & Dean.

Below is my rendition of the 20th Century Fox intro, ‘fife-i-sised’. It was made in blender, a free 3d program for the mac and pc. You’re welcome to download my blend file here, and the fox fanfare mp3 and use it to create your own intros.


21st Century Fife from willow on Vimeo.

FrightFest is arriving…

Frightfeast

Oh my god! It’s just too much!! FrightFest comes to London once a year, and everytime I miss it. Until now.

But there is so much I don’t know where to start. I’m contemplating Black Sheep tommorrow but then I’m a bit lost. 1408 greatly appeals, the Russian Sword Bearer (Mechenosets) looks brilliant if not just that horror in Russian is ace and Zombie Diaries looks amazing, but I’ll be in Spain then so shall have to wait for it to come out on DVD (not long as thats the 27th August).

Any recommendations and ‘must-see’s’ (lucy) would be a bright torch to the fog of my frightfest mind.

Its Gore Time!

Unadulterated guts and blood fest complete with limbs transplanted with an AKA-47

Movies to Watch

The Children of Men 29 Sep 2006
A Scanner Darkly 2006/2007
Borat 3 nov 2006
Pans Labyrinth / Laberinto del Fauno 29 dec 2006
Where the Wild Things Are 2008
The Science of Sleep 28 July 2006
Pirates of the Carribean 2 7 July 2006
Spiderman 3 4 May 2007
Cars Out now
Thankyou for not Smoking 16 June 2006
Gaau ji / Dumplings 16 June 2006
Three… Extremes out

The Libertine

“I hope that I will always be in your heart and in your memories from time to time, but never in your debt”