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Day #122 - O-o-o-o-o-o-kay… - Sat 9th Jun, 2007
Welcome to Me… - Fri 27th Aug, 2004
Slayer Academy - 3×20 - And All That Could Have Been - Sun 2nd Dec, 2007
The Top 25 Project 365 Photos for 07/08 - Sat 9th Feb, 2008
Day #134 - Beard! - Thu 21st Jun, 2007

Songs I Think You Should Listen To… #1

A new feature - I’m going to be giving you song YouTube videos of songs that I like, old and new - well known and obscure - just for you to have a listen. You don’t have to agree. You don’t. But ultimately I knew I’d end up riffing of The Bringer of Song eventually. It was only a matter of time.

After a cut, because of youtube videos…

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24:UK (1×07) - ‘5pm to 6pm’


WRITTEN BY:  CD Howard
PRODUCED BY:  Monster Zero Productions

As the countdown timer finally reaches zero, CTU realise this has only been a part of Kray’s plan. Dmitri understands that he’s been played, and Dan has to make a difficult decision when Andrew once again enters the frame…

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Interview with Harrison Cartwright

Interview with: Harrison Cartwright
Interview with: Harrison Cartwright

Throughout the land of Buffy and other comic Virtual Spin-offs, there’s been a ‘Verse’ that’s not really had much tapped into it despite the huge fanbase it has: Charmed. So it’s a surprise to see a Charmed Virtual spin-off look as it’ll survive - and one that features all original characters. We interview Harrison Cartwright to discuss the upandcoming The Family Spell and get a hint of what to expect…

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24:UK (1×06) - ‘4pm to 5pm’


WRITTEN BY:  CD Howard
PRODUCED BY:  Monster Zero Productions

With the detonation time looming, CTU have to pull out all the stops to find the bomb and stop it from exploding in the capital. While Minli gets more anxious, it becomes clear that Kray has other plans, and the day has only just begun…

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Writing List Update

Note: I’ve updated my complete works page!

  • The Company: 2×17 - co-write (acts two and four to be written by me)
  • The Company: 2×19 - fully writing (planning stages)
  • Desperate Screenwriters: 2×03 (planning stages)
  • Kayfabe: 1×01 (10 pages in)
  • teIam: the fIrst ones (thirty pages of movie completed)
  • Mr. Thorpe and His Family: 2×05 - Robert and Michael Head To VegasI (Teaser and Music Video Skit completed)
  • Bouncy: Pilot (Teaser and Acts One-Two completed)
  • The Demolition Man: 1×01/1×02 two-part pilot. (Teaser of 1×01 completed)
  • Untitled BuffyVerse Spin-Off: Pilot outlining
  • Buenos Aires: Conceptual planning.

24:UK (1×05) - ‘3pm to 4pm’


WRITTEN BY:  CD Howard
PRODUCED BY:  Monster Zero Productions

Andrew has been revealed to everyone at CTU as the mole inside the organisation. As Dan’s forced to question him, Kray takes precautionary action, ordering Rose to delete any trace of him off government computers…

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Introducing The Entertainment Network

Welcome to a new Virtual Network that I’ve just discovered in the MZP linkage area. They seem to be popping up like flowers at the moment; quite possibly the Earth’s response to the leaves falling from the trees by saying "yeah, well have some of these!" But instead of greenery, we get virtual networks.

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More Magazine Covers

Haven’t done some of these in a while. Hope you like ‘em…

Note: These aren’t real, and the celebrities have no affiliation with the virtual series shown. The magazine is for entertainment and recreational purposes only…

24:UK (1×04) - ‘2pm to 3pm’


WRITTEN BY:  CD Howard
PRODUCED BY:  Monster Zero Productions

Carl is brought to the front line when his sister calls, and he realises she’s connected to the terrorists carrying out the day’s attack. While this is happening, the Prime Minister doesn’t know how to proceed with the ever-increasing threat, and Rose is forced to carry out her order’s from Kray…

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Writing List: The To-Do Version

Just to remind me and give an idea what I have to be doing. List is arranged in the piority order I should be writing them:

  • The Company: 2×17 - co-write (acts two and four to be written by me)
  • The Company: 2×19 - fully writing (planning stages)
  • Desperate Screenwriters: 2×03 (planning stages)
  • Kayfabe: 1×01 (10 pages in)
  • teIam: the fIrst ones (thirty pages of movie completed)
  • Mr. Thorpe and His Family: 2×05 - Robert and Michael Head To VegasI (Teaser and Music Video Skit completed)
  • Bouncy: Pilot (Teaser and Acts One-Two completed)
  • The Demolition Man: 1×01/1×02 two-part pilot. (Teaser of 1×01 completed)
  • Untitled BuffyVerse Spin-Off: Pilot outlining
  • Buenos Aires: Conceptual planning.

I want to start to get a move on with this writing. The mojo is slowly working it’s way back. I can do this - and a deadline for The Company 2×17 is going to help a lot…

He’s Vastly Overpaid, Always Getting Laid…

Boredom mixing into random observational bullcrap. Click to continue reading post…

Song Parody #5 - Turn It Off

Turn It Off, a parody of Turn It Up by Robots In Disguise.

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I woke up bored today, and needing the choice
Of watching the TV, or just dying of boredom
I turned it on today, hung out with the boys
My head makes assumption: daytime tv is poo.

In "Cash In The Attic" I’m falling falling.
In "Cash In The Attic" Obsessing, guessing.
And "Bargain Hunt" is, really cheesy.
Tim Wallicott is so bloody sleezy!

Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off,
Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off,
Turn me off…

Daily Politics, Loose Women is neat,
Dancing to the music, and humming the theme tune.
Jeremy Kyle tonight, repeats on ITV
Get into the episode, while humming the theme tune!

In "Cash In The Attic" I’m falling falling.
In "Cash In The Attic" Obsessing, guessing.
And "Bargain Hunt" is, really cheesy.
Tim Wallicott is so bloody sleezy!

Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off,
Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off,
Turn me off…

25 Films from the IDMB top 250 that I haven’t seen yet

I’m going to make a list of the films from this list now so I know what I want to watch. These are films that I haven’t seen…

  1. Rashomon
  2. The Godfather
  3. 12 Angry Men
  4. Rear Window
  5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
  6. The Princess Bride
  7. L.A. Confidential
  8. Silence of The Lambs
  9. Harvey
  10. American History X
  11. Iron Man
  12. Big Fish
  13. Crash
  14. Stand By Me
  15. Leon
  16. American Gangsta
  17. Alien
  18. WALL-E
  19. Into The Wild
  20. Ratatouille
  21. Kill Bill Vol.2
  22. Apocalypse Now
  23. Donnie Darko
  24. No Country For Old Men
  25. Aliens

More Randomness + Test

Another random piece of blogging from moi - mainly because I wanted to have a little test on another little quirk I hope to add with the new look: in-post pictures looking like polaroids after I did a little tweak (well - referenced a tutorial from scratch) and managed to come up with the little picture of me in Rossilli in Wales. It was also the day I ended up getting really ill and had to leave early - but still - an experience to remember. And not one where I chickened out near the last leg *cough*. But yeah, hopefully I’ve rambled a little bit to actually test out how this picture works with the skin. Hopefully any images I make to go in blog posts will look similar to that as I’m really loving how the new theme is looking now. Although some images won’t look the same.

As will the next couple. Because I’m starting to just put fingers on keyboard and tapping out a first draft for my first pilot out of five that I’m wishing to write. This is of course:

Now I’m certain there’s a couple of you who aren’t completely aware of what the term Kayfabe stands for - and without going into a long discussion is the concept of ‘making things look real’ in wrestling terms. Wikipedia has more info if you want to know more. Episode titles would be made up of wrestling slang/terminology like so:

Originally I wanted the show to be about the behind the scenes politics and lives of the workers working for a fictional global wrestling federation - basically one that was based on the WWE - but I found that there were too many characters and stuff to focus on to do what I wanted to do; and while it would make an excellent series to run across; I decided to go and set it about a regional British Wrestling Federation based on the kind that I’ve been watching for the past year that my friends Ben (aka Kristian Lees) and Bobby (aka X-Bones) work for. A smaller struggling promotion that actually has more scope and a better base for stories than ripping off WWE wrestlers. At the moment I’m writing it with no acts and I’m adding swearing (particularly from the character of Streamline, the older owner of the GSWA - he swears like a sailor) and at the moment I think I might be adding too much - but watching Entourage I’m seeing that there’s a more naturalistic edge to dialogue. 

Hopefully, if I can get into the swing of it before my other committments kick in Kayfabe’s first draft could be done within a couple of weeks…

And speaking of Entourage - I’ve gotten half way through season three, and I’m glad they’re actually figuring out how to add difficulty in Vince’s career after two seasons of him getting off quite easy.

There’s nothing like copying someone else…

So I’m going through BlogCatalog and google looking for more blogs to subscribe to using FeedDemon and I’m looking to go for some blogs that have people specifically doing their own versions of 101 in 1001 days - mainly to see just how people are doing. I’m still finding it a fascinating concept and at the moment I think that my own has slightly stalled (despite me working on some ongoing goals each day) mainly due to the goal of needing a job has to be met to get some money going in. Then I feel that there can be progess made after I get some money going in. And get a car. Great muppity-Odin I need a car.

I also don’t think I mentioned this - but I added a ’sub-list’ of more difficult things to do that might not be met by 1001 - but if I do them then I can replace them with any other goal on my list. That said, I can still do the replaced ones - they just won’t count. This was basically taken from Alden’s aldenisdead blog - but hey. What can you do? *wink*

Anyway, at the moment the ’supplementary’ goals.

  1. PRIVATE GOAL
  2. PRIVATE GOAL
  3. PRIVATE GOAL
  4. Visit anywhere in mainland Europe
  5. Visit New York
  6. Visit Los Angeles
  7. Move into my own place
  8. Fully get over my fear of dogs.
  9. Get a goldfish.

And I’ll probably think of more stuff to do as well - but I thnk that those are going to be key ones.

And no, no matter how many times you can ask - I won’t reveal the private ones. :p

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  • Progress so far
    14/101 Goals Completed!

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  • Days left to complete 101 goals:
    in 2 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 17 hours, 5 minutes, 5 seconds

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