Recent content by Taliesin Hoyle

His contract will make the Iron Bands of Bilarro look like a twistix.

The trailer for Hercules is rubbish. The film is not bad at all. Did you know that Hercules is a con man, and there are no monsters in the movie? All those shots in the trailer, of the hydra and the Nemean Lion, are from the stories told by his publicist. It falls apart a bit at the end, but the...

I hope my Avoid Plan will succeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCX3ZNDZAwY Imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk Time

Careful with that axe, Eugene! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpGdG27K9o&feature=related

Awful, strident, shrill and pointless.

30 Days of Night was a shot in the arm for the vampire genre, because the vampires were a force of nature. It is an excellent counter-example to this thesis.

I asked my eighteen year old students what they thought the most important event in the last hundred years was. They said S.A.R.S

Don't touch me sir, I'm tripping balls.

I marched in protest in apartheid South Africa, and used to watch the riots on Western Deep Levels gold mine near Carletonville. I had a good pair of binoculars, and a vantage point on a hill. I saw what carnage and fear a riot entails. I saw a man get impaled on an assegai from behind, I saw a...

Arctic Monkeys : Whatever people say that I am, that's What I'm not. Crippled Black Phoenix : 200 tons of bad luck Beck : Mellow Gold Bon Iver : For Emma, Forever Ago The Dead Weather : Sea of Cowards DJ Shadow : Diminishing Returns Faithless : To All New Arrivals Flying Lotus ...

Neal Stephenson: Anathem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem The Baroque cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle China Mieville: The Bas-Lag books in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville I enjoy Robin Hobb (including her work as Megan Lindholm)...