by Ira | Jun 22, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
First off, James Horner died today in an apparently plane crash. Horner is probably most known for doing the Oscar-winning score for Titanic, but *I* will always know him as the man who scored The Wrath of Khan, which truly got me into listening to soundtrack music. I...
by Ira | May 20, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
So…I’ve had the image of this particular cartoon cat pop up in my head every now and then since I was a wee lad, and never ever knew where he came from or what his name was. Only that it was this creepy cat who had boxes on either side of his head with,...
by Ira | Apr 17, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
I had two stories today:The first was a proper sit-down for writing. Pages were WRITTEN motherfuckers. Oh, they were writ-ten! I still feel much editing needs to be done with it, but that’s not actually the point of this particular writing session. There’s...
by Ira | Mar 19, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
Golly what a day. Robin Hood was my *favorite* movie when I was a kid. That and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Mostly, though, it was Robin Hood. Mondays were movie days when I was growing up, before I had siblings and my mom got married. It was just the two of us,...
by Ira | Mar 10, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
There was a hijacking afoot today. Very draining day, filled with work drama. It would seem, however, that the drama has been curbed. I hope so, anyway. I didn’t get any work done. I could have towards the end of the day, but I was so wiped out from that...