This Is Not A Democracy

My Circumference DVD arrived today! CJ is so awesome. He got Joe to sign it! I'm not really big on autographs, these days, but it's a really sweet gesture and endlessly cool, when you consider that I've been a fan of the guy to some extent since I was about fourteen.

The film itself is really cleverly done. There are some awesome transitions in there - it's done in one continuous shot, so it pans back as he walks down the hall and then he opens the screen and it's his reflection in a mirror, and stuff like that. Suitably impressed am I.

The EPK and the commentary are both hilarious, and suitably dorky.

Oh! And Ben Cotton (SGA's Dr Kavanagh) is in the audition part of the EPK, which is very cool. But really only if you're as into the pan-fan game of 'That's the Guy from Season X, Episode Y - Y'know? The third guy on the left in the Market Scene' as I am.

And I am muchly, so it's cool.

He's had his hair cut. This is... a reason you will barely recognise him.

But yeah, it's pretty damn good all round. Especially the comedy little skip Joe does at one point...

I think you should all buy it.

At some point, we're going to have to add a review of this to TCO... where to begin?!

CJ says the Circumference DVD is almost ready! Hurrah!

Can't wait to see that...

The new stuff on his mySpacks, from the Lotus Awards piece he did, is really cool. Like the world's most surreal, marescape fairground EVER. You expect the film to be full of creepy identical twins in matching outfits, people on stilts in candy-stripe trousers and evil little girls with big round lollies or candy floss.

All from the point of view of someone dying slowly in the middle. And drifting into the arms of awaiting angels and being heralded into heaven by a holy chorus.

No idea what the film itself is about, but CJ's music does tend to have a habit of making pictures in my head. With most music, it flows along to scenes from stories, or I picture the video. But somehow, CJ's creates images of its own. Scary fucking ones at that. I wish the old stuff was still up on profile. There were a couple of bits I used to listen to a lot...

I realised, the other day, that I really don't post that much personal stuff in here. I mean - I post random thoughts, which are probably better snapshots of what I'm doing than long, meandering posts about the events of the day, would - but when I'm not talking about the Pretteh or my evil housemate or the website, I don't have much to say.

I don't know if that'll ever change, really. I don't have much of consquence happening in my life. Nothing that really needs documenting for posterity. I wish I did - really. But never mind - if Puj, Elly, Stella and I won the Euro Millions tonight I'm sure we'll have something to talk about...

You lot are hopeless, by the way. I need to know exactly how many of you will be coming to my birthday lunch so I can book the table. Please let me know.

Well. Rosie needs to learn to think things through.

The other day, I left a message on the website of one CJ Wallis, who happened to direct Joe May's most recent project, Circumference as part of a Canadian film competition. (Info at his site - it looks like it'll be pretty good.)

TCO was mentioned, and, stupidly (?) linked to - even though it is nowhere near finished.

Yesterday, CJ responded - saying he had, and I quote: "alerted joe to [our] cause".

Joe. As in, Sgt. Markham. As in, that bloke who played Sam Colloby's boyfriend in Casualty. As in 1st Miner in Wilde. (Would it be too obscure to add Police Constable #2 in DaVinci's Inquest? Ahem.)

Now, this was always the point - all of the actors/actresses we'll feature will hopefully be in some kind of correspondence with TCO, even if it's through their agents, because we need to be kept up to date on what they're doing. That's the entire point of the website.

But! It's so not finished. Not even nearly. And we were so unprepared for this. They weren't meant to know about it, yet. So, y'know: I should have kept my mouth shut about it.

On the other hand, it's kind of cool. And kind of CJW to pass on the message - I know it was well intended (although you so know it went something like this: "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! JOE'S GOT FANGIRLS, JOE'S GOT FANGIRLS!!!" Note: we are not fangirls, thanks. We are appreciators of under-represented talent. Of the acting variety).

So, I'm off to do a very nervous Happy Dance and then worry about the opening night of The Country Wife, on Friday. Panic! at the Dress Rehearsal.