Some lovely artwork coming out of Criterion at the moment:

I’m still running into people who haven’t seen the original GODZILLA. Mind boggling.

And most people think Kurosawa when the subject of Samurai movies come up. Check out the films of Hideo Gosha and Kihachi Okamoto. I recently rewatched THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI and THE SWORD OF DOOM back to back. Almost fifty years old and they’re a breath of fresh air after some of the nonsense I’ve had to sit through recently.

Plus it’s hard to get bored of watching Toshiro Mifune cutting hands off in the snow.

Not long now…

A shot from 2006:

Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station.

Working on a new draft of RED DRIFT so I’m going through my picture folders. I end up with a lot of mood images when I’m writing. I just about filled my office wall space again, but am thinking about a dedicated digital frame up there just so I can let this stuff cycle through 24/7.

“Are you playing Skyrim?”

Does it have this scene in it?

“I don’t think so.”

Then I’ll wait for more Red Dead Redemption, thanks.

Mine writing hammer hath beeneth busyeth.

Dropping a gear in 5… 4… 3

Not a bad flight.

Full on nightmare though for one poor soul who turned an unhealthy shade of white and vomited for much of the flight when he wasn’t shivering under a blanket or crying in misery. I did think at one point we’d have to land and get him to a doctor, but the cabin crew were very persistent with tea. That eventually did the trick.

Nice to land and see posters for CONTAGION everywhere…

Just finding my feet and avoiding the lag by hanging out with Amy Berg who is stupidly putting me up this trip. As you’d expect her place is filled with writing spots so it should be a productive trip as long as I don’t fall asl…

Like the little yellow sub in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Been a while. Had a bunch of writing to do and fell off the blogging wagon. Will try and fix that.

Off to LA this morning for a couple of weeks of meetings, more writing and hanging out with the cool kids.

RED DRIFT is in the bag, Howl’s Moving Castle is on its way, other older stuff lumbers on. Time to start a few new things I think.

I’ll be as active as usual on Twitter and Instagram while I’m away and will blog when I get the chance.

See ya on the flip side.

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This is my friend, Dave.

You’ll remember he did the artwork on the titles for PRECISION, but we’re also working together on a number of things that aren’t quite ready for public consumption yet. Buy me a drink and I’ll show you what a talented git he is.

If you follow Dave on Twitter and/or Instagram you’ll have seen these wonderful tiny sketches featuring a shiny new ten pence piece and one added detail. Here’s one featuring the greatest space craft ever made:

Just in case you missed them here they are so far:

“That’s no moon…”

“Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see…”

Massive nuclear explosion… Moon torn out of Earth’s orbit…

“A shining planet… Known as ‘Earth’”

“See you later, Navigator!”

“My God… It’s full of stars…”

“We’re in the pipe, five by five…”

“You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier”

“He’s no use to me dead…”

“To boldly go…”

I’m thinking about having the full set framed.