The
last month has involved watching a lot of films. Films about people
making shit-tons of money and fucking their lives up. In terms of
research, my aim isn't really to do either of these, but they did
party a lot, and they did stuff every second of the day with work,
action, adventure, booze, drugs, women, celebrities and a fair bit of
showing off, and (if you've followed the blog for a while) you know
they're all things that, y'know, may have found their way onto these
pages before.
They
will again. I was really hoping to have finished reading The Dirt,
Neil Strauss' biography of The Motley Crue, but I kinda bit off more
than I could chew. But the book features exactly the kind of
continuous action I'm looking for (minus the heroin). The rock band
found themselves in one situation after another that made a great
story, coaxed out of the band by the talented journalist Neil Strauss. From the early days of apparent witch-fucking and stonings at bus
stops, through to drugged out rehearsal sessions and cheating on
wives in the same afternoon. I'm about 2 thirds the way through at
the moment- expect a full review soon.
I
did manage to read and watch all of Hannibal Rising, and watched Wolf
of Wall Street, American Made, Kill Your Friends, Filth, Blow and
Rain Man (all already reviewed on here).
Excess
Month: Research comes to a close today. Tomorrow, the 1st
November, is the start of
NaBloPoMo,
National Blog Posting Month, being hosted by Blissful Lemon.
I'm going to give it a go, tying it in with Excess Month: Practical:
an attempt to fill my life with as much action and as many stories as
possible. Give it a shot yourself, and keep checking the Twitter
hashtag!
