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[threemonkeys]

I have a cold. Nothing serious - just a bit of a sniffle really. Anyway, I thought I'd look after myself and wrap up warmly and watch a DVD. I looked through my collection and found something light and fun. It wasn't until after I started watching it that I realised just how appropriate it was that I chose Cold Comfort Farm. Well I was amused.

There is something about the DVD of this film that I really like. Something that other production companies should take note of. When you put the disk in the drive, it immediately boots to the main menu. No preliminary anti-piracy notices and the like, no trailers for other films and no overblown animated opening sequences for the production company that you cannot bypass. You can go from putting the disk in to watching the film in just a couple of seconds. I appreciate that.

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is so many authors hover in between and spend half their lives trying to pretend they live in one group or another. I'm just working on my hovering skills, personally, because I refuse to write non-speculative fiction and I want to write small tales about small lives.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

The thing that annoys me the most about genre is authors who have clearly written a work of science fiction or fantasy but are too snooty to admit that this is what they've done.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

The genuinely snooty need to learn a lesson about intellectual and creative origins. Most literary writers, though, I suspect are guilty of trying to explain that they don't write 3 volume epic fantasy to audiences who mainly know Peter Jackson rather than trying to disown a hoi polloi. We need to find better vocularies :). 'Fantasy' only works as a description of a novel that plays with realities when it doesn't have a 3 volume default setting.