| Author | Message | ||
     James Armstrong (James_armstrong) Username: James_armstrong Registered: 10-2010 Posted From: 86.179.5.182 |
Hello to you all. I’ve been lurking around here for a while and felt it was time to join in with the discussion (it was starting to feel a bit voyeuristic and weird). Just as a small introduction: my favourite writers (excluding the guv) include J.G. Ballard, Dennis Etchison, Thomas Ligotti, Haruki Murakami and kazuo Ishiguro. I’m a lover of cinema and my favourite film is Taxi Driver. I dabble in writing but I’ve never been published. Most importantly, my favourite novel of Campbell’s is The Grin of the Dark and my favourite short story, for the moment, is “Welcomeland” (although “The Retrospective” is a close second). I Hope you guys don’t mind me joining in. I have a funny feeling from my months of lurking that I may be the youngest member but don’t let that put you off me  . Cheers, J. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
Welcome, James. I'm an irregular around these parts (and what parts they are!), but let me be the first to say welcome. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Hi James. I don't want to scare you but I eat young men for breakfast! Well, not every day .. today I just had Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.  Anyway, seriously, welcome! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.124.231 |
Welcome to the board, James... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Hey, James. Welcome. And yes, Caroline does eat young men for breakfast, that's why we're old codgers. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.160.65.165 |
Hi James! Age is of no consequence. We're all weird teenagers at heart anyway. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Hello there! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.0.159 |
Hi! I love TAXI DRIVER, and those short-stories too! (I've not yet read GRIN OF THE DARK....) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.39.177 |
Hi John. You're very welcome. But you first have to send us all £25. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Hi John. Welcome aboard! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Welcome, James! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Hello James - don't stay Overnight, don't Grin in the Dark, don't jump in the Pool, and whatever you do don't turn around because he's Just Behind You... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
Sorry!!! Meant to say welcome, James! Insomnia last night so quite tired. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Actually, James, ignore Gary/Fry/Prof/He who knows nowt about films. He's kidding. It's not 25 quid, it's 50 quid, made payable to Yer Right Honourable F Duffy squire, care of lunatics asylum. Gary's the equivalent of the local drunk. He says a lot of stuff nobody really understands, but we just and nod and say we do. Easier that way. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.39.177 |
Ally, it was my fault, saying John! Doh. Drunk again, like Frank says. Sorry, JAMES! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
(C'mon Gary, we talked about this. Have you told him about the initiation ceremony involving a chicken and a jar of Marmite?) | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
As moderator it's your responsibility to prepare him for N'gguth and The Shambolic One's 'entry'. (No, not Zed) | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Welcome, James! Is it you? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
It better had be, he owes me and Prof fifty quid a piece. Oh, and James, it's an extra twenty because we asked Ramsey to come and say hi...honest  (Yes, James, I'm the loudmouth one accompanying the drunk in the corner...you also ignore me) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Hi, James. Taxi Driver is the greatest film ever made, so that's you and me starting off on the right foot... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
The greatest? Greater than Goodfellas? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Hullo, James. Welcome aboard. There are no lifeboats and the lifejackets are made of cement. But it's more fun that way. Sense of humour and appreciation of the absurd is imperative. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Of course Taxi driver is greater than Goodfellas. Hello James. What's the most effective decapitation in film history? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Don't be so bloody flippant, Weber. I didn't realize you were the absolute authority on movies. I'll stand aside and let you get on with it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
What's the most effective decapitation in film history? The Exterminator (1980; James Glickenhaus). Frank, are you drunk or something? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
A Taxi driver can get you from A to B and goodfellas are are cheap and nasty frozen pizza. Of course a taxi driver is better... Oh, films...? Didn't realise you were talking films | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I've not seen the Exterminator. Damn. Is it better than the slo motion head roll in the omen 1976? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Much better, IMHO. It's a guy sitting tied to a stake (in 'nam), and a VC soldier decapitates him in slow motion with a sword. It's horrific - even now. His mouth keeps moving as his head falls off. Actually...email me. I have a spare copy of the DVD. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Zed - hardly, mate. That's a strange question to ask. I was replying to Weber's instant dismissal of a perfectly innocent question. I was in an quite a good mood up till then. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
That'll teach you to come on here in a good mood. It isn't allowed. We call it Weber's Law. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Yes, I should know better. Now go and check out the shit trailer for the Thing prequel, and tell me if you think it's a thumb up or down. I think I already know what you'll say. Weber - | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Frank, it's a thumbs-down before I even see the trailer. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Hello, James, and welcome. 'Taxi Driver' is very high up my favourite movies list as well, but would you believe, of the authors you list, I've only read J.G. Ballard - the man was a genius! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I think Taxi Driver is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. But for me Goodfellas cements his potential as possibly the greatest American director of them all. It's a work of art, technically beguiling, masterful and constantly developing preceding scenes into this seamless layer of virtuoso visual brilliance. The casting is nigh upon perfect. The story is intensely hypnotic, and the sense of tension is so palpable at times that it's almost impossible to sit there and just watch. I felt like exploding. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Have you noticed that young James hasn't come back on and acknowledged us? That's either because (a) you've all scared him off with your crazy comments, or (b) I actually did eat him for breakfast this morning. Please come back James - we're all quite sane really and we definitely welcome new blood (young blood ... mmmm, tasty) to the board. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
It's Frank's fault - all that talk of him exploding. It's enough to scare anyone off. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.45.137 |
Welcome aboard, James! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
Wees welkom hier, waarde vriend. | ||
| James Armstrong (James_armstrong) Username: James_armstrong Registered: 10-2010 Posted From: 86.179.5.182 |
Apologies, I’ve not been ignoring you all. I’ve been unable to access the web since last night due to being at work. It would take a lot worse than that to scare me off! I’ll just kill many birds with one huge stone: Thank you all for such a warm welcome! Frank - I adore Goodfellas but find myself returning to Taxi Driver again and again. I don’t think I’ll ever be free of its haunting power. Weber - I don’t know about the most ‘effective’ decapitation, but this one certainly scared me the most: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXXvBg_-pFU&p=A123802B084E8411 . And Ramsey - yes, the very one! | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Hi James. Glad to have you aboard. Not sure you're the youngest though as I'm only 14. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Wait. Reverse those two numbers. | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 79.79.184.34 |
Hi James. Actually I didn't even bother to introduce myself when I turned up and began mingling which, in retrospect, I now see was very rude of me. Sorry all. | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 72.218.209.123 |
Hiya James! I've been a semi-lurker here myself. Enjoy all the fun. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
Don't worry, Patrick. I'm pretty sure I've introduced myself two or three times over the years, so you can help yourself to one of mine. |