I first noticed him on The Newsroom when the first of this 'Best Scenes' clip flew round the internet.
Fiction ...
Flying home to New Zealand, after 8 years away, I found The Newsroom series on that Singapore Airlines flight BUT I didn't find it until just before landing. I didn't ask them to circle. I caught the series eventually. And being home was good.
Tonight I found out Jeff Daniels sings too.
I love the work of war photographer, Robert Capa. I have his book, Slightly Out of Focus, and two fictions based around the facts of his life, Waiting for Capa, and Seducing Ingrid Bergman.
Last night I discovered a 1hour and 23 minute documentary about Capa, on Youtube, titled Robert Capa: In Love and War. Brilliant! I was searching for information on another war photographer at the time.
Note to self, never watch two documentaries about war photographers back-to-back.
Erkan Saka's Daily News is one of my favourite news sources. I have recently deleted my Facebook account and unsubscribed from so many different newsletters and updates but kept Erkan. I think it's clear why he's undeletable.
Laurie, a lovely friend, introduced me to Ed Sheeran's music and this song has to be a favourite. Peter Jackson agreed and this song was created for the Hobbit movie.
Russell Brand, comedian and all kinds of other things, is out there doing his thing. I can imagine how that red-necked friend of mine in Australia will love this link. Here's the interview that started it all ... for me anyway. Jeremy Paxman almost seems to take on more than expected when interviewing the Russell.
People, he's a comedian. I've had to remind people although so is Jon Stewart...
I've committed to the NaBloPoMo month of daily blogging ... an interesting challenge, to rock up here everyday and write something that I've decided is okay to publish.
NaBloPoMo ... I was inspired to sign up by this beautiful soul. It's all about turning up and writing, and I needed to work on that habit.
I was gifted the documentary Restrepo recently. Tim Heatherington was a rather remarkable war photographer, a rather remarkable human being actually, killed in Libya in 2011. This documentary was the result of being embedded with a platoon stationed in Afghanistan. He worked on it with Sebastian Junger, author, journalist and documentarian, most famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm.
Nate Thayer wrote of a musician's protest against 'working for exposure', as opposed to cash, going viral. An important story. One that is happening across the arts fields, as musicians, writers and photographers are increasingly told, by large corporations and organisations, that there is no budget for the ...
A long overdue conversation.
News to end this post with. I sparked a bit of conversation back when I was still on Facebook. Turns out that I might be the only person of my generation in the world who didn't know the music of Van Morrison. To be fair, I knew a lot of songs once I started really looking but he has so many sounds ...
Okay, fairly shameful. I was watching my favourite television show of all time ... The Newsroom, and there was Van Morrison, singing that song. I picked up some lyrics, searched them, found him.
And now ...the Ostrich.
