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It's hard to predict, but the "squick" factor is - on the odd occasion - likely to be high.

summary:
Cinema Verité is the French for "cinema truth". It was a documentary style film movement that emphasized the use of available light, hand-held cameras, and long takes.

Films in this style tend to strive for as much realism, and as little director intervention as possible. It was an attempt to breakdown the glamour and stilted conventions of Hollywood film making. So they were often dark, shaky, and naturalistically amateurish.

Blog Verité is much the same, but with wonky grammar and dodgy spelling instead of annoying camera angles. If you've read my earlier, year and a half long blog, - tragically lost - you'll know what to expect: smut - gossip - trivia - and the odd insight. All in roughly equal measure.

It's an attempt to create a fiction based on letters, vignettes, feuilletons and open diary entries. It's an attempt to set the extraordinary things that happen in an ordinary everyday context. And it's attempt to engage you - Ms or Mr Anonymous Stranger - in our anonymous private lives. Can sex get any safer?

Vinnie Tesla called it, "A fascinating literary experiment, a new kind of epistolary novel. A demonstration of the unique value of ASSTR--I can't imagine this project appearing anywhere else". Bless. And who am I to argue?

Sunday, February 29, 2004

Emily: Top Ten Tips for Screwing-up a Blog (chat)

1. Get promoted at work and feel obligated to work even longer hours.

2. Buy an appartment to rent so that your offspring will have some capital when they try and get on to the first rung of the housing market. Hmmmm, love all that legal/financial house buying stuff.

3. Same as 2. above, but now having bought the apartment, clean and decorate it like a mad thing in order to get it onto the rental market.

4. Fall ill.

5. Repeat step 4.

6. Worry about your daughter get a place in a good college.

7. Worry about your daughter revising hard enough for her exams.

8. Get the school inspectors in.

9. Try and help out your sister's business

10. Forget what you enjoy doing.

OK, so they're my excuses, but I think they are good ones and I'm sticking with them! Anyhow, since - Oh My God - September, I think you can see I've been busy. Too busy. But just lately my "Writer-fingers" have been typing again, with several new stories in the bag (I'm just sitting on them to let the ideas mature and to make it easy to spot typos), and ideas for the new site - yes, there's always a new site just around the corner, and a special project for a friend. Oh, and I've finally found an old copy of the blog back to 2001, so I'm just going to clean that up a bit. So lots to do!

But let's get back to the point of doing a blog - shooting off at the mouth about today! OK, nothing happened today except for a second portion of Yorkshire Pudding that in retrospect was a belly-busting mistake. OK, next post I'll do catchy-uppy where everyone is.

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