In which I attempt to start blogging again

What can I say, I've had a busy few months and it has taken rather a long time to be able to write. I'll say this for nothing, getting evicted, moving house, rehearsing for a full scale musical plus working full time takes a toll on the brain.  It was a bit worse for my partner because he also changed job at the same time.  I summed it up rather succinctly, if I do say so myself, as ALL. OF. THE. CHANGE.

And a couple of months later things have calmed down, the new house is a haven and things are where they should be, all is well.

The other problem was that I lost my mojo and it has taken ages and many drafts for me to a) find it again b) write something suitably entertaining that I wanted to share.

This places me in a bit of a dilemma. What on earth do I want to say these days.  I'm still living most of my life on Twitter and that suits me, I can be mildly humorous or vitriolic or occasionally self pitying as the mood takes. But I need to write more, need to get into practice at laying down words and making them do tricks. The more I practise the better I should get and I need to work on my over excitable comma use.

So to ease me back into this  blogging malarkey I'm listing some things because we all love a list.

My Top  TV theme Tunes

5. BattleStar Galactica

BSG Original 

New BSG

I'm cheating here because I like the theme music to both versions and I'm sticking them side by side.  I love the classic version it's all brass and fanfares and whilst erring on the side of cheesy, it has something, it certainly stuck in my head.  The Ron Moore re-imagining is a completely different beast all taiko drums and a sense of desperation.  Incidentally Bear McCreary's score for this show killed me, repeatedly so much so I had to get hold of the music and listen to it to death. Admiral and Commander, plus Battlestar Sonatica just need to be listened to often. 

4. True Blood - Bad Things

True Blood

This theme tune, like the show is a complete guilty pleasure. It just sounds kind of depraved and kind of dirty, just like the show and I have been known to break this one out on the Karaoke despite it being all wrong for me to sing.

3. Doctor Who - Tennant Era

Doctor Who

I know, I know an obvious choice but it should surely be on everyone's list, not least because it's that well known.  I love this music in all it's reincarnations. But for me Tennant's version with all the strings  is the ultimate.  I really didn't like Eleven's but then that too has grown on me.   Murray Gold is inspired in the way he takes things and reinvents. Plus his scores for the series have been utterly beautiful, Doomsday, Madame de Pompadour and Face of Boe all threaten to make me cry plus his arrangement of Abide with Me on Gridlocked makes me cry every time, but then we sang it at my Granddad's funeral.

2. Big Bang Theory

Big Bang Theory

Because it's clever and it get's in your head and every time it  gets to pyramids you have to join in and when we get to Bang we yell bang just because we have to.  What do you mean you don't? How can you not?

1. Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

Just because it's so clever and I could watch the clockwork map forever. Plus added bonus Simpsons version.

http://io9.com/5890410/watch-the-simpsons-game-of-thrones-intro

What I've been reading

Sherlock Holmes, all of it. In one go.  That's a lot of Sherlock Holmes and they do get a little repetitive.  However, I've now done it I can go and read something else instead now and I'm reading Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson also known as the Bloggess.  She is a very special lady and reading her book is like having her talk to you digressions and all.  After that there are many options and I'm not sure where to go, I've got the SFXWeekender shelf which has all the novels I picked up there to read.  There are the Urban Fantasy novels that by friend @Boneist gave me I have lots to chose from overwhelmed.

~Updates

Well let me see...

I've been a bit absent of late, blame it on the tonsilitis and the fact that work has been insane. If you've been reading then you'll know I've done a couple of book reviews recently but if you're more interested in what I've been reading the whole list from the last 18 months is here.  There is even a tab for you to give me some suggestions on what I should be reading in the future.

Creatively I've bitten a bullet and I've signed up to do a short course in October on creative writing.

The upside to the tonsilitis was that I caught up on a few bits and pieces. Firstly I mainlined season one of Nurse Jackie, it is one excellent show and I have enjoyed watching it muchly. I like that it is short and I love the level of insight into Jackie's character. I also adore the supporting cast with much love going to Merrit Weaver as Zoey and Stephen Wallem as Thor.

I've also been watching the BBC adaptations of the Jackson Brodie series of novels: Case Histories, When Will There be Good News and One Good Turn. All brilliantly adapted and starring Jason (Lucius Malfoy) Isaacs.  It has been Sunday night telly, but its been good sunday night telly.

We're catching up with Treme which is a great piece of television but not the easiest watch in the world.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand has also been part of the mix, have to admit a few weeks ago one of the episodes went too far for me. It went too far and I was actually tempted to drop it but after giving it a rest and letting it settle I've gone back and actually since that one off the scale gruesome episode, the rest have been much better experiences.

Haven is another series we're trying and yay. Love. It has elements of some shows I loved in the past. American Gothic and the X files and its a weird and fun little show.

I was less impressed with Bored to death, the central character is, if I'm honest a bit of a douche. The concept is good and it was beginning to improve so I'll probably stick with it.

I am mourning in my heart for the end of the first season of A Game of Thrones, I love this show so much I broke my book buying ban in a huge and not cheap way. I kind of want spring 2012 to be sooner please so that there will be more.  The show is too good. If you haven't seen it I urge you to give it a go, it is a very rewarding watch.

There is a little squee in my heart True Blood has returned and so has Dexter one of these shows I've waited paitently to be be on FX the other I haven't.

I'll try and do more regular posts. And to vary them a little bit more than I have been.

Trubie through and through.

As you may have guessed I've got a number of obsessions. One of my longest standing fascinations has to be vampires. I was corrupted at a young age and I've kind of adored them ever since. From the artsy Francis Ford Copola's Bram Stoker's Dracula to Joss Whedon's Buffy in all it's pop-cultured glory.  I've dipped my toe into the vampire diaries and will watch at some point but really my heart has been captured by the wonderfully trashy True Blood.

True Blood as I'm sure you're aware is an adaptation of the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris and they've both become my unhealthy obsession.  I've talked about the books at length on my journall but its telly and films that rule here so the series it is.  First off you have to remember the series is based on the books and in some respects Alan Ball and his creative team play fast and loose with some of the plot elements that happen in the novels. For instance we see a physical manifestation of what Sookie is a lot earlier on in the tv series than we do in the novels. Characters change and are merged and whilst the books are great candy I actually think creatively the show has a lot to offer and adds dimensions of meaning which might not have been quite so prevalent in the novels.

What I love about the show is it is designed in the old fashioned notion of a pot boiler novel. The episodes end in a climax that begs you to devour the next episode immediately if possible.  Now, when watching this show as transmitted that means it isn't possible and I spend my week waiting for my next hit.  Which is how I'm getting by on season 3. Seasons one and two I was able to watch in gluttonous sessions where I was able to watch half a season in one sitting the show is as addictive as V (which is vampire blood as a drug).  The best thing about the show is that it is also very very funny. Admittedly it uses black humour and there's a lot of graphic sex which won't be to everyone's taste.