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Name: David
Country: United Kingdom
Birthday: 1/20/1989
Gender: Male
Interests: TV industry, singing, composing, writing, the gay rights movement
Expertise: Buffy the Vampire Slayer(!) and singing
Occupation: Student/Singer/Writer
Industry: Arts
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
12/2/2003
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| After 3 years together, I left Dayve.
It ended incredibly, obscenely badly, I packed up my entire life and moved to a different part of the country, and we're not on speaking terms (except when he occasionally calls to demand something, keys back, that I don't talk to 'his' friends who also happen to be my friends, etc.)
And strangely? I've never been happier. Given I met him while still in school, I'm actually free for the first time in my life. This whole, owning a place, paying bills thing is scary but wonderful. I'm in charge of my own life - which is hectic, my own finances - which are all in the red - but at least I'm in control at last.
Still at uni - that's not changed, I'm just travelling from a different place - have dropped Music. Marks for Music after the first year were a 2:1 and a 3rd. Marks for Creative Writing, which I'm actually pursuing as a career, were 1st, 1st, 1st and 1st, which is all kinds of awesome. It's been difficult to find any structured summer work, so I'm sort of self-employed. I do lots of volunteer work at various places (which hopefully will pay at some point), and I also write - articles, stories, and my pet project is a script for a sitcom that I'll be submitting to various networks at some point. It kind of arose out of something I did for university back at Christmas, but I'm taking it a lot further, and it's getting some good reactions.
Tangent to that as my career, my brother bought me a domain name as a present. There's no webspace on it yet, but my blog will probably, at some point, move to there. Along with portfolios of my work etc. So, yes, I now own www.david-fine.co.uk, which is also an awesome, awesome thing (but doesn't lead anywhere yet).
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| Just a quickie. Not writing as often as I should.
2 entries down, I was writing about the Critical Commentary - which focused on bondage, Desperate Housewives, and trans-dimensional call centres.
A few months on, I'm writing another Crit. Comm. for a different portfolio. This one focuses on:
- Legally Blonde and Paris Hilton
- Castration as a shock tactic
- Sausage rolls with teeth
I still love my course. It's no surprise, really.
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| Oops. Well, it worked for a while. And to be fair, it's only been...ok, 3 months. Bad David. Blog more.
So, from where I left off...
Went home for Christmas. Lots of fun. It had been planned for a while, but I spent my first Christmas away from family, with Dayve's family - it was nice, although different. Not in a nasty way, but just that I don't suspect your first Christmas away from family can ever feel that normal or comfortable, because you work up so many traditions beforehand (unless you didn't get on with your family and found something nicer, in which case, yay!). I received...a lot of stuff. A lot of CDs, strangely; I never usually get as many as I did. I'll try and remember some of it...although as my birthday was a month later, and it's now March, I can't remember what I got when.
- 1 PC game - Simon the Sorcerer 4 (which I've done a lot of, but haven't finished. Warning to fans - although the game is canon, it has a new publisher, and Simon is now AMERICAN, which completely ruins the atmosphere compared to the previous games. Not in an anti-American way, just that he used to be very British).
- Lots of CDs! Savage Garden's Ultra Rare Trax, which contains all the B-sides never released in Europe. Got it imported from Japan, it's quite a collector's item now which is really great. The new Buffy album, which I happened to notice came out around Christmas and birthday, which is more the score for the series itself, rather than the visiting bands. So it's gorgeous. A tAtU disc that's been on my list for YEARS (and I can't exactly remember why I wanted it now, haven't actually listened to it yet...) and the two remaining Seth Lakeman CDs, so I now own all of the albums. And the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Yay.
- Several books, as I am finally reading a lot more, as I should be on my course. This includes Buffy Series 8 and Angel Series 6 (all that's been released so far).
- Savings jar, which I am actually putting pound coins into pretty well.
- And some other random things, which I shall leave off for now, before the list looks stupid.
On Boxing Day I got the flu going around, and became delirious. My temperature was so high that I was delirious that night, and was hallucinating. Because I'd got through all of Buffy 8 that day, I spent the night thinking I was a Slayer, and my room was full of demons. But it was OK, I could imagine weapons into being, but it was just incredibly scary, and I was shouting a lot of the night. Seriously, that's how I spent Boxing Day and the following day.
Thankfully I can look back on it now and laugh a bit more. It makes a good story.
Came back to uni to find my Semester 1 marks!
- 1st in Creative Writing General Workshop
- 1st in Creative Writing: Publishing and Effective Communication
- 2:1 (Upper 2nd) in Music Composition.
Which are pretty good for Semester 1, and I'm happy with those. This semester I'm taking:
- Creative Writing: Introduction to Prose Fiction, which is amazing and incredible fun. I have already written stories about sausage rolls that eat people (why, you ask? I do know, and I won't tell. Here, anyway) and an open letter to the Pope suggesting that you get so many more people back into church if you served Thousand Island dressing alongside the bread and wine.
- Creative Writing: Introduction to Film, which is NOT amazing, and unfortunately I don't think should be a Creative Writing module. There's been very little scriptwriting so far, it's all about directing. Although I'm now trained in filming and editing movies. From next Friday I am moving up to using a Z1. Professional!
- Music Composition II, eh, they wouldn't let me drop Music early. From next year I'm doing Creative Writing Single Hons, as opposed to the joint degree I'm currently on. Just making my way through this one. Struggling with it.
Other stuff...
I joined Bath's new LGBT youth group. Kinda felt I was done with them after leaving Oxford's about 3 years ago, but thought I should help set this one up given the uni LGBT position and all. Have started going regularly as an 'older mentor' kind of person; whilst still technically a member as I'm under 21, it's more of a teaching experience than a learning experience for me. The great stuff though, is that as it's new, we're attracting a bit of attention. I spent a day at London City Hall working on some radio events with FYI Radio, speaking to Peter Tatchell and Dr. Christian Jessen in the process, and over the next little while I'm doing a radio interview somewhere in London (don't have the details yet, getting them tonight), and possibly working on some minor projects for ITV and MTV. All of these, ironically, I was asked about within the last 24 hours so I haven't really looked through all the details yet.
I'm going up to Manchester for the first time in 2 weeks! This is exciting, but obviously I can't talk much about it because it's in the future.
And I think...that's pretty much all for now. Long enough, I think.
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| Ironically, two posts about the same thing.
Still working on the Critical Commentary. It now contains, amongst other things:
- Several points about Desperate Housewives and bondage equipment
- The problems in acting out a character - specifically the accent - who has both Australian and Texan elements to her
- The anachronisms in having call centres in Heaven
- References from Doug Chamberlin, part of the writing team for Toy Story 2 (and also a permanent lecturer on the course).
This is why I love my course 
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| I'm just tidying up my Critical Commentary ready for submission.
There's a piece in there related to my grandmother's funeral back in September, and when working out my influences, I realised the emotional sort of writing I've used is the same that I've honed on here for the past 5 years.
So in the bibliography, I ended up referencing myself - here. Is that arrogant, or something? Or just necessary?
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