Been ridiculously busy on the move, so didn’t have the time to update the blog for weeks. Thanks for your complaints and queries, I wasn’t aware my digital ramblings would be missed. Not only was I sapped by the creative writing and business going on, but I also felt bored with computers (I do most of my writing with a fountain pen and a set of Moleskin notebooks) after spending hours a day machine gun typing on a plastic keyboard.

Since the last update I’ve experienced a number of things in the field, ranging from a signing with Alan Moore at Orbital Comics, which was full of positive vibes, a radio interview at Resonance, business meetings and proposal for some very interesting future projects, preparing the US launch of The Mindscape DVD, then flying off to Amsterdam where more stuff was going on, jamming with my band Blut Meridian a few hours before embarking on the plane to Suriname.

At the moment I’m in the capital Paramaribo shooting a corporate film, planning a documentary and a feature film for next year. In between those main missions I ended up at an Aucaner Maroon “dede hoso” (a funeral party) with the Maroon reggae band Jah Youth, took some time off to celebrate an uncle’s 60th birthday near a creek with a whole range of Javanese food. Next week I need to attend a traditional Hindu wedding of a friend who briefly returned from the Netherlands to get married here. Then there’s so much more on the schedule that I sometimes wonder if the computer and the Internet are not heavily overrated, if not overused. Whilst I admit computers are great tools to get certain jobs done, to me they are exactly just that. Tools. Not a way of life.

To me life is breathing fresh oxygen outdoors, moving in the field rather than working in stuffy office buildings, smelling scents from marketplaces, seeing and hearing different cultures, people, characters and so on. So I leave it up to others to adjust their “Mood” on their Facebook and what have you not user based group programs.

But I promise I’ll try to keep you posted on the weblog with what’s going on. Life is a script you can write for your self. Gotta run, have some writing to do.

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