Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Read this (shamefully) on NME:

Shirley Manson is set to pursue a full-time acting career, having landed a regular role on a US TV series.

The Garbage lead singer will appear in a recurring role on ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ which airs on Fox.

Manson will play Catherine Weaver, the “CEO of Cyberdyne, a cutting edge hi-tech company” in the show, which is an offshoot of the successful Terminator movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Er… okay. Can’t say I’d have seen that coming. Still, solo album coming later in the year, so that’s quite pleasing, I was only just wondering the other day what was up with that.

Not strictly one of mine, but I did contibute some of the questions to the Den of Geek group interview of Dave Gibbons, so have a look anyway:

Dave Gibbons Interview

With all kinds of characters repeatedly coming back to life in comics, I write about 5 deaths that you can be certain aren’t ever going to get reversed. Probably.

Alternate Cover: 5 Comics Deaths that’ll Stick

The end of Season 4 starts here as we see the Oceanic Six finally return home, and all I can do is try and figure out what’s going to happen when the finale hits in 2 weeks.

Lost - Season 4, Episode 12 review

With the rumours of Marvel Studios creating a shared universe for their films in advance of an Avengers feature all-but-confirmed, I ask just exactly what the benefit of this is going to be.

Alternate Cover: A Shared Universe

As mentioned, I spent the weekend in Bristol at the Comics Expo. Since I was going anyway, I did a con report for CBR which largely focuses on Saturday’s panels and the Eagle Awards, because I spent Sunday recovering and tracking down comics.

Bristol International Comics Expo 2008

Lost gets back on form this week. Big things are happening, and Matthew “Speed Racer” Fox is almost entirely absent, which is fairly pleasing.

Lost - Season 4, Episode 11 Review

Ever fancy reading a tiredness-fuelled rant about how the comics industry lets people from the movies walk all over them out of some bizarre self-loathing? Of course you do! Here it is.

Alternate Cover: Screenwriters in Comics

Yeah, yeah, I gave in to peer pressure and got a Twitter account. Add me if you want, and I’ll keep you entertained with my innermost superficial musings.

As per twitter rules of engagement, I have added Warren Ellis to my follow list.

Also, as you would already know, IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER I spent the weekend in Bristol. Too knackered to discuss it now, but rest assured there are some stories that’ll be told. If, in the meantime, you hear that a madman has gunned down those responsible for traffic management in the city, you can assume I took matters into my own hands.

In case anyone’s wondering where I’ve been the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing GTA4. You don’t need me to tell you it’s great.

Had a busy weekend celebration Damian and Nikki’s birthday on two consecutive days, with Lorna and Sam also down for the occasion. We had dinner at some morroccan place, which did terrible chips but was otherwise quite nice, and decorated like an Indiana Jones set. We then walked to St. Steven’s Tavern for a drink or two, and then up the south bank of the Thames where we stopped off briefly at Namco station where Nikki and I played Air Hockey and Skee Ball, ultimately winning just enough tokens for a couple of bags of sweets. Josh and I did attempt to play pool, but it was charged BY THE MINUTE. 20p a MINUTE! Is this normal now? Am I out of touch with pool-gaming? Just the thought of paying that much makes me balk.

On Sunday we went for dinner at Brown’s (where I took Mum for mother’s day.) The food was pretty good, although they kept trying to serve us stuff that we didn’t ask for, then getting sort of irritated when we we told them we didn’t ask for it. At the end of the meal, we went to the pub where we played on a scam quiz machine that had no money in and therefore wouldn’t let us win anything. I did almost win at Tetris (Tetris for money! Who’d have guessed my years or practise would come in useful?) but alas, it was not to be.

This weekend, I’m off to Bristol for the comic convention. Hilarity will almost certainly ensue.