This week I have mainly been busy. Busy and tired. However I did manage to fit in another cinema all-nighter to make three weekends in a row where I lost a night of sleep. Last night’s was with the lovely peeps of Geekplanet, who put together an all-night horror movie session along with the Empire in High Wycombe. Of the four films two were excellent (The Thing and American Werewolf in London), one was rubbish (My Bloody Valentine in 3D) and I sat outside during the final one, deciding that having a chat with someone was much more worthwhile than being in the cinema as the magic light flickered on the screen (Saw VI).

To kick the evening off we had a Q&A with Doug Bradley, mainly famous for being the lead Cenobite (aka Pinhead) in the Hellraiser movies. Being someone who has only seen the first in the series and didn’t think that much of it I wasn’t all that interested, but he’s an excellent speaker and a thoroughly nice chap and his book on the development of prosthetic make-up as continuation of masque theatre is now on my to-read list (even if it did sell out its small print run and is only available via his website). Me and the Geekplanet posse had a spot of dinner with him beforehand and there was much in the way of grinning and confused looks when there was a general realisation that we could all add “discussed politics, especially the development of the public persona of the BNP as a sign of voter apathy, with Pinhead from Hellraiser” to our list of lifetime achievements.

Anyways, I’ve spent the day uploading a few photos, having a little bit of a kip and playing Tales of Monkey Island episode 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, so in conjunction with my week of Busy I’ve not had a chance to do anything particularly creatively interesting. However, this photo of Mr Bradley is my favourite of the bunch, so I name it my creative thing of the week: