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I think Splice has been treated a bit unfairly really, there's been pretty much zero publicity about it's release, I wouldn't have even known about it myself were it not for checking the times of another film and spotting it and I was interested in it from the start . Maybe it's not really designed with cinema in mind unlike a lot of the guff that shows nowadays. It is interesting and (perhaps deliberate?) that the film itself is a combination of an intelligent character piece and a B-movie.

The Pusher Trilogy is good, really good. I recommend you watch all three films within a few days of each other then you'll be able to pick up the re-occurring minor characters and the interconnectedness.

I've recently started doing an Open University course but I'm not very good at it and I'm not really enjoying it at all either to be frank. I think I've realised that I can write loads about things I have a vested interest in be it music, films or comics or something else as you've probably gathered but as for academia I just can't get the words to flow and it comes out stilted .

I've often toyed with the idea of doing a blog with music and film reviews and stuff on, which other people have suggested, guess I've just never got 'round to it and as weird as it may sound it kind of feels less impersonal when you know the people who read your stuff, although there's no doubt lots of people I don't know too given the size of SG.

I can empathise with your thoughts on friendship, outside of SG I have hardly any friends at all. I have one who's probably more of an acquaintance really rather than a friend that I met through work who I see occasionally for cinema outings and mutual therapy sessions. Since I'm outside her social circle she tells me anything and everything about what's troubling her in the knowledge that none of her friends are going to find out. Aside from that it's just acquaintances from night school that I don't really see outside of nightchool and no-one else.

I used to be good friends with someone else I met through work and we'd go to gigs,go see films and go to the pub pretty regularly but he got another job and we just started meeting up less and less and I seemed to be the only one making an effort and it really got me down as to why suddenly I wasn't worth the effort any more and I didn't have anyone to go to gigs with any more either which got me down even more. I don't make friends easily due to my insecurity and lack of self confidence, especially when it comes to guys. I think I compare myself to them and get reminded of all the things I don't have, case in point an old school friend is now living next door to me with his wife and 2 kids in the house he bought and he's also a manager for the same company I work for, which is a bit of a kick in the teeth in the what have you done with your life? sense really.

Friendship is a funny thing, I genuinely don't understand how it works sometimes, the girl I met at work I mentioned before, we have nothing in common aside from we used to work at the same place but we always have loads to talk about when we meet up. Another girl I used to be involved with randomly texts me occasionally just to see how I am out of some misguided notion we're friends even though the only thing between us is we used to be involved,we'll never see each other again so it confuses me that the pretence of friendship continues especially when she asks me whether I've met anyone else and tells me how amazing I am, etc, erm it's a bit late for that no?

I think I can pretty safely say that I'd be a complete utter mess if I didn't have the friends I've met through SG, since I wouldn't have anyone of evenremotely similar tastes to socially engage.

I always appreciate comments from people whether they're regular or just pop up and say something profound every six months like a literary Silent Bob. I appreciate other people's views on things and I'm always up for debate about stuff since frankly I don't get much in the way of intelligent conversation on an average week. The vast majority of people where I work seem to be from some other alternate dimension where people seem to either read The Sun and only talk about sex,football and the weather or The Daily Mail and voice their xenophobic opinions about anyone who isn't exactly like them and talk about the weather.

I realise this is probably the longest comment in the history of SG, I write like I talk.