http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com Matt Keefe's Weblog Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:51:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just seen The Dark Knight, so have compiled my thoughts for this blog. This is more of a critique than a review, so if you haven't seen the film yet, you might like to wait until you have before reading the entirety of this article. As far as the ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/the-dark-knight/ Gav left a comment on the previous post, but I thought it warranted a full enough reply to become a new post in it's own right, so if you haven't read the previous blog, and the associated comment from Gav, you may wish to do so first. Right, here goes... Do ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/adaptation-inspiration/ …blog more often! Here’s one: Thanks to Mark Gibbons for pointing me to this news item: Robert Downey Jr ‘to play Holmes’ Anyone whose reaction to this news is ‘oh, wow, that’s going to be great!’ might prefer to stop reading now. Actually, no, what am I saying? It’s exactly ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/sherlock-holmes-the-curse-of-the-adaptation/ I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. I must blog more often. ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/write-it-out-a-hundred-times/ You can’t go wrong with a word with three wyes in it (syzygy – see? Great). You can, however, go wrong with using synonyms, so here’s my advice. A synonym is, as you doubtless already know, a word with a similar meaning to another word. Two such words are synonyms of ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/synonymy/ In the interests of trying to update this blog a little more often, I've decided to slightly widen the range of topics which I'll post on - here, music. Check out this clip of Bruce Springsteen playing The Ghost of Tom Joad accompanied by Tom Morello of Rage ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/the-ghost-of-tom-joad/ I've just finished reading Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. Like many of you reading this, I thought I was familiar with the story - I remember reading the book when I was at school, and in any case so much of the book has entered the common, collective memory that ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/gullivers-travels/ Haven’t blogged in a while, so what I intend to do – if I can get my arse in gear – is write a few short(er) blogs over the next few days touching on a few topics. First off, theme. Gav Thorpe recently posted a blog on the subject, and it’s something ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/compose-yourself/ Online now (and somewhat later than promised - sorry!) is my interview with author, Stephen Donaldson. I interviewed Stephen shortly before the release of Fatal Revenant, the latest book in his Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series, and the interview touches on both this and his many other works, as well as ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/an-interview-with-stephen-donaldson/ Following on from the recent frenzy of blog-ranting on the subject of narrative styles, I thought I'd post a few examples of some novels which I think demonstrate clever use of the omniscient narrator. Note that I'm focusing specifically on books about the legendary/historical characters that my earlier blog posts ... http://thestarchamber.mattkeefe.com/selected-reading/