jimwilliams

Hello!

I'm still alive and all that. Haven't updated for a while because I'm a lazy git.

Few interesting things happening, perhaps for me only...

The Bearcast is on a backburner for a while as there's the Box Room ( http://theboxroom.mevio.com/ ) podcast that Jen and I are falling behind with also.
Added to the podcasting confusions I am now a proud co-host of the DWO WhoCast!

http://www.thewhocast.com/

So I am sitting here typing this while I should be researching Peter Davison for recording part 2 of our 5th Doctor retrospective tomorrow.

So far I have interviewed Sylvester McCoy and Nicholas Briggs. Discussed how mean mobile phone companies are regarding their charges with Sophie Aldred. Got offered lunch by Tinhead from Brookside. Stood in awe at the magical world of recordings at Big Finish.

And as a personal victory, talked some pretty decent toot with Robert Rankin at David Devereux's book launch last Thursday (hangover: very). Superb!

Pyra is older, bigger and currently perched on my shoulder after wiping her nose on my face.

There is food in my tummy, wine in the glass and all seems to be okay in the world so far.


( I also have given in and joined Twitter, let's see how it goes... http://twitter.com/BoxRoom )

What with one reason or another, the Bearcasts have been put back a bit. Our desire to do more is great indeed and we will get on and do another one very soon but we have a major distraction here.

Her name is Pyra, she is eight weeks old and she is our new master:


In the short space of time she has been with us she has learned that:
Table legs are the enemy! Attack! Attack! Arrrrgh-nomnoomnomnomnomnomnom...
Tuna and cheese pasta bake is epic OMG! MUST HAVE! WANT! WANT WANTWANTWANT!!
Can beat up humans, they are easy.

Hooray! Bearcast 5 is alive!

 

Bearcast #5, Recorded two weeks after the 'Doctoroo' finale so we'd have time to calm down and stop shouting at the walls and suchlike...

Still only a life-unchanging half-hour of banter with Jeb, Terry and that lovely Token Female. Couple of tunes as usual and possibly a mention of sausages.

Bearcast #4, filmed before a live can of worms... No, not really. Recorded before the 'Doctoroo' Finale so there's no spoilering that just yet.

Still only a life-unchanging half-hour of banter with Jeb, Terry and that lovely Token Female. Couple of tunes as usual and possibly a mention of sausages.

Due to the finite space on Podbean, please ignore them until I have enough money to pay them for more storage space and suchlike...

Bearcast 3 is here: http://bearcast.btpodshow.com/

Directly here: http://media.podshow.com/media/18331/episodes/117245/bearcast-117245-07-01-2008_pshow_255798.mp3

Feedy here: http://www.btpodshow.com/feeds/bearcast.xml

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Jeb and Terry, two sentient teddy bears of that London Town, welcome you to their very third podcast, The Bearcast… half an hour of stuff.


Episode 3 problems… due to the weakening of barriers between universes, there were heaps of technical problems during the recording process and for that we can only apologise. We tried to sort it out but if there’s anything that’s glaringly annoying in the quality of this, the very third Bearcast, we are eternally sorry.


Intro and Outro music by Mike Smith of One Track Pony
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=58992955

Songs courtesy of The PodSafe Network:
http://music.podshow.com/



Intro

Jeb spouts off about UFO sightings again

Song One
Blackfish – What About Tomorrow?
http://www.blackfish-info.co.uk/

Token Female steps in to have a bit of a chat about, mostly, Stolen Earth, the latest Doctor Who episode – contains spoilers

Song Two
Andy Stone – In The Coffee Shop, When
http://www.myspace.com/andystonerolls

Jeb and Terry’s DVD Commentary FAIL

Outro

(easter egg?)

The very second Bearcast is ready for your ears!

There's a feed thing here: http://www.btpodshow.com/feeds/bearcast.xml


Or there's the handy player thing here:







Warning: May contain traces of lady.

At last finally at last and finally... last...
Jeb and Terry have done their podcast.
Here is a rather special player here below... it has the audio adventures of Lost Bearings and now, a new, Bearcast!

Get it in your ears.........

Having me an investigate of podcasting place daz71 uses. Hope I don't ruin the neighbourhood for you!

RSS to subscribe should be here: Feeeeeeeed

Link to listen should be here: Lost Bearings - Episodes

Now hopefully, once I've had an experiment with the Lost Bearings Episodes, I can start producing a podcast.

This... is progress.

Testing out a new place to host the episodes after esnips mucked things up:

Lost Bearings - Episodes 1 - 3

These are updated episodes, tarted up a bit, tidied and suchlike and things generally of that nature.

I'm as close to happy as I'm going to get!

A little taster for your ears:



Intro to Episode One of Lost Bearings - Beartopia.

Episode Three is here!

After much pondering on whether I could tinker with it for a couple of months, I took one look at the woe-betide being projected at me from my beloved and decided that I should just post it up and have a bit of a sit down.

Here it is then!

Episode Three

Sausages!

It looks like I've got a stable home for the audio comedy thing over at esnips.

If you haven't heard these or just want to hear them all over again because you love the sound of your own laughter in your ears... Please pop your speakers to the on position and have a click upon the following links:



Episode One

Episode Two



They're only 15mins long each so you won't even have time to get cramp! How great is that!

Lovely.

The bears are on telly again!

The BBC, in their infinite wisdomness, have used one of the other vids I submitted also.
This is a lovely thing and must surely mean the start of something big?

Link:

Freaky Eatings


Well then! We've no booze in the house nor the means to buy any so I'll have to get off my head on coffee, if there's any left.

*cough*

Cor, got a bit dusty in my journal I see!
(not in my pants though so that's a relief)

Hello! How's things? Good? Good.

Since the last update, circa the death of Mr Jesus, things have improved somewhat (although not financially). We're in a new flat, we've got a breakdancing elephant living above us, got a new job, got curry and wine for dinner tonight and something else... what was it...

(psst, is it something to do with the bears being on telly?)

Oh yeah! Silly me, how could I forget...
The Bears Are On Telly!!

After a few efforts, BBC Three finally gave in and picked the intro to Two Pints of Lager which can be seen..... here:

Bears on TV


Although I can't see an episode of the bloody thing on telly anytime soon so I hope they don't forget about me...

Apart from that, I actually wrote some of Episode Three of the Lost Bearings Audio Thing yesterday. There's a little secret project that's almost underway that'll get Jen screaming at me for wasting her life (but it'll be great, the end product not the screaming that is). The world is shiny and my arse is blue. And that's just about it for now. Can't think of anything else at the moment because my glass is empty and I need to fetch more wine.

I call our landlady to tell her that we're moving out with muttered apologies and mumbled excuses... lost my job, time to move on, really enjoyed it here... and a scant two days later after we've shoved nearly everything we own into a stack of boxes, we get visited by estate agents and one potential tenant already.

"Sorry about the mess," I tell everyone after getting up at 6.30 this morning to really seriously tidy up. That's the Britishness of me though, I'll apologise to the air for walking through it.

Now we have to keep the place oh so everso tidy because people might be dropping in to view the place at anytime and we've still got to live here for another bloody month yet!

Jen bought a bottle of wine back home tonight, I don't fancy the chances of it lasting the night.

There's still one more chapter to go in the book of my life. There's been highs, lows and neither-ups-nor-downs. It's the chapter where everything comes to a head, all loose ends are tied up (perhaps, perhaps not... just in case there's a sequel) and we discover if our hero gets to live happily ever after or is doomed forever more... until the possible sequel.

There are so many things I'd like to be getting on with. My own projects (the Lost Bearings audio thing for one, I love doing the voices and putting it all together, I have found myself quite competent at that!), projects with Jen... basically all round creative stuff that is somewhat lacking in motivation because of my extremely dire financial situation. Namely that I have reached the absolute end of any and every limit by just trying to survive. I need help.

Today I woke up and felt that something was different, something about today would be a feature in the last chapter of this book of my life so far (book two should see me embarking on a brand new adventure but with the same sidekicks and love interest). We have to make a decision on whether we will take the new flat as soon as, which we just simply can't afford because I don't have a job and am dangerously skint, and it may be that today is the day when we have to decide. So, do we take it in the hope that I get a job in the nick of time?
We'll have to move out of this flat we're in now anyway so we've also got that to deal with.

So, thanks to everything my creative urges have been stifled. Rather than getting on with something I enjoy doing I tend to stare into space and wonder what the fuck I'm going to do.

It's a bit of a pickle.

Finally managed to get this finished... Episode Two of Lost Bearings, Tequila Mockingbird.

It's so good I could puke!

Please enjoy:


http://www.savefile.com/files/1021403

Well, a previous link to this is deader than my dinner. Please find enclosed working links to the wondrous audio comedy that is Lost Bearings

Here's the link to the thread: http://bearings.forum5.com/viewtopic.php?t=113&mforum=bearings

Here's another link that will work: http://www.esnips.com/doc/444ace3e-c9c0-4abb-8b96-0cd0de40570e/1812

Here's a download link:
http://www.savefile.com/files/944460


Here's a picture of Jeb and Terry:


Here's an apt moving picture:


Now I shall salute you!

If you haven't heard it yet, I hope you like it. If you have... send help.

'ello!

So my audio script thing is done bar re-writing and editing and whatever else needs doing to it. Now comes the business of casting, getting together, reading through and recording.

So I'm staring at that thought and going, "How the?"

I'm sure we'll be fine... fine...

Better draw up a cast list I reckon. There's probably far too many voices we'll need but I'm sure we'll cope.

Next stop: Glory!

Here I sit after scoffing two of the last remaining sausages. There are four left and then that's it; not a scrap of food in the house.
I'm taking this remarkably well, but then I have a headache and throat ache to take my mind off such trivial details.
I really hate having a headache when drink isn't the cause.
I really need a beer.

Fortunately I am off to that Greenwich for some beers today, Jen is lending me a fiver.
Our resident author will be there, the Once and Future King* himself, david_devereux, will be joining us after his stint and acquiring writers cramp at Jen's bookshop signing his tomes.
I couldn't persuade him to drag Robert Rankin along which is a shame but also just as well because all I'd do is have a big, girly, fanboy spaz at him and spend the rest of the day trying to act like I meant to embarrass myself for a laugh but no one would be buying it and I'd have to go home and have a strong cup of tea (with no milk because we haven't got any) and then erase my memory.

Besides all that, what is it with foxes? There's something about them that makes me stop and wonder what they want, why are they visiting me?
Doesn't make much sense does it, sorry.
It's just that we had a visit from a couple of them the other night. They woke me up yelling and running around outside and I just watched them for a bit wondering if there was some kind of message they wanted to convey again.
Weird.

In creative news, I are writing an audio script for the amusement of me and my friends. Have got some good support already which I'm all stunned and humbled and excited by.
It's just a half-hour thing at the moment but with a greater story sitting around the corner if this one works out okay.
Really looking forward to this!

Right! I should be getting ready to go I think.



*King Author!
(see what I did there?)
(I almost deleted this because it seemed funnier when I thought it all those minutes ago when I started writing this)