The end of another year, and another year where I haven’t done as much as I’d hoped to. But, life gets in the way, and that isn’t always a bad thing. I’d hoped to write one short story per month in 2024 but realised that writing is hard, even when you have loads of ideas…
A lot of music inspires me when I’m attempting to write, obviously a lot of that is black metal, but also some ambient stuff, 80s pop and Japanese house music, amongst others. Recently I came across the Austrian folk/black-metal band Perchta and instantly fell in love with them after hearing the song “Hebamm”. I’m a…
Although I’ve been a fan of anime and manga most of my life now (ever since seeing an advert for Akira on VHS in the early 90s, a whole story in itself), Berserk was something I came a bit late to. It’s one of those titles that constantly tops “must read/see” lists, and is something…
Anyone who knows this book may find it a strange choice for an “influence” for the kind of work I’m aiming for. But bear with me… Ryu Murakami is probably best known in the west for being the writer of Audition, which was adapted into a film by Takashi Miike, released at a time when…