Richard Butchins's Blog: Angels stand corrected... - Posts Tagged "tv"

I have not blogged for an age. Sorry. I have and am busy making a documentary for British TV. It's a current affairs hour long film and involves lots of undercover filming in very difficult to access places and so, has been very time consuming. I thought I should float by and tell people that I am going to be blogging and reviewing a lot more after April is done. After all T. S. Eliot said:

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

The book I am writing with Rosa Hoskins has been put back until next year and I am trying to figure out how and what to make into my next novel....April...Huh.

What is meaning? I have no idea. It's an abstract concept individual humans ascribe to things or people or ideas but it doesn't exist. In the same way love or hypnosis doesn't exist and yet we all believe in it - like it or not....Not, in my case.

I have given up writing my great second novel I ran out of things to say. I stare at the page and nothing happens after a couple of hours I shut it down and go watch some TV or drink some beer - or both - this has been going on for some months and I have no idea why - if I'd just kept scribbling it would be done by now and it's not like thousands of shit books aren't published and finished each year - so why not me....