Art imitates life... you hearing me?

So I saw this movie trailer last night for an upcoming movie called Pirate Radio and I can't wait to see it now. I think the movie has a lot going for it, well in my opinion at least. It's a British film and I like a lot of those movies for one. It also has a number of actors I've grown to like as well. That comes from watching a lot of British Films of course.

Anyway, after watching it, I thought it appeared to have been based on real life events. In fact its sets in the sixties and turns out to be loosely based on a ship that broadcast under the name Radio Caroline.

Reading up on this movie led me to the web site for Radio Caroline and I began to really learn some of the facts that the movie was based on. What is really cool is that this very old Broadcast Channel is still on the air today and playing some really good tunes.

In this day where things tend to be mainly All Talk and our Media moves at a very fast pace, its refreshing to find a station that reminds me of the older days of spinning just music in most cases and then hearing a DJ come on an talk a little bit about whats being played.

It just happens to be a plus for me to hear some British accents from the DJ. I grew up on the format of most of these old Classic rock songs. I think I've found a new Internet Live Stream to listen to from time to time at least and I'm looking forward to the movie and learning more about the real life events surrounding Radio Caroline.

Here's a trailer for the upcoming movie Pirate Radio.

The Narrative

Perhaps one of the oldest forms of communication and entertainment of all time is the Narrative. The art of story telling can be traced as far back as the Cave drawings in some cases. The recording of these thoughts & ideas can tell both a story and provide a history for us to learn or be entertained by.

Fact is the Narrative can be seen in works of writing, speech, poetry, prose, pictures, song, motion pictures, theatre, dance, and even video games. All of these forms have a common thread and end result, the telling of a story and hopefully something that can be moving and entertaining in the end.

Why do I write all of this, well its that time again for many of us that lover taking part in this form of Communication for starters. NaNoWriMo is a few weeks away and people all over will strive to create a new story for the first time or perhaps once again in my case then.

Some of us might actually enjoy the end results and experiencing the finished Narrative, but on the other hand some of us like to provide the Narrative and tell a story on the other hand.

OK, I'm in no way looking to quit my day job, yet at the same time I not only have a passion for experiencing all forms of Narratives, I'm actually feeling like creating some, at least for myself in the end.

This will actually be my third NaNoWriMo in a row and I can say that I've safely created and completed the first two. NaNoWriMo is the creation of a 50,000 word Novel, a rough draft of a Narrative in the end. Someday I'd like to perhaps go back and rework them all and polish them up and perhaps even have them printed in a very limited run or one copy each even.

In the end I can feel good about the process and feel I have a better appreciation of the art form and what it takes to create a work. Wish me luck and I do the same to all those that take up the challenge in creating a Narrative as well.