Roddy's Ramblings

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Monday, July 16, 2007

But believe it or not, there was better news...

Jeez - who could have thought that things could get any better; but they did. In what could qualify as one of the most perfect evenings of my life I won an entry into the semi finals of the RAW comedy competition. It was hosted (rather well) by the excellent and rather nice Corinne Grant.

Here is the entry:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/rawcomedy/podcast/raw_20070230.mp3


And for the keen, a profile was also put up on their website. But I really don't want to mention the article in the Sunday Herald magazine. No really, I couldn't...

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/raw/gigs/spotlight/


But before you may think I've disappeared too far up my own backside, Triple J did get my name wrong in the introduction...

But there is some good news...

While the remakes competition did not go as planned, sometime later I entered a video competition to make a 2 minute film on video games. It was a finalist and shown on TV which is definitely a first for me.

If you have an urge to check it out...

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s1809824.htm

The results of the Remakes competition...

I forgot to post the results that came out of the competition. Here is the postmortem from myself:

http://www.retroremakes.com/wordpress/postmortems/sky-ranger-roddy-mcneill/


Here are the judges comments and its fair to say that they hated it with a passion. From a group of people that proclaim their support of all people interested in remakes I have to say I have not visited the site since... worth a read though just to see how much venom people can actually produce...

http://www.remakes.org/comp2006/reviews.php?id=10


And for the finale, here is a podcast... its not as funny as the guy talking would like to think it is and I have to say that when I heard his thoughts on my entry I was more than a little incensed by the smarmy bucket of shit... but would hate for anyone to think I was bitter. This the perfect example of what a friend of mine would call an oxygen thief...

http://arsecast.com/arsecast%20002%20-%202006-09-11.mp3

Okay, okay, ...

This is just an update so the first thing that people read would not be the last 'Tale' post. No idea where it came from (it was done on a whim) and it really doesn't represent anything else on the blog. Honest.

So feel free to jump down a couple before reading on...