h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...hasn't this been put through Peer Review? Seems to cover all the bases - is it not finished? Did you run out of time? I really like this.

I've got a Hitchcock overview on the back-burner. It'd be nice to link to this entry.

Jimster

Hey there - thanks for the kind comments

It's part of the Film Composers project, which is currently being sub-edited by Joanna (or however she's spelling it ). The page for the project is A579008

Ah! Fantastic!

Look forward to seeing this on the Front Page then

Jimster

Wow. I just read it through again and that was fun

must remember to actually subscribe to these pages...

I'm making a concerted effort to finish this project now, so it'll be back in house soon!

Well, it seems that I don't actually have to do very much editing to this piece at all...

Just a quick question - which characters say each of the quotes in the entry? I have reservations about un-attributed blockquotes.

I'll take that as a compliment

As for attribution, hmmm...
For Citizen Kane, the quote is from Charles Foster Kane himself. In The Day the Earth Stood Still, the name of the character is Klaatu. In Psycho, the character is an unnamed, but well-meaning (if misguided), highway patrolman. In Vertigo, it's definately Kim Novak that says it, but the name of the character is a bit trickier - but I'm sure she's Madaleine Elster at that point. And in Taxi Driver, it's the man himself, Travis Bickle.

Thank you. I shall add those to the entry. I'll just put 'a highway patrolman' for the Psycho one

& it was a compliment; you are quite right to take it as such

As someone who hopes to make a career out of writing, that be a good sign

Cool...

A career out of writing what, exactly?

Well, I'm doing a Journalism degree.

So I hope to do foreign or war reporting, but I'll probably end up writing the bit at the bottom of page 3...

The Next Jonathan Charles, huh?

I'm sure that the journalists who are top of their fields at the moment didn't get there by putting themselves down (listen to the pot calling the kettle black, I can hear people who know me IRL say)

You might end up writing at the bottom of page three to begin with. But surely the only way is up from there?

Looking at the work Jonathan Charles has done, exactly. I've also a lot of respect for John Pilger, and Feargal Keane. I know that there's absolutely no way that you can walk into work like that. But I'm willing to fetch the tea, and do the 'cat stuck up tree' type stories, until then. Of course, I still have to graduate

I'm being put to the test

A guy who graduated from the same course as myself, three years ago, said I should apply to do some casual shifts, subbing in Glasgow. The problem: it would be for The Sun...

Flashback to a night at the pub several months ago. Note: journalism students + alcohol = big debates . I stated that if I was offered a cushy job working for The Sun, I wouldn't take it out of principle...

but is that a genuinely 'cushy' job?