My Movie Meme

I’ve just been reading a couple of posts about favourite (or otherwise) movies at The Fearless Blog and Thoughtful Reflections and since I spend a lot of my time copy-editing journals about films and cinema from across the world, I’ve drawn up up my own list, based on the format used in the blogs I’ve just mentioned, so here goes!

1. One movie that made you laugh: Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks. There are dozens of others. I just love movies that make me laugh.
2. One movie that made you cry: I can’t think of one at the moment.
3. One movie that you loved when you were a child: Snow White; in fact, anything by Walt Disney!
4. One movie you’ve seen more than once: Mary Poppins. However, my brother once insisted on seeing this movie several times in a single week when it was first shown at our local cinema back in 1964.
5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it: Any of the Carry on… series that were popular in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. However, I’ve watched a few recently, and they seem very dated when compared with movies nowadays.
6. One movie that you hated: The Night Porter, with Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.
7. One movie that scared you: I don’t go to scary movies!
8. One movie that bored you: The Night Porter. See above.
9. One movie that made you happy: Shakespeare in Love (another movie I’ve seen more than once).
   
10. One movie that made you miserable: Braveheart. How could the English treat the Scots so badly!
11. One movie you thought would be great, but it wasn’t: Young Frankenstein, by Mel Brooks.
12. One movie you weren’t brave enough to watch: The Exorcist.
13. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with: Deanna Troi, of Star Trek. Okay, I’m cheating a bit here, because I fell in love with her when she appeared in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and she appeared in the subsequent follow-up movies.

My New Website is Up and Running!

At long last, my new business website has gone live! Go visit it at www.jeremylockyer.co.uk at let me know what you think of it. It has a number of additional features including an all-new portfolio page, an expanded FAQs section as well as a direct link to my blog. It also has a completely new and much more powerful content management system, called Joomla, that can be adapted and grow as and when I need it. I’ve also signed up for Google Adsense so that I can display ads on my site and get paid for them (I hope!).

It seems to have taken ages to get this far. It was back in January that I started looking for a web designer. The first one I found was very cheap but he lived on the other side of the country; he also wanted me to complete a very long and complicated questionnaire and his content management system couldn’t be used on anything other than Internet Explorer and a PC (I’ve got an iMac and I use Firefox)! So I found someone else who lived locally, who used open-source software, who quoted a very reasonable price and whom I could pop round and see for a cup of tea and a chat about what I wanted. And, he was already a friend of mine and a fellow member of The Business League. Sam Fisher and his assistant James Quick have done an excellent job! A classic example of why it pays to ’shop locally’!