Role Playing Games (RPGs) have a bad reputation as being for geeks and losers. This was still being perpetuated on The Big Bang Theory, a sitcom about very intelligent people. At least it actually showed people paying Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). In the late 70s and the early 80s there were really no TV fantasyContinue reading “Always chasing ideas when they are Forever changing”
Tag Archives: Graham Wright
Seventh he retired from the scene
Breaking Glass is not a musical. I mean it is a film with lot of music in it, but it is the story of the rise and fall of a punk star so there would be a lot of songs. There are no song and dance routines and there is a proper story. For aContinue reading “Seventh he retired from the scene”
Computer Love
Graham was the first person I knew who had a computer – a ZX Spectrum (I think it was that rather the ZX81). We played a game called Time Gate on it and it seemed amazing. The games were loaded from audio cassette. Our family’s first computer was a VIC 20. Neil had one andContinue reading “Computer Love”
The spirit dance was unfolding
Who was the most talented Beatle? Received wisdom says that it was John Lennon, but Jim Smith (a very smart man I know from online fora) made an impassioned case for Paul McCartney in an internet group that I was part of. The easy answer is not Ringo. Famously when asked if Ringo was theContinue reading “The spirit dance was unfolding”
Cosmos
Playing Role Playing Games (RPGs) was a totally geeky thing to do in the early 80s. Nowadays people play games like this online with virtual simulations and it is seen as pretty normal. In light of the fact that computers at home were in their infancy we used imagination. Our first game of choice wasContinue reading “Cosmos”
I Wish For My World of Make Believe
It is really hard to pick a favourite Toyah track. I love Thunder in the Mountains and it would be easy to write about Toyah’s reinvention of herself as a cross between Boudicca and Mad Max. Toyah was the punk princess who had been in the movie Jubilee. Her music was more New Wave thanContinue reading “I Wish For My World of Make Believe”
In his house at R’lyeh Dead Cthulhu Lies Dreaming
Minne the Moocher by Cab Calloway The oldest song on the list. When I was young I only read science fiction or fantasy. Slowly I added horror (big thanks to John Bonney). When I was 14 I started playing Dungeons and Dragons with John Bonney, Graham Wright, Paul Ashby, Alan Curtis and Martin Walker. IContinue reading “In his house at R’lyeh Dead Cthulhu Lies Dreaming”
Five Miles Out 