The View From Lower Down

 Recently I was asked the following question: What would you tell your younger self, and at what age? I have two correct answers to this question. Age 16 - Don't do sciences for A-Level. You'll find it boring and you won't use it Age 14 - You can't act. Get into writing. That's something you're actually good at! The story of my doing A-Level science is a good story (but wasn't good at the time), but that's not what this post is about. We're currently on my inability to act. First, a little backstory... I was part of a drama club for 11 years, and in that time we performed many plays and musicals. However, towards the latter end of that time, we stopped being able to afford the rights to proper musicals, so we had to write our own. We'd already experimented with doing variety shows (a selection of songs, dances, monologues and sketches).  Some of these were very good and they were all loads of fun to perform. My personal favourite bit was when I w

I have already published a post with a transcript of my brother's summary/review of Avengers: Infinity War , which also spilt into Avengers: Endgame . Below is the same transcript, but I have amended some of the innaccuracies. The actual transcript is untouched, but I have added some comments in red, factual but also including my trademark sass: WARNING: SPOILERS (OF VARYING ACCURACY) FOR AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR AND AVENGERS: ENDGAME BELOW I'm going to briefly do the plot, and I say briefly because I can't honestly remember most of it because despite it being a 3 hour film, it's inherently complicated, it doesn't make much sense, and gets quite silly.  With that said, he's going to condense two 3-hour movies into one 10-minute rant. Right. So, the film starts out, we're on some strange planet, possibly the moon, possibly not. And there is the man with no nose, who looks a bit like Voldemort, but isn't and I don't know his name but he seems quite sini

I said in my previous post that my brother was going to describe Avengers: Endgame . He actually ended up flitting between Infinity War and Endgame with no discernible order. This is the full transcript of that. My interruptions are in italics and I have also included some of the sound effects and noises on the recording in [square brackets]. WARNING: SPOILERS (OF VARYING ACCURACY) FOR AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR AND AVENGERS: ENDGAME BELOW At certain points he describes characters instead of naming them, and I know who he's talking about and have subsequently told him, but I've left that out deliberately. I will, however, clarify that as he hasn't seen The Avengers or Age of Ultron, he sometimes refers to Infinity War and Endgame as the first and second movies. I do the same for the sake of clarity. So begins the transcript. I also left in some dialogue from before the description: Josh's take on The Avengers, Take One. [Long Pause] Go! Oh! So. Hang on. Am I describing th