Andrew Hawnt on MIX

So then, this is 2009 is it? Hmm. Sad that my first thought upon typing that was ‘Christ, it’s been 20 years since Ghostbusters 2 came out’, but what can I say? I was born a geek and will be one forever. New year usually brings with it a brief sense of new beginnings, time to start over, start afresh, change, grow, blah blah. This year I’ll be concentrating on building on the beginnings I made last year and generally trying to make a few things better. I figure if I aim for the clouds, it’ll fe… Continue

I seem to spend my life telling people what to like. Well, not exactly, but my life does revolve around telling people what is worthy of them parting with their money for. This can be something of a burden sometimes, but it has made me much more honest in what I write. In both of my professional capacities I tell people how great or how bad bits of entertainment are, and the knowledge that I am passing judgement on projects that a great deal of time, money and effort have gone into is always pre… Continue

What to wear? I have no fashion sense. This is not a boast, more of an admission of guilt. I wear black. Lots of black. Things have been thus for many years. I figure that black suits me and doesn’t draw too much attention to the fact that I can barely find things that don’t look terrible on me. The thing is, tomorow night I ill be accompnying my lady to a house party. Now, I am looking forward to the party and the chance to catch up with friends and have a few laughs, but it does fill me with… Continue

The festive season is here, and despite everyone having huge sales, mounds of food and drink piling up in every room, trees being decorated and the Doctor Who Christmas special on the way, I feel about as festive as an old sock. Hang on, that could be seen a s a bit festive if hung over a fireplace. Forget I mentioned the sock. This year’s Christmas could be seen two ways really: -As an attempt to stick two defiant fingers up at the credit/crunch/recession/collapse of captalism. -And overcomme… Continue

Well, I tried. NaNoWriMo has beaten me. Well, to be fair, it is life that has beaten me, not the event itself. I did try though. I got 30,000 words into a novel I've wanted to write for years, as I guess in some senses I do win my own little event, in that I'm 30,000 words better off. The simple fact is, as a writer by trade, my output is in the region of 80,000 words a month anyway (Taking into account the print magazine, the websites, the blogs and all the other stuff as well as my personal ma… Continue