Paul Weedon
@paulweedon
Music and gaming person. Bristol-based freelance Creative Consultant, Copywriter, Journalist and PR. Bylines: Creative Review, Wallpaper, RA, Rolling Stone, EDGE, NME, Clash, LWLies, Vice etc. @paulweeedon everywhere else.
No, but you're really not ready for how great the garbled BBFC certification is.
I desperately need the one person who is going to see this post to join me in appreciating the madness of this pirated DVD box set of The Sopranos seasons 1-4 that I found on Vinted.
This is a really niche point to make, but Entertainment in Video releases all had their own, very specific version of this logo and it looked like it was positively screaming at you. If you've got an old copy of American Psycho or Blade, or something, check it out. You'll see what I mean.
Man, the OG BBFC 18 certificate went so fucking hard. That shit could ward off evil spirits. Watching an 18 as a kid felt like you were committing a crime with this looming over you. Peak design.
Just so you all know, it's been almost twelve years now since Eric Andre gave Ryan Phillippe the Pencil Award for Best Actor and Wikipedia editors are still getting their knickers in a twist over people trying to add it to his Wikipedia page.
My inexorable contribution to internet culture has been added to the BFI National Archive, preserved forever alongside 400 other online moving image works. They were kind enough to invite me along to talk about it, so you can watch that here. replay.bfi.org.uk/video/458/c6...
Thanks to anyone and everyone who came along to this last week. Was good fun.
tbt to when hideo kojima's instagram feed was literally just him and nicolas winding refn hanging out and shopping together
Exciting thing! I'm hosting two panels at Games meets Music (The B-Side). I'll be chatting with some of the industry's finest about the value of music in games and the process of writing music for an IP. It's going to be great. April 16th, at 21Soho, Central London. gamesmeetsmusic.eventbrite.co.uk
One of my favourite things about GoldenEye is Boris Grishenko's insane bespoke UI
Extremely funny to me that Vinted has basically turned into that dodgy market in the "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR" ad with people shilling really, really badly made pirate DVDs and Blu-rays.
Made my MCM/EGX stage debut this weekend! Had a great time hosting composer Richard Jacques for a chat about his work for the likes of Mass Effect, 007: Blood Stone and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. We even got a world exclusive reveal of his next project. More of this sort of thing, please.
TOMORROW! If you're attending MCM Comic Con, come along to hear composer Richard Jacques and I talking about video game music.
I'm in the new issue of VICE talking all about Frank Maddocks and his work with Deftones.
Howling at absolutely everything about this terrible Radiohead bootleg that YouTube Music just blasted at me, but especially the name