When The World Ends Call Amy Lee When I'm Sober For Me.

So, 2012 is nearly at an end. I have to say that even though it doesn't rank as the greatest year for me, (For those interested 2010 was that year) it will probably linger in the top four a bit like Arsenal. I will attempt to run down a few reasons why 2012 was a nice little year.

1 - www.pixiefairiecreative.co.uk

Hello, yes that's me that is. That's my very own website the features links to almost everything I've done. I feel very proud of it. It showcases my talent quite nicely and also features galleries from my film shoots. It has taken years but I now have a central hub. Of course some would say I've had a big fat hub for years....

The next step is to look at making PixieFairieCreative a fully functioning production company with accountants, accounts, incomes and expenses. Reasons for which will become clear in the next three years. (Oooh how mysterious do you want to be?)

2 - IMDB

Guess what you can do in 2012 that you couldn't do at any point in the past 30 years? Yes, you guessed correctly you can put Noel Rainford into the IMDB search bar and come up with credits. Have to admit that this is a very proud achievement and one that I share with Robin Booth and Max Byrne who both have virgin credits to their name. Hopefully that will change next year too.

3 - Being A Northerner

Hang on a minute, I can hear you all cry at once. What's so great about being a Northerner in 2012? Well I'll name you a few shall I?

• Danny Boyle - Creator of the greatest Olympic Games Opening Ceremony ever seen. [Highlight of which can be seen here... http://youtu.be/257EDRKfQFk
• Bradley Wiggins - Tour de France, Olympic Gold, Sports Personality Of The Year, Knight of the Realm
• Jason Kenny - Olympic Gold
• Paddy McGuinness - Just because.
• Manchester City - Premier League Champions
• Ian McKellan - Former Bolton School pupil

 So Mr Cameron if you could just fuck off back into number 10 and stop screwing with us it would be greatly appreciated.

4 - BakerNunPixie

BakerNunPixie  is my pet name for our little collective. Scott Baker, Elinor Perry-Smith and myself.  2012 has been a nice learning curve (as I mentioned in my last post) and I already have ideas in my head for where we can go in 2013, which have already been discussed with Mrs Perry-Smith.  Stand by for bigger announcements in the coming months, because 2013 will be the year of BakerNunPixie, you mark my words.

5 - Jubilee

Ok,I know that quite a lot of republicans out there will disagree with this. But let me just point something out here. The Jubilee weekend was a major moneyspinner for the Country as was the Olympics. Without a Royal Family who cost us about 70p per person a year (compared to the bailed out bankers who cost us £1,000 per person last year.) then we would be 300% more fucked as the economy falters. A lot of foreign travel comes into the country for our prestigious events pumping money into our economy, paying our inflated prices for crap beer and dodgy food. Standing in the rain, buying our knock off Jubilee Tat. That's what makes Britain Great, the fact that these idiots are willing to do all that just to say hello.

Hilary Swank And Chloe Sevigny Lesbian Sex

Forgive me for the sensationalist blog title. But, for those if you who are disappointed and will no doubt accuse me of using misleading and teasing headlines to get your attention and then not delivering. You can view it on Netflix or Love Film or buy it on DVD from somewhere that sells DVD's.

Hilary Swank won the ACADEMY AWARD (tm) for BEST ACTRESS in this film about a girl who pretends to be a boy.

Now some of you readers will no doubt by wondering what that intro was all about, and no doubt the rest of you are already on Daily Motion watching clips. But the point is one of  interest and readership. My last blog was read by 10 people. My Twitter page has 300 followers. so explain to me how that works. My Facebook page has 22 likes, yet I have over 50 friends. The issue is about rallying communities and activities. Spamming and cold boxing people who may or may not have an interest in your project.

Marketing is an increasingly important tool for independent filmmakers to attract attention and make their voice heard. But as always its about who you know more than what you know. Within my entourage of twitter friends I'm lucky to have two very supportive people, Damien Ahuir. who is based in Ireland and runs the website "Limited-release". He is very supportive and often retweets and follows my projects and project related postings. He even did me a great service with a lovely interview in 2011 when my first ever short film was released, which can be viewed here.  http://limited-release.com/noel-rainford-screenwriter/. This was way before I fell in with the lovely Mrs Perry-Smith and the ruggedly handsome Mr Baker to form Nun With A Gun Productions in association with PixieFairieCreative.co.uk in which we took Mother Superior's Nun With A Gun Productions and forced it into a small wooden Cell with my portfolio website to create that extremely long name for our working relationship.

The other name that has often been a source of support for me is the winner of  Mr Bolton Bulls himself (disclaimer: that competition never took place, it's just that you find his face on almost all of the Bolton Bulls promotional material) I present to you Mr Michael Galligan. [Please skip next paragraph if you do not like sentimentality]

I've been friends with Mr G for over ten years, we met a college and shared a similar twisted sense of humour that involved deep sarcasm, surrealism and the ability to laugh at others in an ironic kind of way. The thing that makes that last part so wonderful was that unlike a high number of people who did that we didn't bring the arrogance, because quite frankly we had nothing to be arrogant about. He will regale you with a story about our brush with Reality TV in an up and coming blog. (In case ur interested I've just been through 15 days of his twitter feed in the last 20 minutes looking for the link. Hopefully he'll repost this @RatedR1882 and he'll have a link for ya) Anyway, he's also been the greatest supporter and listener and friend anyone could wish for and I genuinely mean that. I can count my true, close real friends on a couple of fingers and he's definitely the thumb :).

In reality I need a bigger circle of people or I need other people to have a bigger circle to spread the word and increase interest in upcoming projects. (I will include the names Vanessa M. Ryan H. and Max B. who have been reposters and retweeters recently) But on the other side of the coin, 2012 has been an amazing learning curve for me in which I've thoroughly enjoyed embracing the role of producer and discovered I have little or no interest in being a film director. Even though the the three occasions of co-directing have been good, I can't see it being a full time move.

It's the run up to Christmas which means that there may very well be a review of 2012 blog post. all cheer hooray!! But before you get too happy about that there will also be a what's coming up in 2013 post too.

Merry Gothic Christmas. :)

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