Okay- as part of the ongoing upgrade and 'filling in the blanks' of my website (http://thecolin1.com) I just added three Alan Moore Interviews in the comics interviews section for your perusal. Even if you're not a fan or are unfamiliar with the great man, it's well worth a read as Moore's thoughts are always worth listening to on a wide range of topics. Plus, it took me a good few hours to get it all together and add some pictures and so on so reward my work with at least a cursory glance.

http://thecolin1.com/moore_interview.htm

What are you looking for in a writer, in a publication, in a book, from a tv show, from a movie?

We all enjoy the show- the spectacle; and there are plenty of good writers who are enough in command of their craft to do it all. These pros are the ones who will inform, entertain, and make us think. The mind, like any muscle, will grow lazy and flabby if not challenged or stretched or exposed to anything new.

So here are a few suggestions:

Hunter S Thompson: Top notch individualistic, passionate, emboldened journalism, passionate writing that you won't always agree with but will always get something out of. Read his collections, his new columns ' Hey Rube' on ESPN, his piece in the June issue of Vanity Fair. Just read him.

Alan Moore: Graphic Novels, Magic Texts, Plays, Novels, poems, music. He's done it all. He's at the top of his game. Try his graphic novel opus ' FROM HELL' which has fifty times as much info as the movie had, his PROMOTHEA saga is a superb look at magic and myth.

Garth Ennis: The Preacher saga ( 10 collected volumes available from DC comics or TItan Books UK) has something for everyone- humor, violence, angels, obese religious characters, insane demons, guest appearances from God, Irish vampires. Preacher is well worth a look.

So disco has interesting clothes. And cool bass beats. But it's all a bit crap. I mean, really. Hairy men with god medallions shrieking like a banshee just clapped their balls together at high speed. What's that about? And a skinny John Travolta cavorting around a dancefloor in a white suit. Ahem.

So why do we have two disco dance-off scenes in popular movies within the last year? Both ' American Pie: The Wedding' and ' Starsky and Hutch' have disco dance competitions wherein the competitors have to dance inventively against each other, set to a backdrop of thumping disco beats.

Brings up Alan Moore's ' idea-space' theory; of a zeitgeist existing wherein ideas will ocur to those who are ' tapped into' idea-space thus explaining why sometimes we get the same idea occurring to several different people simultaneously.

Or why you have nothing for ages then a whole bunch of choices pop up at once.