Post by miketrak on Feb 23, 2005 17:15:50 GMT
Hiya,
Thought I'd share my 'life with War of the Worlds'!
It all started in primary school, when our english teacher read us a passage from a text book, which had a short part about war of the worlds in it, and a picture of 3 or 4 martians. (Not the fighting machines)
I went home and in the 'what did u do at school today' convo with my dad, I mentioned War of the worlds. 'I know' he said and out came the Vinyl version! Listened to it and was completely enthralled, (I still am!) I loved the fighting machines, and the story. Later in the week, I took a taped copy of the vinyl into school, and over the next week or so, our teacher would play us it in sections, so not to take up all day with listening to all of it in one go!
Then on, our teacher obviouly liked it, as we were made to write our own short stories about our own town being attacked by the fighting machines, (I still got mine! ;D) and we all drew them, using the vinyl booklet for ideas. So war of the worlds became part of the curriculum for english! lol!
One day we were split into teams of two, and we were given the task of choosing one picture from the booklet, and making a large copy of it with chalk, paint etc.
I remember I did a really good large copy of the Thunderchild painting, using chalk on black card, looked very good, must have been at least A1 size! huge! It went up on the wall with other WOTW pictures we did, and so lost cotact with it when I went to Comp school. Im now 22, so no idea if it still there somewhere!
Seems really cool now that WOTW was part of our schooling, and all from one passage read by an unsuspecting english teacher!
From that day on, I've been a WOTW fan, and read the book many times, listen to the JW musical many times, and tried (and failed!) to build the Comet model, and got the book 'The complete war of the worlds' which I am very dissapointed at, as seems to be a book about the radio version, and little bits about everything else! certainly not 'complete'! The author also says the JW musical is crap basically, and you have to 'endure' it! Obviously no taste...
looking forward to the films coming out, nice to see.
Hope you liked my drivel, just thought id share it! lol!
Thanks,
Mike.
Bridgend,
South Wales, UK.
Thought I'd share my 'life with War of the Worlds'!
It all started in primary school, when our english teacher read us a passage from a text book, which had a short part about war of the worlds in it, and a picture of 3 or 4 martians. (Not the fighting machines)
I went home and in the 'what did u do at school today' convo with my dad, I mentioned War of the worlds. 'I know' he said and out came the Vinyl version! Listened to it and was completely enthralled, (I still am!) I loved the fighting machines, and the story. Later in the week, I took a taped copy of the vinyl into school, and over the next week or so, our teacher would play us it in sections, so not to take up all day with listening to all of it in one go!
Then on, our teacher obviouly liked it, as we were made to write our own short stories about our own town being attacked by the fighting machines, (I still got mine! ;D) and we all drew them, using the vinyl booklet for ideas. So war of the worlds became part of the curriculum for english! lol!
One day we were split into teams of two, and we were given the task of choosing one picture from the booklet, and making a large copy of it with chalk, paint etc.
I remember I did a really good large copy of the Thunderchild painting, using chalk on black card, looked very good, must have been at least A1 size! huge! It went up on the wall with other WOTW pictures we did, and so lost cotact with it when I went to Comp school. Im now 22, so no idea if it still there somewhere!
Seems really cool now that WOTW was part of our schooling, and all from one passage read by an unsuspecting english teacher!
From that day on, I've been a WOTW fan, and read the book many times, listen to the JW musical many times, and tried (and failed!) to build the Comet model, and got the book 'The complete war of the worlds' which I am very dissapointed at, as seems to be a book about the radio version, and little bits about everything else! certainly not 'complete'! The author also says the JW musical is crap basically, and you have to 'endure' it! Obviously no taste...
looking forward to the films coming out, nice to see.
Hope you liked my drivel, just thought id share it! lol!
Thanks,
Mike.
Bridgend,
South Wales, UK.
