"…I don't know about you, but I kinda figure that making sense of human relationships, or showing the ways in which romance is mediated by technology, is a whole fucking lot more relevant to my life than shooting space marines, you know?" Screen shot from Analogue: A Hate Story.
I figured that most parents made sure their teenager knew the basics, like how to fill up the gas tank (shame on them and you if they've been driving and have no idea how to do that), and where the jumper cables are in the car.
I figured that if I made a video series about this while I am going through it, I'd capture the real mental stress and strategies for overcoming obstacles so that women who are going through a similar life transition can gain sincere wisdom from watching my intimate journey.
I'm a positive, high-energy guy, and I figured that if anyone could make this plan work, it would be me.
I figured that Radway would be making the same kind of effort and braced myself for insightful but necessarily convoluted depictions of the Book-of-the-Month Club as a hotbed of grey flannel rebels, of would-be middle class radicals and "independent thinkers" forever unhappy with the culture of corporate capitalism and yet forever unable to imagine something better.
"I figured that my 100 per cent British identity made me different from my sisters and that to keep it would keep me close to my roots," she said.
I figured that if I were going to make this kind of mistake, better to make it with someone who already loved me unconditionally!
"When that fell through, I figured that if a film ever got made, I'd be too old.
I figured that there were people who had made worse films than I had and they were still working, so I figured I'd get one more shot.
I adore fanesca, and, given my record in trying to solve the mysteries of a foreign tongue, I figured that having a particularly appealing fallback made a lot of sense.
