Today I started rewatching Game of Thrones. I’ve been wanting to take it seriously and get to grips with it for a while, so on friday I bought the first two seasons on DVD. I did start watching the series before,, but having to rely on downloaded versions, I did not get very far. Now I just have to watch one or two episodes a day, and within a month I’ll be up to date with the rest of the world.

I’m still, mind you, trying to find something less mainstream to get into. As I noted here, the three franchises that I find myself thinking most about – Bond, star Trek and Lord of the Rings – are all highly popular, mega-budget mainstream affairs everyone knows about. Now I want to look for the opposite: no more cinematic extravaganzas, cgi space-battles, gigantic cavalry charges or olympic parachute jumps; I want to hunt for the niche, the unheard of. It will probably be online. You know the type: low-budget original films, often on Youtube. Such things interest me, as, like the young turks of the French New wave, fan art is often free of the constraints of the mainstream. While I’ll probably always love bond, Baggins and Ben Sisco – not to mention that dirty little whore-fucking dwarf – it’s time to take a detour off the main road and head into the low-budget, highly creative back streets of the internet. The question is, where to look.