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Archive for February, 2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on Virgin 1 tonight at 22:00, I’d suggest you watch it.
The Gwesty Cymru in Aberystwyth is really nice. Why don’t you visit?
Well folks here it is, the new site. I hope you like it.
It’s taken me all night to get it up and running but here it is and it’s looking good (although Tony doesn’t agree).
There are still a number of bugs and glitches to work out (mainly around the formatting of the site, blast you CSS) but I don’t think that’ll take me too long to work. Not tonight though.
I don’t want to do this again for a long time!
Loading …Bloody hell, this is good news!
A new Puzzle Quest game will always be welcome in my home. I lost about three months last year playing Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords on the DS, but by golly it was worth it. I still go back now for a quick blast, it’s like that passage from The Time Machine.
‘The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter. To-morrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still. An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.’
Just like that in fact.
I’m glad to see that this one is coming to the DS too, I downloaded the demo on XBLA but, like Lumines, it just didn’t feel right when it wasn’t on a portable.
The new game mechanic looks a little worrying but I’m sure it’s going to play like a dream regardless.
It’s amazing the difference a large screen makes to a movie, the amount of extra detail I saw last night was astounding.
For example I didn’t know Roy Batty had tattoos, yet there they were all over his left shoulder plain as day! It wasn’t only the little things though, some of the big stuff was given a new lease of life as well.
The opening sequence in particular was very much enhanced by the feeling of scale afforded by the big screen, even the opening crawl felt more exciting!
All in all Blade Runner will always be a great movie, seeing it in a cinema just makes for a better experience.
Now all I have to do is convince The Wife to shell out for a 1080p projector!
Ooh, it’s all very exciting, I’m going to see the new cut of Blade Runner on the big screen tonight.
The last time I saw Blade Runner at the cinema I got dumped, hopefully I’ll avoid that fate tonight. Fingers crossed.
What happens when you get Huey from The Fun Lovin’ Criminals to interview a slightly pissed, possibly stoned, Amy Winehouse?
I’ll tell you what happens. This is what happens…
What was supposed to be here was a video of Amy Winehouse being interviewed by Huey Morgan at the 2008 Brit Awards. She came across as charming and sweet, if a little bit the worse for wear. Someone in their wisdom, possibly the Pakistan government but more probably her record label, has made YouTube remove it. Shame.
Good grief she’s sweet, admittedly I imagine she’s a complete psycho when under the influence but she’s certainly got charisma. Yes, charisma that’s it, charisma. Oh, and cracking jugs. I imagine. Frequently.
So it finally happened, Toshiba have stopped fighting it and put HD DVD out of its misery like a horse with a broken leg.
Of course it wasn’t always this clean cut, I for one backed HD DVD at the start, preferring it to Blu-ray for its inherent backwards compatibility and strong standard feature set. Then again what do I know?
As a bit of a gadget freak I’m lucky enough to own both formats, HD DVD courtesy of my Xbox 360 and Blu-ray as part of my PlayStation 3. However, had the Xbox 360 not had an add on drive I certainly wouldn’t have bought a standalone player, in fact I wouldn’t have bought the external HD DVD drive either, I only have that because it was a gift.
My film collection includes one HD DVD, compared to nine Blu-ray titles. While that’s a pretty significant ratio it’s probably more significant that I only have two PlayStation 3 games! So in essence my cutting edge games console is actually only a glorified DVD player.
Blu-ray stole the march on HD DVD by its inclusion in the PlayStation 3 but it wasn’t until movie studios started to waiver that things looked to be swinging in either format’s favour.
When Warner announced their defection to Blu-ray it was game over. Everyone knew it.
I still maintain though, that Blu-ray will be the last major disc based format. In five years time DVD will still be around, replacing VHS as the de facto standard for the unconnected world, but HD content will be delivered to consumers as a download, ‘bonus’ content will be chargeable and you will never own the films. You’ll either rent movies or pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited access.
This model won’t just stop there though, the next generation of games consoles will do the same with their games, in fact the next batch of consoles will probably be the conduit to all this entertainment.
The Oracle has spoken. Mark his words!
So, there I was watching Corrie with The Wife when all of a sudden I heard an expletive!
No shit, a straight up, honest to goodness swear word. What’s more it was the number two rude swear word. That’s right it was ‘fuck’!
It happened at the end of a scene with Carla Connor and Sean Tully. Amy Winehouse was playing in the background, the song was Tears Dry On Their Own and you could quite clearly hear the following two lines albeit with a lot of reverb:
I should just be my own best friend
Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men
Holy shit!
What’s more this isn’t the first time they’ve craftily snuck in a choice phrase or two. Before now I’ve heard ‘clown’s pocket‘ and ‘half rice, half chips‘ used with straight faces, and they’re both pretty colourful euphemisms as any Viz reader will know!
The script writers on that show are a right crafty bunch of dodge pots! Keep your eyes open, they can’t be trusted.
It’s finally here, after waiting for what seems like forever, my new phone has finally arrived. I’m so excited!
There will be more on this news later I suspect.
I wonder why Lily Allen is famous? As I see it it’s one of two things, it’s either her ability to convey the every day struggle of London twenty-somethings through the medium of song or, and I’m going out on a limb here, her dad.
Whatever it was it’s managed to ger her a TV show on BBC Three and what a show it is. If you like stilted interview technique you should check it out, if you don’t I’ll fill you in on the myriad reasons to avoid it.
For a starter somebody needs to tell the audience that whooping like Klan members at a lynching is not cool, especially since a pair of cats fucking gets outrageous amounts of laughter and clapping, yet Cuba Gooding Jr proclaiming Ridley Scott as an amazing director is received with stony silence.
The format itself is appalling, it’s all over the shop, everything feels shoehorned in. Internet clips, bands, celebrity interviews, embarrassing audience revelations all wrapped up in badly edited video. Of course the inclusion of audience participation by means of voting on the (now ubiquitous) show’s website just makes the whole affair feel even more low rent.
As an individual she’s absolutely loathful, she doesn’t appear able to keep her fucking mouth shut. Recent outbursts include:
- Discussing her love of anal sex on The Great Big Quiz of the year.
- Criticising Radiohead for their marketing of In Rainbows, claiming that it will make it more difficult for bands to break into the industry.
- Saying that if her single Smile got to number one she’d celebrate with ‘gak’.
On the plus side she made us aware of the fact that she could put her fist in her mouth. Astounding. It’s also worth noting that it’s made by Princess Productions, hmmm, wonder who’s company that is?
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