For those not in the know a Segway can be best described as being the horse-less carriage version of the chariots they round around in, in Ben Hur. It sounds freaky but it’s great fun, I suggest you try one at the first opportunity.
Sadly I didn’t manage to get a picture of myself on one, scooting around Bermuda on our Segway tour but let me tell you I want one.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Having been reminded of Yakety Sax (as made famous on the Benny Hill show) by a recent tweet, I decided to do a quick Google to see if it was available for download anywhere.
In the time it would take to slap a small bald man on the head a few times, I had discovered this gem on YouTube.
How’s that for a slice of fried gold?
Across The Universe is actually a fantastic film.
The Beatles were amazingly good at what they did. And what they did was write songs that transcended all space and time and became part of the collective subconscious.
Dr Robert, as played by Bono, is more than amazing. It’s perfect.
In fact, as far as I’m concerned, Across The Universe is one of the best musicals ever. Ever.
Go buy it for a fiver. Now!
Picture the scene it’s a Thursday, you’re going into work, you’ve got a long day ahead of you, you don’t expect to be home until at least 22:30.
You see a Coffee Republic!
You see they do this.
You realise that your favourite biscuit is now a drink. You go mad!
That my friends is a Jammie Dodger thick-shake. Oh, yes. How fucking cool is that!
They even garnish it with another Jammie Dodger. Rest assured I will be trying their other flavours soon.
‘I’ve, seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’, and so said Rutger Hauer at the end of what quite possibly might be my favourite film of all time.
Released in a slightly bastardised, studio friendly form in 1982 Blade Runner nigh on instantly flopped, only resurfacing a few years later as a cult-classic (a phrase I hate), whereupon it was proclaimed a modern masterpiece (and that one) by the people who proclaim these things. Subsequently it’s been released in a DVD box set that features about thirty six diffrerent cuts.
Harrison Ford plays retired detective Rick Deckard, the Blade Runner of the title, who’s job it is to track down and kill (or ‘retire’ as the film would euphemistically have it) rogue robots who return to Earth.
After being dragged out of retirement, he’s assigned the job of ‘retiring’ a few ’skin jobs’ that have strayed back onto Earth it’s business as usual, until that is he meets Rachel.
Rachel, a very advanced replicant, so advanced she doesn’t even realise she’s a replicant, works for The Tyrell Corporation. She meets Deckard when he’s sent there to make sure the test they use to identify replicants, the so called Voight-Kampff test, works on the newer Nexus-6 models.
So they meet, he realises she’s not human and the story begins.
Continue reading ‘He Say You Brade Runner!’
This is really rather good.
Mixing Eric Clapton and Amy Winehouse ought to lead to some kind of horrendous abomination, funnily enough though it doesn’t! It does however highlight Ms Winehouse’s, shall we say, jazz-tuned voice.
Interesting.
You have to get the new album by Lalmonirhat District. Just look at the cover!
Anyway you can buy Give Birth To Himself online now, just click this link.
Dylan Thomas, what a guy.
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan’t crack;
And death shall have no dominion.And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
Enough said.
This is too cool for fucking school. No shit if I had £600 to drop right now, I’d be dropping it ona Tenori-On. Look at this.
That my friends is a Tenori-On, a brand new type of instrument created by two Japanese dudes, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori. Its original design came about as part of Iwai’s desire to build an electronic instrument of true beauty. By jove, I think he’s got it!
If you watch this video too, you’ll see one of its cooler features.
Those two ladies’ (The Tenorions) Tenori-Ons are playing in sync, their both playing little bits and bobs on each of them and the units are tying in with each other to keep it harmonious. How cool?
I can’t believe I missed this when it came out two years ago! Isn’t the future fantastic?
They’re making a Bill Hicks biopic! Seemingly Russell Crowe is in the frame to play him. Seems an odd choice to me.
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