Category: Entertainment

Let’s get some happy on here

OK, a couple of posts to (hopefully) raise a smile – just as the avalance warning AWOOGAHs outside nigh on the stroke of midnight.

First off, a massive dose of “aaaaaaw, cute!” with this link to a live video feed of some puppies in a basket. I defy you not to keep it open in a spare tab and keep flicking back to it during the day. Awesome.

Secondly, you have to check out Ten Masked Men. A bunch of lunatics in masks who have so far released four cover albums of popular beat combo covers done in a death metal stylee. Best of all, they’re English which automatically makes them better even than Deicide. If slightly less mad than Glen Benton.

Any band which can describe themselves as follows on their myspace page has to have a sense of humour. I’ll leave you with that and a top notch video.

A crack death metal unit was sent to the underground by a musical court for a crime they probably did commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security recording studio to the London Underground (fuckin tubes!). Today, still wanted by the musical government, they survive as soldiers of metal tributes. If you know a crap song, and no-one else has covered it, and you can find them, maybe you can hire, Ten Masked Men.

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Videogame Metal?!

Genius. Pure genius.

I just found a new website called “moshable.com“. With a name like that I just had to check it out. It’s a community site based on music and primarily for unsigned and independent acts. Most of them are rock/metal of some genre or other, but there’s a bit more in there too.

I was having a little browse when I spotted an act called Powerglove who do “video game metal”. One listen to their thrashing version of the Tetris theme and I was hooked. The outfits from their live shows look awesome, too. Imagine something like GWAR but with all the kit related to computer games.

You can check out their various pages through the following links:

I’m currently building a Wikipedia page for them. I am that sad.

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The name’s Brand. Russel Brand. And I ****** your grand-daughter.

And I don’t care. Those outside of the UK likely haven’t heard of the people involved in the current BBC scandal doing the rounds. Russell Brand (who I only heard of this week, but I’ve been out of the country for some time) and Jonathan Ross (a somewhat whacky DJ/TV personality) left telephone messages for Andrew Sachs (who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers many years ago) claiming that Brand had shagged Sach’s grand-daughter Georgina Baillie. Who herself plays a goth vampire in a travelling burlesque show called the Satanic Sluts (look for her there under “Voluptua“).

Are you still with me?

Thing is, it was a joke. Sachs has come out and said that the apologies offered by the Beeb, Brand and Ross are all nice and he sounds like someone who’s pissed off but would rather get over it. His publicist is more angry by all accounts. And Baillie / Voluptua has cancelled some shows in embarrassment. Quite how someone who’s life revolves around wearing hot clothes with her boobs hanging out, pretending to cut other women’s throats in faux-lesbian photos and stage shows can claim to be embarrassed by anything is beyond me, but what the hey.

Sachs has pretty much retired, and his grand-daughter is going to be rolling in publicity through this. She’s been trying to get a career as an actress, and what any film studio wants is a “name”. It’s hard to make someone famous – she’s just had a shitload of free publicity. And she’s hot as ****.

The Guardian are calling for their heads (surprise), while the Sun’s published photos of Voluptua with her tits out. Nice to see how our media works. And a shame I can’t find those pics online.

What’s teeing me off is the number of people baying for the two DJ’s heads and asking them to be removed from radio for evermore. Hang on, if they were listening then surely they know the kind of stuff these two guys get up to. It’s often near the knuckly and Ross is known for being pretty sexually forward – or at least dropping more double entendres than a 6-year backlog of Finbarr Saunders cartoons.

If you don’t like them… don’t ******* listen. It’s as simple as that. Frankly I think Ross has/had (like I said, been out of the country for a bit) one of the few watchable chat shows on TV and he was the highlight of BBC2’s They Think It’s All Over. He’s genuinely funny. Brand… dunno. He’s some bloke that’s become famous since I left.

If we have to start banning people from the radio, can we please ban Chris Moyles instead? He doesn’t offend me. He’s just incredibly ******* ****.

And to save you googling, here’s some links to pics of the hot chick involved…

I’m also peeved as I just noticed they’ll be “supporting” Wednesday 13 at his Hallowe’en show in London. Which I really wanted to go to but I can’t as I’m flying to Geneva on the Sunday. Feck!

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Taken Toon Trivia

12 oz bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale as found i...

No spoilers within, so read on if you’ve not seen the film.

Something I forgot to mention in the review of Taken previously. I spotted a couple of Toon-related things that I think may point to an in-joke with the cast or crew somewhere. One item is a coincidence. Two… nah.

First up, and quite obvious, is the scene near the start where Bryan’s mates turn up for the barbecue. Spot the 6-pack of Newcastle Brown Ale in small export-sized bottles being waved by one of them. Thing is, the scene immediately afterwards shows a couple of the cast drinking from these. The bottles still in the cardboard carrier contain the lovely dark brown liquid… whereas the ones being swigged from are partly full of something that looks more like Budweiser!

The thing that makes me think there’s an in-joke ahoy is the name of the “Diva” as IMDB lists her. The name enscribed on her business card? “Sheerah”. I mean, come on…

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I am teh Jedi Master

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

It’s not often I finish computer games. Lack of patience, lack of spare time and a plain lack of ability to play the things usually count against me somewhat.

So, I opted to concentrate on Lego Star Wars on the PS2. According to the label on the box it’s for anyone aged 3+ which is about right for me. My tactic worked. After I don’t know how many hours hammering at the control pad I finally collected the last canister and worked my way through the bonus level.

Whoop! OK, it’s silly and not too difficult, but the humour and the gameplay were worth the whole fiver I spent on it. I’ll be in town tomorrow looking to see if I can get the original trilogy version (Lego Star Wars II), or even better Lego Indiana Jones for a handful of quids. Lego Batman also appeals, but it’s still full price right now. I’ll wait a year and get it in the bargain buckets.

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