My terrible news addiction has really paid off this past year - Bush going, Economic collapse,Obama elected, parlimentary expenses mayhem, Obama's Cairo address, BNP MEP's elected and a feeble attempt at ousting Gordo. And that aint even half of it. Now we've had the results of the Iranian election and things don't look too great, that crazy dude in the jacket got back in and he's a bit barmy to say the least. The Beeb has covered some of the stuff that's been happening recently but I aint seen much of this on UK TV news.
And now this great article by the Granudia - at least it's not jut the Organ grinder that's been filling their pockets, certainly looks like the Monkey has been getting a share too. Tsk tsk tsk boys in blue caught red handed.
There's got to be more scandal coming and I'm up for it, MP's, the Police, surely it's about time we had a Churchy story again ? Everyone knows the top tier of company must have known about the prevalence of abuse but just how complicit were they ? Come on someone must have something. Or how about Europe - there must be hundreds of corrupt politicians grabbing as much cash as they can. Newspapers are just getting lazy, that and they're letting themselves get penned in by the money men.
Monday, 15 June 2009
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Catch up
Lordy I thought I'd saved that last draft, oh well, gonna have to be quick as I've been on the vino and seem to be typing at an odd slant, anyways I've watched a heap of stuff lately but my main PC thing is down so I've been too busy trying to fix it to write this stuff. Anyways...
My Bloody Valentine 3D, not bad actually if you don't expect much, not a great script but some good comedy deaths and the 3d was good enough to make me feel seasick near the start.
Momento Mori, a weird Korean chiller set in a school, atmospheric and not bad. Made me think of an anime show Ghost Hunt.
Hansel & Gretel, another Korean film, is an excellent retelling of the classic fairytale. A bit long but worth watching.
Excalibur by Boorman, I remember watching this as a kid and loving it but it's got a fairly skanky rep these days, probably for the horribly cheap FX but it's a fantastic film. It's an unusual melange of the arthurian myths and has a few rubbishy actors hamming it up, I'm looking at you Merlin, but it's very enjoyable nonetheless and is one of the best mythological films I've seen in ages. Reckon the studios should be looking to remake this rather than Barbarella etc etc.
Friday, 5 June 2009
Gordon Vs His Own Cabinet
Ahh well this tragedy has surely commenced the last, final act now. I read recently that Gordon would be horrified if people pitied him but come on what else am I supposed to feel? I kinda think he came into power under a cloud, was dealt a shtty hand, and was associated - rightly- with a massive collapse of capitalism. He can blame international factors all he wants but he was Chancellor for ten years and didn't smash the tax havens, clamp down on crazed market practices etc etc. I'm tired of hearing the excuse of we never saw it coming, it's pathetic, it's because they're all short-term market zealots (and obviously pig ignorant) that they couldn't see yet another bubble bursting. So so tired, if only education was better and then world wouldn't have to put up with so many stupid people who think they're clever.
As for Gordo's enemies - they must surely be mental, that or just want to throw their careers away for the laughs. Lord knows - I mean Blears is clearly an "unusual" person, superficially I'd say a ruddy nightmare face to face but she slags Gordon off for his Youtube appearance but it's her that looks weird, kinda like some sort of plastic automaton with a strange grin and a very shiny face, always with the shiny look, maybe her body runs at a higher temperature as she's so tiny and she gets a bit sweaty or maybes it's just TV lights anyway Tiny lady loves motorbikes too - odder and odder. And as for Purnell - he'd always struck me as earnest sort of bloke so maybe he's not a conniver but if he isn't he's made a terrible mistake: he's still pretty young and unfortunately this "tactic" will never be forgotten now. Maybe by his colleagues after a while but never by the press, you'll be introduced as the man who helped topple Gordon, they'll dig away at you when you're trying to talk about issues etc. Oh dear a lifetime on the backbenches for you now James, well until the next election and I guess you'll land a nice corporate job somewhere.
As for Gordo's enemies - they must surely be mental, that or just want to throw their careers away for the laughs. Lord knows - I mean Blears is clearly an "unusual" person, superficially I'd say a ruddy nightmare face to face but she slags Gordon off for his Youtube appearance but it's her that looks weird, kinda like some sort of plastic automaton with a strange grin and a very shiny face, always with the shiny look, maybe her body runs at a higher temperature as she's so tiny and she gets a bit sweaty or maybes it's just TV lights anyway Tiny lady loves motorbikes too - odder and odder. And as for Purnell - he'd always struck me as earnest sort of bloke so maybe he's not a conniver but if he isn't he's made a terrible mistake: he's still pretty young and unfortunately this "tactic" will never be forgotten now. Maybe by his colleagues after a while but never by the press, you'll be introduced as the man who helped topple Gordon, they'll dig away at you when you're trying to talk about issues etc. Oh dear a lifetime on the backbenches for you now James, well until the next election and I guess you'll land a nice corporate job somewhere.
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Sciencey stuff
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
PS3 joys
Fricking sweet - I'll snap this game up as soon as humanly possible. Ico and Shadow are two of my favourite games ever and ones I use as examples to show how awesome gaming can be to non-gamers.
And as it's E3 at the moment there's a heap of news coming out - most important to me is this. One step further and I'll be back playing FFVII for another hundred hours. Just need to finish Bioshock,Valkyria Chronicles and Dead Space first. Eek less blogging more gaming I guess.
Oh and here's today's footage of FFXIV which is going to be a MMO - if it's better than their first effort I might have to give it a go.
And as it's E3 at the moment there's a heap of news coming out - most important to me is this. One step further and I'll be back playing FFVII for another hundred hours. Just need to finish Bioshock,Valkyria Chronicles and Dead Space first. Eek less blogging more gaming I guess.
Oh and here's today's footage of FFXIV which is going to be a MMO - if it's better than their first effort I might have to give it a go.
Films slimf flism
Watched this 1970's thriller the other night called And Soon The Darkness and it was excellent, two British tourists come a cropper in rural France isn't exactly an original plot but it managed to build and sustain the tension throughout. Well worth watching if you get the chance, especially as it's getting remade - doh.Watched Bolt too - sometimes I just have to watch films in case the punters ask me, well that's my excuse anyways. And to be honest it wasn't that bad for a kids film, at least there was no singing in it. Bolt is a delusional mutt from a TV show who ends up in the real world thinking he has super powers, along the way he meets some buddies and saves the day. Ahhh aint that nice. It was pretty funny though and kept me and the better half fairly amused. I particulary enjoyed Rhino the TV obsessed critter in a ball.
Phantasm I, II & II - I think I saw the first of these films when I was a kid and they've got some sort of cult-rep I thought I'd give them another go. To my surprise I've quite enjoyed them, the acting is bad and the gore/sfx are pretty cheap but it's actually quite a good story, maybe it's cause it doesn't try and explain itself constantly but it's mythos seems to hang together beyond mad plot leaps and obvious incongruities. Think there's one more to watch
Monday, 1 June 2009
Also been watching
Parasomnia - it wasn't bad I guess, could've done with a bit more polish but was interesting enough and had it's fair share of gore even if it had very few decent scares. Jeffrey Combs plays a detective chasing a superhypnotic killer and there's sleeping beauty type action, think I saw a John Landis cameo too.
Full Battle Rattle was better - a documentary about a training base in the Mojave desert where US soldiers are put through an amazingly sophisticated simulation of Iraq. Pretty interesting stuff, the commander at the start came across as a fairly intelligent & decent sort of guy but came up well short when dealing with the complexities of the situations they faced. The best parts of the film were about the Iraqi-Americans who lived and worked in the "villages" and their experiences of living far from home in a mockup of their former country, it's a shame that the film makers didn't take more time to explore the whole thing from their point of view.
Tattoo, a German serial killer flick was not bad, can't say I'd rave about it but it's worth a look. Weird story though - are there really people who collect skinned tattoos ? Just a shame the characters were a bit predictable, guess that's way I kept thinking of Jar City.
From Beyond The Grave, a British portmanteau of horror stories was great fun. Particulary enjoyed the Elemental story. There's a few of these Amicus collections around so I'm gonna have to try and look out a few more. Watched a couple of Alfred Hitchcock Presents too from the 50's and they were great.
Full Battle Rattle was better - a documentary about a training base in the Mojave desert where US soldiers are put through an amazingly sophisticated simulation of Iraq. Pretty interesting stuff, the commander at the start came across as a fairly intelligent & decent sort of guy but came up well short when dealing with the complexities of the situations they faced. The best parts of the film were about the Iraqi-Americans who lived and worked in the "villages" and their experiences of living far from home in a mockup of their former country, it's a shame that the film makers didn't take more time to explore the whole thing from their point of view.
Tattoo, a German serial killer flick was not bad, can't say I'd rave about it but it's worth a look. Weird story though - are there really people who collect skinned tattoos ? Just a shame the characters were a bit predictable, guess that's way I kept thinking of Jar City.
From Beyond The Grave, a British portmanteau of horror stories was great fun. Particulary enjoyed the Elemental story. There's a few of these Amicus collections around so I'm gonna have to try and look out a few more. Watched a couple of Alfred Hitchcock Presents too from the 50's and they were great.
Trawling The Beeb
Watched this 1977 Count Dracula from the BBC the other night - was pretty good all in all - even though some of the cheap shit special effects were laughable it managed to build a fairly decent atmosphere and stayed fairly close to the original novel. Louis Jordan was a great neck biter, full of euro-charm with just a hint of power, rubbish wall crawler though and still not a patch on this guy.
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