Tuesday 30 September 2008

SO LONG, SUCKAS!!

I'm off to Florida for 3 weeks. Try not to be sad. But remember me!!

Monday 22 September 2008

YAS!!! MMJ at Lorenzors birthday!!

My Morning Jacket playing at ABC on 14th Nov, 4 days before my birthday!!! Lorenzo is a pleased Mast0r of Science! All ye of good taste come! Loudest band I've seen.....Kirsty and I had to go to the back when they came out for the encore cos our ears couldn't take any more!! My ears were ringing for days! That's the kind o shit you WANT!!! BE there, or be mild-mannered!!

Look!! He wears a cape!!



That song actually sounds like this on good recording equipment.....



Some awesome guitar riffage that sounds like old school flaming lips....can't find any pro shot stuff of the songs I want...the guitar sound'll take yr teeth off!!



Some weird funk-ola....



which sounds like this on record



electronica:



spacy rocky stuff:



So really, there's something for most people, it's 4 days before my birthday, so everyone and their maw should come and we'll dance wer baws aff. Lemme know if you up for it...

Sunday 21 September 2008

perhaps my favourite TED talk...

Good Batman?

Try:

I remember it being quite awesome, I read it a while back....don't be discouraged by the fact it's by Jeph Loeb, the chap who did Hush. He's a bit schizo in the quality department. He's doing Ultimates 3 just now and it's also rather gash. But when he works with Tim Sale they usually produce gold, and the artwork is probably THE MOST gorgeous Batman artwork ever. They also reference it in the Dark Knight; in the court room scene at the start, the mob family is the same family that are the main focus of this novel. Indeed, the Long Halloween is about Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face, and there's clearly an influence from this graphic novel on that element of Dark Knight. So you get the most interesting plot of that film, PLUS you also get a decent Batman doing proper Batman type things, UNLIKE in the Dark Knight. Ahem.

My favourite Batman, though, is the one in Grant Morrison's JLA run, a supercool gringo who has twenty backup plans for every plan, and another ten backup plans for each backup plan.

The best Batman story and moment is the first story arc, where martians(who have Superman-level abilities) invade and enslave the earth. The JLA tries to stop them and get slapped silly and captured except for Batman, and the handsome muchacho single-handedly infiltrates and CRUSHES the aliens in awesome stealth action one by one. If only THAT had been the latest Batman film.....Lorenzo can dream. But alas, due to stupid Frank Miller we'll never get away from the terrible "dark" and "edgy" Batman that's now expected and required for any credibility. Baws tae that, ah want silly men in tights slappin each other silly! POW, WHAP, KABLAMO! If you want that shit, you need to go back to the seventies Neal Adams Batman, where he was more like a millionare playboy James Bond type with loads of super-cool gadgets. Actually, that's what Morrison's latest Batman stories are trying to get back to. I've been meanin to check out Batman and Son etc for a while, I suspect I'll think it's the shit. First story: re-introduce Batman's illigitimate child. HA! Remember Rha's Al Ghul from Batman Begins? In the comics, the super-awesome back-in-the-day Batman boned his daughter. Phenomenal. You don't get THAT shit in Batman comics nowadays....don't get me wrong, NealAdams/GrantMorrison Batman is still dark and brooding, but he also has the awesome baws, tech, charizmateek and suave.....kind of veered off topic there....good Batman stories......if your lookin for good Batman as a result of Dark Knight viewage, I'd say you'd enjoy Long Halloween a lot. And it's got a sequel whose name I cant remember which is also pretty awesome, so maybe start with LH and go from there. Apart from that....it's a DC character at the end of the day. The only way DC characters really work is to have someone think up crazy shit that only ridiculously over-powered super-people can handle, which is why I like Grant Morrison at DC so much, he does that kind of thing best. Probably best to stick with Marvel for more character-driven men in tights action. You must've read Frank Miller's Daredevil, but I'll mention it just in case, it's pretty much Batman but with red on the costume, and very good.





Thursday 18 September 2008

Fracture's sweet Physics and land deforming weapons

Batman R.I.P.

So I've been trying to download some GOOD batman comics, cos to be honest most of what i've read is a bit not so good. Except Killing Joke, it was, of course, pure awesome. But Hush was average and maybe just plain rubbish.
So i came across the latest arc,
Grant Morrison's "Batman R.I.P"

Presumably the Death of Batman.
yeah, right!
A handy catch up video


So a whole bunch of random, as you might expect, with no real direction or death talk.

but the death, and replacement of Batman looks the case!

so the death of Bruce Wanye and replacment by the original Robin, Dick.

rubbish? why mess with Bruce after all these years?
or could it actually be a proper progression and change to long running staple comic legend. Sumit you don't really see at all.

Of course I don't read up to date batman comics so who cares!

We'll fuck you up, Lebowski



GIFS!



The Big Lebowski Typography from Koos Dekker on Vimeo.

Tuesday 16 September 2008

...aaand we're back!

GLORIOUS INTERNET!
It's so good to have you back!

Katie's flat is now adams, it has HD TV, Xbox 1 and 2, Wii, and Broadband linking them all like a sexy circle jerk... aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

but no sound for PC yet, so couple of posts are having to wait till adam can appreciate.

but here's some cool girls pants I found


there's also a dudes t-shirt... but the picture wasn't as interesting.
But this one was!

An American Adventure

Thought I'd post a link to Kirsty's brother Chris's blog of his 3 month American trip for anyone who's interested....

http://onlyinamerica08.blogspot.com/

Saturday 13 September 2008

What the fuck was that?

Eh? An Evil Dead Musical? And now Raimi is trying to produce a 3D movie of this! EH?!

Friday 12 September 2008

Friday 5 September 2008

Ronny Mars is watching you!

Lets face facts she's watching every email you send, every phone call you make and every STD nestled in ya!

Don't let her!


ok nice image to represent the spying Mars... Google Images...do-de-do
...wait what was i doing again....






... yeah so anyway, as i was saying Kirsten Bell is so hot... man that girl can get in my inbox any time, you know what i'm saying! good, help. i don't.

The final countdown.

Bring it.

Comparisons of Criticism in the VICE president runners



Handy countdown to END OF WORLD!

5 Days till the End of the World

Thought I should mention this, as physicists all over are looking at this. You probably are already aware, but what the hell, just joined the blog, might as well post something.

On 10/09/2008, the LHC(Large Hadron Collider) will be switched on, and hell itself shall come to town.



The gigonormouhugetastic circular huge metal thing will accelerate charged particles to as close to the speed of light as is possible and smash them together, and particle physics should hit paydirt. The amount of physicists/chemists/theoriticians that have staked their entire reputations of the last 30-40 years on theories that have NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OR VALIDATION WHATSOEVER is actually quite stupid. Dark matter? PAH! Don't make Lorenzo laugh! "Em, we have this thing we can't quite account for in all our readings.....DARK MATTER.....yes...that aught to cover it....". BUT! Here they all are, awaiting verification of their life's work. And, yes, despite my views on their quite hazy, unscientific method of defining things, it looks like they might detect at least one or two new fundamental particles that'll help them out.
Here's a nice wee picture of a collision I pinched fae the LHC wiki.



Some (serious scientists, mind) predict this is, in fact, the first time machine built by man, and we'll get our first visitor from the future when it's switched on. See, ye cannae travel back without a machine having been built to recieve you, which is why we've had no one come and tell us how we're all getting on 100 years from now.

Others predict catastrophe, with the result being nothing less than the end of the world. The act of smashing these particles that really aren't supposed to touch(they actually repel each other) together with such force will rip a hole in space-time and we all go "bye-bye." Think the biggest explosivo you can imagine. Officially the LHC recent report says "nah" to this. But it's fun to conspiricize, so people still think the end is nigh. And if it makes us all act like we've only a few days left of life, then shit, let's pretend!

OK, so, I've warned ye all! Say yer byebyes and Iloveyous and pray to whatever gods you believe in. And if you wake up in yr beddies wae yer teddies on the 11th o' September, be grateful. Remember that you could be non-existent.

The facility has racked up a cost of $8.7 billion so far, and electricity alone will consume $30 million a year....so ah dont wan' tae hear any mair whingin aboot utility bills fae noo on!

Lorenzo: Arrival

Behold the bouncing chicken of justice!!!

Lorenzo is now....signed on. Weep lest ye die of chicken rape.

Tuesday 2 September 2008

Scampi

While I remember, Scampi is the tail of the Norway Lobster.

Mmmmmm...

two super sexy fun time video's.

This and this!

The first is a speech on more open copyright and the second is a guide to critical thinking - perhaps nothing new to you but interesting none the less.

Monday 1 September 2008

TV detector vans

From the Guardian

Interesting. The common answer seems to be that they detect the frequency pitch that your television is emitting, so they can tell if you are watching the tele and even what channel. Tune out if you are sick of paying the tv tax for sub standard programming.

Reading more, many think it is address based (quite likely) or they don't exist (which is address based, no license on the database they pay you a visit, though we haven't had anyone thus far). The mystery continues...

Cool website.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/

It is interesting to see some prior successful requests