Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Just finished reading Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, yeah yeah I know. It's a kid book. So what? It's a fairly entertaining (however, I'm not sure if I liked the story as much this time) and reasonably well written kid's book that, if all goes well, will get plenty of the young whippersnappers into the Occult. This is inherently a good thing.
Although as far as kid's books go the His Dark Materials trilogy is better.
Anyway, back to the far more grown up comic books now...
In other news darthphil.com is now available in Japanese, for no better reasons than "because I can", "it look's cool" and "it's sort of a tribute to the spiritual home of half of the things keeping me occupied and off the streets".
Although as far as kid's books go the His Dark Materials trilogy is better.
Anyway, back to the far more grown up comic books now...
In other news darthphil.com is now available in Japanese, for no better reasons than "because I can", "it look's cool" and "it's sort of a tribute to the spiritual home of half of the things keeping me occupied and off the streets".
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Dear Internet,
Does anyone know where I can get hold of the new Kid 606 album and the new album by Dalek's DJ Still? All the big uk sites like play, amazon or tower records don't seem to think either CD exists.
It's beginning to bug me a bit...
Does anyone know where I can get hold of the new Kid 606 album and the new album by Dalek's DJ Still? All the big uk sites like play, amazon or tower records don't seem to think either CD exists.
It's beginning to bug me a bit...
Braved the exploding transport network and trigger happy police on Saturday to go to the Cricket in the Park organized by the English Cricket Board. Quite a good idea really, they set up a big screen to show the cricket, provided plenty of bars and gave away these groovy drinking glove thingies. As usual with these sort of sporting events it soon descended into some serious binge drinking, as evidenced by the gazebo stealing antics shown here, which me and John carried on with in Woking (my memory is a bit hazy about what happened here...). And I met an old friend who I haven't seen for far too long, which was nice and a bit random. Pretty good day really.
Today was spent trying to sober up whilst watching the new episode of Battlestar Galactica from one of those naughty torrent sites. I'm happy to report that the second series is just as fracking awesome as the first one.
Today was spent trying to sober up whilst watching the new episode of Battlestar Galactica from one of those naughty torrent sites. I'm happy to report that the second series is just as fracking awesome as the first one.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Been to see War of the Worlds tonight, my one sentence description of it would be: Tom Cruise runs around shitting himself for two hours, and it has a bit of a crappy ending.
However thats a bit of a disservice to the film makers. The invasion is seen purely from the point of view of Cruise's family so there are no stereotypical scenes of Presidents leading jet fighter attacks, or Scientists toiling away in secret laboratories to find a last-ditch solution to the alien invasion - which I thought made for a very refreshing take on the story. The effects are very good conveying some memorable scenes of complete and utter destruction, one of those films that really needs to be seen at the cinema. And it's completely terrifying!
If there is a bad point it's with the ending. I know the story in the book ends without any sort of final confrontation, but I could have done without the schmaltzy family ending - especially since the previous couple of hours were pretty good...
However thats a bit of a disservice to the film makers. The invasion is seen purely from the point of view of Cruise's family so there are no stereotypical scenes of Presidents leading jet fighter attacks, or Scientists toiling away in secret laboratories to find a last-ditch solution to the alien invasion - which I thought made for a very refreshing take on the story. The effects are very good conveying some memorable scenes of complete and utter destruction, one of those films that really needs to be seen at the cinema. And it's completely terrifying!
If there is a bad point it's with the ending. I know the story in the book ends without any sort of final confrontation, but I could have done without the schmaltzy family ending - especially since the previous couple of hours were pretty good...
As an ex-professional barman, and as a borderline alcoholic I think this could be one of the greatest inventions I have ever seen... TurboTap.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Bow down before the new God of War! Mwah Ha Ha!
*Ahem* Anyway, I've finished my latest Playstation 2 game, God of War. Now enjoying all the unlockable documentaries on the game disc; the deleted scenes is especially interesting being able to watch an early tech demo from 3 years ago really makes it clear how much work goes into modern videogames. Now I just have to beat God Mode, which looks like it could take some time as I've just had my ass handed to me on a plate by the first lot of bad guys.
Maybe that can wait until I've finished my next game Killer 7. Now this is a weird one, on a basic level it's third person action adventure with first person shooting elements - however from another point of view you could be dealing with an almost art-house videogame. For a start take a look at the graphics:
Just reeks of style doesn't it? Then there are the characters, the 'hero' is a wheelchair bound schizophrenic called Harman Smith - he has 7 alternate personalities which can take on a physical presence, you are given hints by this strange ghost gimp character who has a habit of going on about 'tight situations' a bit too much, you save the game through a nurse called Samantha (well, you can save if she feels like letting you) and the bad guys are essentially weird day-glow zombie suicide bombers called Heaven's Smiles.
I've only just completed the first level so I'm at a bit of a loss to explain what's really going on yet - The dialog is what can best be described as unhinged. From what I've read it gets quite political later on. Surprised it hasn't picked up too much controversy really, what with the whole disabled, mentally disturbed assassin hunting down suicide bombers theme going on...
Anyway, enough about videogames (I've realized the amount of time I spend going on about games on this website isn't really in proportion to the amount of time I spend playing them - in case you are wondering why they have been mentioned a bit more here recently). Here's some pictures from Friday night.
*Ahem* Anyway, I've finished my latest Playstation 2 game, God of War. Now enjoying all the unlockable documentaries on the game disc; the deleted scenes is especially interesting being able to watch an early tech demo from 3 years ago really makes it clear how much work goes into modern videogames. Now I just have to beat God Mode, which looks like it could take some time as I've just had my ass handed to me on a plate by the first lot of bad guys.
Maybe that can wait until I've finished my next game Killer 7. Now this is a weird one, on a basic level it's third person action adventure with first person shooting elements - however from another point of view you could be dealing with an almost art-house videogame. For a start take a look at the graphics:
Just reeks of style doesn't it? Then there are the characters, the 'hero' is a wheelchair bound schizophrenic called Harman Smith - he has 7 alternate personalities which can take on a physical presence, you are given hints by this strange ghost gimp character who has a habit of going on about 'tight situations' a bit too much, you save the game through a nurse called Samantha (well, you can save if she feels like letting you) and the bad guys are essentially weird day-glow zombie suicide bombers called Heaven's Smiles.
I've only just completed the first level so I'm at a bit of a loss to explain what's really going on yet - The dialog is what can best be described as unhinged. From what I've read it gets quite political later on. Surprised it hasn't picked up too much controversy really, what with the whole disabled, mentally disturbed assassin hunting down suicide bombers theme going on...
Anyway, enough about videogames (I've realized the amount of time I spend going on about games on this website isn't really in proportion to the amount of time I spend playing them - in case you are wondering why they have been mentioned a bit more here recently). Here's some pictures from Friday night.
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