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R.I.P. Roy Scheider [Feb. 11th, 2008|11:39 pm]
[Current Location |The Sanctum]


A genuine shame that he's gone, cinema really is running out of awesome people pretty fast.

No sharks were involved in his death, apparently. I suppose we can be thankful for that, although it might have been fitting. 75's quite a ripe age too, I guess.



This is not a picture of Scheider. This is "Poor-man's Scheider" Scott Glenn, who is still alive.



This is not a picture of Scheider either, it is a picture of an orangutan. Also pictured is Rob Schneider, who I used to think might have been Roy Scheider's son, which makes me think I might have been a little dyslexic when I was a kid. I used to wonder how the hell someone as awesome as Scheider could have spawned something like Schneider (although I still love Deuce Bigalow). I just assumed he had to have fallen for his wife for her personality, or had impregnated someone a little below (what I would expect to be) his standards, perhaps whilst drunk. That could happen to any of us, although when I think about it it definitely couldn't have happened to Scheider on account of the fact that he was just too fucking awesome.
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Birthday Messages! [Jan. 15th, 2008|06:27 pm]
[mood | restless]
[music |Nitin Sawhney - Herecica Latino]

It's my friend Super-Mario's birthday today (Not the videogame character, rather my friend for whom I use that nickname)!
In addition to that it's also the birthday of another ACTUAL Super-Mario!

Mr.Mario Van Peebles is 51 years old today! Happy Birthday to you sir!

Sometimes I really can't believe that Mario Van Peebles is a real person, but apparently he is. It really is a funny old world.



Rarely seen without a silly hat.



His greatest role ever, and definitely in the top 18,000 movies ever made.



One of his lesser-known roles, which is to say I can't remember if I've seen it. It's probably on Channel 5 right now. Look at the photo on it! It's just that photo from up there that was clearly taken by some random photographer at some kind of event that they let V-list celebs go to (he gets his own list, he's so bad-ass).



Apparently on his way out to Tescos.
Not really, it's clearly from Highlander 3, arguably the second least-shit of the series.

Well done for living so long, and for existing at all. I can't quite define what it is that I find so weird about MVP, but it's definitely something.
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New Year's Resolutions [Jan. 10th, 2008|04:35 pm]
1. Submit myself as a test-subject in some kind of Human-augmentation experiment. Preferably more 6Million-Dollar Man than Weapon-X, although I will settle for the latter, or even something along the lines of what Knight Industries did for Michael when he got shot, although I quite like my face (I will be open to potential face-altering if I receive appropriately cool-enough augmentation though).
2. Try Toad in the hole.
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Counting down... [Dec. 31st, 2007|02:12 am]
[mood | tired]
[music |Kid Koala - Live from the Knitting Factory]

Pure only 21 hours and 45(ish) minutes to go man, then this crappy year's done and dusted and laid to rest with a big fat stake sticking oot its heart, DRIVEN IN BY ME.
A BIG FAT TECHNO-STAKE DRIVEN WITH BEATS OF FURY!
Yas man!
Aye, another year past and I'm that little bit older, but apparently still none the wiser. It's not like it's really important, so let's not focus on it!
Shall I bother with a year-in review?
I'll bother, oh aye, but I'll only bother half my arse.

My Half-Arsed Year-In Review: 2007!

Gaming:
I guess I should probably talk about videogames...that is why I started writing an electro-diary, after all.
Can't remember any games from this year, to be honest. Most of the games I did actually play to any great extent were released in 2006, such as Company of Heroes, Hitman: Blood Money, Zelda: Twilight Princess...and that's about it. They're all brilliant games, but they're all a bit old really, and that's because I'd only the Wii and my slightly-creaky (now also slightly broken) PC to play games on, and I could never afford any Wii games.
Oh wait, I played Spiderman 3 on the Wii as well, it was unsufferably shite. Ross took it back after a day or two.
I find it hard to believe those were the only games I really played, but off the top of my head it seems like that was the case. I got a bit of a go on Bioshock on the 360 a couple of times, it looked really cool, even if I got the impression that you basically just did the same level over and over again with a moderate variation in graphical-theme between them.
Oh no he didn't! Aye I did.
There's a bunch of good stuff just come out (and just come into the flat as well), but by the time I actually get round to playing them properly it'll be 2008 and probably time for me to write about how the only games I played in 08 were ones that came out in 07.
That'll be funny.
Naw it willnae.

Clubbing:
Can't remember anything about clubbing this year, except Josh Wink was pretty good at Pressure in May, although he was pretty much the same as he's always been, so really that's more like saying clubbing was good in 1996 than in 2007.
Surely you must've had a helluva time if you can't remember the details about nights-out though! You might cry if you were a person and you were reading this, but you're not cos you're me reading it back to myself and I'm not likely to say that cos I know how I'd respond:
I don't remember anything because I barely went to any clubs, as I'm Cpt.Grandpa T. Mamba-Dull now apparently.
Somehow I managed to remain consistently drunk for the last 4 months of the year without setting foot in a club...

Music:
Got even worse than last year. I swear I'm going to kill some people if rubbish bands continue to proliferate at such an alarming level. Shall I name names? I bloody can't, cos I try and block out their shite and erase their names from my memory (with whisky).
Here's a name at random: The View, they're shite.
I jogged my memory to name them by searching for "shite indie bands" on google. Genuinely.
I bet you all love them though, you idiots.

There's still Techno though, bless its cotton-socks. I think minimal's getting a little out of hand, but that's cos I'm still a sucker for banging drummy-tastiness. Like a bit o' minimal as well, mind.
Electro's going too far though, also because people that like the same crap music I was battering on about a minute ago are getting into it, and they're all going to Death Disco (also Optimo).
This isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world though, as it does mean that it will be easier to napalm the lot of them if (when) I finally snap (any day now).
Not really! I don't have nearly the technical-savvy to construct a suitable explosive device to spread home-made napalm (shampoo) adequately around the Arches, especially when the relatively-low roof would limit the spread of an air-burst.

Movies: All sequels, all a bit pants. I only actually saw Spiderman 3, it was a bit gash.
Planet Terror made up for everything though. It could have been the only movie released this year and it would have been fine by me. Frankly it could be the only movie ever released again and it'd be fine by me. Gawn yirsel Rodriguez big-man.

News:
Stuff happened, newspaper and telly will do this bit for me. They'll also do more research than I'm willing to.

EXCEPT they won't mention the best news of the year which, I'll remind you, was the release of Certified Daddy-Cool Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod from the gaol, after his heinous wrongful imprisonment for something-or-other to do with taxes.

That was the highlight of the year, combined with playing with Sarjo-Monkey Banana in the Gambia. Those are what I'll remember 2007 for, if I don't succeed in completely erasing the memory of it from my mind tonight, when I will attempt to beat my record of most Mount-Gay drunk in 1 night (and even try not to boke this time).
In 21 hours (!!!!) I'll probably not even remember writing this post, and I can begin my new life as a hang-gliding master-thief of rare antiquities!

Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out 2007, ya ugly bawbag that yi are!

Happy New Year!
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More reasons I need a cyber-brain [Dec. 22nd, 2007|05:18 am]
[mood | curious]
[music |Mogwai - With Portfolio]

I don't even remember writing that last post. Oh dear.
I was probably drunk, I seem to be that most days these days.
On the plus side, the countdown is nearly at an end!
Yes it's "Get the Fuck Outta 2007!" and there's only 8 days to go til this mess of a year is over.
2008, it's gonna taste great.
It's gonna taste great! It's gonna taste great! It's gonna taste great, it's gonna taste great, it's gonna taste great!

The curious face smiles and raises an eyebrow, just like my standard expression, therefore I usually look curious by the standards of that little icon down there.
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Winter musings... [Dec. 4th, 2007|02:06 am]
[Current Location |In front of my PC, obviously.]
[mood | cold]
[music |Riley Reinhold - Lights in my eyes]

It's about this time of year, when I realise that I can't get laid anyway, that my thoughts turn to beard-growing.
Maybe I will, maybe I won't.
I might as well though. I mean, why not go around looking awesome?
Then I can take the piss out of Chris for having a much better moustache than him.
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I hate 2007 [Nov. 26th, 2007|03:30 am]
[Current Location |Fortress of....wait the flat's totally full.]
[mood | apathetic]
[music |Jackson electrics - Kontaktabzug]

I've not written a damn thing in my electro-journal in bloody ages, and frankly it's because I'm lazy. However I was just reading Philli's entry about reading other people's old entries and I thought to myself "That's not a bad idea, let's go for a jaunt down memory lane...and read my own old entries because they're much more interesting and better-written than everybody else's entries".
So I did, and found my review of the year that was 2005, I think I might write one for 2007, just to rant about how shit it was. I'll probably not do that just now, but maybe later (although probably not). Regardless, I can't wait for 2007 to be over, there were 2 good months in the entire year, and they're just a distant memory now.
2008's going to be better, definitely. There's my never-say-die optimism in full-effect.
Actually, 2008 will probably suck as well as I'll have my finals and then graduate and be lost for any kind of direction, but still, it'll be much better than 2007 (although there'll be no baby-baboon fun of any kind, which is mince.)
2005 was shit, by the way. That's what I reminded myself of when I read my "review" of it.
At least Resident Evil 4 came out though....
2008 may see the release of Resident Evil 5 though! There's a helluva reason for it to be better than 2007, although it will mean that I'll need to buy a "next-gen" (surely it's current-gen now, they've been out for fucking ages) console to play it...and an HD telly...and I can't afford either of those and frankly both the PS3 and the Xbox are a bit crap and I don't really want either of them, goddamnit.

Resident Evil meets Battlefield 2...the 2 good things about 2005 combine in 2008, it could be a great year.
Except it'll be rubbish cos I'll never actually get to play the damn game and instead will just be taunted by its existence.
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Hoots! [Jun. 3rd, 2007|07:15 am]
[Current Location |Fortress of Solitude]
[mood | drunk]
[music |Girl's Got Rhythm]

There once was a time when I used to get up at around 6:30 every morning without fail. I don't do it anymore because I can just download cartoons and watch them whenever I want these days. This wasn't always the case, and I used to have to rise at a ridiculously early hour to get my animation fix. When I was a wee guy I would get up a good hour earlier than necessary to watch the early morning kids' programmes on Channel 4, and I totally loved them. Although probably wouldn't have admitted it at the time (perhaps because waking up at such a ludicrous hour should have been evidence enough).
One of the programmes I used to watch every day was "Roger Ramjet" which I haven't given a great deal of thought to in the ensuing years since my regular viewing of it as a child.
If anyone actually reads my livejournal, and wasn't aware of what it was like, it was a 60s cartoon, with a very 60s style of animation, about a pseudo-super-hero all-American fighter-pilot type patriot who saved the world in every episode.
He was a bit like an even cheesier, American Ace Rimmer.
I've absolutely no idea why I felt compelled to watch an episode of it about half an hour ago (going on a complete tangent from the more typically sordid internet-abusing activities I'd been participating in prior to this sudden sidetrack).
I'd expected it to be one of those programmes that I'd have found at least a wee bit of an in-joke or the occasional extended pun in, but I didn't expect to presented with such a considerable question to be asking myself after my viewing of the 1st episode I could find a link to (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rovdLR94-L8)
That question is this:
Is it a bit of a piss-take of overt American patriotism in the light of the (then contemporary) Cold War/threat of Communism,
or is actually just the most insidious kind of propoganda, with every bit of its styling designed to lull the youngest members of society into buying the spiel and accepting the hatred of those with different views to those they are taught?
I might be talking rubbish here, given that I've been up all night and am a bit wrecked and stuff...
but the lyrics of the theme song seem to suggest the latter (more paranoid) conclusion could be correct, with the lines:
"Come and join us all you kids for lots of fun and laughter...for his adventures just be sure and stay tuned to this station"
I might actually give a proper reason (if it's not clear here) as to why I think the following, but I reckon that kind of song in a children's show wouldn't be (or even then have been) allowed.
I could bang on about it more, but I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions from the video clip (it's definitely worth watching all the way through)
I'm going to dingy the idea of checking just now (I don't think I could deal with it), but I'm fairly sure when I think about it that George of the Jungle was actually a massive endorsement of homophobia, and Super-Chicken was a bit about "Family Values" in the "Put-women-in-their-place-sense" and a bit about endorsing white-supremacy.
I hope I'm wrong though.
I'm probably not.
Praise be to Odin for The Simpsons, eh?
(Also Ren and Stimpy)
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Axelrod - Free, Now! [May. 14th, 2007|03:04 am]
[mood | hopeful]

At least some things are looking up in this crazy ol' world of 2007 (or scary new world, if you prefer).

Those things are these: Humourously-named millionaire philanthropist, ichyologist, publishing mogul, philichthyist (probably not a word, but it sounds better than "Fish-lover"), adventurer, musician, jailbird tax-evader, and my own personal childhood-hero the inimitable Dr. Herbert Richard Axelrod is back among the free citizens of this planet.

You might recall that the good Doctor, founder and head of T.F.H., the largest pet/animal hobby publishers in the world, was TOTALLY UNFAIRLY imprisoned in 2005 for crimes he actually did commit, but shouldn't have been crimes in the first place.
The Doc' was incarcerated in March 2005 for tax-evasion, which it is apparently completely true that he was guilty of. HOWEVER not paying taxes should not be a crime for Dr. Herbert R., simply because he's TOTALLY AWESOME and in a fair NON-FASCIST society his government would actually pay him a special AWESOMENESS tax because he's TOTALLY BRILLIANT and an INTERNATIONAL TREASURE.

Unfortunately no such society exists on this, or likely any other, planet and Doc Axelrod was held in a correctional facility, where no doubt specially trained teams of MIND-NAZIS would try and break his indominable spirit.

Due in no small part to the actions of the "Cyber-Guerilla" F.A.N. (Free Axelrod Now!) movement led by life-long student of the Axelrodian-Message, and devoted fan ME.
F.A.N. were able, against all the odds, to ensure, through their ceaseless toil, that time didn't slow down or stop or start going sideways or in loops or anything mental like that and proceeded the way time is supposed to.
This incredible effort (a small price to pay for the Doc's freedom) resulted in the 18 months of his sentence passing and him probably getting let out, although there's actually nothing online saying that he got out, but there's nothing saying he didn't so he likely did.
Of course "Old Man who likes fish gets out of jail" wouldn't make a very exciting story, which is probably why there's nothing about it.
OR it could be because the secret NEO-FASCIST THOUGHT-COMMANDOS don't want us to know that A HERO WALKS AMONGST US.


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I might be a sad loser for doing these... [May. 14th, 2007|02:45 am]
[Current Location |Fortress of Solitude]
[mood | discontent]
[music |Solid Steel - Now Listen Again!]

...but at least I'm not as sad as Chris and Jenni, who'll sit and do these quizzes over and again until they get the results they desire.
Whereas I do them once and get Ash straight away, cos I'm a fucking bad-ass.






Which Horror Movie Character Are You? (Many Options)




You are Ash, from the "Evil Dead" trilogy. My hero.
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Hail to the King, baby.
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One day I'll actually write a proper entry.... [May. 14th, 2007|02:34 am]






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Groovy
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Evidence if it was needed... [May. 3rd, 2007|03:42 pm]
[mood | groggy]
[music |Chris Goldfinga]

I did this for my school when I was 13 using the old Build editor for Duke Nukem 3D.

I also own a hammer. In fact, I keep it in my bedroom too. I use it to hang up pictures....

...of my victims.
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(no subject) [Mar. 21st, 2007|04:40 pm]
This is quite funny: http://saintgasoline.com/

The apparent main theme of "Creationists are fuck-wits" is an agreeable one, although perhaps the author could be a little more subtle with it.
Not because the message requires subtlety, rather because humour is enhanced by it.
I really just wanted to post that Pac-Man cartoon, but felt guilty just sticking up some dude's work without giving him a link and a spot o' blurb.
Rest well this night....
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Happy Birthday Ken! [Oct. 9th, 2006|02:27 pm]
[mood | chipper]
[music |Jeff Mills@Sonar '06]

Ken Foree, best known as Peter in Dawn of the Dead is 60 today!
Happy birthday to him.
That's quite old, possibly even old enough to be a grandfather.
When he is a grandfather, and his grandchildren are old enough to talk, they'll be able to say "...Something my grandaddy used to say, when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth"
That'll be cool.
I almost wish he was my grandad so I could say that myself, but he'd probably have to have had kids when he was about 12 to be my grandpa.

Good nick for a sexogenarian, or whatever someone in their sixties is called.
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My new hobby/interest [May. 9th, 2006|02:59 am]
Freeing Axelrod!

NOW!
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I can't believe I ate (watched) the whole thing... [May. 9th, 2006|02:47 am]
Metal Gear Solid 4 still looks damn good, and it'll have Virtua Fighter 5.
These are the saving graces of the PS3 for me.
HOWEVER, they revealed the "new" controller....and it's a Dual-shock.
Which is pretty stupid really, given that the Dual-shock's totally crap and is basically an 11 year-old design with 2 unresponsive analogue sticks stuck crudely to its ass.
Except now it's different! Actually it's exactly the same, apart from one thing....it's a Wii controller too.
Which is to say they've nicked the motion-sensitive idea from Nintendo and stuck it in a Dual-Shock, which is totally cynical. Now I'm cynical, everybody's cynical, what a cynical world, so full of cynicism.
Bah.
They had some beardy gnome-bloke demonstrate it on a flying game, it looks just like when a non-gamer plays a driving game - you know, when they steer with the controller.
My moaning is entirely pointless though, as the cheapest of the 2 versions of the console will cost 500 Euros, which will invariably translate directly into pounds, so I'll never play one anyway.
£500 console + £1000 telly to play it on = no food for a year.
I think I probably will give up on videogames by the way, they're just too expensive now that technology's run away with itself.
I need to find something better to get obsessed with.
Maybe studying? Maybe mixing tunes again (which now seems like the CHEAP alternative! Even@£6 for a 12" single!)? Maybe fitness&Sport (no, really)?
Could the death of interesting stuff in videogames be the birth of a new Innes?
Does anyone care?
YES!
ME!
I CARE!
I'M ALSO GOING TO BED!
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My (hopefully premature) verdict on PS3 [May. 9th, 2006|01:37 am]
[mood | annoyed]

It's going to be rubbish.
I'm basing this on the past hour of this press conference I've been watching, which might be ae little premature, like I say.
HOWEVER, it really looks like it's just gonna be the same old games in hi-res. A hi-res PS2 then.
Just like the X-box360's just a hi-res Xbox.
Except they both cost loads more and need a TV you don't have to look good.
If the Wii's not any good then gaming's screwed.
If the Wii's not any good I'm going to give up playing games (apart from the DS).
Maybe it's about time I did???
Maybe it's about time I grew up???
Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, i hope I'm wrong.

Incidentally I can't believe I've spent teh past hour watching this crap, I'm going to fail my exam tomorrow because of this.
Baws.
They've still shown bugger-all games too!!
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I am the Kooolezt [May. 9th, 2006|12:57 am]
I'm now watching it live.
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Oh man, I'm such a loser! [May. 9th, 2006|12:42 am]
[mood | bouncy]
[music |Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks 4]

It's finally E3 week, and it seems like it's crept up on me out of nowhere. I've not been this excited about E3 since seeing the first footage of Rogue Leader back whenever the hell that was.
I know this is all terminally sad but it's pretty mental how comprehensive the coverage is these days, good on ya inter-web.
For example, right now Eurogamer.com have a live message board telling you what's happening at Sony's pre-show event (the largest companies have such events to show off the stuff they're gonna show off a few days before the actual exhibition).
Right now it's a list of posts all pretty much going "We're in the queue....we're still in the queue....(45minutes later)We're in the queue and so is Hideo Kojima"
I fecking love technology.
I'm also genuinely fan-boy excited that Hideo Kojima is in a queue.
Which is probably a weird thing to say...I'm really meant to be studying.
Shaft!
Aye though, within 24 hours there'll be proper hands-on reports with the Wii, and news of real titles for it.
This makes me excited more than the Kojima-thing.

Here is an excerpt from an article from Time magazine (yes, that Time magazine) after a playtest with the Wii.

"The first game I try...is a Warioware title. It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They’re geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight lifter, turn a key in a lock, catch a fish, drive a car, sauté some vegetables, balance a broom on my outstretched hand, color in a circle and fence with a foil. And yes, dance the hula."

"It’s a remarkable experience. Instead of passively playing the games, with the new controller you physically perform them. You act them out. It’s almost like theater: the fourth wall between game and player dissolves. The sense of immersion–the illusion that you, personally, are projected into the game world–is powerful. And there’s an instant party atmosphere in the room. One advantage of the new controller is that it not only is fun, it looks fun. When you play with an old-style controller, you look like a loser, a blank-eyed joystick fondler. But when you’re jumping around and shaking your hulamaker, everybody’s having a good time."

"After Warioware, we play scenes from the upcoming Legend of Zelda title, Twilight Princess, a moody, dark (by Nintendo’s Disneyesque standards) fantasy adventure. Now I’m... sword fighting with the controller, then aiming a bow and arrow, then using it as a fishing rod, reeling in a stubborn virtual fish. The third game, and probably the most fun, is also the simplest: tennis. The controller becomes a racket, and I’m smacking forehands and stroking backhands. The sensors are fine enough that you can scoop under the ball to lob it, or slice it for spin. At the end, I don’t so much put the controller down as have it pried from my hands."
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(no subject) [May. 8th, 2006|12:16 am]
[Current Location |Hame, Finniestonia]
[mood | working]
[music |Worldwide with Gilles Peterson]

MIKE
You scored 68%!
Probably thought this was Daisy didnt you? Sorry to dissapoint those Daisy lovers. Not that she not great, just MIKE is more aware of his surroundings. Lobbing imaginary grenades, going kayaking, invading Paris and dressing up in CAMO should fill all your hours, but with that strict diet of speed and ground coffee, you watch SPACED whilst simultaneously going through urban warfair techniques. You know it all already but bang it on anyway, I mean, its not like you got everything right now is it?



My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 19% on Spaced?
Link: The Spaced Test written by meganinja on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
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