October, 2007

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Oct 07

Baroness – The Red Album

Recently discovered Baroness via the good ol Rock Sound promo Cd, and have been raving about them since. Therefore its only appropriate that I mention them on here!

If you’re a fan of bands like Isis and Pelican (I’m not, I find them pretty dull and pretentious to be honest..) you’ll most likely be into Baroness. But Baroness are more than just another one of these Isis ripoff prog bands, they have a southern feel to them reminiscent of bands such as Cancer Bats or The Bronx.
Mix that with the stoner-jam ethic of bands like Monster Magnet and the complex riff-based rock of Ride the Lightning era Metallica and you’ve got yourself Baroness. I freakin love it.

Check them out on their Myspace page [here] then buy their album!

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30
Oct 07

The Best of James Whitworth..

Finally the powers that be have seen fit to make one of those “In your pocket” toys for the one and only James Whitworth. Check out the interactive ad I found for it by clicking on the link below -

click here!

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29
Oct 07

AC/DC Gig at Tim’s..

Well now I have this bloggable site I can start posting stuff more often which is good, so just to catch up on recent events and for those of you I’m showing who missed the night in question, here is the youtube evidence of the shocking attempt we made at covering some Ac/Dc numbers, with only a few hours practice. Still was freezing and we were suitably drunk by this point.. Heres “What do you do for money, Honey?”, if you dare watch more, theres more in the “More from this channel” bit of the ‘tube interface. Enjoy. Oh and check out the ridiculous firework outro on Back in Black.

Have a butchers …

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28
Oct 07

Torture the audience if you have to..

Its that time again. Jack’s Back, as always come january and October brings the vaguely awaited trailer of Day 7 of 24. Seven shitty days since Jack first got a tip off to sneak into that warehouse with his partner and his world took a turn for the worse.

So if you know 24, you’ll know its a mixed bag, the first day undeniably was the best, as it was before it was ALL ABOUT JACK, and in my humble (and controversial) opinion, days 2 and 5 were the best of the rest of the bunch. Day 3 was okay.. not ideal, and 4 was entirely unmemorable. Day 6 however was.. something else. After the cliffhanger ending of Day 5, with Jack being shipped to China to answer for his sins, the fans really thought they’d be in for a treat with Day 6.

Not so! What began with a bang, quite literally, fizzled into the biggest plot based meltdown since … I dunno.. insert something shit here.. M:i2 springs to mind. It was appalling, rehashed everything you’d ever seen in 24 and was as such a massive disappointment. Even the promise of the reveal of Jack’s father and brother didn’t add much to the drama, when ideally there should’ve been lots to work with for the writers. Anyway, I digress.

Day 7 Trailer is here, and is the most shocking i’ve seen. Not in that kind of “oh isn’t it shocking, my goodness” No. Fuck no. It just looks cack. I thought when I heard various rumors from sites like Aintitcool.com and such that the writers were losing CTU, relocating to Washington, and making Jack answer for his crimes that they could make something great out of it again, 24 could be 24 again. But no, they’ve made Die Hard 4 mixed with “Firewall” by the looks of things. Check out the trailer and see for yourself but the fact Jack is running around disguised as an octogenarian man is enough to depress me, and don’t get me started on Fat Tony…

24trailer.com

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28
Oct 07

“Rambo” takes shape..

After the sheer insanity of the first two trailers, the commercial trailer for Rambo IV arrives with more of a focus on the plot than of just blowin shit up, which is nice to see. Not that it’ll have anything particularly fresh, I’ve gotta say I do have a certain amount of faith in Sly as a director after Rocky Balboa, which in its drama I think really packed a punch.. time will tell whether he’s pulled this one out of the bag.

Watch it!

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26
Oct 07

First post..

Well here it is. I’ve given in. I didn’t want to do this, but anyway, here goes. I am writing a blog. Just to put things in context, i’m not your conventional bloggist, I sort of hate.. blogs. Which is certainly a problem in my line of work, and definitely out of character for someone otherwise obsessed with all things weblic.

So i’ve decided to at least give it a go, it can’t be that bad can it? My main beef is that many blogs just seem to be over indulgent crap about how someone hates the latest battlestar galactica movie or some shit like that. Or, I dunno, some bollocks about how they don’t like blogs but are writing one anyway. And with that, I end my first foray.