Christopher Hitchens on The Ten Commandments

Peter Gabriel Covers “In the Neighborhood” by Tom Waits

Peter Gabriel » Tom Waits from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

Tron Legacy.

The young Jeff Bridges looks naff, hopefully they're going to be working on it right up to the release date so it doesn't look so....... funky.

Still, I can't help but feel excited by this!

The First Men In The Moon

Watched this the night it was broadcast. Mark Gatiss is always worth the price of admission, even more so when he's written the screenplay. This wonderful take on the novel by H.G Wells is slightly hampered by a tiny BBC4 budget, but it more than makes up for it in pure tongue in cheek entertainment.

Gatiss is wonderful as Dr Cavor, giving us a glimpse of what he may have done if he'd ever had the chance to play that other Doctor so loved of Sci-Fi fans. 

The DVD is out now, but no Blu-ray!! What's that about? It was broadcast on BBC HD as well as BBC4. Come on chaps, sort it out!

Jon Stewart's Speech from Rally to Restore Sanity

The Social Network

Finally saw this last night. It took a bit of persuading to get my wife to come as the subject matter held no interest for her. However, the twin pull of David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, Panic Room ect) and Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, Studio 60, Charlie Wilson's War) was enough to get her into the cinema.

It was a blissful mix of Fincher's energetic visual flare and ability to extract amazing performances from his actors and Sorkin's witty, snappy dialogue.

As for the truth of the story, I assume like most films of this nature that the broad strokes are probably as near to the mark as they can get, but the smaller details are poetic licence. The soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is also excellent and will be finding it's way into my ever expanding collection.

Well worth a look.

And I still think that Fincher's Alien 3 is a lost masterpiece.

Metallic Spheres

Listening to this right now......

Ohhhh this is bliss!

Currys & PC World Megastores TV Ad Director's Cut

Squeeee!!!

Peter Gabriel "Here Comes the Flood" on Guitar Center Sessions

Links..

All the diveshare links are back.

Lets see how long it lasts.

Peter Gabriel - New Blood: Rhythm Of The Heat

Peter Gabriel Album Art.

divshare....AAAAAAAHHH!!

Have removed all the divshare links until I can sort all this out or find a replacement.

The Divshare Saga Continues....... Oh, and some photos.

Ok,

Deep breath.

I was looking around my divshare account trying to figure out why some files worked and others didn't when I came across the "privacy" setting.

This was new to me, it wasn't there when I joined. Now that I've set all the relevant files to "public" they should all work.

(pinch of salt)

It's worth pointing out that I'm a free member of the site so I have a monthly download limit. If you try to download something and it says that the account has reached it's limit wait until around the end of the month and try again. The National Theatre Of Brent stuff is the main culprit, it seems to be the most popular.

Now a few pics from our recent family trip to Mortehoe in Devon.

Divshare Doldrums Part 2.

Seems that diveshare is still causing problems. It used to be reliable but seems to be quite flakey these days.

I think it's gonna be so long diveshare!

I'll have a hunt around for an alternative.

Cashback

Cashback
Uploaded by momog. - Full seasons and entire episodes online.

Solved.

All the diveshare links now work. I've also updated the "Tunes I Like Right Now" section. The new tracks are....

1 - Theme from Mousehunt - Alan Silvestri - I'm a huge soundtracks collector and this album is a new addition.

2 - Windolicker - Aphex Twin - The more I listen to it the more amazing it gets.

3 - Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie - It's Bowie! What else is there to say?

4 - Sugalumps - Flight Of The Concords - Brilliant pastiche of the Black Eyed Peas track "My Humps".

Diveshare doldrums..

Seems that quite a few of the files that I posted on diveshare are corrupted. I'll spend some time tonight uploading new copies to replace them.

Life The Universe & Everything

It's been an age since I posted anything about myself, life has managed to consistently get in the way.

New job, (now OLD job as I've moved on) baby, (now screaming toddler) outside projects, (not enough of them) have all meant that time is at a premium.

I'm in the process of doing what all men of a certain age do, taking stock. It's NOT a mid life crisis (yet) but it IS a concerted effort to look at things in my life and decide whether I should..

a) Hunker down, settle on a career while letting some ideas and dreams go in an attempt to be the responsible earner.

or

b) Keep trying to move towards what I always wanted to do, stop worrying about being "grown up" and enjoy life more.

On the surface it seems like an easy decision, but it ain't. My brain is all about a, but my heart is all about b.

Anyway, in an effort to focus me a little and not waste so much time on BLOODY FACEBOOK, I've decided to pay more attention to my blog. To use it as a portal for jotting down little doodles from my life, from my favourite music, films and books, to stuff I've been up to. You know, the usual stuff.

Here we go.

The Book Of Love and Washing Of The Water

Mr G is still easily my favourite male recording artist. Long may he continue.

Dead again?

I have, of late, been very tardy in keeping this blog up to date. I am resolved to alter this unsatisfactory situation.

Blame work, child, facebook ect. They all take up way to much time.

I'll get my act together and start posting again soon!

Yello -Touch

A new album! WooHoo!

What if Earth had rings like Saturn?

The view from afar would be somewhat familiar, after all, we know Saturn. Now, can you picture how the rings would appear viewed from Earth’s surface: Paris, Rio, somewhere near Greenland? What would be its appearance at day, by night? You can check it above, and wonder what myths of creations, what religions would it inspire.

A fabulous work of imagination by Roy Prol. Imagination, but not pure fantasy! We don’t have rings around our planet, but we could have. The rings rendered by Prol respect the Roche limit, and the most curious thing is, we may have had rings not that different from those.

With not very pleasant consequences.

Astronomer John O’Keefe speculated that the planet may have formed “a ring system like that of Saturn” at the end of the Eocene, which lasted “between one and several million years”. As can be seen on Prol’s animation, the rings, despite their beauty, would block part of the Sun’s radiation, causing a global cooling.

In the end of the Eocene it may have caused global extinction, but could this be the most beautiful fix for global warming?

LAURIER TIERNAN - "You Will Die as You Have Lived" music video

A short music video that I directed with my good friend Tee L for Laurier Tiernan and Prograde Records (Tokyo). It took much longer to complete than anticipated, the shoot alone took 9 hours thanks to bad weather. We hope you like it even though it's a little strange. Thanks for making all my ideas work Tee!

Knights Of The U.S.S Enterprise.

Holly's Text The Nation.

H.

A year ago today our world turned upside down. In a GOOD way. Happy Birthday H. We love you more than words can say.

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

Mr Dennett again . . .

Just another chance to hear the wonderful Dan Dennett speak again. I had the chance to hear this talk earlier in the year in London.

Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell from Leslie A. Zukor on Vimeo.

Still here but busy ...

That says it all really. I've just started a new job and it's eating up the hours. Plus my daughter's rapidly approaching 1 year of age so most of my weekends are spent chasing her around the house making sure she doesn't destroy anything.

Which she then destroys during the week.

Sigh ...

I'll update as soon as I can.

Or when they invent the 5 day weekend.

One more thing....

One more thing before I go. I stumbled on the trailer for what looks like the most INSANE film ever.

I doubt I'll see it in the cinema (along with most people I suspect) but one evening I'll get the drinks in, load up on pizza and enjoy what will no doubt be an appalling bit of hokum!

I wonder why it's so quiet?

Well... It's been quiet because my daughter's teething. Which means it's been anything but quiet for us.

She's developed this new scream that we've dubbed "The Velociraptor". She's now officially louder than "Disaster Area".

We're all off on holiday today! WooHoo! Two weeks in Devon to wind down and MAYBE get some reading done. I've been meaning to finish volume 3 of Stephen Donaldson's "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" for yonks. Now's my chance.

In the meantime here's a short vid.

It was a lovely day last Sunday so we went for a walk in the local park. While we were there we saw this guy doing somersaults n' stuff. "Yay!" I thought, "Time to play around with the slo mo setting on my camera!"

HOLZILLA!!

LOOK OUT! SHE'S ON THE LOOSE!!

Ghost Busters (1954) Trailer

A good mate just sent me this.
It's a work of genius!

NTB Iconic Icons - Bob Dylan

I've posted the new National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons episode in the NTOB section on the right hand side of the page.

It's the box at the bottom that looks like it's empty, it's not, just hit play or follow the divshare link. This weeks icon.... Bob Dylan.

The BBC website labels this as 1 of 3 episodes and also mentions that it's an occasional series. I'm guessing that means it's not on every week. I'll keep my eyes open for the next one.

SOEXCITEDSOEXCITEDSOEXCITED!!!!

Just some more pics...

The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons!

Iconic Icons Wed 29 Jul 2009 18:30 BBC Radio 4!

I was in the audience! It was a boiling hot day and VERY uncomfortable in the venue. The show was fab though! Very interesting to see a radio comedy recorded, it all seemed very low rent. I guess you don't really need that much, just a room with good acoustics and a couple of microphones!

Just some pics....

Tunes I Like Right Now...New!

I've cleared out all the old tracks from the "Tunes I Like Right Now" player and posted some new ones.

They are.....

Films - Gary Numan (you can never get enough of the Numanoid!)

An Ending (ascent) - Brian Eno

A Duck Is One Mean Machine - Cassetteboy

I Lived On The Moon - Kwoon

In For The Kill - La Roux (the 80's are back!)