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Trailer Park: The Ghost Writer
Roman Polanski's run of great movies again looks unlikely to continue, with this clunky looking thriller for The Ghost Writer, starring a host of Brits doing terrible Brit accents (Ewan MacGregor and Kim Cattrall, I'm talking to you).
16th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Vote!
If you were voting for the policies and not the man, where should you actually place your cross? Take the Vote for policies poll and you'll find out, although judging by the attached chart it could be true that Green voters like doing online polls....
16th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Twitter has pegged Monday as the re-opening date of the East London Line. Test trains buzzing in and out of New Cross on a regular basis.
15th Apr 2010
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Double Black Mountain
Perennial chimp favourites Black Mountain are playing the T In The Park festival in July and will follow the monster festival with two tiny shows at London's Lexington (tickets here).
See you down the front.
Even better new comes from their blog: "The band are currently putting the finishing touches to their third album, the follow-up to 2008's acclaimed 'In The Future'."
15th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Life At Google
Interesting slice of life at Google over at newly-hired Tim Bray's blog.
Via Gawker.
15th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Anatomy of a car crash
Nice article from Wired about film maker Arev Manoukian's career-launching short film Nuit Blanche, which saw him get picked up by the William Morris Agency.
14th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Time Tube
Nice YouTube mash-up at Time Tube, which pulls together clips related to your search word and places them on a contextual timeline. 'Barack Obama' is a good place to start.
14th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Herbert One One
new "solo" project from Matthew Herbert One One is out, and v good... hot like a house on fire!
fire it up here:
itunes amazon accidental records direct
14th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Band of Horses vs The National
The highly-anticipated new albums from favourites The National and Band of Horses seem to be in something of a space race. BoH followed The National's free Bloodbuzz Ohio download with an mp3 of their own - Compliments. Now both bands have loaded up a second preview - Laredo from Band of Horses and Afraid of Everyone from The National.
The National definitely have their man in space first, but let's hope Band of Horses are holding something back for the moon landing. So far it sounds somewhat predictably like a low-key-down-home-jamming-round-the-campfire album... An up-to-$99 campfire album, judging by their new self-selling website.
14th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Star Wars Uncut
The crowd-sourced remake of Star Wars is 'finished'. The film stiches together scenes from hundreds of fan-recreated elememts to fill out the entire original original movie. Better than Attack of the Clones ....but it's not even widescreen.
That's the trailer above and a scene called 'The Escape' below. See more on the project's website.
Via Wired
13th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spotify Plus
The developer community is building around Spotify's platform - as noted by their recent community awards. Playlistify was the overall winner, allowing you to convert an iTunes playlist into a Spotify one. Minus the songs they don't have - which is still proving to be their weak link.
You can see a Spotify clickable export of the Chimpomatic master library here. Although it's a couple of months out of date. Will send word down to the tech basement requesting an update.
13th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Awful First Dates
"We met at a bar, and after a few hours, he came home with me. We started to make out, and he called me “Melissa”–not even close. Then he stands up, runs to the bathroom but doesn’t make it, projectile vomiting all over the hallway and into my roommates’ closet and shoes..."
funny collection of awful first dates
13th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
In The Loop
Entertaining big-screen outing for 'The Thick Of It' crew, with added Tony Soprano.
13th Apr 2010
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South Park 200 - Boing Boing interview
it's showing in the UK this Friday, Comedy Central
13th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
World Tour of Japan 2010
It's long overdue, but I've slung up a load of photos from me and BC's recent Japan tour - mostly inane photos of Japanese stickmen, but also a few other bits and some snow videos. Enjoy.
12th Apr 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Erasing David
Interesting surveillance doc - you can run but can you hide? cinemas from April 29th; More 4 on 4th May.
See the film's website here, the website set up by the private eyes chasing him here (Spoliers!) and the private eyes' own site here.
12th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
You Played Yourself
Ice T still got it. Aimee Mann just felt his wrath.
12th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
#Spotted: Duck Phillips from Mad Men as the wimpy public school lieutenant in 'Platoon'.
11th Apr 2010
Read on Twitter#Spotted: Twitter's 124 characters can't cover the amount of cameos in 'Black Hawk Down'. Ari Gold and Aaron from 24 are two...
11th Apr 2010
Read on Twitter#Spotted: A very young Maryann Forrester and a young Hank Moody in 'Kalifornia'.
10th Apr 2010
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loved the all-Desmond ep on last night's Lost, with his bonus Hulk/Watchmen refs
10th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
@lucypope saw some in Tokyo (http://twitpic.com/1eeb73), but didn't buy any. Love the nod with the packaging.
10th Apr 2010
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RIP: Malcolm McLaren
Sex Pistols manager and misc trouble maker Malcolm McLaren has died, aged 64.
8th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Digital Economy Bill Slips Through In Wash-Up
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8th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
