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Attention gang members! You can now have your favourite team in your own gang colours, thanks to New Era's New Era By You service. Any logo, any colour, any stitching. That's the chimp-certified edition above.

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16th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Cornelius v Salyu X Salyu

Missed this last year, looks like missing-in-action chimp-lover Cornelius has collaborated on S(o)un(d)beams, an album with singer Salyu (aka Lily Chou-Chou) - first full-length project since 2006's Sensuous? His Twitter feed @corneliusjapan is mostly in Japanese obviously, but it's worth checking the links if you're a fan 

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5th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Cheeta

Hats off to the original chimp - Cheeta. Keeping it real 1921-2011.

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28th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Star Status: Peter Weir

How does Peter Weir rate in the Chimpomatic Star Status Movie Maths Generator?

It's 10 points for a Hit, 5 for a Maybe and 1 for a Miss... No TV movies or shorts, just cinema releases to date.

After re-watching Dead Poet's Society recently, for the first time since its release, I was struggling to think of a non-spectacular film by Australian director Peter Weir.

A quick disclaimer: I haven't personally seen early efforts Three To Go or The Last Wave but IMDB rates them 8.2 and 7.1 - so I've erred on the side of caution (due to their enthusiastic rating) and rated them Hit / Maybe here.

The Way Back (2010) MAYBE
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) HIT
The Truman Show (1998) HIT
Fearless (1993) HIT
Green Card (1990) HIT
Dead Poets Society (1989) HIT
The Mosquito Coast (1986) HIT
Witness (1985) HIT
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) HIT
Gallipoli (1981) HIT
The Last Wave (1977) MAYBE
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) HIT
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) MAYBE
Three to Go (1971) (segment "Michael") HIT

HIT 11
MISS 0 
MAYBE 3 

Another disclaimer: No generosity applied to these ratings, with the possible exception of The Year of Living Dangerously, which is perhaps merely 'good'.

So that's 125 points out of a possible 140.

Peter Weir: you have scored an unbelievable 89.3%

If you dare make a purchase (and, er I think you should), you can do so here, allowing Chimpomatic to profit from his success. Check back soon for more Star Status movie maths. Same Chimp Channel, same Chimp Time...

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23rd Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Van Morrison - Streets Of Arklow

Thanks to Dr Chimp for this excellent live footage of Van Morrison playing Streets Of Arklow from 1974, the year Veedon Fleece was released. Love the loose feel to it all, Van's timing amazing as ever

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6th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: PJ20

Trailer up for PJ20, a film pulled together from 20 years of archive footage by Cameron Crowe, to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of chimp favourites Pearl Jam.

Watch in HD over at Apple.

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3rd Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Rewind: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

thanks to Dr Chimp for reminding us of the excellent intro to the 1979 TV version; the new one's got a lot to live up to, glad to see they haven't modernised it

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1st Jul 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

Keep Watching The Skies

as any of you who've flown Chimp Air know, we're always watching the skies, but it looks like @stefmara has won that game: she tweeted these pics of the shuttle from her iPhone 

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18th May 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

Double Denim

We've been digging White Denim's new album "D" at Chimp Towers, but as usual they have extras in store for the loyal fan. Pre-order from Record Store for a mystery bonus disc.

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30th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: 500 Days of Community Mash Up

Nice mash-up of chimp-approved US sitcom "Community" and 500 Days of Summer.

Via @JoelMcHale

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27th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: The Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap

a song about secret handshakes. stick around for the burning chimp at the end

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3rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Monkeys

New, chimp-friendly short up from bluetongue films - the collective behind Animal Kingdom and Hesher, as well as numerous outstanding short films.

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1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Chimpomatic 5000

just noticed that we've hit the 5000 news items mark here on Chimpomatic. thanks for stopping by over the last decade, stick around for more chimp-based diversions… as a little bonus, here's the first track from the new TV On The Radio album

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24th Feb 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

This Year's Biggest Pictures

As the end of the year approaches, The Big Picture have curated part one of their annual pictures of the year article. Some great photos as usual.

It's not all chimp friendly vistas of Hong Kong skylines and snowboarding however, with earthquakes dominating this year's selection.

UPDATE: Part 2 of 3 can be found here.

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15th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Irvin Kershner

More sad news today, director Irvin Kershner has died. In many ways he's a little known director, but to every chimp he is the man responsible for lifting the Star Wars saga from 'blockbuster' to 'epic'. His fantastic touch on The Empire Strikes Back elevated Star Wars into a totally different league, with classy assured direction and some beautifully storyboarded scenes - particularly those light on effects. A true master.

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29th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Fire up the Chimp-O-Matic?!

not quite sure what to make of this until we've talked to our Chimp-o-lawyers (especially as we're lovers, not fighters), but there's a Chimp-O-Matic weapon in PS3 game Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time 

"The Chimp-o-Matic was a weapon that turned enemies into chimpanzees and, according to its demonstration video, was originally designed as a party gag by bored GrummelNet engineers. Robotic enemies were turned into toy monkeys with cymbals, while organic enemies turned into normal chimps."

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30th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet