So, it’s been 6 months since I placed the order but I’m finally up to 16 meg broadband. Can’t say I’ve noticed any difference so far, but am anticipating that I won’t have to wait for HD trailers to load off Apple.com anymore. W00t!
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Who will come watch the D movie with me?
I don’t know how I missed that the Tenacious D movie opens this week. And I don’t know why it is that I can’t think of a single person who would pay money to come and see it with me. Which saddens me; as it either means that it is going to be a bad film, or that none of my friends have a sense of humour. I’m going with the latter for the moment, but if anyone does want to come see it with me, let me know.
There’s too many movies I want to see on. The Prestige, Casino Royale, and the D… can I do them all in one week?
iTunes 7.0.2 – not totally sucky
Ok, the latest release of iTunes seems to have fixed some of the performance issues with v7 I blogged about recently. Skipping is greatly reduced, but the whole app still seems bloated and memory dependent. Maybe they should take a leaf out of Nullsoft‘s book and release ‘lite’ versions of the player…
If you haven’t let iTunes auto-update, I recommend you do so. Unless you’re using version 6, in which case, stick with that for the moment…!
Will it blend?
The immortal question, answered by a company that specialises in making awesome looking blenders. I don’t need a blender but I kind of want one of these now.
Great marketing stunt and very entertaining videos.
Via: Scobleizer.
Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny (CD)
My CD arrived.
Whoa.
It is a thing of awesome beauty and power.
On first listening, I wasn’t sure if they’d tried too hard with the whole comedy thing. I mean, there are some kickass funny tunes on there. But I was looking for music that rocked so hard that it would literally blow my mind. And a few listens in, I’ve realised that this is it. From the tuneful lyrical genius of ‘Dude I totally miss you’ to the adrenaline fuelled ‘Storm the gates’ to the final battle with Satan in ‘Beazleboss’… It’s all awesome. And there’s everything good about the eponymous track, too (video below).
This is truly the greatest rock band in all of human history. Jables is on my list of people I want to be like (alongside Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Kevin Smith, Carl Sagan and John Cusack).
Family blogging
My cousin Ashvina has started blogging – check it out if you’re related to me, are interested in the Malaysian music scene, or know Ash ;).
Enjoy Ash – and welcome! Any other family members blogging that I should know about? Baboo?
Sweet dreams are made of cheese?
Had a night of bad dreams last night – vivid to the point of annoyance, because you wake up and you feel like you’ve been doing stuff all night. We’d had a sibling supper in which pizza was eaten, so I wondered whether there was any truth in the story that cheese is the cause of such things. A quick google revealed no clear answer: the British Cheese Board, perhaps unsurprisingly, say there’s no truth in the story. Yahoo! Answers is clearly undecided, and disappointingly the non-neutral dreams article on Wikipedia has no reference to cheese whatsoever.
What’s the truth of the matter, I wonder?
David Armand
It is a source of some angst to me that people don’t believe my name is Armand David. I’m aware that I have two first names, and either could go in either place. But they don’t. My name is Armand. My surname is David.
Unfortunately, Google Blogsearch is now making the same mistake most people I meet make. It sent me to the below video, which is actually from the Anti-Brother. Check it out – he’s clearly gone further in life than me; I, sadly, never get to be on stage with Natalie Imbruglia.
Christmas en route
I normally get a bit frustrated with the commercialisation of Christmas; carols playing in September, lights up from August, freelance Santa Clauses job-hunting from June… but this year, due to my ongoing refusal to shop on any high street, I’ve not really noticed anything.
In part to help recover from post-holiday anticlimaxia (a well known condition), I have bought the Barenaked Ladies holiday album, which I listened to on the way in to work this morning.
Made me smile.
Of course, I then noticed the second Christmas thing of the season… An Ann Summers windowfront with a Sexy Santarina in it. It seemed somehow apt.
Borat is doing great…!
Check out the reviews! This pleases me.
The people in the small Romanian town Sacha Baron Cohen filmed in are complaining [paywall], though, as they weren’t really given enough, in their opinion, for the humiliation the film puts them through. The 73 year old woman who plays Borat’s mum was paid €30 and 200kg of concrete, which she is now using to make some repairs to her house.
If you get past the paywall for the FT, or have Saturday’s paper about, do read the full article. The mayor of the Romanian province’s comment was bizarre (and funny, given the film involved) – something like “If they got paid I am sure they are happy. Those gypsies would sell their own father.” A strange piece to read in the FT!
In the meantime, Borat is getting sued by the idiot students, has had an awesome opening weekend and you can make prank calls to your friends using the Borat soundboard. Deleted scenes are appearing on YouTube and the internet sensation continues to grow.
This movie is genius.