King Kong (1976)
King Kong (1933)
Mad Hot Ballroom
I didn’t want to like this movie. Fifteen minutes in and I had made up my mind that this was just Spellbound meets The School Around the Corner by way of Come Dancing and I was too old and too cynical to be taken in by such a cheap ploy.
But then, around the [...]
King Kong
I’m a total sucker for theme parks. When I was fifteen, my family went on holiday to Florida, home of a thousand theme parks, and I made sure we saw every single one of them. But the thing I love about theme parks isn’t so much the rides themselves but the atmosphere created around each ride. For example, when you’re queuing for the ‘Jaws’ ride in Universal, the queue takes you through Quint’s boathouse. This is a perfectly realised model of the boathouse from the movie, with hundreds of incidental details dotted around the to help convince you that you are actually in a movie.
Video for Why?’s new single “Rubber Traits”
Video for Why?’s new single “Rubber Traits”
I am completely in love with this video. It suits the song so well.
Video for Why?’s new single “Rubber Traits”
Video for Why?’s new single “Rubber Traits”
I am completely in love with this video. It suits the song so well.
Video for Why?’s new single “Rubber Traits”
Video for Why?’s new single “Rubber Traits”
I am completely in love with this video. It suits the song so well.
Ghostwatch
Found a copy of Ghostwatch lurking in Tower records the other day. 13 years since its first (and only) broadcast, it still manages to scare the pants off me.
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Mario Kart DS and Clearwire
I picked up a copy of Mario Kart for the DS over the weekend and have been having a great time ploughing through the 50cc and 100cc tournaments. How quickly my muscle memory has returned! Even cuter is the inclusion of some ‘retro’ tracks - courses I haven’t played since my SNES [...]
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
My girlfriend tells me that the reason she rarely wants to go to the cinema any more is because she’s become disillusioned with movies. This comes from sitting through the near-endless amount of dirge on show this summer. And you don’t register a domain like “low brow culture dot com” without being [...]
Irish celebrities sell their doodles for charity
Irish celebrities sell their doodles for charity
Freud would have a field day.
The Hudsucker Proxy
Murderball
Threads
The Brothers Grimm
I’m a huge fan of Gilliam, but I had heard enough about this movie to know what to expect - Gilliam at his most mediocre. But to be fair, the movie isn’t nearly as bad as people are making out. It’s got a lot of dud moments, far more than any other Gilliam movie [...]
Dead Meat
Released under the Irish Film Board’s recent ‘microbudget movie’ scheme, Conor McMahon’s Dead Meat attempts to drag Ireland’s horror movie output from the ditch it was thrown in and left in to die by the insufferably bad Rawhead Rex. And although it was clearly lovingly crafted with a definite knowledge of the genre, [...]
Hands on with the Xbox 360
Smyths of Jervis Street have set up an Xbox 360 pod in their games section. The pod consists of an Xbox 360 in a perspex dome, a beautiful Samsung LCD screen and a couple of controllers. Altogether, these must cost a couple of grand a piece. Very nice pieces of kit.
But [...]
Clearwire: Initial Report
I’ve had a weekend or so to play with Clearwire. Here’s what I’ve noticed:
Speed
According to the Irish ISP speed test, I’m getting 2MB down, and approximately 300kb up. Sharing this among two computers isn’t much of a stretch: my girlfriend was able to comfortably run Software Update on her iBook (which hadn’t [...]
Journey Escape for the Atari 2600
Journey Escape for the Atari 2600
“You must lead all 5 members of Journey through waves of pesky characters and backstage obstacles to the Scarab Escape Vehicle before time runs out.”
Broadband at last!
Reports are coming in of a working broadband installation in my apartment. Rumour has it that my girlfriend rang up the guys in Clearwire yesterday and they delivered the modem today - she just plugged it in and away she went.
(Incidentally, right now, her IRC conversation consists of “SO HAPPY”, “THIS IS THE [...]
