How does anyone manage to play guitar and drum at this pace? Moderately amused by this band… (via Pat Y).
Archive for August, 2007
Two Slingshot movie updates (quick refresher: Slingshot is the movie production house my brother founded and runs):
First, Sugarhouse, its first feature, opens in cinemas around the UK on the 24th of August. It’s a great film - you can try to win tickets and/or see where its showing via the Sugarhouse movie website. Flashalicious. Please go see it… To my friends, I’ll aim to organise some kind of evening out at the cinema to watch it. It’s an urban thriller, set in East London, and revolves around the lives of an accountant, a crackhead, and a killer. More or less in that order.
Trailer!
Exciting!!
Secondly, thank you all for your votes for Vito. HE WON!! There’s a big budget for Slingshot to make the first ever user generated film, and the Sun reported on the auditions… so its all systems go!
Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support. Watch the Slingshot blog and the Myspace Movie Mashup site for more updates!
I have started doing French lesson’s at work on Pat’s prompting, and the last one (a couple of weeks ago now) was particularly entertaining for our vibrant discussion of recent films we’d seen, including Michael Bay’s Transformers and The Simpsons movies. For reviews of those, check me out on Flixster via Facebook.
But one particularly useful thing we did was translate the Spider-Pig song into French. For anyone wondering, it goes a little something like this.
Le cochon arraigné, le cochon arraigne, il fait quel que chose qu’on cochon arraigné fait… est-ce qu’il peu balancer sur un atoile… non, il ne peu pas balancer sur un atoile, il est un cochon… regard dehors, il est le cochon arraigné…
If you think I’ve gone mad, or don’t know what I’m talking about, check out…:
Corrections to the French welcome! But what a way to learn a language! Can’t be topped.
Drew B asks if the ‘top 5′ social media tools I listed last year have changed.
In 2006, they were:
Wordpress - my blog platform
Wikipedia - everyone’s encyclopedia
RSS - which makes the news go around
Delicious - which keeps my links in check
Skype - connecting people
In 2007, they are:
Facebook - yes, you know I love it.
Google Reader / RSS - not much change there
Wordpress - or there
Twitter - Microblogging fun
Delicious - linklove still in there
I’d also add
Pokerstars
Skype - Not today. That’s a big outage.
Google Mail - Ajaxy email goodness
I am fad-tastic. In truth, not a huge shift, but social networks have really come on in the last year, and I’m a big fan of Facebook’s ‘open’ approach. How about you?
I’m loving poker at the moment. The subject line is a term for a certain type of straight draw in poker (when you get five cards in sequence for a hand) — where one card is missing. A risky hand to bet… and a wonderfully silly name for it. It’s also known as a Gutshot, which isn’t quite as dramatic a name…
James and Matt introduced me to the finer points of the game, and Damo’s playing now too… We’re on Pokerstars (I’m div6 if you want to find me)… and you can check my recent form on Sharkscope.com - a bit up and down recently…
I think I enjoy poker for the human element — they say you’re meant to play the people, not the hands you’re dealt. I’m still probably a little too conservative but am getting better and have had a decent couple of weeks of form. Looking forward to another tournament at the Gutshot, a club near Farringdon where I occasionally play live tournaments…
The atmosphere in Malaysia is very weird at the moment. There’s a huge build-up to the country’s 50th Independence day celebrations (Merdeka), but at the same time we’re standing in the wake of a considerable amount of racial and religious tension. The deputy Prime Minister, Najib, called Malaysia in Islamic state… and the government issued a gag order to stop the mainstream media from discussing it. You’d think it would be difficult to come up with something more absurd…
…and then this. A Malaysian student studying in Taiwan made a video parodying the Malaysian national anthem is under investigation by the Malaysian government, who are considering confiscating his passport and prosecuting him for sedition. The video raises controversial issues like - accusations of corruption in the Malaysian police force, referring to the morning Muslim prayers as ‘crowing’, and comments about the way the Malaysian Chinese are discriminated against in Malaysia. I’m afraid its in Hokkien and Malay, but you can view it here if you are interested.
It’s all a bit weird. Needless to say, I’m not impressed with the way Malaysia is handling these things. Fortunately, the Malaysian blogosphere is keeping the discussion going.
Been in Malaysia the last few days for my cousin’s wedding. Been amazing: lots of my cousins around, all on great form, and one of the first time in years that all my Dad’s siblings (all 7 of them!) were in the same room at the same time. Lots of, erm, singing, and an amazing quantity of quite ludicrous dancing.
My cousin set up the wedding for the morning, allowing people to sleep through the afternoon’s heat before making it to the reception in the evening. Even without my jetlag waylaying me, it was a great concept… Evening was huge fun and videos and photos will be uploaded on my return the UK. Congrats to Geets and Ivan — v. proud.
I love that my “Knife Wrench” blog post keeps getting comments, even though it was just a quick reference to a great moment in Scrubs.
Janitor = Genius.
Sorry for continued quiet. Excuses == poker, house move, cousin’s wedding, busy at work, living much of digital life on Facebook and associated plugins (including book/movie reviews etc.). For those of you who follow me here and not on the all-knowing facebook, yes, I have seen Transformers, yes, it is awesome and life-changing, and no, I don’t have a newfound respect for Michael Bay. It wasn’t that good. Also, you lot, get over to FB and add me. What’s wrong with you?
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