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  4. Posted

    So I'm definitely going to Eurogamer on the Friday. I'll be missing the sanctioned Thumbs meet, in favour of Blue Velvet, but I'm going to the Show & Yell thing.

    I'll be around Brick Lane on the Saturday, so if there's any sort of residual Thumbs thing for the Saturday, I might be up for that.

    Maybe we can get a hold of some ice cream vans, brew up some molotovs, and let loose in Shoreditch?

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    Yeah, it's sad, but the wave has totally crashed for me. As a amusing as it was dicking around on it, I just can't even be bothered to sign in to it anymore... What's the point?

    They need to integrate it with normal email.

    I think they're planning to (with limited functionality, of course) in the end. I'm not sure, that feature-length video was pretty dense with material.

    I was enjoying the Thumb Wave, but I understand that there wasn't much to keep it going. Still think that once one or two of my friends / my girlfriend get on there, it will pretty much replace our current communication, which is a haphazard mix of IM, email and copious link anyway.

  11. Posted

    And as far as Idle playing with the Roots...what exactly is so distasteful about that? They're the house band on the show. You've got a solo musician who's going to play a song, and an entire band whose running function in that scenario is to provide accompaniment. Is there something wrong there?

    I was joking (and didn't say it was 'distasteful') about the whimper, and I understand that it comes with The Roots position as the house band. I was more playing on the cheeky, out-of-context silliness of the two names appearing together.

    That said, it felt much stiffer than the rest of the show (which I had no real problem with), and you had the odd ending of the other 3 Pythons sitting around with not much to do.

    And, well, I really don't like 'Always Look on The Bright Side of Life', and most of Idle's songs. So I suppose that comes into it.

  14. Posted

    I'm guessing this is happening.

    As with the last couple of weeks, I have a lecture, but that's finished by 7.30pm. Just received an email that there's going to be a screening of Fritz Lang's M right afterwards, as a link with the lecture ('Talkies'). Bit of a bother, as I've already seen the film, own it on DVD and I'm looking forward to running down Action Shakespeare... on the other hand, hm, any extra contact time makes this course less of a waste of money.

    So, either I'm there in full effect, or I'll turn up for the last 30 minutes.

  16. Posted

    (excluding Through the Fire and Flames, which I never need to hear again).

    Hey, I take it back, because of Wikipedia!

    The game is set within a fictional "Age of Metal" where every element of the graphic and audio design is intended to capture the essence of heavy metal. The song's appearance is a tribute to the place of itself and Dragonforce in the canon of heavy metal. [citation needed]

    Also, I think that the majority of the late-70s and 80s choices are too selective and not-obvious (I love the Motorhead and Judas Priest selections, definitely) for them to be constrained by budget, so I would guess that those eras are Schafer's/the music co-ordinator's periods of choice. I'm sure they would have been able to afford a Deep Purple track a least - especially if they can afford songs like The Beautiful People, which mustn't be a cheap one.

    Man, I'm going far too deep into this. That line - while it's quite a punchline, and made me laugh both in the demo and the full game - does seem a little incongruous, given the tracklist. I'll stop now.

  17. Posted · Edited by Nevsky

    Although it is a pity that there is only one song by both Anthrax and Slayer, to me it seems that they should have more of them, particularly with 'thrax being pretty much perfect driving music.

    I agree that it's good there's no Maiden or Metallica, but I have mixed feelings about the Slayer and Anthrax. One of the one hand, yeah, I would have loved more by them, but on the other, I'm pretty happy that they went with slightly obscure choices off their earlier (less well regarded) albums.

    There's the chance that if they went for stuff off the bigger albums, you'd end up with yet another game with 'Raining Blood' in. I generally don't skip the songs in Brutal Legend, but when bloody 'Through the Fire and Flames' comes on, I have to. It's not a bad song, and perfectly suited for the game, but I've heard it more than enough for one lifetime.

    Also a little puzzled that, in the opening cut-scene, Eddie says he wishes he had been alive in the 'early 70s', yet there's very little much from around then, Budgie and Sabbath aside. It's much more NWOBHM, or Thrash.

    Still, I like the soundtrack a lot, on the whole.

    For the record, I love the use of Ministry's 'Thieves'. Awesome.

  20. Posted

    I started a wave with myself, but I don't think that's the point...

    I'm michael.leader.

    Right now I feel like the guy with the first telephone.

    I know what you mean. To be honest, I think Wave will be awesome with on friend of mine. He's the only person I IM with nowadays, and we send often crazy branching emails at each other, so the Wave will help us keep track of things.

    At the moment, though, it's tumbleweed central.

  22. Posted

    A friend suggested we see Halloween 2, then realized it would be a sequel to the remake and therefore probably rubbish. Another friend asked whether that just made it a remake of the original sequel (borderline oxymoron?), and he explained that it didn't, as the remake deviated a fair amount from the original. I suggested that it would be amusing to do a series of remakes where each film takes a film in the original series as a starting point, and deviates to a similar degree to the first Halloween remake. You'd have a confusing string of unconnected films that each nonetheless seem like they should be in some non-existent sequence. Dumb things amuse me.

    Sort of like the chain of Romero remakes? Admittedly, the original films had little connecting them other than Romero and an increasingly hilarious bluff regarding inconsistent technology and anachronisms - but Night of the Living Dead 1990, Dawn of the Dead 2004 and Day of the Dead 2008 (straight to DVD with Mena Suvari) have no links with each other, and often very little in common with the films they're supposed to be based on.

  23. Posted

    You review films for a living?! Who for? (Colour me an extremely green shade of jealous.)

    Not much of a living at the moment, but I do a lot of writing, yeah. Most of my stuff is for http://www.denofgeek.com. I've written for other places, mainly about films and video games (biggest coup there being an article on Gamasutra). Trying to work my way up, and all that. I keep my blog updated with all of my articles and so on.

    Er, enough self-promotion. Hey, video games films!

  24. Posted

    2 films I'm interested in:

    Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnussus.

    Can our American cousins offer any insight?

    Both of those films are getting UK release before they're screened widely in America -- so we have to make up our own minds for a change!

    Fantastic Mr. Fox had its

    at the London Film Festival last night. I didn't go, but I covered the press conference - which had George Clooney, Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson and Jarvis Cocker in attendance. That was a crazy conference - with shedloads of idiotic gossip mag questions, mostly directed at Clooney.

    I saw the film on Monday, but I've signed an embargo for the 19th. This is particularly frustrating in retrospect, as there are several reviews from sites big and small that have been popping up since.

  25. Posted

    That is incredimetal.

    I really like this avatar, and it still holds up after the 6 or 7 years since it was made - I was just joshing around about any submerged issues. Should have had an 'I'm Kidding!' sig for that one.

    Incidentally, it's dreadfully close to the depiction of Shaggy on the cover of the new Scooby Doo video game (in fact, Shaggy's hair is closer to mine at the moment). From now on, I'm going to be wary of wearing green t-shirts in game shops.