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Found this and thought it was quite funny and VERY clever.

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YouTube - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb - Live 8.

Feels like me sometimes

I have a new obsession. Planet Rock Radio Station.

They broadcast online and I have spent the last three weeks listening virtually everyday. I think I have heard maybe ten songs in all that time that I didn’t like, not bad for a station that has very few ad breaks and only has a three minute news break at the top of the hour.

Planet Rock first came to my attention when GCAP (the original owners) tried to close it down. Malcolm Bluemel and a constortium of rock luminaries including Tony Iommi, Ian Anderson, Gary Moore and Fish have taken over and more power to them as they haven’t tried to mess with a winning formula.

The station broadcasts 24 hours a day but only has djs between 6am and 11pm. I am not sure if you can hear the station outside the the UK but give it a try you never know it may just work.

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I had heard of this bit for a while and was told it was a classic so here it is.

This past Friday we all went out to see a Bon Jovi tribute band. It was a good night out. The band sounded hot, the singer was not an exact copy but you could definitely give him kudos for trying… if not trying a little to hard at times. The affected American ac cent he insisted on using all night began to grate after a while. I guess he was trying to give the audience a full “Bon Jovi Experience”, but once you have heard the Jon Bon Jovi speak either in an interview or in concert then you know what he sounds like and no amount of trying is going to replicate that.

What I did dig was the use of links between songs that the band had used themselves, it bought back memories of when I had seen them live. It was uncanny at times I knew what he was going to say and, at times, sing before he did.

What pleased me more than anything though was getting to hear a live band (any band) sing Raise Your Hands and Never Say Goodbye live. Those two songs are real stand outs from the Slippery When Wet album that I have never seen or heard performed live by Bon Jovi. So when they kicked in I was clapping my ass off in thanks.

It was a great night out, something we don’t get to often. The next night out will be a Pink Floyd Tribute band Great Gig In The Sky at the end of July.

On Saturday Linda and I went to her works Lu au (I am letting spell check loose on that one). It too was an OK night.. I really don’t like thing like that especially as I knew no one there… mind you having said that.. the lovely ladies of Morrisons seem to like me as I have never been kissed as much by so many different women than I was that night… well at least since i was a cute chubby baby.. but then they just wanted to “… Just eat my cheeks up whole….”
I got to meet Linda good work friend Mary and her husband and her daughter and good friend from London Ryan. I am lousy at names but they seemed like really good people. So that was a good point of the whole eveneing.. I even got to take a snakebite bath towards the end of the night… Snake bite for those not in the know is English Cider and Beer with Blackcurrant juice mixed together and it’s lethal when drunk in large quantities… luckily I saved them a hangover when someone poured a whole pitcher of the stuff over me.

Yesterday was Lindas’ birthday and we got her a DS and a couple of Brain Training games to go with it.. that should keep her quiet and occupied when she is on her own. We had a chinese meal for dinner and we all seemed to enjoy it… even if the Pancake rolls were rank leftovers that shouldn’t be fed to a pig let alone a human being… not bad for a meal from a new takeaway that we hadn’t used before.. you live and learn as they say.

Well that me up to date for now.

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It was a weird Sunday, it snowed, it rained, it shined, it blew. It did all of that just on Sunday morning.

Linda had the day off so after we all got up and watched the Malaysian Grand Prix we went back to bed… I did cook a rather nice breakfast during the last quarter of the race but it was all over bar the shouting by then anyway. Hamilton did well considering the crapy deals he was dealt throughout the race.

Once we all got back up and were awake we decided on making Easter Sunday a Chocolate and Movie Day.

First movie up was 2007 Beowulf. The animated version, not the pants Sci Fi channel one.

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The movie itself is shot for 3D cinema viewing and some would say that it doesn’t really work for the small screen, I disagree. You don’t need all the bells and whistles of 3D to see the mega amount of work that went into the animation of this movie. The voice work is excellent. From Ray Winstones Beowulf who was rather insistent that he was “… There to Kill their MONSTER”, to the Gollumised(ack) language of Grendal it all worked for me and even Mum and Linda commented on the great casting.
The Story is the same story that is always told can’t really change a historical story can you? I don’t know much about the original story but it was more fleshed out that the aforementioned Sci Fi version. It expanded on the story behind Beowulfs Tryst with Grendals Mother.

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Thsi was definatly the better movie of the two we watched on Sunday. The second movie being the Uwe Boll craptastic In The Name Of The King - A Dungeon Siege Story.

This film is basically a sword and sorcery rip off movie. It rips on every decent fantasy movie that has been released in the last ten years. It’s biggest rip is Lord of the Rings. It seems that Boll has tried to cram over 12 hours of LOTR into 100 minutes of In The Name.
The Krul are rips of the Orcs
Jason Stathems Character is a combination of Frodo and Aragorn
The Krul on Horses are rips of the Ring Wraiths.

It was just a mess there were no redeeming features of this film at all. One wonders why such stars as Ray Liotta and John Rhys-Davies were thinking when they signed up for this mess. Oh well I tried it and for once I found next to nothing amusing about this film. Here are a couple of pics for the film:

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That’s about it for me on this one.

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Well, the picture of Jon Bon Jovi went down well. I have been musing about where to go from there and well….. I am fucked if I know. Have a Video while I ponder the next step. By the way.. I was at this show and it was bloody hot.. i had third degree sun burn on my forehead.. I looked like a Klingon for a week and a half.

Here is Hey God by Bon Jovi Live at Wembley in 1995 on the These Days Tour

It’s been a while (again) since I posted. If anyone is still reading (WAVE) thanks for sticking around and sorry for not updating more often. I have been up to… well not a lot really but I have some stuff to talk about.

Music

It’s amazing that I go through stages of listening to music and stages of what I listen to. Lately I have gotten back to my musical roots, Heavy Metal. Iron Maiden, I forgot how good they were. I have listened to their whole catalogue two or three times over in the past couple of months. I had forgotten how deep their music could be and how throw away it can be. It depends on my mood. If i just want noise around I’ll stick on Live After Death or Piece of Mind. If i want deep and meaningful I’ll put on Powerslave or A Matter of Life or Death (newest album). It’s great to have a bands extensive canon to be able to dig into.
Other bands that have been on my play list are Whitesnake, AC DC, Muse and Queensryche. There are loads more but I won’t bore you.

Movies

The Simpson’s Movie. I don’t think I have laughed as much at a film in ages. I was amazed that they could take a 30 minute tv show and fill out 90 odd minute movie and have it hold the humour of the short version. I think The Simpson’s movie did what the Family Guy movie didn’t. The family guy movie seemed like it was just four episodes of the show stuck together with a very tenuous links linking them. I enjoyed the F G movie but it didn’t stand a chance against the Simpson’s Movie.

Gadgets

I have gone gadget made lately. I have a new phone The Samsung G600, it’s a nofty phone and as Linda says It’s sexy (I don’t see it but maybe it’s a chick thing.. ) I also got a new mp3 player the creative Zen v plus. It’s tiny… hope i don’t loose it.

That’s about it from me for now. Hope I update again soon.

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Oh Yeah… I am off to the USA on the 8th of October… yay a HOLIDAY… I need it