A couple of things I stumbled across

That are probably more interesting to you guys.

1) Gish, seems to be a shareware platfrom game that just happens to look awesome.

GISH!


Hmmm a bit more investigation shows this might have been created by the guys behind Pontifex A game whos object was to build a bridge across a river, strong enough to withstand a train. boring I hear you say.. well wait till you find yourself lying awake at night trying to figure out whether a suspension or tension bridge is better suited.....

2) Golf Question Mark, I saw this one a while back & don't think I got around to posting it. looks like a fairly bent version of a gold game but some of the screenshots make me all watery in the pants



3) Blogs are pretty weird, I tend to think of them only in the terms of TML, which is awesome. however recently I stumbled across Coop's blog. Coop I may here you ask, who's that. well if you're not familiar with the name you'll definatley be familiar with his artwork, he's done heaps of posters for bands over the years, best of all is the paintblogging entries he's got up where he breaks down his processes in creating some of this art, hopefully it will be interesting to others as well...

Now I have just realised this is possibly the least offensive post I've ever created & I'm a bit worried about that, so to jazz it up a bit enjoy a section of Coops paintblogging..



& let's all await Stomps cries of "MY JOB MY JOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!"

The Shining Alternate Trailer

I want to see this guy re-edit Akira into a pleasant Anime romp through post-apocolyptic Tokyo

PSP users rejoice

Whether or not you guys care, and though it has not impact on me at this time, there is some exciting news regarding PSP firmware revisions.

Originally PSPs were released with firmware that allowed the running of unsigned code, i.e. homebrew apps, pirated games, things like that. Sony released a new firmware (2.0) that locked this out, just in time for the European release, and older ones became very hard to find.

Amusing things began to happen while people tried to figure out how to downgrade the firmware. One bunch started taking paypal donations, but then pulled the plug and ran off with the cash. The details of this tale are fuzzy but from reports it seems one evil dude fucked it up for the others.

Anyway, you couldn't downgrade the firmware, and some games coming out required that you UPGRADE before you could play them. So Sony were fucking everyone in the pie-hole. But someone figured out that in the image viewer there was an exploit as it loads thumbnails and somehow go it to run code. Thusly you can now downgrade your PSP firmware whenever required.

This is exciting for me, very. I had been meaning to post a bunch of shit about the PSP, links etc, and now is as good a time as any :)

PSP Updates - Daily happiness

Cr4gP4lmers PSP Homebrew Packs - Dude who's bundled homebrew emulator loaders with customised graphics etc, to make it easy for dipshits like me. (i.e. EVERY emulator you can think of up to, and including, the PSOne...)

oopo.net/consoledev and PS2Dev.org - Programming libraries, tutes and so on for the PSP

coolrom.com - ROMs, Mwahahahaha!

There's also a shotload of people pumping out Magazines, Comics, Beatbox Tutes, Pr0n, and other wacky shit that keeps me warm at night.

Go buy one, it'll make you happy.

EDIT: It was that released the downgrader, and are aparrently ex-members of the group that fucked people out of their cash. In any case, I though I should give them credit. And their logo's pretty.

Star Wars

The way it was meant to be.

This one's for 8Ball

Cover Buddy

Browse your iTunes library by album cover art, sweet.

And they've set it up so you can use the web-browser in your PSP over wireless and run the show from there, making the PSP the most expensive stereo remote EVER.



w00t!

Holy Fuckpants

I do believe this may be the coolest controller ever. Fuck the new Nintendo controller, who cares if it's a wireless gyroscopic love machine? At least with this no-one will ever actually come and tell you you play too many games:

Ozzfest and Maiden

My respect for Maiden just went up x1000 after reading this. A mate forwarded it on. Bruce is a true legend. I'll still listen to my old Sabbath, but I'm starting to think Sharon Osbourne is the Yoko of metal.

Naruto

Since Skaffen went to Japan and brought back rad manga and I started downloading manga in earnest, all anyone talks about on those sites and forums is Naturo. All I knew until a few days ago is that it's about ninjas. I got down a huge torrent of scanlated manga some time ago, finally got around to checking it out a few days back, and oops I'm hopelessly addicted. It has the charm of Battle Angel Alita (nearly) and the radness of Ninja Scroll, but the ninjas have radder powers. Like insanely cool powers. There's great characters, bad guys, it's like Jojo - another great manga, in that the story involves rad bad guys with sick powers and cool underdog heroes to barrack for.


GIFT FOR SKAFFEN - a link to page with torrent for first 25 episodes of naruto formatted for PSP jap audio eng subs.

The manga is unreal, I'm yet to see the anime. Apparently the subbed anime is rad, but the dubbed version, which just started on Cartoon Network in the US, and I am downloading the first episode, is not so great, though they say it's not as bad as the dubbed version of One Piece. I dont mind One Piece dubbed, the art is so cool it doesnt matter, and sometimes it's nive to watch dubbed anime and not have to read at the speed of sound, you can just kick back and enjoy it.

Wow what a shit post that Fantomas review was....

In an attempt to make up for my drunken post from last night (shittest review evah) I offer this ...



^^^ Click that ^^^

Tuesday 4th of October the Melvins are playing a live version of their 93 album Houdini (I'd have to check the year, I think thats about right) in London. There is obviously no possible fucking way I can make it, but I can gaurentee it would be an awesome fucking gig. I suggest Skaff, you get tickets, drag along whatever gay poms you can find & show them what it is to rock to a fat man with extrodanairy hair (no not Stomp).

KING BUZZO

Huh what BAZZING!!!

Well I just came back from my yearly venture to St Kilda's Palace to see Fantomas, I've been on a steady 5 year plan of seeing the Melvins & Pantsomas on alternating years, the round up of this years gig is as follows

Even though Fantomas fall into the miniscule genre of art noise metal I wish that the 'art' section didn't involve sitting in the Palace front bar for 2.5 hours waiting for them to come on. See they never have supports. In theory it works cause who the fuck would want to try & warm up a band consisting of members of Faith No More, Mr Bungle the Melvins & Slayer. fucking hell you'd end up standing on stage yelling at yourself to get the fuck off stage & let Fantomas on...

so yeah, a pissweak DJ of some form usually serves as support & they invariably BLOW, this years was particularly bad,

Several $6.25 VB cans later Fantomas have done with the 'Art' section & proceed to move onto the noise, ,metal section called 'the show'

The first fantomas album was mind blowing, the second album was nose blowing & the third album was ass sucking. however we're up to album 4 & this one is by far the best. What never ceases to amaze me is the Fantomas's ability to pull off the dischordant racket live 100% perfectly, but they do.

Overall I give the show 8.5 "I hope the Melvins tour with Jello Biafra next year's" out of 10

& Skaff, go to Camden Market on Sunday & buy metal T-shirts... LOTS OF THEM...

Email: What the fuck is going on?

Hello gents,

Have any of you received an email from me in the past two weeks? I have sent tests to all three of you from both gmail and hotmail accounts, plus a few other people, and I have a sinking feeling they are not going through.
I know for a fact that some of them aren't and I am at a total loss as to why, cause some others are receiving them.

Frustrating as fuck is how I would describe this current predicament.

Bastards:

THE SCORPIONS

I got a Scorpions best of compilation and it is awesome. (Note: avoid their most recent album, I don't think I have ever deleted something so fast. It was terrible.) Anyway they rip into 4 rocking classics, including the ball-tearingly rocking "Rock You like a Hurricane", and then they masterfully slip into a seductive ballad - gentlemen use the power of this CD to bed women, you will find that Scorpions cover art is actually like an instruction manual, and your pants will be magnetised with seduction energy. The ladies will be drawn to your pants and actually become stuck to them like a giant magnet - just like the album covers suggest. I always thought those covers were stupid, but now I know it's a word to the wise which transcends all language barriers (a good idea too, because the singer's German accent is often unintelligble.) And the message is this: Play this cd in your car and you will get more fuck than you can handle.

Then they rip into a few more hard rocking numbers which act as a soundtrack for you to have wild sex to. Then more ballads while you smoke a cigarette, and rock again to back you up while you scream at the bitch to get you a beer/breakfast/hand you your pants. I wish I had realised the power of this band's music when I was younger, I was actually too young when I got into them (13.) If I had only known, as a teen I would have been able to tear through womankind like a sexual natural disaster.

ROCK!

bendy talky paper stuff

What the wobbly is going on here?

ROME

The Sopranos was like The Godfather, Deadwood a western, ROME is the equivalent for The Gladiator. Get on the bandwagon now, episode one only screened in the US a few days ago and the HDTV avi is out on the torrent sites. I only wish I had got on board with Deadwood at episode 1, but I guess I can catch up on DVD like I am with The Shield.

The wife and I are only halfway thru episode 1 of ROME (1 hour eps, YAY!) and it's instantly a new favourite. "Visceral" is a good word for it. Violence, fucking, and while you can hardly call it "realistic" when they speak with various English accents, it's "rich" - as fuck. The HDTV rip is better than my TV reception, I notice some frame "stutter" in the title sequence but only because I'm looking for it, it's certainly not an issue during the show, and running the sound out of the PC into a stereo it sounds better than my TV. Old news to you guys who probably use your PCs as a media center already, but exciting for me to have a new weekly show to watch on the PC setup.

To be added
- LOST season 2 when it starts in the US, no doubt months before here
- SOPRANOS next and probably final season
- please help me build on this list of quality downloadable TV

Dead Leaves - anime "review"

If like me you sometimes get the mood to sit down for some anime, but find the videos rarely live up to the covers and are often nonsensical and eventually boring, you'll find this a refreshing change. It's like the action in Bisley's Lobo and ABC warriors work animated, the most Bislified anime I've seen. Heavily stylised, the colour is pushed almost too far for my liking but I guess they took it as far as they could go. The action is flat chat and delerious, who cares if the story doesn't make sense. Well worth a look, and it's everywhere you find anime.

As a side note, this production company did Blood: The Last Vampire (3D sets, 2D animation, beautiful) and the animation in KILL BILL