Friday 30 April 2010

Birthday!

So that was being a teenager. It was not as much wacky fun as the sitcoms they used to show on nickelodeon used to suggest. I never even got one wacky money making scheme of the ground, and I can't think of a single time when mistaken identity led to hilarity. Not that it wasn't awesome, because it was, it's just I was never able to sue a multinational corporation because I found a screw in my can of tuna. The most exciting thing I ever found in a can of tuna was tuna. But that was OK, because it led to a pretty exceptional sandwich.

So I guess what I am saying to myself, is... may my twenties involve many more great sandwiches.

Tuesday 27 April 2010

Jonah Hex

I love it when a film you had been taking no notice of gets an incredible trailer. When you get to sit down, and watch a trailer for a movie which meant nothing to you before, but in one hundred and fifty seconds has become somehting worth getting excited about. This is that sort of trailer. Hopefully, the movie will live up to it. I can't wait to find out.


Monday 26 April 2010

My New Hobby

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Friday 23 April 2010

Best Show Your Not Watching - April

Archer

There is something about James Bond. The way he gets all the girls, the witty puns, the gadgets, the excitement, the violence, all while visiting exotic locations and being completely self interested. And yet he is our hero because he is completely charming. James Bond, however, is not hilarious.

Archer is a spy who is not charming. He is the most self-obsessed, the most arrogant and he has more mother issues than could fill a transatlantic hydrogen airship. He is hilarious.

Each animated episode is based around some mission becoming available for the ISIS intelligence service, with Archer usually being the agent assigned, often involving his ex-girlfriend, and fellow spy, Lana Kane. And it is hilarious.

See, these missions will always be all about the conflict. Not just between the spy and those spied upon, but between Archer and Lana, Archer and his Mother, Archer and Lana’s new boyfriend Cyril, or Lana and her new boyfriend Cyril. This conflict has the kind of fast paced dialogue that makes me disappointed my life is not as brilliantly scripted as this, just so I could have lines like “I didn’t invent the turtleneck, Lana, but I was the first to recognize its potential as a tactical garment. The tactical turtleneck. The tactalneck.” That is just hilarious.

Of course, I couldn’t recommend this to anyone, what with it being so deliberately offensive and raunchy. Seriously. But that is why Archer is so great, because every situation goes so far beyond what you would ever consider acceptable, and yet remains so relatable. I may never have broken my cover trying to get the plans for a new nuclear submarine, while a sniper covers my escape from a Cuban hit squad, but I have definitely spilled something on my favourite shirt and known it was gonna stain, and be ruined. It just wasn’t blood on my linen shirt. Cos that would be hilarious.

Monday 19 April 2010

Soz for long gap

Soz for the long gap since I actually wrote something. Kinda kept keeping on forgetting about this, but don't worry. I be back on the internet properly now.