I'm somewhere between a journalist and a layabout, writing and broadcasting about computer games on the Web.
Nov 26, 2007
This arrived in my in box this morning, and I can do nothing but pass it on, unedited, in all its glory.
It is a work of no little genius.
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Unleash Your Inner Farmer
The hero in the game isn't a warrior who blasts away bad guys with a super powerful arsenal …
Nov 25, 2007
On friday evening I was out drinking, and after finishing the bar's stock of Laphroaig I decided to get a little creative.
Thusly, I decided it was time for a spot of decadence, and so created the following (after a lack of absinthe forced me to reconsider my plan …
Nov 25, 2007
The look of scepticism towards the photographer, the choice of black-and-white for an image that just screams 'pink!' and the legs in the top right all combine to ensure an image that will live long in the memory.
The more I look at this image the more I like …
Withnail and I, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Big Lebowski, Closer, Destricted, 12 Monkeys, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, The Usual Suspects, Arlington Road, Freedom Downtime, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Y tu mama tambien, Amores Perros, Hable con Ella, Nine Queens
Beethoven, The Dead Kennedys, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Foo Fighters, Maximo Park, Kenickie, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Squarepusher, DJ Earworm, Beck, Pink Floyd, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Moldy Peaches, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, M83, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen
24, The West Wing, Engrenages (Spiral), The Thick of It, QI, Heroes, Yes Minister, The X-Files, (but only the first few series), The Mark Steel Lectures
Never Let Me Go, Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, High Rise, The Unlimited Dream Company, The Atrocity Exhibtion, Millennium People, The Name of The Rose, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Great Expectations, Good Omens, Neverwhere, The Sandman, The Bridge Trilogy, Snow Crash, (I have a weakness for trashy cyberpunk. What do you expect? I'm a geek), Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Decline and Fall, 1984: The Road to Wigan Pier, Brave New World, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Floating Opera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Paradise, Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
Gaming, Publishing, Media, Theology, Literature, Politics, Vodka, Typography, Graphic Design, Fonts, Banning Comic Sans
Driftkikker, Nov 26, 2007:
Many friendly greetings from, Driftkikker
moo - giving it another go, Nov 26, 2007:
No comments so far? Well, allow me...thanks for the friend add - always good to see a fellow Brit around here. I'll get more chance to talk tomorrow hopefully.