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There are six movies I’m planning to make throughout the summer to keep myself entertained. They involve the following nine people or groups:

Today, I came across a video for Bird & The Bee’s “Again & Again” starring some hot girl and a Mac. It sounds ridiculous but it’s true. Director Dennis Liu managed to create a fantastic and strangely hypnotic music video while inadvertently created an advertisement for the Apple Mac’s amazing multitasking ability. I’ve watched this three times today and I still love it. Stick with it as it does start out slow:

After the break is the original video from Bird & The Bee. Continue reading ‘A Lesson In Video Editing’

A few days ago, a previously dormant volcano in southern Chile for 9,000 years erupted. The eruption blasted liquified metal and lightning miles into the sky. The rare result, as pictured above, is referred to as a “dirty thunderstorm”. According to National Geographic, it’s “the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume colliding to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.”

Other theories lay the blame on a pissed off Zeus, Sauron or the X-Men’s Storm. More pictures can be found at National Geographic News and Universe Today.

The Irish Daily Star gossip columnists Kathryn Rogers and Heidee Martin have a strange sense of humour/ active imagination. The following picture of Elisha Cuthbert had one weird-ass caption:

OH OUR collective gosh, 24 beauty Elisha Cuthbert seems to have discovered a problem with her bikini top as she splashes on a Hawaiian beach.

Could it be that her Victoria’s Secret set has been wired with a pair of explosives set to go off in 23 hours 55 seconds?

And only Jack Bauer can take out her devil’s dumplings - before they take down the government.

Can somebody explain that to me? Devil’s dumplings taking down the government? Anyways, Jack is a very busy man. I’m sure he’s got his hands full with more important butter bags, blouse bunnies, gazoombas and other such silly names for boobs.

I just bought the seventh season of That 70’s Show on DVD because I’ve watched theit’s much better than I remember. For the DVD cover however, it seems they just hired some look-a-likes to appear on the DVD boxset cover. Ashton Kutcher looks like he ran face-first into a wall, Topher Grace looks plastic (they all do to be fair, but especially Topher).

The six of them are magically stretched or bent to the same height even though Jackie (Mila Kunis- who only learned English at the age of 10) is tiny. Laura Preppon (Donna), however, is huge like gigantor the space age robot. Man, Gigantor was cool. He was just a giant robot minding his own business getting hassled on the streets of Tokyo all the time when all he wanted to do was play with this little boy. Wait. That’s not cool at all.

Bonus: That Sucky 80’s Show! Here’s the pilot episode to the sequel to That 70’s Show called That 80’s show: Part One/ Part Two/ Part Three

Fun fact: That 70’s show was set in late 1977 when the show started. It continued for 8 seasons which meant that it should’ve been set in early 1985 when it finished. I always thought they could’ve kept the same cast and evolve into That 80’s Show but what do I know? I’m an idiot who’s reduced to blogging.

I’ve just heard the modernised Speed Racer theme tune through use of rap by Ali Dee and The Deekompressors accompanied with eye-blinding visuals.

To save from smothering the blog’s front page with YouTube clips, I’ve left the video after the break. It’s only after watching the shiny races in the music video that I want to watch the film. Speed Racer is due for general release this weekend.

After the break: The movie theme tune, the original cartoon version and a special bonus. Continue reading ‘Go, Speed Racer, Go!’

The New York Post is reporting that Heath Ledger’s Joker dolls are in such large demand that people were queuing up this morning to grab one of the Joker figurines from the new Mattel produced Dark Knight range. The $10 Jokers are then being sold on eBay as part of bundles which include a Batman figure for $55. The dolls, or “mega awesome action figures for awesome manly men” as the more self-conscious doll collector would call them, are fast becoming rare collectors items within only a day in stores.

“There are none left in the warehouse, either. You will be waiting a while if you want one,” an employee of Toys R Us store in Times Square told The NY Post.

As an admirer of awesome action figures for awesome manly men, I think that the Joker figure doesn’t have the greatest likeness to the departed actor. To be honest, the plastic Joker looks more like Philip Seymour Hoffman than anything. Here’s proof.

Here’s the brand new Dark Knight trailer released today. You can view and download higher resolution versions on the Joker’s official website WhySoSerious.com. After this trailer, I don’t want to see any more. I already know too much about the origins of Two-Face and you can clearly see that Alfred and Harvey Dent are going to hook up. It was only a matter of time.

Watch the trailer and then count the days until it’s release on July 25th:

More Batman:

• Happy Birthday Batman! My tribute to the Adam West TV series
• Trailers for Batman 1989 vs Batman 2008: Why So Similar?

Fresh of the internets, here’s the second proper trailer for Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. I won’t say much about it except for the fact that Ray Winstone has really let himself go since making Beowulf. IJATKOTCS is out on May 22. Watch the trailer now:

Orpees has tagged me asking for 6 random facts about me:

1. I came up with the name Pedro Monscooch just over two years ago. I was crashing at a friend’s house for the night and was invited to his class party. To crash, I thought I’d give myself a whole new identity. An alter ego specifically for getting drunk in front of strangers. I was talking about Napoleon Dynamite previously that night so I thought a Spanish character named Pedro would be cool. The surname comes courtesy of a drunken Scottish man my friend met one day. I managed to pass myself off as Spanish by using in the Chanel 9 Neus style lingo i.e. “Methethethetheth, pethethethetheth, sminky pinky, Chris Waddle”.

2. The person I would like to hang with most would be Kanye West. Anne Hathaway would be a good alternative. She seems fun.

3. My career path is an ever changing one:

• Employee down at Fragglerock
• Artist that like guy who makes Bart Simpson. He’s funny.
• Superhero like Batman or and adventurer like Mighty Max. He’s awesome.
• Artist like TV’s Don Conroy
• Videogame playtester who plays Sega Mega Drive all day
• Artist like SMart’s Mark Speight (RIP)
• Videogame Programmer via I.T. course in NUI Galway (aged 17- bad move)
• Graphic Designer via Letterkenny IT
• Blogger (Present day)
• YouTube superstar like the Numa Numa guy
• King of France (Near future)

4. My favourite movies to watch repeatedly as a child were The Shadow, Rocketeer, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Hook, Groundhog Day and Batman. I still love them.

5. The character of Nacho Libre is based on me in every way.

6. I had a ghost in my bedroom. Or so I think. I would sometimes wake up at dawn aged 7, and see a clear silhouette of a woman standing at the side of the window and peering out towards the spooky delapidated house behind mine. The house scared the bejesus out of me. It had dead butterflies stuck in the windows and beds that were upside down. Also, there were heads on a stick in the basement. Alright, the last part isn’t true. I do know having a ghost just stand there until I forced myself asleep again. And no, it wasn’t my mom.

Those are my six random facts about me. I’d tag other people but I’ve noticed that they’ve all done it before. Boutros-Boutros Ghali.

[Via The Dallas News Blog]

A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.

A cheque of $360 billion would have made 21 year old Charles Ray Fuller (pictured half-asleep on the right) six times richer than the current richest in the world. Only a cartoon could reach similar levels of stupidity. For example:

Homer: “Hello, my name is mister Burns, I believe you have a letter for me.”
PO Worker: “Ok Mr. Burns, what’s your first name?”
Homer: “I don’t know..”
Now sitting on the steps in front of the USPS Homer looks at Bart and says:
“Pbbppht.. nice plan Bart.”

This BT ad shows Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones having a bit of technical difficulties due to a small case of Gremlins infestation: