Scary

You Are Not Scary

Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet?

How Scary Are You?

I can't help but feel disappointed but sadly this is probably true.

Nosey

By now I imagine you are all thinking what hope is there for the children of the world if they are being exposed to such horrific programmes as '...Night Garden?'
Thank god that you were never exposed to such horrific nightmares, warping your fragile, childlike minds. At least you had the opportunity to grow up normally, free from anything that might cause you lasting mental damage, right?

Wrong. There is a good chance that you have simply managed to block these memories out and right now you are living in a state of denial. Here, for example is a clip from a show that used to be on when I was little. I think it may go some way to explaining how I became the man I am today.

Here we go!

There was a scary moment the other day when I logged on to the vampire game and took a look at my character. If anyone signs up for a vampire using my link then they go on to my list of vampires I have sired. Somebody is obviously trying to scare me because they have signed up with the name 'Makka Pakka' which means being greeted by the words 'Makka Pakka has drunk three pints of blood.'
Which, thinking about it could well explain a lot. He does have the cold dead eyes of a killer after all.

But finally the moment you have waited... oooh, minutes for I imagine, is here because some sadistic bastard has actually put an 'In the Night Garden' clip up on Youtube.
Be afraid...



Weird, huh?
What's even weirder is that the guy narrating it is none other than Derek Jacobi. SIR freakin' Derek Jacobi, who is clearly slumming it at the moment since his 'I Claudius' and 'Cadfael' days.

Anyway, here is a link to the song because I know you love it so- Altogether now:
Makka Pakka
Akka Wakka
Mikka Makka Moo...

Lazy Days

Apologies for my lack of recent blogging. It's purely down to lazyness I'm afraid and a slightly annoying online game called 'Robobeasts.'
Anyway now I'm back I shall have to make it up to you all with a really good post. I'll need to find something so amazing you'll be blown away.

But what could possibly live up to the wait...

Life On Mars

The last episode of Life on Mars is on tonight. This has easily been one of the best series on tv at the moment so I'm hoping it manages to end on a high.
If you haven't seen it the series follows policeman Sam Tyler, who is hit by a car and wakes up to find himself in 1973.



This is the setup for Sam's modern by the book policing culture clash with his bigoted, sexist and cynical 70's counterparts. The character of DCI Gene Hunt that Sam finds himself working under is fantastic. A right bastard while still being somehow likeable. There have been rumours of a spin off series featuring Hunt which could be great but I'm not too sure how well the character will work without the relationship with Sam Tyler.
As if this wasn't bad enough Sam also starts to hear the voices of the doctors tending to his comatose body in the present day. Tonight we should find out if he really has somehow gone back in time or if he is actually in 1973 but completely mad, hearing voices and thinking he is from the future (or any number of bizarre theories flying around).

While it is a shame that this is ending after only two series in a way this could be a blessing as it means the series doesn't have the chance to go downhill.

Here is a clip of one of my favourite parts of the show-
The doctors get Sam's medication wrong in the present day causing his 1973 self to start hallucinating. When Sam wakes up he sees himself as a character from the 70's children show Camberwick Green. Classic.



"Stay out of Camberwick Green." has to be one of the best lines in anything ever.

Geek God

I'm not sure what the collective noun is for a gathering of geeks, but that's what I was a part of last Thursday when I went with Redrawn and Rhub to the Prince Charles Cinema in London.


Director and (occasional) comicbook writer Kevin Smith was giving a Question and Answer session at the cinema. We arrived at the venue at about 5.30 and even though the doors didn't open until 7pm there was already a que of people beginning to stretch down the street.

The man himself arrived on stage in his Silent Bob coat and proceeded to chat to the audience for nearly 4 hours. He could have clearly gone on longer but the cinema staff were dropping hints that they wanted to go home, the spoilsports. There were three microphones set up that the audience could line up at in order to ask a question which Smith would then answer with a variety of anecdotes.

The audience spent most of the evening creased up in laughter as Smith touched on a variety of topics from British Porn, Angela Lansbury (sometimes linking the two. He had a bit of an obsession with Bedknobs and Broomsticks) and the strange and disturbing lives of his dogs to Jason Mewes' addiction to police procedural tv programmes (Apparently he can't stop watching Columbo and Murder She Wrote) and why his parties aren't as popular as Johnny Depp's.

So I owe a huge 'thank you' to Redrawn for getting the tickets to such a great event especially as these Q&A sessions sell out so quickly. We will have to keep an eye out for the next one...

More Weirdness

You Are 40% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird... But too damn weird to do anything about it!

How Weird Are You?

Only 40%? I guess egg shells don't rate too highly on the weirdometer.