Yet Another Genric Summer Release

I just recently purchased Rockstar Games latest offering the sublime Wild West adventure Red Dead Redemption. The game is an experience which immerses you in a world so carefully researched and re-created you can actually feel the heat on the back of your neck and the sand in your boots. The plot of the game is so engaging it's worthy of a blockbuster movie and the scriptwriting is sophisticated, intelligent and at times hilarious. It's probably about as close as we'll ever get to Michael Crichton's vision of West World, without having to try and melt Yul Brynner's face.
And then we get this, the trailer for Hollwood's summer release Jonah Hex starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox, complete with a hard rockin' soundtrack, hammy acting, cheddar heavy one-liners and a horse with two gatlin guns fitted to either side. My advice, avoid what looks like a sun-dried desert turd, stay at home instead and let Rockstar Games take you on a more authentic, thrilling and exciting Wild West ride this film could only ever dream of trying to achieve.

HMS Friday's Very First Podcast

At last! After months of procrastination we finally managed to record our very first podcast. Here's a few important notes about our first episode, which you can listen to in all it's glory below:

1. We record it during our lunch break which accounts for the rough and ready sound. (We will improve on this).
2. We will feature a different biscuit each week with our cuppa. Suggestions are welcome.

3. We'll chat about what we watched, took part in and experienced in the week gone by and what we have planned for the week ahead.

We apologise in advance for any poor sound quality you may experience and for the unorganised ramblings of two idiots, but it is our first time. There is some NSFW language, so you've been warned.

The music you can hear at the beginning and end of this podcast is a track called Calzaghe by the band Jumpers Knee. You can hear more of their sterling work at their Myspace page and, if you feel so inclined you can also join their Facebook group.

Biscuits we devoured this week were Border Luxurious Chocolate Gingers. Bad boys!

These Thugs Get A Very Big Surprise

This is footage from a CCTV camera inside a shop somewhere in America. As you will see three half naked thugs antagonise a man waiting to be served, before long all hell breaks loose until a freight train in an American football jersey opens a great big can of whoop ass on them all. He is like a mushroom cloud with arms. I've watched this video nearly 50 times and it gets better with every viewing. Enjoy this tasty slice of schadenfreude.

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General Jackson's Mobile Brightens Up Our Sunday

Waking up with a hangover on a Sunday to face yet another day of miserable soul sucking weather is a fucking nightmare at best, but this little ray of sunshine courtesy of General Sir Mike Jackson and his mobile phone on the Andrew Marr Show brought a big smile to our faces.

The Rise Of The Attention Whore

People can't do simple practical things anymore without turning them into 'events' or moments people will remember for the rest of their lives. This inability to behave normally is twinned with their ongoing search for their fifteen minutes of fame.

A perfect example of this is the increase in the amount of staged wedding ceremony 'performances' which have been filmed and uploaded to You Tube. You know the ones where the bride and groom surprise everybody by launching into a full choreographed dance act to a popular piece of music, which then ends up being broadcast as an "and finally" segment on the local news. Or their video goes viral and they become internet sensations overnight, (see below).

I want to see the footage of the wedding performances which didn't go so smoothly. I want to be at that wedding where the act grinds to an embarrassing halt because somebody fell and broke their tibia, or launched into a diva like tirade because the best man forgot the routine. I want to be at that wedding where the whole wedding party watch on in horror as a tsunami of uneasiness washes over us all. Give me that wedding any day and in the meantime just get fucking married and be done with it.

Gaga And Klinger Separated At Birth

I don't care for Lady Gaga's music, or any of the other commercial shite doing the rounds right now, but watching her Poker Face video the other night I couldn't believe how much she looks like Corporal Maxwell Klinger from Mash. At least Klinger had talent and better dress sense.