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Listen To All Of The Paris Calling Compilation Now

by Stuart Heritage

Think of French music and images of Serge Gainsbourg gazing impassively at a group of dancing girls, or coquettish Brigitte Bardot purring lasciviously though Un Jour Comme Un Autre, spring to mind – but get ready to have your perceptions shattered.

When The Libertines visited Paris in 2003, they left behind a group of young rock and roll disciples, and the fruits of their efforts have all been combined into the Paris Calling compilation. Paris Calling has taken the finest bands of this prickly Parisian guitar scene and launched them into the midst of an unsuspecting world. And we’ve got a top-notch Paris Calling album sampler here, just for you.

We don’t want to spoil too many of the surprises held within Paris Calling, just the biggest one – Paris Calling is good. Unbelievably good. Click on the Paris Calling album sampler now and let Les Shades gently woo you before our new favourite dumb rock band The Hellboys punch your teeth out. Twice. Finally, a warning – listening to the Paris Calling album sampler might trigger a spontaneous imported French album spending frenzy.

Think of French music and images of Serge Gainsbourg gazing impassively at a group of dancing girls, or coquettish Brigitte Bardot purring lasciviously though Un Jour Comme Un Autre, spring to mind - but get ready to have your perceptions shattered. When The Libertines visited Paris in 2003, they left behind a group of young rock and roll disciples, and the fruits of their efforts have all been combined into the Paris Calling compilation. Paris Calling has taken the finest bands of this prickly Parisian guitar scene and launched them into the midst of an unsuspecting world. And we've got a top-notch Paris Calling album sampler here, just for you. We don't want to spoil too many of the surprises held within Paris Calling, just the biggest one - Paris Calling is good. Unbelievably good. Click on the Paris Calling album sampler now and let Les Shades gently woo you before our new favourite dumb rock band The Hellboys punch your teeth out. Twice. Finally, a warning - listening to the Paris Calling album sampler might trigger a spontaneous imported French album spending frenzy.
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Mike Tyson: A Life In Terrifying Quotes

by Stuart Heritage

It’s usual that athletes have been trained so hard to follow instructions that none of them actually have a personality to share between them – fancy an evening in shooting the breeze with Tim Henman? Of course not – but Mike Tyson is the exception.

Yes, Mike Tyson, the potential man-whore with a giant cuddly crush on Aisleyne from Big Brother. Mike Tyson is a man made of pure undiluted personality – it’s just a shame that the personality in question is that of a dead-eyed serial killer with a nasty habit of verbalising his desire to rape women indiscriminately. Thanks to a tip from one of our beautiful readers, we’ve got a video of just about every terrifying quote to have come out of Mike Tyson’s mouth over the last few years. And it’s hilarious. Well, hilarious and blood-chilling in equal measure. The scary thing is – if Mike Tyson can say “I wish one of you guys had children so I could kick them in the fucking head or stamp on their testicles so you could feel my pain,” out loud, imagine the stuff that he keeps in his brain.

There’s a bunch of these videos over at Uber.com too – it was a close-run thing between us showing you this video and one of Mike Tyson performing Monster Mash with Bobby Brown dressed up as spooky monsters.

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A Tribute To Mike Tyson – Uber.com

It's usual that athletes have been trained so hard to follow instructions that none of them actually have a personality to share between them - fancy an evening in shooting the breeze with Tim Henman? Of course not - but Mike Tyson is the exception. Yes, Mike Tyson, the potential man-whore with a giant cuddly crush on Aisleyne from Big Brother. Mike Tyson is a man made of pure undiluted personality - it's just a shame that the personality in question is that of a dead-eyed serial killer with a nasty habit of verbalising his desire to rape women indiscriminately. Thanks to a tip from one of our beautiful readers, we've got a video of just about every terrifying quote to have come out of Mike Tyson's mouth over the last few years. And it's hilarious. Well, hilarious and blood-chilling in equal measure. The scary thing is - if Mike Tyson can say "I wish one of you guys had children so I could kick them in the fucking head or stamp on their testicles so you could feel my pain," out loud, imagine the stuff that he keeps in his brain. There's a bunch of these videos over at Uber.com too - it was a close-run thing between us showing you this video and one of Mike Tyson performing Monster Mash with Bobby Brown dressed up as spooky monsters. Read more: A Tribute To Mike Tyson - Uber.com
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Angelina Jolie Adoption Betting Odds: Nigeria & Mexico

by Stuart Heritage

Is it day three of our Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds already? How time flies – it seems like it was just yesterday that we were joking saying that Angelina Jolie was going to adopt a little Welsh kid. It wasn’t. It was the day before yesterday.

But day three of the Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds means we have to get serious. For the uninitiated, this week we’re investigating which country Angelina Jolie will go to next to satisfy her weird compulsive urge to adopt every child that’s ever been born. Why? So you can bet on it and get rich, perhaps using the winnings to build an airtight vault so you can lock your children away safe from Angelina Jolie’s adopty hands. If you do choose to do that, remember – no airholes. Angelina Jolie is trained to detect carbon dioxide emitting from scared children.

So here are today’s Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds – for Nigeria and Mexico – with help from Paddy Power…

Is it day three of our Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds already? How time flies - it seems like it was just yesterday that we were joking saying that Angelina Jolie was going to adopt a little Welsh kid. It wasn't. It was the day before yesterday. But day three of the Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds means we have to get serious. For the uninitiated, this week we're investigating which country Angelina Jolie will go to next to satisfy her weird compulsive urge to adopt every child that's ever been born. Why? So you can bet on it and get rich, perhaps using the winnings to build an airtight vault so you can lock your children away safe from Angelina Jolie's adopty hands. If you do choose to do that, remember - no airholes. Angelina Jolie is trained to detect carbon dioxide emitting from scared children. So here are today's Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds - for Nigeria and Mexico - with help from Paddy Power...
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Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio Team Up For Wolf Flick

by Stuart Heritage

It’s a fact that the only films being made in Hollywood at the moment are all either going to star Leonardo DiCaprio, be directed by Martin Scorsese or star Leonardo DiCaprio and be directed by Martin Scorsese, just like The Wolf Of Wall Street.

The Wolf Of Wall Street is a new movie based on an unpublished book about a wolf in Wall Street who goes to prison for carrying a dead sheep into the New York Stock Exchange in his teeth. That’s what we presume, anyway – the book hasn’t been published yet. Anyway, The Wolf Of Wall Street is probably going to be directed by Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio. While it would be foolhardy to try and second-guess what Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will bring to The Wolf Of Wall Street, on previous Scorsese/DiCaprio experience we think that it’ll feature either dirty police work, a rich man flying a plane or Cameron Diaz being unconvincing to a man in top hat with a funny moustache.

It's a fact that the only films being made in Hollywood at the moment are all either going to star Leonardo DiCaprio, be directed by Martin Scorsese or star Leonardo DiCaprio and be directed by Martin Scorsese, just like The Wolf Of Wall Street. The Wolf Of Wall Street is a new movie based on an unpublished book about a wolf in Wall Street who goes to prison for carrying a dead sheep into the New York Stock Exchange in his teeth. That's what we presume, anyway - the book hasn't been published yet. Anyway, The Wolf Of Wall Street is probably going to be directed by Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio. While it would be foolhardy to try and second-guess what Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will bring to The Wolf Of Wall Street, on previous Scorsese/DiCaprio experience we think that it'll feature either dirty police work, a rich man flying a plane or Cameron Diaz being unconvincing to a man in top hat with a funny moustache.
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Annoying Free Hugs Man Wins A YouTube Award

by Stuart Heritage

We all know what the best YouTube videos are – they’re either videos of a) angry German children, b) idiots ghostriding the whip or c) clips of The Colbert Report before Comedy Central removes them – notice an absence of hugging in that list?

Hugging is apparently big on the internet. So big, in fact, that when YouTube decided to run an inaugural awards ceremony to find the best videos submitted to it, the winner of the YouTube award for ‘inspiration’ turned out to be Free Hugs, a video of a slightly creepy Australian man hugging a selection of strangers while a piece of music that sounds as if it was specifically designed to soundtrack an emotional episode of Dawson’s Creek plays in the background. But perhaps Free Hugs does deserve to win a YouTube award for inspiration, because it has single-handedly inspired us to exclusively use Metacafe from now on.

We all know what the best YouTube videos are - they're either videos of a) angry German children, b) idiots ghostriding the whip or c) clips of The Colbert Report before Comedy Central removes them - notice an absence of hugging in that list? Hugging is apparently big on the internet. So big, in fact, that when YouTube decided to run an inaugural awards ceremony to find the best videos submitted to it, the winner of the YouTube award for 'inspiration' turned out to be Free Hugs, a video of a slightly creepy Australian man hugging a selection of strangers while a piece of music that sounds as if it was specifically designed to soundtrack an emotional episode of Dawson's Creek plays in the background. But perhaps Free Hugs does deserve to win a YouTube award for inspiration, because it has single-handedly inspired us to exclusively use Metacafe from now on.
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Angelina Jolie Adoption Betting Odds: USA & Iraq

by Stuart Heritage

Good old Angelina Jolie – most people wouldn’t have time for anything else between making films that aren’t as good as you’d imagine them to be and letting Brad Pitt stroke their arm sometimes, but Angelina Jolie manages to make room for adopting.

So far Angelina Jolie has adopted a boy from Cambodia, a girl from Ethiopia, a boy from Vietnam and a girl that she technically gave birth to but then legally divorced and adopted. But is adopting four children enough for Angelina Jolie? Never. It won’t be long before Angelina Jolie is adopting again, and we want to make sure you earn some money out of it with our Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds.

So following yesterday’s Angelina Jolie betting odds for Wales and the UK, here are today’s Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds – for the USA and Iraq – with help from Paddy Power…

Good old Angelina Jolie - most people wouldn't have time for anything else between making films that aren't as good as you'd imagine them to be and letting Brad Pitt stroke their arm sometimes, but Angelina Jolie manages to make room for adopting. So far Angelina Jolie has adopted a boy from Cambodia, a girl from Ethiopia, a boy from Vietnam and a girl that she technically gave birth to but then legally divorced and adopted. But is adopting four children enough for Angelina Jolie? Never. It won't be long before Angelina Jolie is adopting again, and we want to make sure you earn some money out of it with our Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds. So following yesterday's Angelina Jolie betting odds for Wales and the UK, here are today's Angelina Jolie adoption betting odds - for the USA and Iraq - with help from Paddy Power...
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Awesome Or Off-Putting: Bill Sneed’s Hidden Treasure

by Shawn Lindseth

Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts or just the plain unexplainable. This week: Ancient Artifacts/Myths The world is replete with legends of lost treasure. It really is an impressive list too – you [...]

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TMNT Tops Weekend Box Office 20 Years Too Late

by Stuart Heritage

As far as we were concerned, nobody would go and watch TMNT – the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie – because only an idiot would watch a film about some computer-generated tortoises that nobody has even thought about for two decades.

But look how wrong we were – TMNT is the number one movie at the US weekend box office. The success of TMNT means we can assume that there are either $25 million’s worth of nostalgia-fuelled morons in America who can’t quite remember that the original series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was basically a cheap-looking calling card for some toys; or that all the TMNT box office tickets were bought by Vanilla Ice, who figured that if TMNT did enough box office business he could start punting around for the same sort of confusing extended cameo in the TMNT sequel as he had in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze.

As far as we were concerned, nobody would go and watch TMNT - the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie - because only an idiot would watch a film about some computer-generated tortoises that nobody has even thought about for two decades. But look how wrong we were - TMNT is the number one movie at the US weekend box office. The success of TMNT means we can assume that there are either $25 million's worth of nostalgia-fuelled morons in America who can't quite remember that the original series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was basically a cheap-looking calling card for some toys; or that all the TMNT box office tickets were bought by Vanilla Ice, who figured that if TMNT did enough box office business he could start punting around for the same sort of confusing extended cameo in the TMNT sequel as he had in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze.
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Elton John Turns 60 & Barks Out Some Birthday Songs

by Stuart Heritage

Yesterday Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday by doing something very special; no, not playing Madison Square Garden for the 60th time – we mean Elton John somehow spent a night on stage without bitching about everything like a crotchety old git.

Elton John’s 60th birthday was marked last night with his 60th performance at Madison Square Garden in New York in front of 20,000 fans and guests like Bill Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. Don’t worry if you missed it, though, because Elton John’s 60th birthday concert will be shown on ITV later this week – giving you the viewer the once in a lifetime chance to see Elton John sing a bunch of songs that he’s sung a billion times before while Kate Thornton asks ridiculously asinine questions to the man who was directly involved with two separate peace agreements between Israel and Palestine.

Yesterday Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday by doing something very special; no, not playing Madison Square Garden for the 60th time - we mean Elton John somehow spent a night on stage without bitching about everything like a crotchety old git. Elton John's 60th birthday was marked last night with his 60th performance at Madison Square Garden in New York in front of 20,000 fans and guests like Bill Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. Don't worry if you missed it, though, because Elton John's 60th birthday concert will be shown on ITV later this week - giving you the viewer the once in a lifetime chance to see Elton John sing a bunch of songs that he's sung a billion times before while Kate Thornton asks ridiculously asinine questions to the man who was directly involved with two separate peace agreements between Israel and Palestine.
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Watch The Starbucking Trailer Now

by Stuart Heritage

What with all this talk about Paul McCartney signing to the new Starbucks record label, it’s easy to forget what Starbucks is all about – in short, selling ridiculously-named caffeine drinks to smug idiots – but Starbucking works as a handy reminder.

Starbucking is a new indie documentary movie coming out in selected American cinemas very soon with a simple premise. Starbucking follows John Winter Smith – a man determined to visit every branch of Starbucks in the world. Considering there are now literally more branches of Starbucks than there are actual human beings on Earth, John Winter Smith seems to have his work cut out. We’ve yet to see the full version of Starbucking, but Starbucking seems to be a movie about globalisation, a movie about one individual’s obsessive compulsive desire to make a mark on the world and – most of all – a movie about a man buzzed off his tits on coffee jittering around going “yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi” while queueing up in a succession of Starbucks branches. See the madness for yourselves.

What with all this talk about Paul McCartney signing to the new Starbucks record label, it's easy to forget what Starbucks is all about - in short, selling ridiculously-named caffeine drinks to smug idiots - but Starbucking works as a handy reminder. Starbucking is a new indie documentary movie coming out in selected American cinemas very soon with a simple premise. Starbucking follows John Winter Smith - a man determined to visit every branch of Starbucks in the world. Considering there are now literally more branches of Starbucks than there are actual human beings on Earth, John Winter Smith seems to have his work cut out. We've yet to see the full version of Starbucking, but Starbucking seems to be a movie about globalisation, a movie about one individual's obsessive compulsive desire to make a mark on the world and - most of all - a movie about a man buzzed off his tits on coffee jittering around going "yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi" while queueing up in a succession of Starbucks branches. See the madness for yourselves.
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