Archive for July, 2007
Eat My Shorts
by Chris on July 30th, 2007 @ 12:59 am - Tag (Movie Review) No Comments. 10 Views
One of the few films i wanted to see this year was The Simpsons movie. The trailer left me in hysterics when i first saw it in the cinema. Sadly i can’t say the same about the full film. It gave me very few laughs, the jokes seemed strung out to fill the extra time a movie has over it’s TV show counterpart. The animation was good as you’d come to expect from the Simpsons but it really lacked the same impact as the 20 minute cartoon. If you only watch the Simpsons once in awhile I’d recommend giving this film a miss, you’re not missing much.
Download 2007 Part 3
by Chris on July 30th, 2007 @ 12:21 am - Tag (Life, Work) 2 Comments. 0 Views
So like i said after a nights work we returned to our tents for a couple of cans. While discussing life the universe and girls (Hi Kayleigh) we over heard a slight disagreement no more then 10 feet away from our tents. We listened in trying to figure out what the hell was going on between this guy and girl. After debating whether or not we should get involved we moved up to the gates with the security guards, in the hope of finding out what was going on. According to the two security guards this fight had been going on all night, they believe that on the walk back to their caravan the guy had lost a £20 note and was blaming the girl. Fine, we offered the guys at the gate some beer, sat back and watched.
The longer we sat and watched the more this didn’t make sense. We’ve all been pissed over stupid things while drunk but never has something lasted so long. As more security guards pulled up in their trucks to watch the early morning entertainment, we took it upon ourselves to stumble over a little closer to find out the true story. As we started to make our move into the car park the guy burst out of the caravan and proceeded to let the air out of the tyres of her car while shouting “You’re making me do this, why are you making me do this. You’re just embarrassing me”. He then locked the car and ran off into a tent…Be-fucking-zarre. The girl sat their for a second then disappear only to return with a crow bar, she then smashed every window of HER car and sat in the drivers seat. Seconds later the guy return unlocked the car and told her she could have just asked and he would have opened it. We were pretty drunk by now and it was about 5 in the morning so we were giggling like school children. We took note of who the girl gave the crow bar back to and walked over to ask her what was going on. It turns out that this girl was sucking off him off and pulled away half way through and refused to finish him. AWESOME.
The final day went pretty much like the rest, only this time i was closing Download. That’s right i was the last performance of the night, even after Iron Maiden (who were shit by the way). So…i technically had Iron Maiden open for me :). Me and Leo took to the stage with Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the name of. It went down well with the crowd, we only had about 3 cans thrown at us. I took one to the knee, not quiet as good as Byron’s can to the head or balls but still a story to tell the kids.
I have to admit when i first choose to do this i was dreading it…if you were to ask me now if i would do it again…i think i would say yes. See you at Download 2008 :).
Read Download 2007 Part 1 HERE
Read Download 2007 Part 2 HERE
Live Free or Die Hard
by Chris on July 8th, 2007 @ 9:17 pm - Tag (Movie Review) No Comments. 0 Views
Last night i saw the new Die Hard film. This time around the old school cop John McClane is up against an ex government security adviser, who decides to plunge the USA into the dark ages by taking down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States.
I have to admit when i saw the European title (which i refuse to use) and heard the plot was based on cyber-terrorism and issued with a 15 certificate, i was dreading how the film would turn out. Thankfully within the first 20 minutes all my worries were put to rest, as Bruce Willis achieves what i considering to be a Die Hard film equal to the first. The action is solid through out and loaded with classic John McClane one liners. One of the best being “you just killed a helicopter with a car” “I was out of bullets”. I can also tell you the only line that truly matters in a Die Hard film is put to awesome use, but you will be kept waiting for it.
I highly recommend this film to any Die Hard fans. You will not be disappointed.
Download 2007 Part 2
by Chris on July 1st, 2007 @ 2:18 am - Tag (Life, Work) No Comments. 0 Views
That night was opened with Guns N’ Roses by Simon Byron and Leo, as you can imagine it went down great and filled the tent. Once they had finished we started to invite members of the public up on stage, on the whole they were all pretty good. But as the night went on and the drink kicked in people gradually got worse. The crowd noticed this and took it upon themselves to bottle the players ever time they fucked up a note. I kid you not the stage was covered in can’s and bottle by the end of the night.
Go to 1:20 in on the video to see some bottle action. http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFADqWkia9s
The next day we got canceled sadly, we suspected foul play but were glad for the night off. I spent the day with Kayleigh watching the bands play. Nothing much of interest happened that day, the headliner for the night was My Chemical Romance…they didn’t go down so well. Bottles started flying as soon as they went on stage. I woke up the next day to the words “My god, someone has taken a shit in the shower”. We would later find out that this was ok, when a sign appeared on the showers saying “Please don’t shit in the showers anymore”…because it was ok before? My days stayed the same, they were spent watching bands getting drunk and sitting in the sun.
The headline for that night was Linkin Park, one of my favourite bands. I manged to drag Kayleigh and one of her mates along to that while forcing them to listen to me badly sing along to the songs. I also owe Kayleigh £10 from that night. I made a bet on one of her rubbish impressions and lost :). After Linkin Park we heading back to stage2 to prepare for Guitar Hero that night, things went well. Not as many bottles this time, but we did get a mosh pit going. Who’d have thought “two wankers with plastic guitars” (as one of the girls from the show on after us happen to mention to me without knowing who i was) could get such a big crowd. After we finished for the night returned back to our tents to relax and have a couple of drinks, little did we know we were in for some late night entertainment.
Read Download 2007 Part 1 HERE
Read Download 2007 Part 3 HERE