Sabotage was the lead single to the fantastic album "Ill Communication", ending the great run the Beastie Boys had with album releases (take a look at the 4 year gaps after this album for their subsequent 2 albums). It's a pretty awesome song and then I saw the video (Spike Jonze) I laughed! Especially if you're familiar with crappy cop shows.
And the sik thing is.. THIS IS ON GUITAR HERO 3!! WOOHOO
For all you apple buffs.. the video when Jobsey first announced the Bondi Blue (Australia! hooray!) imac!
I guess if you ignore how lowly specc'ed this imac is compared to now (33k modem!! 4gb hard drive!) its actually a pretty interesting video in a few ways..
1. Jobsey is wearing a suit! And he has more hair!
2. Jobsey is still a master talker (though he hasn't incorporated BOOM into his vocabulary)
3. The imac was originally made for education and internet purposes!
4. Even though so many years have past PC desktops still look fking terrible and ugly
Here's the video for the imac G4. Personally I rank this as Apple's tour de force in terms of it's hardware design (along with the cube). The presentation is actually pretty interesting too as Jobsey makes comments about why they couldn't make the imac G5 (yet) when he pretends to cut the imac G3 in half (which is basically the imac G5). I'm not explaining myself properly. Watch the video instead hahaha
The introduction of the imac G5 isn't all that interesting as Jobsey doesn't introduce it (he was in hospital) but here it is anyways
In all cases though the audience oohs and aahs all three products and all 3 products are the "Greatest thing Apple has made!"
I didn't understand the reason why StarcraftII was announced in Korea, but you will know why if you watch this news story:
Learn about my favourite noodle dish, and how to get it.
Go to the Kohmen ramen bar in Shinjuku (just in the Kabuki-cho area). There are other Kohmen ramen bars in Tokyo, but I haven't tried them yet.
Here is the Google Map
Order this dish off the menu (Kohmen Zenbunose - Kohmen means soya, Zenbunose means with all the toppings). I order by pointing to the picture. At AU$10 it's cheap enough to eat for every meal of the day.
The guys behind the bar get busy...
You get this.
Select ingredients from the plate on the left and drown them in the soya noodle soup on the right. Yeeeeeaaaaah.
Noodle soup close-up. Look at the fatty tasty soup.
Close-up of the ingredients. Egg with the yolk not completely cooked - so it goes gooey in the soup. Freshly barbequed juicy pork. spring onion. Dark stewed pork chunk. bamboo shoots. japanese leeks. seaweed crunch. and these amazingly stinky fried garlic chips.
What do you get when you mix in Richard Ashcroft, DJ Shadow, Leonardo De Caprio, Prince of Persia and Ubisoft?
A shithot game trailer for Assassin's Creed!!!
BTW this is Assassin Creed's game producer Jade Raymond...
I'd been interested in eating these for over one year (saw them on T.V.), and finally got a chance in Ipoh.
In Cantonese "Lai Liu Haar" means "Pissing Prawn". They're longer than normal prawns, and they squirt some sort of liquid when you lift them out of the water. They also don't have the expected pincer claws... instead they have articulating arm jaws like the insect "Mantis", hence the name.
Here they are on death row...
Here they are on my plate...
...strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start. Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface. The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produce measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 N that are caused by the impact of the appendage against the striking surface, which means that the prey is hit twice by a single strike; first by the claw and then by the even bigger force from the collapsing cavitation bubbles that immediately follows. ...
Wow first the Halo3 beta hits and now Blizzard announce Starcraft 2 in arguably its spiritual home South Korea!!!
By the time you read this there's probably heaps of sites showing gameplay footage and the most awesome trailer but check out this one. I think its probably the best version. Sure its a handy cam just pointing at a big video screen and the quality isn't that brilliant (make sure to download the official trailer HERE) but man.. hearing the Koreans go fking nuts at the end is the best! MAN even I got excited and I've only played Starcraft a handful of times!!!
Milkman's live blog of the Korean conference is very funny reading too check it out here especially his comments about Lee Hyori!
UPDATE : Though Blizzard have always been good with this.. STARCRAFT 2 RELEASE ON PC AND MAC!!!! WOOHOO!!!
And there's even a website dedicated to it! haha!! the DUDE!
LEBOWSKI WEBSITE
And she looks hot!
Normally you expect cute kids to turn into ugly adults. Actually, that did happen... to Kevin Arnold... bwahahah.
For the younger spartans who don't know who Winnie Cooper is...
A dance video game competition. This was funny for a little while... then I got bored.
Osaka Aquarium has a whale shark.
Here's that videogame quiz show challenge. The guy is trying to play PSP with a big balloon strapped to his back, and a huge windfan blowing him. (This guy was the loser, I missed videoing the winner... he had some good moves.)
For Dave!
I'll keep this on for a week and then I'll delete the link cos Matt's all paranoid we'll get sued by record companies
Luna Tracks
It's very rare you get to say goodbye to something that you meant so much too you when you were young and even rarer for that thing to say goodbye to you. Which is why for all you Luna fans this is a great DVD for you to pick up as it chronicles the last six months of Luna as they go on they're last tour of the world. Starting from Japan, the US, to Europe and then back to US as they play their last show in NYC.
I probably have this discussion with Loki a fair bit about which bands we would love to have been part of and definitely Luna is in the top three (along with Mojave3 and Teenage Fanclub). There was so much to love about their music, from the laconic and deadpan delivery of Dean Wareham, the obtuse and surreal lyrics combine with the really beautiful and melancholy soundscapes.. Ahh! What memories!! Thank you Luna for the great music over these past few years!
Favourite Album : Penthouse
Favourite Tracks : Malibu Love Nest, California (All the Way), Lost in Space
Since this was originally a foodie blog, I thought this would be an interesting thing to put on the blog.
http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml
On a USD adjusted basis, Hong Kong has the cheapest Big Mac in the world. Keep downing those Big Macs you Hongkies !
I'm back from holiday. Spent 9 days in Ipoh.
Ipoh isn't that exciting for tourist sights. I like to call Ipoh the "Geelong of Asia". But there is some nice food to eat.
Ipoh Dau Gheh (Nga Choi/Beanshoots).
Ipoh is a limestone area with a lot of caves and hills similar to the Guilin area of China. Local theory has it that the limestone water produces a special beanshoot described by the Malaysians as "short short fat fat one".
Anyway, the Ngah choi is short strong and juicy. It is awesome to eat. This dish at the local canning garden food stall "Kam Hor" was cooked with soy and sprinkled with spicy salt. This made eating it like eating steak. I could've eaten this on my own, but I had to share.
Here's a video of us buying some more Nga Choi from the Ipoh market. This old lady had huge barrels full of the stuff. Dubious hygiene with handling money and fresh vegetables, but it's damn tasty.
Do the words "Killing Spree" and "Triple Kill" bring shivers down your spine in complete excitement that you want to jump out of your skin? Then you must be a Halo fan!!! Bring on the beta and bring on Halo3!! FINISH THE FIGHT!
