Robotperson

If you missed Rob Newman’s history of oil one-man stand-up, which is highly likely given it was tucked away on More4 (NTL 166), here’s a link to the whole 45min show on Google video.
More funny than Mark Stewart, and if anything, more political. The show covers familiar ground to regular readers, i.e. that the invasion […]

Sunday evening we witnessed a moment of pure television magic: Peter Crouch at the Beckham’s Full Length and Fabulous party, fleetingly shown doing ‘the robot’ on the dancefloor. It was on for a couple of seconds at most, but already the ripples are spreading across the internet. This is a meme that cannot die. Expect […]

Clerks 2 is on the way. Released 21 July, USA.

Internet only Clerks 2 trailer
Clerks 2 website
“My love for you is like a truck Berserker…”

Robotperson’s favourite listens of 2005. Thanks to my habit of buying lots second hand cd’s, these aren’t necessarily last year’s releases, but rather just the albums I’ve most enjoyed listening to in the last 12 months.

All night long - Layo & Bushwacka! (2003) Great, broad tastes delivered in a coherant and compelling journey.
Balance 007 […]

Friends will know how disappointed and angry I was at the movie ‘Spiderman’. I hated it. It sickened me. I despised the coincidences that happened only to maintain the momentum of the story; I loathed the flag-waving U-S-A, U-S-A! post 9-11 people-power. But most of all I hated the impossibility of the physics.
I know, […]

Lara and I generally don’t share the sofa on an evening, but roughly once a year a tv show will come along that we both really enjoy. This year it’s Life in the Undergrowth, David Attenborough’s macro-lensed take on life at the insect scale, and I love it.
It’s the first TV I’ve actually looked […]

I’ll be right back after these words from our sponsors:

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Spike Jonze ad for Gap (flash)
The power of dreams (flash). Choose ’skip intro’, then ‘watch the tv ad’. Sheer genius.
Have you heard about it? (flash)

The Phantom Menace: so square it’s hip. Apparently.
From the cutting room floor of The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars I-VI: the greatest postmodern art film ever
Jedi in parliament. MP, Jamie Reed (Copeland, Lab) declares his religion, presumably following the census campaign a year or so ago.
Watching all 6 episodes simultaneously
Leia’s metal bikini - make you own! […]

Since the advent of my Rio Karma I’ve been chewing through tunes at a

phenomenal rate. But before I tell you what I’ve been listening to, here’s a little about the process I’ve set up to archive and transfer digital [...]