Archive for March, 2009

The tickets and lineup came out for Reading Festival last night. According to the DM, they were queuing outside HMV in Reading all frigging night to get tickets. Cocks.

Or were they, coz i went online bang on 7pm to help a mate try and get some tix for his mates and we didn’t have a fucking chance in hell. Every site was completely congested. In fact, seetickets is still congested now. As far as i could tell, ticketmaster sold out in 15 minutes. So i sat there for about an hour clicking refresh on 8 different websites, every single one of them timed out. You’d think they’d learn by now to get more frigging servers when events like this pop up. Ticketmaster was working ok but, as i said, it sold out.

But here’s the crux: The lineup is really, really wank. There isn’t one single band on there at the moment i’m thinking ‘Can’t wait to see them’

Here’s what they’ve got so far:

Friday:
Kings of Leon
Kaiser Chiefs
Placebo
Fall Out Boy
Deftones
Funeral for a Friend

Saturday:
Arctic Monkeys
The Prodigy
Maximo Park
Ian Brown
The Courteeners
Enter Shikari
Eagles of Death Metal

Sunday:
Radiohead
Bloc Party
YeahYeahYeahs
Vampire Weekend
brandnew

Then on the NME stage there’s such wonders as The Gossip, Glasvegas and Jamie T.

Anything there get you excited? Me neither. And where the fuck is the Sunday rock day?

As far as i know, a mate i used to work with is going to go with me as everyone else has lost interest or having a baby. No matter though, we’ll just get completely wasted on a variety of legal and illegal concoctions for the entire time we’re there.

Last night i spoke to a very old friend who i used to go to school with and have basically known since i was 13. We had a game of left 4 dead online and he was asking me what do i reckon the best multiplayer game is.

I have to admit, i’m completely stumped. I really don’t have a clue what the best multiplayer game ever is. It’s not Halo, Halo 2 or Halo 3 coz they’re completely pish. I’m trying to think of a game where you can essentially play with one or two of your mates, and have a really good laugh playing it. You can be playing with many others or just your small knit team.

Any ideas?

Cool, scary, bizarre, costly. Whatever you like.

I’m talking about the OnLive system that was shown on Playr over the weekend.

Basically you have a little box that connects to your telly and broadband. You choose what game you want to play online then you watch a streaming video of the game you’re playing. The game itself is sat at one place in the world, and you with your joypad is sat at another. You push left, the character in the streaming movie goes left.

The absolute beauty of this is there’s nothing to download, no physical disk to purchase, no console to die on you. And no console to tie into as it connects to both PS3 and X360. If they do this right, or even half right, then that’s it. We’re all done. ‘What, you used to OWN a console, dad? Pfff’.

You can rent the games for 5 days or buy the thing outright, but even when you buy it, you’ve really only getting a permanent rental. Hopefully this might actually drop the prices as there’s nothing physical to produce and ship for the games companies.

This also instantly combats the problem of piracy as there’s nothing to download other than a streaming video.

Standard broadband will accommodate standard definition and you’ll need a 5mb connection for 720p HD.

Now, if they can just solve bottlenecking and shit ISP’s like Virgin Broadband…

Miss me?

What, not even a little bit?

Well, I missed you.

Spent Thursday doing a bit of shopping, ended up spending another $100 on comic books from Jim Hanleys Comics. Started reading the MAX series of The Punisher last night, tis rather good and feels a bit naughty as there’s lots of rude words and violence in a Marvel book.

Other than comics, there’s bugger all to spend your money on other than tat in the Liberty Island gift shop, stuff like a fridge magnet with the statue on it, or a blue foam crown for $5. So i didn’t bother.

And before you ask, Simp, sorry i didn’t bring you anything back. Everything was too expensive and there’s was really nothing there I couldn’t buy here, apart from crappy I Heart NY t-shirts everywhere you looked.

Got back on Friday morning. Was on the same plane as Peaches Geldof. She’s a bit of a silly cow, was stood behind me in the queue to get onto the plane as she fell over, twice, from a standing still not moving position.

Anyway, it’s taken me the entire weekend to recover and switch my bodyclock back. Didn’t help that we’ve lost another hour on Saturday night. So i’m sat in work now rather bleary eyed.

Here’s something to entertain you. It’s a picture of a urinal at JFK, apparently the fly helps aim improve by 70%.