Admittedly, the title is a little hopefull right now…
Not wanting to get peoples hopes up too much, but according to the Daily Mail Rider could be getting out in just a few weeks:
The 43-year-old is included on a list of possible pardons which will be dealt with during Ramadan, which falls in September. A spokesman for the DJ’s management said: ‘He’s bearing up but desperate to get out.’
Fingers crossed, stay tuned for more.
Ahh, my poor neglected readers. The image above is misleading - I’ve just been slack the last couple of weeks….actually, I’ve been far from slack if I’m truthful, things have been pretty hectic. Job interviews, freelance work, fixing my HTPC and some unusually good British weather have all conspired against me getting any blogging done. But, hopefully, this week will see me back with a vengence - expect reviews of Ghibli short Iblard Jikan, CGI anime Vexille and maybe the Speed Racer movie, a piece on essential anime movies, and perhaps some catch up reviews of Denno Coil and Freedom. Oh, and the possibility of something slightly new for the site - music reviews, specifically of the new Calibre and D-Bridge albums, when my promised copies hit the doormat…
Don’t touch that dial.
According to Variety today, Steven Speilberg’s Dreamworks studio has acquired the rights to produce a live action version of Ghost in the Shell. It’s not clear at this point whether the plan is to make an adaptation of Oshii’s 1995 movie, or Shirow’s 1989 manga, and the cynical among us (i.e. me) might jump to the conclusion that this is just a bandwagon jump after the announcement of the Akira live action flick. But apparently Spielberg ‘loves’ the original, and believes it is a ‘genre that has arrived’. Erm, OK Stevie. What genre, exactly? Cyberpunk? If so, then ‘fraid you’re jackin’ in about 20 years too late, chombatta.
So I love GiTS…Speilberg loves GiTS…who else? Well, Britney Spears, of course. Or at least the director of her latest video does, which freaked me out whilst channel surfing last night. It’s a poorly animated, very low budget, blatant rip off homage to the original movie, with the crack-loving starlet taking the role of everybody’s favourite cybernetic anti-terrorism agent. Hmmm. Check out the video below, though it’s probably worth turning the sound down. Obviously.
Actually, what made me laugh while searching for that on YouTube was the number of fan made alternative videos that have been uploaded - made from edited together clips of her old promos - because apparently her ‘real’ fans hate the anime style one. Excellent.
Cat Le-Huy, 31, head of technology for Big Brother makers Endemol, finally returned home last Thursday after being thrown behind bars on a holiday in the UAE in January, also for cannabis possession. He had less than 0.03 grams - about the same weight as a grain of salt, apparently - in his suitcase. What’s also interesting is that he shared a cell with Grooverider.
He’s told his side of the story to the Hampstead and Highgate Express, and it doesn’t make for very happy reading. It sounds pretty grim in there. Again, my best wishes to Rider and all his friends and family.
Stumbled across this yesterday; cool little clip following one of my favourite Detroit producers Theo Parrish as he wanders the streets of Motor City, recording sounds and ambiances before taking them back to his studio, chopping them up and making beats with ‘em on his MPC. Worth checking out:
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