F**king Motorbikes

It's North West 200 day up here in Portrush, over the years I have grown to hate this day for a couple of reasons, it always falls on or around my birthday and it brings a bunch of assholes to the town. The papers reckon 150,000 people will show up, which wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that about 3 are here to see the bikes and the rest are here to get pissed and the place will be a war zone by 10:00 tonight. Its also a lovely day today and I can barely spend any time outside as it gets spoiled with the roar of the bikes and the fucking useless commentators yapping over the loud speakers.

Across 110th Street

Some black guys up in Harlem decide to rip off the mob, so the mob goes "Across 110th Street" to fuck them up. Found it all a bit dull though. Thumbs in The Middle

Mysterious Skin

Story of two boys whose lives are fucked up by being molested by there baseball coach when they were kids, being a non main stream Hollywood flick this of course means showing the actions in a realistic and disturbing manner which freaked me out a bit. Thumbs in the Middle

Overnight

Documentary about Troy Duffy a guy who got discovered in a bar and got a million dollar contract thrown at him to make his movie "The Boondock Saints" but whose ego gets so out of control that he almost loses it all and it takes years to get the film finally made for a fraction of the original contract. Films OK, but I would recommend The Boondock Saints which I like a lot. Thumbs in the Middle

Broken Flowers

Jim Jarmusch's latest, I have always struggled to get into his films as there is a tendency for nothing to happen, but I really like this one mainly due to Bill Murray who can't put a foot wrong at the moment if he isn't doing the film just for the money(read the garfield flicks). Bill gets a letter saying he fathered a kid and that kid was on the way to see him, so he goes on a road trip to see his old girlfriends to see if he can work out which one had the kid, we never find out but the ride is fun along the way. Thumbs Up

The Stickup

Reasonably clever wee thriller, was one of those late night BBC films that no one has heard of, to explain it would give away the twists but it does a good job of playing on your preconceptions of what characters in these types of films are usually like. Thumbs Up

Kinsey

Story of Alfred Kinsey who shocked America by letting them all know that almost everyone masturbated and that a good percentage of there man had had or had thought about Homosexual encounters through a sex study he carried out. Some good acting but I found it dull overall. Thumbs in the Middle

Mission: Impossible 3

JJ Abrams makes his big screen directorial debut and basically makes an Alias for the big screen, which is a good thing. I really like this, almost no story and wall to wall action, gadgets and disguises. Anything that gets Maggie Q on screen as well is always good. Thumbs Up

New DVD's

Casino S.E. - I have the old non-anamorphic version so decided to finally upgrade now this version can be picked up cheap, this gets a bad rep for being a Goodfella's rehash but I fell its almost as good

Meet The Parents - As good as the sequel is bad

Lemony Snickets - Good kids flick that has Jim Carrey being funny without me wanting to smack him in the face

New CD'S

Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things - More Jenny!

Frank Sinatra - Platinum Collection - Amazon 97p bargain

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans - The postal service is the side project of the singer of this band, some really good tunes here and I'll probably pick up their other stuff over the next few weeks if I can find it cheap

Pearl Jam - Ten - thought it was about time to get a proper copy of this, so many classics on it and my gig tickets arrived this week, just 3 months to wait now

Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Brendan Benson - One Mississippi - Lapalco is good and I only got One Mississippi this morning so haven't listened

The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging around - Only listened to the first few tracks so far and so far so good, really like Valerie

Tool - 10,000 Days - Decided to finally start getting some Tool albums, haven't listened to it yet but the packaging is great, contains some stereoscopic lenses for looking at the artwork in 3D

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium - Got the limited edition box that some fools paid forty odd pound for, got mine when amazon mis-priced it at £15. The 1st disc is slowly growing on me but the 2nd disc has been great from the first listen as it appears to be more flea influenced and sounds more like their earlier albums which I prefer