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Tacheback Week 2 challenge entry

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Here witness my mighty mouthbrow, put forth to challenge in the week 2 Tacheback challenge.

What? You love it, so much you want to donate to this years Tacheback charity hirsute persuit adventure?

Well thank you very much, please go here: UnkleRupert’s Tacheback Page

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Vote 'Moon' at Scream 2009

Duncan Jones’ debut feature ‘Moon‘ has been nominated in 4 categories in this years Spike Scream Awards.

Celebrating all that’s great in Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comics & Horror, the Scream Awards covers a total of 32 fan approved categories.

‘Moon’ has been nominated in the following, and we’d really appreciate you heading over and helping to boost the chances of a great British movie at this years awards.

:: Best Sci-Fi Movie – ‘Moon’ ::
:: Best Sci-Fi Actor – Sam Rockwell ::
:: Best Director – Duncan Jones ::
:: Best Scream-play – Duncan Jones & Nathan Parker ::

Super big lovely thanks in advance, cheese on toast for all round mine later yeah?

PS – Don’t forget, ‘Moon’ is still playing in cinemas, so get yer popcorn boots on and go see it :O)

Where? UK: HERE
Where? US: HERE

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Men around the world quiver with anticipation on the eve of Tacheback 2009 And this year we have none other than business man of the year 1993 Keith Lemon to provide inspiration for our growth with his mighty sexual Northern ways, witness the fitness:

I will of course be cultivating my own mouthbrow [ (c) Peter Serafinowicz ] & you would be very lovely if you would consider sponsoring me at my HQ HERE where I will keep you updated with progress.

Style wise, it’s looking likely I am going for the “Please let me in the Blue Oyster Bar” look again, this may change as the month progresses though.

Tacheback basically means we manly men (who are unable to hobble round a marathon, half marathon, or 500 metre kids walk-a-thon) Can do a manly thing and raise funds for the Everyman Male Cancer campaign.

Thanks for reading through all that, and even bigger thanks if you have made a donation. Of course there is the chance I will be able to make more money by doing a sponsored “Beatting the fanny off with a stick” what with how rugged and masculine I will be looking, will let you know more ASAP on that.

MEN! please join me at team Fantashtique where we can join forces in the battle against winky & botty cancer. That’s all.

PS Businessman of the Year 1993 Keith Lemon’s message for the ladies:

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Amazing performance from Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell coming towards the end of a three year shift on the Moon mining helium 3 for Earth based energy company Lunar Industries.

Cut off from Earth due to comms problems, Sam’s final days take a dramatic turn when he makes a discovery that will change his perceptions of reality forever.

Assured direction for a first feature for Duncan Jones, (who also wrote the original story) incredible production design considering the teeny $5 million budget. Moon’s interiors were shot at Shepperton on the same sound stage as ‘Alien’ and indeed harks back to a time when Sci-Fi had a brain.

There are plenty of references to the classics of the genre for the audience to spot, indeed Jones has mentioned in many interviews that ‘Moon’ came about off the back of conversations with Sam Rockwell where they discussed their fave Sci-fi classics (Silent Running, 2001, Outlands, Bladerunner..)

As if this wasn’t good enough, you will also get treated to a stunning soundtrack from Clint Mansell who’s previous credits include ‘Requiem for a Dream’ and ‘The Fountain’ AND a great voice performance from Kevin Spacey as Sam’s lunar companion GERTY.

To tell you more if the plot would spoil it. But this is one that demands a second viewing. And, if Sci-Fi ain’t your bag. Have no fear. This is also a treat for fans of psychological thrillers, and those that love to see a great actor at the top of his game.

Go see ‘Moon’, enjoy it, spread the word, go again and take a friend, they’ll love you for it. In a summer stuffed full of mega bucks CGI fests, it’s great to get more bang for yer buck when leaving the local cinema with plenty to talk about, and plenty to think about also.

Moon opens UK 17th June.

Check Duncan Jones’ blog for up to date release schedule on:

www.manmademoon.com

If you like, drop him a line on Twitter:

www.twitter.com/manmademoon

Where you’ll find a very amiable, funny geezer open to comments.

Further details on:

www.sonyclassics.com/moon/

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Great little widget off the Iggy Pop Preliminaires site to give an taste of his new release on 25th May 2009.

Single ‘King of the Dogs’ was released 27th April and is currently available to download on iTunes. Enjoy.

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The Modfather took to the stage @ Wolverhampton Civic Hall last night with a stripped down band including, I was glad to see, Ocean Color Scene’s Steve Craddock.

Kicking off with ‘Peacock Suit’ we were treated to almost two hours with choons covering Wellers career from The Jam (David Cameron’s fave ‘Eton Rifles’) The Style Council (’Shout It To The Top’) and the full range of his solo career.

Solo wise also what seemed to include the majority of ‘Stanley Road’. While we only one outing appeared from ‘Wildwood’, the title track itself given a rather more sombre, somewhat Oasis sounding flavour rather than the acoustic of the original.

If I recall correctly few tracks came of the last solo outing ‘22 Dreams’ and a further 3 new tracks were also delivered to the enthusiastic crowd including a great bunch of aging mods behind us.

As well as the great 60’s washed electric eclectic stacato tracks that Weller is well known for, we also had some great acoustic treats. The Jam’s ‘Tales of the River Bank’ for example which some chaps told us they had waited 20 years to hear live, this particular track ended with Weller and the band slipping into ‘Magic Bus’. Sadly though, no ‘That’s Entertainment’.

An amazing ‘Broken Stones’ was the highlight for me personally, probably one of Wellers best songs. We witnessed the Modfather, now 50, strut and preen like a man half his age. Seeing him live, it became very obvious where a certain Liam Gallagher got most of his moves from. Sure the face shows plenty of signs of the passing years. The enthusiam and energy seems to Still burn bright however one of Englands greatest song writers.

This was the first time we’d seen Weller. One fan told us we had been treated to one of his best ever shows (this after having seen around 50 himself), the man was on fire.

One encor and the night was topped off with a visceral ‘Whirlools End’.

Missed Weller at a larger venu last year, decided not to go at last minute as decided did not fancy the lack of intamacy the arenas represent. Glad we waited, and may now have to go to this summers open air do in Cannock Chase.

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Goodness gracious me. No new post since July 2008 when I got all excited about a wordpress (what this blog runs on) app for the Apple iPhone.

Well changes are afoot then. First a new theme to be applied (Freshy 2 If I can get it to apply). Then a bit of content housekeeping. Then, most importantly (as it is king), some new content.

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Apple today approved and released the Wordpress iPhone app. Hopefully this will persuade me to post a bit more than of late, have been a bit busy drinking wine see.

First impressions are very good. Setting up blog access took minutes, as did creating a new post and adding tags and categories. Now can I add a pic?

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YouTube – Potter Puppet Pals in “Wizard Swears”

This made Tobias larf so much he trumped! First post using newly installed Wordpress 2.6 with ‘Press This’ Link, making it very easy to grab pics / video / text of other sites, and pop straight into a new blog post.

For my next trick I shall give newly release ‘Wordpress’ for iPhone a whirl.

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