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Religion - Saint Goodheads Church

This my funky friends is a genuine church stained glass window. You would think wouldn't you that, given the many jibes about priests and young boys, that this church would get itself a new design with the collection money.

Lifestyle - Fun in the Sun

Well here we are again, another season has begun. The sun is hot the sky blue and the sea turquoise.
My buddy Adam is back in town, Yay!

Seen here drinking the last shot of last year.
He has taken on another bar this year as well as Casa Rosa (www.lagos.me.uk/casarosa) called Metro. Already this has proven to be a mental palace of drunken naughtyness. I was the DJ for the opening night. Adam has a great crew working the bar. The awsome Trish who teaches us you can be drunk at work and be very good at your job and then still go out to the late bars until 4am. Keno is an Aussie who Adam met in Austria who is so mental it's a worry. Apart from not supressing the myth that everything from, and said by, Australians ends in the letter "o" Keno knows how to make hundreds of great shots, most of which he has made us try already. This team is compleated by a young Canadian girl called Jen who is all about the fun and likes to flash at passing motorists.

The Booze Cruise has started it's bi-weekly voyages (www.risingcock.com/boozecruise) with another new toy, the Octabong. Now eight people can drink beer and/or wine from a funnel at the same time. Share the love people.

Can you believe this photo was taken a month ago.

The town is filling up with backpackers and white legs. The fresh fish is on the grills. The local cheese and wine is coming down from the north. The moonlit cobbled streets are full of smiling merry faces and it's great to be alive and living in Lagos. I know I'm a very, very lucky boy. If you are out there thinking of doing this, do it, I've been living the dream for nearly two years now and every day gets better than the brilliant one I had yesterday.

Comics - Owen Dunne

Hey, hey kids. Who likes comics? You may put your hands down now. So do I. If you are not already a fan, let me introduce you to Owen Dunne who runs several strips on his site and keenspot. Owen won't win comic artist of the year but he may well win Pissy Knickers Funny Comic of the Year (not actual award). Nippleshine Manor (see sample below) sees the tender relationship between the sex staved lady of the manor and her dry witted butler Bronson. The dialogue if so funny you'll read it twice. My New Mummy is the story of a little girl who's Mommy dies and her Dad re-marries a bus station skank who charges the neighbours 5 bucks a pop the watch her trampoline on the front lawn with no bra on. Norman is an everyday story of a young man living with his Grandmother, younger brother and an ex-pornstar chicken. Need I tell you any more? or just link thee to said site.

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Design - Album Cover Folio

As most of you know one of the main aspects of my work is album cover design. I am always being asked by potential new clients if I have a portfolio of my work. Like most designers I spend my time designing for others and save very little time for my own promotion. So here at last is a small folio of my best designs. Please feel free to comment as there is always room for improvement gleaned from critique.

Porn - Make Your Own

The internet has made it very easy for people to enjoy porn of all kinds. The quantity of material on the internet is massive as a result of public demand. Like most facets of technology the growth and interest of a product is almost always proportional to it's use for the home porn business. Home video was boosted into public interest when adult titles were among the first to be made available. Look at ads, still today for video cameras and digital cameras and you will often see a half dressed girl in the view finder suggesting if you buy this you will be a porn director or a photographer for Playboy. Well maybe for a change of pace, you might want to go Lo-tech and draw your own adult entertainment with, as the ad says, bosoms and legs etc.

News - Dwarf Eats Hippo

This is similar to a story I saw today on the fantastic www.i-kamanchi.net what a funny world.

Comedy - Pablo Fransisco

Pablo Francisco is a funny dude. I saw his Bits and Pieces DVD this week. He is so animated and has this fantastic vocal range which allows him to bring his comedy alive with sound effects, spot on impressions, characters and singing. Take a look at his website for a few tasters.

News - Gavucinno

Well we all know the enigmatic Gavin Strange and his 1001 projects, businesses and hobbies. His latest announcement is the launch of the first Caféinternet. It is, in effect the opposite of an Internet Café, a place where you go to drink coffee and use the internet. This is an internet where the coffee comes to you. Where ever you are in this tiny, tiny world, If you are on the internet, you can have coffee.



Strangebucks have a system for delivery that is both fair and clever. The coffee (any style) is one euro per cup and the delivery is one euro per kilometre from your nearest pole (north or south). This is so that people who live in the cold and are in greater need of hot coffee get theirs cheaper than the sun-soakers down on the equator. To put that into perspective the distance from either pole to the equator is approximately 10,000 km. England is about half way so you would pay 5,001 euros for a coffee in London (still cheaper than the street cafés. But get this Gavin also announced that if your mate also wants a cup and he is within 1 kilometre of your location you can split the delivery. No syrup in mine thanks Gav, that’s already a sweet deal.

Toys - Flight Deck

This game was wicked bad. I played for hours, much to my Mom's inconvenience. You see, the game consisted of a section of aircraft carrier deck, a joystick and console, a complex of string and a jet.

You then had to assemble the game like this.

Now, wanting to get the best effect and maximum air time my favored place in the house to set this up was the hall. This meant I could have the deck on the hall floor and have the carrier strings going all the way up out straight stairs and across the landing where I fixed to the window sill. This was awesome for speed and distance but my poor Mom couldn't climb the stairs or cross the landing without being buzzed by the jet of tripped by the string. But like all Moms she showed a saintly patience until I combined this with my Hot Wheels Loop the Loop twin lane that was too much. At that point I would get my arse whacked with a piece of track, sometimes with a guide pin still in it, brutal.

Film - Napoleon Dynamite

I just saw one of the funniest films that I have ever seen. It's not a new film so you may have seen it. Napoleon Dynamite had me laughing all the way through. Directed by Jared Hess in 2004 the film boasts a cast of virtual unknowns. Hess looks like he’ll make it a little more mainstream this year when he directs the new Jack Black film Nacho Libre (which also looks very good). Napoleon is played by John Heder who is brilliant and holds the complexly simplistic character at a constant throughout the movie. Efren Ramirz plays Pedro, Napoleons newly acquired best friend they pool their limited skills to become a truly undynamic team. Tina Majorino (who was the scruffy little kid from Waterworld) is all grown up and plays the love interest to our guys. I could go on as all the cast and characters are great. I am now trying to get my hands on the script so I can read through the dialogue again. A real pleasure.

Product - In Car Hi-fi

Want to get your tunes on in the car? You've probably been looking at solutions like this.

Well have you thought of one of these puppies?

It's an in-car record player. And to think you overlooked this option. While you are driving along you simply get your head right down under the dashboard and feed a 7" vinyl single record into this sleek looking piece of tech. Then in 3 and a half minutes time when your tune has finished, just get under there again and flip it over for the b-side or root around in your record box for another disc. Remember to avoid any bumpy roads, you don't want to scratch your collection.

Scandal - Dr Angela

I picked up issue 6 of Rugged Magazine (http://www.rugged.tv/) while out shopping today. While flicking through its pages I saw something I thought I should share.

Now we all know our good friend Dr Angela Rudkin over at I-kamanchi has been a little absent from his blog this week. I think I know why. The folks at Vinyl Pulse (http://www.vinylpulse.com/) have just launched their new Mexican Wrestler doll “Tequila” and it had to be modelled on someone, right? Well here is my evidence your honour.


This is a picture of Dr Angie in his everyday clothes with his lovely girlfriend Princess Sian.

This is Tequila. At first I thought it was just the moustache but on further inspection it’s not just the cookie duster, the whole thing is modelled on him. And, the name, Tequila, he likes booze, think about it!
We love you Angie and now we can love the doll.

Toys - Astro Wars

Dudes, this baby was so cool when it came out in the 80's. I had one for Christmas and, in the words of Canadian advocate for faded denim and pitted skin, Bryan Adams "I played it 'till my fingers bled". It was colour graphics. Not one of those bob black and white games that had coloured gels on the screen to fake colour, hell no. I'm talking MULTICOLOUR where each alien was made of sprites containing up to 4 colours. It was Galaxians so you had not just the descending formation of attackers to worry about, but also swooping aliens. Like most original hand helds it was the size of a builder hard hat, used 24 size D batteries and ran for 10 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius. Needless to say I invested in the mains adapter. I loved my Astro Wars.

Skillz

I can do that, can you?

Music - Nine Black Alps

Nine, yes count them, Nine Black Alps. Yet another new band that have found their way into my headphones. This time from Manchester in the UK. Now for those of you who are not too familiar with the structure of British music, Manchester in the last ten years, has become more famous for producing bands than Liverpool (you see these two are not just about football). We think that the pregnant mothers of Manchester pass on the knowledge of many guitar chords to their unborn infants.

Anyway, These boys are good and have a new album out called "Everything Is" and their website is www.nineblackalps.net and very good. There is a new single called "Cosmopolitan" but I couldn't get you the video for that. But the video below is great.

Watch There "Unsatisfied" Video Here

Enjoy the show and be excellent to each other. M

Shave Our Souls

Well what an age we live in. I'm talking my hairy chinned friends about shavers. Gillette (Not Craig and Sian) have just released their Fusion shaver. It has 5 blades on the front of the head and another on the back for those difficult spots. It also comes in manual or battery powered.

Now the way I see it is. We started with the good old single bladed, rigid headed, crap shaving, cut you shreds Bic. Then Gillette bring out the twin blade "system" everyone follows suit. Then Gillette goes triple with the Mach 3 so Wilkinson Sword Goes Quatro. So Gillette retort with 5 blades. Now, we could piss about one-upping each other or, we could build the razor I have designed below.

It has 10 blades on the front. A toothbrush on the back. A 500cc outboard engine. A GPS Navigation system and some pretty sweet Mag Wheels.

If you would like to become an investor please leave me a comment.

My your beards be full and healthy.

Music - Panic! at the Disco

Panic! At the Disco are a band from Las Vegas, NV (www.panicatthedisco.com). They play out with a theatrical poise atop an energetic foundation. The best taster of the bands stylings is probably the video for "I write sins not tragedies" which you can see at i-film with this link.

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The video sees the band crashing a doomed from the start wedding with a wild selection of carnival folk (now you have to see it eh!). They are not shy of wordy song titles like "The Only Difference Between Martydom and Suicide is Press Coverage"and "Lying is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off". Likewise singer Brendon is fond of fitting so many words into song lines that you think he's going to land on his chin.

Their album is available now on i-tunes titled "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out"

They get my vote - what do you think?

Summer is never far away

Well before you know it, summer will be here again and we'll be on the beach pushing wimps around to impress girls in big pants. It's the time when we cringe as we lift up our sweaters to inspect the damage done by our winter cosy eating habits. If you are like me and spend the most of your working day sat on your arse pecking away like flu crazed chicken at a keyboard you need help. The first and proper approach is exercise, walking, swimming, sit-ups etc. But walking and swimming take time and although they are not as bad as they seem once your are engaged in said activities, finding the time is the hard part. Doing repetitious exercise like sit-ups or god forbid, going to a gym are about as much fun as shaving with a blowtorch. There are my friends a couple of good half assed solutions. Firstly get one of those strap-on electro ab belt flex gel things. OK, I mean one of these.

They are called something like Ab Toner and you can get them for about 10 bucks.

Don't get mixed up with this, that's Xerox Toner, slightly different.

Seriously those Ad Toner things work. Hey they won't turn you into a rippling mound of muscle, but they do reduce the fat and tone the (hold it in) muscle while you sit there farting and reading this blogsite. They are also good for man titties and and ladies bottoms.

The second alternative is Chair exercise.

http://exercise.about.com/cs/exerciseworkouts/l/blofficeworkout.htm

These can be done while waiting for podcasts to download etc. It is recommended that these are done while you are alone due to the fact they make you look a tit.

Remember you are all beautiful people and I love you all.

Movies - UltraViolet

As you know, I'm a comic book spod. So as you can imagine I'm quite excited by trend for making comics into movies. UltraViolet is on it's way to the theatres and will be played by Milla Jovovich who did a good job in Resident Evil. I like the fact that she gets these roles as she is a genuine fan of video games and comics. I could blab on about the synopsis of the comic, but the film seems like it's true to roots so watch this trailer.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/ultraviolet/

Is it me, or does Miss Jovovich look like she's getting a bit tubby?

Movies - Basic Instinct II Risk Addiction

Well, I think we all remember when Sharon Stone blurred the line between soft porn and mainstream movies in Basic Instinct when she showed us her weewee.

This then went on to break the pause button on everyone's Ferguson Videostar in the 80s when it was released on VHS.

Well, now she's back in Basic Instinct II Risk Addiction. I have heard a few people say they're not sure if they still want to see Miss Stone in the buff acting all sexy like. Well here's a link to the R rated trailer that is for the industry only and not shown in theatres.

http://www.triplekiss.com/Video/Basic%20Instinct%202%20Trailer.html

Let me know what you think.

Interpol - Evil

This is by no means new news but more of a public service announcement.

If you did not see the fantastic video for Evil by Interpol directed by Charlie White http://www.colonelblimp.com/directors/charliewhite/

Then go take a look over at the Interpol site http://www.interpolnyc.com/video.php now. The song is beautiful and haunting with lyrics sublime.

Are you still here?

What is Blongo?

Why, it's blogspot bingo from the good, good people over at

i-kamanchi http://www.i-kamanchi.net

They'll send you a play card and then release the numbers two by two on the daily blogs.

If you are the first to fill your card then "Blongo" your a winner.

i-kamanchi are famous for their prizes, who could forget the JUMBO colouring book and felt-tips they gave away at Christmas.

Get yo card playa!

Stuckey and Murray

http://www.stuckeyandmurray.com/home.htm

These gentlemen are very funny. Their songs will crack you up and are also very catchy, you will find yourself walking around singing them. There is a bunch of free samples on their site including the Carson video. So if you like the sound of songs like "Taking a Dump at Work" and "Santa Claus Gave Me Diabetes" then check 'em out.

New Batch

Podcast - Keith and the Girl

Keith and the Girl is a podcast that has been running for about a year. I am hooked on the show. The hosts are a very interesting couple from New York who, among their many talents are both party hire clowns by day. Keith Malley www.shite.com is a stand-up comic who has won competitions and has a DVD and CD available. The Girl is his Israeli girlfriend Chemda www.chemda.com who is a very versatile singer and stage actress. No surprise then that this combination leads to them having very interesting lives and a very amusing viewpoint. They have a varied array of fascinating friends who frequently drop by the show. Give it a whirl, but be warned, some things that are said may offend. But give them time and you will find these people to be sensitive well adjusted people who make fun of all creeds but not with hate.

I believe humor is what breaks down all barriers if you can laugh at yourself you can laugh with others. This couple are a fine example of that.

www.keithandthegirl.com

Music - Morningwood

Wake up to Morningwood. This New York band are something fresh and lively. They inject huge amounts of effort into their live shows because they feel that live shows have become dull. Their self titled album has captured some of that verve. Their website is very good www.morningwoodrocks.com give them a visit. Meanwhile here's the video for Nth Degree.

NTH DEGREE (Morningwood)

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