Ginger DJ Rob

After Star Wars, my favourite Danish brick producer has turned to another classic movie series. A few months back I thought it was Batman for the next game but now Lego has raided the Indiana Jones series. Check it!

Took a bike ride to the seafront and watched people pretending to be lemmings (bungying for charity) then watched The Simpsons Movie at the Duke of Yorks. Either I wish I didn’t see so many TV previews and clips or waited until the DVD release, it didn’t live up to expectations. There were a few genuine laughs but no where near enough of the other characters used. View it if you can’t live without.

Another DVD catch-up, this time A Scanner Darkly - which was okay. Using Waking Life ’s graphical technique, it had some good, quirky, hallucinogenic moments but couldn’t quite sell the story for the full duration. After a little in-decision to go for Big Chill next weekend due to the rain and lack of holiday from work, we committed ourselves by buying a pop-up tent. The weather forecast seems to be more settled and a friendly chat with my new boss has allowed me a half day of Friday. Bring on the Chill! Saturday evening was a visit to Brighton’s comedy night, Komedia – Super Dynamite Boogaloo – hoping for cabaret but got school disco with Mackenzie Crook from The Office DJing (rubbishly - couldn’t mix and his selection went from rockin’ to shockin’). The highlights were a huge black guy with impressive ‘fro in a pink leotard and another guy (Boogaloo Stu) dressed as pictured. The crowd were a mix of hen night gaggles and a few desperate single blokes. Later a wanna-be tranny wh...

Saturday was Trev’s BBQ/party and turned out to be a mini-disaster. Although it took us only 45 minutes from Brighton to drive instead of the 90 minutes from Southampton and the weather sort of held out, only the usual suspects turned up all 8 of us. I say 8 but one of us stayed in bed all day and night, having spent all her energy the previous night. Steve dropped out just after the grub and left rather pale – no one questioned his illness after he rejected all cans of Stella offered. Trev disappeared at midnight and we got the yawns at 2pm. I couldn’t even DJ properly as the Final Scratch leads were missing. The saving grace for me was Kev introducing me to Virtual DJ on his laptop. I’d used it before with a Hercules DJ console but it did my head in. After getting used to not nudging the vinyl to synchronise the two records it all came shining through and even entertained the crowd (of 5) with the filter options. Missed the Brighton carnival on Sunday mainly for feeling rough and ...

Getting used to Brighton life and rather bemused by the type of locals we have here. No longer do we have to put up with fu$&-wick chavs, old-dears and Poles and a visit to the local Sainsburys has cool people, hippies, drunks and lesbians. With Kerry battling a bad cold we stayed in Friday night and joined a 24 hour video rental shop. It uses touch-screens to make all the transactions and choice, with quite a good choice of films, PS2 games and even porn. If you return it back within 6 hours a film is only 99p. This gave us the chance to catch up with Science of Sleep directed by Michael Gondry. Loved the homemade style to it. The plot does wear thin towards the end. The DVD extras featured some New York cat sanctuary with some random bird singing to her ‘kitties’ which slightly did my head in.

Last week was the games industry’s yearly showcase which normally I get quite excited about. However with all the moving, new job and lack of broadband at home (I’m this short of writing a letter to Watchdog at the moment), keeping an eye on all this has proved too difficult. What I have seen has proven that Nintendo are still on top of their innovation game. Pictured is their new hardware gizmo, project-named balance-board for their next big, open to all generations software – Wii Fit . Yoga is being demonstrated here otherwise you could use it as a step machine. However one 3 rd party developer has seen the potential to develop it with extreme sports i.e. snowboarding, skateboarding etc. The other game to create a crappy holiday-countdown-like-thing to bug your work colleagues is Resident Evil 5 . Ok so it will mean bunging out for PS3 but it looks sooo cool. Either the makers have been watching 28 Days/Weeks Later or have decided zombies should run now. GameTrailers.com has a t...

Second week of work benefited from our own bed. Yes, we’re both finally in Brighton thanks to Kev and Karol lending a hand with the moving. No more Ocean Village and low flying aircraft. It’s slightly materialistic and sad to admit it but having a few more familiar thing and furniture around you cheers me right up, including our bed. The move was slightly hampered by the storage area having all the essential stuff at the back but by around 9pm Saturday we were eating a well-deserved local take-away curry to an almost settled flat. Still adjusting to the new job and new campus – it’s not quite as good Southampton I’ll have to admit. On Tuesday I decided to sort out my fitness regime and called the Brighton branch of GKR, my old karate club. Turned out that the class I wanted to go was about 12 miles away and was a ‘once only invitation’ from the regional sensei. Didn’t quite appreciate the attitude so switched to Capoeira (see the Wikipedia entry ). It was a bit unfair to schedule th...

I’ve noticed the last places of work were surrounded with birds, of the feathered variety! IBM had Canadian Geese, Uni of Southampton had common ducks and here at the Sussex uni, seagulls have taken residency which never (f#@king) shutup! From dawn they wake each other with their wailing chorus, fly over to the beach just to remind themselves that they’re ‘sea’gulls not inland gulls, come back and continue their squawking almost 24 hours a day – it’s like a landfill! Hopefully I’ll get used to it and they’ll stay away from our new house. New job going well with lovely, friendly people. Very sociable in fact with a lots of events, coffee breaks, a department cover band and a Christmas panto (slightly scared at that one). By the end of the week all the newness started to get to me with a lot work topics going straight over my head. Finally, as we made our decision to exit our Southampton flat and enter a 6 month contract, the estate agent calls to say the house chain had completed wi...

Saturday was travelling to Stevenage (the duller cousin of Milton Keynes) for the Renaissance festival, Wild in the Country. Whether this negative feeling was picked up by the karma car park police or not, we received a parking ticket – curse you traffic warden . The rest of the Underworld supporters club were preparing themselves normally in the Holiday Express hotel with rounds of bar drinks. Scheduling Underworld after Sasha & Digweed was, agreed in the majority, a crap idea. Having to wait 4 hours listening and shuffling through a ploddy, progressive set was quite boring especially with the crap weather. A lot of us wanted to guarantee our places within the tent so didn’t try the other headline tent as well as the downpours which nearly short-circuited the sound/visual crew and equipment. We therefore missed all of Justice, Hot Chip and 2manydjs. What we did see of Justice was their nosebleed squeaky antics with no crowd atmosphere and Hot Chip getting a bit more reac...