Mighty Boosh in movie and more

Flicking through our local Picture House cinema magazine and there's the odd film or two to get excited about. First of all, its not Mighty Boosh the movie but most of the cast and production team have created Bunny and the Bull which is out on 27th November. It looks like the same spanglely, dream-like, colourful look of the Boosh plus the characters look like Noel Fielding had too much cheese the night before and spawned from his dreams. The plot looks a little thin as a sort of road movie described as Sideways meets Withnail and I. Its already been shown at the Toronto International Film Festival but at the time of writing the web page wouldn't load properly as there seems to be a video file embedded. If you have Facebook or Twitter, why not follow them.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was Heath Ledger's last film and his role has been partially filled by Jonny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. Expect weirdness and a grand style from Terry Gilliam.

A Serious Man is the latest Coen Brothers which promises some dark humour.

The Informant! shows Matt Damon move away from his Bourne Identity into a corporate exec position having to work undercover within his company and whistle-blow their crop price fixing. Sounds dull as dishwater but worth a look.

One film I'm a little bit worried about is The Fantastic Mr Fox. I like the UK based animation and its a Roald Dahl story but US voice-actors and humour just don't mix for me. Join the hate-club with me after watching this trailer.

Birdman of Worthing

With Josh and Christie leaving so early in Sunday we took advantage of our lie-in privileges and went over to Worthing to see the International Worthing Birdman. If you're not familiar with this eccentric tradition, its basically a load of sponsored nutters who either build their own glider to get the most distance or dress up to hurl themselves off the pier.

It was a good turn out thanks to the glorious weather though there was room for more. Saturday had the more serious competitors so we settled in for some leaping lemmings. All the contestants had their own backstory, charity and small comedy routine played to their own music. Highlights for us were:

• Bilbo/Frodo Baggins who'd gone all the way with wig and fake feet (Flickr photo)
  
• Inspector Gadget who had been set up by his mates as a stag do - poor guy (Flickr photo)
  
• The Aussie crocodile man who's head fell off (Flickr photo)
  
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cast including Childcatcher and eccentric Grandpa (Flickr photo)
  

After the funny business was a surprise entry from the Channel Five TV show, The Gadget Show. It was a massive glider designed by the University of Southampton and was piloted by Jason Bradbury with the other male presenter, Ortis Deley giving hime moral support. The Worthing Herald shows the flight in video which was a little disappointing with the build up of how much effort had gone in to it. From where we were standing the glider looked too wide plus there was no running jump. Whether that's the rule for the competition but he did manage 3rd place overall. A great day out!

Norfolk tourists

The weekend welcomed our Norfolk friends Josh, Christie and their two blond-bombshell daughters, Lily and Rachel. We had a boozy catch-up on Friday night taking advantage of our over-stocked cocktail supply then Saturday we had a family day out on Brighton Pier and the beach. For £20 you can get 30 tokens to pay for rides which doesn't stretch that far with two kids and four adults. The log flume was a greedy 4 tokens each which had just two splashes but broke down just before we tried going on. Finally got to play the legendary Dolphin Derby with Lily winning the prize. Otherwise it was watching the kids on slides and the carousel. We finished the day relaxing on the beach watching Josh swim out and some airplanes flying in for the Shoreham Air Show.

Crazy P meets Pirate P's Disco Dungeon

Another win under our belts for the Pond Pub Quiz on Thursday. Kinky Kev's Kitsch Kittens won us the runners up prize for team name - a bag of crisps. We won the music round as well trading in the dodgy bottle of wine for a round of shots if memory serves me well. Well done to Sukey and Julian, our new quiz-questadors for providing their own expertise. Don't think we can get away with 7 people next time though.

Feeling like a Friday night in would suit us better we dragged ourselves out for a night at Audio, Brighton for Maxxi Broadcast's Crazy P live PA. Crazy P have been around for years and changed their name from Crazy Penis. We got into the club quite early with the other friends of DJs but it didn't fill up as much as it deserved. I was impressed by some of the mash-up/remixes I heard even though I prefer my house tougher. Crazy P's singer had a great voice reminding me of Roisin Murphy though like a lot of MCs she kept reminding us it was 'Friday night', 'we're at the seaside' and 'here to have a good time'. Yeah, I know love!

After a few random conversations with strangers (I remember one guy going on about Japanese knotweed then he thought it was the Effiel Tower in the Planet of the Apes), the club main lights switched on with 20 minutes to go, very off-putting when dancing. When it did close we somehow managed to invite Crazy P back to Paul's Disco Dungeon. The only thing was that about another 30 odd hangers on decided to follow us as well.

Paul didn't seem too bothered, only the lack of booze was a worry whereas my main concern was getting some chips as I was starving. The majority of the hangers-on were interesting people even though a couple of them had no connection to anyone. Nice to meet Gus as well who I discovered had a Norfolk upbringing.

The draw of the music downstairs managed to pull the party punters and about 5 DJs including Crazy P took turns to play a handful at a time. Crazy P left a little later, only to kip at the My Hotel over the road. As he left I asked why he dropped the 'enis' from Crazy P. He said 'back then they were two guys with a bag of weed. Now the name's not important and there's 5 of us'. By about 5:30am, bed was calling so left the majority to it.

Robots Are Coming at Prescription Art, Brighton

Discovered this piece of art on Church Street, Brighton near the Library entrance. Its part of a new exhibition held at Prescription Art, the Old Music Library. Inside are more huge installations built from old crates, furniture and wood to resemble ehibition title, Robots.

Give me the mutha f***ing cocktails

After the previous weekend of excess, I thought we'd be ready for a quiet one until we decided to host a cocktail evening. Within a week we'd (perhaps) over-did the preparations with a cocktail menu and far too much booze ordered through Asda (surprisingly well-stocked with obscure spirits), Ocado (who stock Tuaca) and a grand haul of Japanese beer, Shocho and plum wine (Japan Centre).

The menu was scripted by Kerry on PowerPoint whilst I injected some themed style of using The Usual Suspects which got us in trouble with Kerry's work. It wasn't the cock in cocktail but the quote within the emailed document of 'Gimme the fuckin keys you fuckin cocksucker mutha fucka arrghhh!'. Something like foul, non-business language with sexual explicit under-tones. Ooops!

The night itself was another mad rush of fast drinking with Keyser Soze's canopes going down well and the following drinks being asked again:

Lady Killer: Gin(1), Apricot Brandy(3/4), Cointreau(3/4), Passion Fruit(2) and Pineapple Juice(2)
Jade: Midori (1/4), Blue Ciracao(1/4), Champagne(top-up), Angostura Bitters (dash) and Lime (1/4)
Overdose: Southern Comfort (1/3), Vodka (1/3), Amereto (1/3), Orange Juice (1/3), Pineapple Juice (1/3)

Tiny, tiny jerboa mouse

8 bit Daft Punk

Get your own retro-style, ZX Spectrum bleepy Daft Punk covers from The Lemur Blog. There's 22 tracks to choose from on the album Da Chip. Nice album cover as well!

New Daft Punk tune and Light-cycle reveal!!!!

Today I found the new Daft Punk tune for the not yet released film, Tron 2 or Tron Legacy. First impressions are that it's not a dance record but gets very hypnotic, building into complete crowd chaos if played live. The blog I found it is Chic Moustache Club but since returning to it the embedded clip has changed into the film's trailer.

The audio clip can be found on The Hype Machine website.

The video clip below is an interesting reveal of the new film's lightcycle design. As the press and fans enter the special room you get to see the draft drawings in the corridor then the main room shows a full sized lightcycle. Make sure you listen to the video camera owner getting very excited when he see the real bike.


Another strange web discovery is this video of Thomas Bangalter making a surprise guest slot DJing three records with Busy P in LA - just him without the Daft Punk helmet. The video is jumpy but clear quality and the sound chaotic with the crowd wetting themselves. He's looking very thin (he's in the middle with brown sunglasses)!

Wet Pride of Brighton

Although we've lived in Brighton for two years, we were Gay Pride virgins and our first experience was a wet and stressful one. The plan was to drop off all our stuff at Kev and Karol's in the North Laines which included laptop and stuff for DJing, drinks and a cake Kerry had made the night before (6 hours of chocolate labour). We wanted to catch some of the parade after this then collect enough willing mates to join us at the festival in Preston Park.

When the taxi arrived for us at around 11:40am we bundled out without realising the front door key had been left in the lock. The last time this happened it cost me about £90 to get a locksmith out who used a type of bar. I'm not going to give away how I did it but got back into the house without another expensive call-out. Kerry and Emma went without us in the taxi but rang 10 minutes later saying the parade had blocked all traffic and there was no way of crossing the road in the North Laines. This left James and I to cycle down and pick up the bags and cake. I'd never seen so many people in pink and had to fight against the flow missing the parade.

We got to Kev and Karol's as it started to rain which delayed our plan to visit the festival site and put a dampner on everyone's spirits. It took another two and a bit hours to sort ourselves out waiting for the rain to stop. Grabbed the next bus nicely decorated in rainbow colours and got onto the site looking for the Callabash tent for some decent music. No decent music so tried the carousel for some elevated swinging fun. It certainly put a smile on my face. Later we tried getting into the main tent looking for a place to dance and to secure a dry place in case it rained. Too late, as the heavens opened with the heaviest rain yet. The entrance to the tent was rammed and we all knew it was time to go.

Getting a bus back into town was also everyone else's plan it seemed and buses filled up quickly as people pushed to get out of the downpour. Back at Kev and Karol's all we could do was start drinking and forget about the outside world.

After a lot of tasty food and drink we all moved over to Paul's disco dungeon for some sweaty exercise. I thought I might have peaked too early with the intake but managed to pull off one of the best sets I've done in ages. I've played almost all the tunes before but I must be getting used to the Virtual DJ software and tweeking the sound effects at the right time. Kev's laptop didn't feel like partying so it left Paul to do a mammoth 6 hour set.