The one where I'm back

Back on air tonight from 10pm on Corks RedFM! Drugs finally starting clearing the SW-AN flu so drive on! The Movie Bit (inc Public Enemies review), Get it off your chest and the Late Night Interview all coming at ya from 10pm!

The one with Public Enemies

Review now online over @ The Movie Bit Blog

The one with gaga

Plenty of photos and footage from the Lady Gaga gig last night over on the Macs blog

The one with more sickness

I'm coming to the end of the war of the flu's but now it turns out I have a sinus, chest and ear infection to boot. So after a bloody expensive doctor/prescription trip I wont be back on air till Sunday. Everything else isn't so bad, but the ear is a total bastard. Completely deaf on one side. Hoping the drops kick in soon!

As a result Gameness on Thursday and any other blog updates are unlikely to happen tomorrow. But ya never know!

Sick out!

The one with Lennys Comedy Challenge

http://www.mycharity.ie/event/lennycomedy/

Give what you can!!!

The one with __________

Ever wonder what the blog would look like if nothing was updated today. I did, but blogged about it! In other words, this is the worlds laziest blog post. That said, at least I typed something in!

Not on air tonight BTW!

The one with my good deed

In case you missed it last night on air, what follows is a recount of my good deed for the year, which happened yesterday!

After a birthday lunch for the wife to be, we went off to Mahon Point, quite late. Couldn't get a space (no recession around obviously) so I had to go get some petrol as the car was on fumes!

Enter Topaz on the lower Glanmire Road. I hopped out, sorry struggled out of the car and inserted the fuel injection device into the petrol vagina on the car! As this shenanigan was taking place I spotted a duck and could hear plenty of chirping and cheeping. For anyone that knows the garage, there is a pretty high wall on the forecourt. I reckon it must be about 20 feet. Lets put it like this, I wouldn’t be jumping off it. Well I would if I fancied by my testicles to be obliterated by my ankles. Upon further observations, I discovered that a group of ducklings were on the top of this wall and more or less just hurtling themselves off it. To my surprise the all got up and went on their way with their mother, all bar one which couldn't get up. So off I went, in best Steve Irwin / David Attenborough mode. Carefully I helped the duckling back on its legs and off it went. Then the next issue abound.

The lower Glanmire road is akin to a Nascar speedway at times, with more rednecks. It was about 510pm so it was pretty busy. No doubt the bastards who hindered my parking capabilities at Mahon Point, on their way home. And in true Hollywood fashion, mammy duck and the 6 ducklings were headed for certain death. So I took a wander over and they, thankfully, stayed in a bush but with quite obvious intent of crossing the road. Another chap in a 09 D Santa Fe also got out. Like 2 strangers in a natural disaster we helped out more strangers, this time a family of ducks. The unnamed stranger stopped the traffic coming out of the city and using hand signals learned from Me, Myself and Irene I stopped the inbound traffic. On both lanes, this created a little oul traffic jam. Oblivious to the traffic chaos, the family of ducks immediately made a bee line for the other side of the road. Amazing to see how mammy duck knew it was safe and 2 strangers had come to her aide. That said they walked on to the train tracks, and I drove off in the possible misguided notion that they would not be sliced in half by a train and would safely make the river. For all intensive purposes I’ll say they did make it!

I drove home quite happy with myself and even the wife to be was suitably impressed. Granted she struggled to dish out the brownie points, due to the fact of my constant moaning and swearing about full car parks.

The one with Michael Jackson

Even though, for most of us, we don't know them personally, celebs feel like part of the family. I was a huge Michael Jackson fan as a child and into my teens and it made me incredibly sad to announce that one of my (like millions of others) childhood idols had died.

Regardless of the controversy, Michael Jackson in my view, will always be remembered as an icon and the biggest entertainer the world has ever known. We will never know what his comeback would have been like. We will never really know what made him tick. But at least we knew him.

I'm sure you are moonwalking where ever you are now! Michael Jackson RIP!

The one with Year one

For anyone that has been looking at the feeds on the right, you will have noticed "The Movie Bit" feed. Over the last few weeks, I've taken the decision to run a dedicated movie blog, and from now on anything that I have to say about movies will be posted directly there. The Movie Bit blog, is still a work in progress, so excuse me while the renovations are ongoing!

Anyways, check out the Year one review by clicking here

The one with Gameness on a Thursday

Time for the weekly gaming bit!

Crackdown 2 is on the way, the first one was outstanding. Here’s the low down on the sequel from the developers via Edge online
"We've got core members from every discipline who worked on [Crackdown 1], the majority of the design team, and, depending on whom you speak to, some of the best coders and most talented artists," said creative director Billy Thompson.
"We still maintain a really strong working relationship with [original developer] Realtime; they're our neighbours in both personal and professional relationships, and we like that," piped in producer Jim Cope. "But leaping to our defence, in a sense, we firmly believe we're the right people to make Crackdown 2."
Elsewhere in the interview the Ruffian pair reveal that the second Crackdown takes place in the same locale, Pacific City, "but further on in the timeline."

Gran Turismo, probably one of the greatest looking games on any system, particularly the PS3 incarnation, well check out the PSP version. I shit you not. Kinda makes me wanna go and buy a PSP again! I'm still finding it hard to believe that these shots are on the PSP. Hope it plays as well as it looks!

Square Enix is being taken to court for "deceptive advertising, unfair practices and fraudulent concealment" in regards, mainly, to fees in MMO title Final Fantasy XI.

The court filing states that Square apparently deceived around 100,000 players of its online game, being less-than-upfront over the terms of monthly fees, penalties for late payments, interest charges and termination of accounts for late payments

MS have released some new gear for your avatars over on Xbox Live. Outfits include surfer shorts, dodgy vests and even hotpants. Not sure if you get some cheek action with the hotpants, but still!

Resident Evil, one of the original survival horror games. Most were enjoyable? How about a Lego version

And finally, here’s Jack Black bigging up Brutal Legend (via Joystiq)