Felipe Massa Accident

Just a quick to wish Felipe Massa well and hope he recovers soon. It's amazing that less than a week after an errant wheel killed young Henry Surtees, a piece of stray suspension injures Massa in such a horrific way.
For those who did not see it, a torsion bar from Rubens Barrichello's rear suspension fell off and punctured Felipe Massa's helmet as he closely followed the Brawn car. Massa hit the 2 kilo torsion bar at 140 mph which then ripped a large chunk out of his helmet lip and cut deeply into his brow just above his left eye.

The Ferrari driver was then stabilised before being airlifted to hospital with what is now confirmed as a damaged skull and brain concussion and just undergone surgery to relieve some of the pressure off of his brain.
It is still unknown exactly what the extent of damage was done though; he might be in Valencia in four weeks time or he might not be back in the car until Australia next March.


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Edarem "Pretty Woman"

The are no words for this.




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The Murcury Prize 2009

Ho hum... it must be July as nominations for the credible Brit Awards do the rounds. As much as I am not a fan of most things, most awards ceremonies piss me of even more due to their underlying shitness and their desire to award kudos to the most bland of audible products.
The Mercury Prize is no exception and in the same year that Bats for Lashes and Florence and the Machine are nominated, the steaming pile of utter dross that are Kasabian and La Roux have also somehow mysteriously made the list; which is odd considering Doves and Lily Allen did not despite producing much better albums.
How odd is it that the awards ceremony have dropped the word "music" from the title? As I stated at the start there are a number of decent albums in the nominations, but there's a lot of filler in there too; I would be rather intrigued to find out how many artists bothered to apply this year.

The nominees are:

• Florence and the Machine "Lungs"
• Kasabian "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum"
• Bats for Lashes "Two Suns"
• La Roux "La Roux"
• Glasvegas "Glasvegas"
• Speech Dabelle "Speech Therapy"
• Friendly Fires "Friendly Fires"
• The Horrors "Primary Colours"
• Lisa Hannigan "Sea Sew"
• The Invisable "The Invisable"
• Led Bib "Sensible Shoes"
• Sweet Billy Pilgram "Twice Born Men"

(P.S.: Why can't award ceremonies be more like this one..?)




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Henry Surtees (R.I.P.)

This has been a very tough weekend for motorsports. Firstly, earlier on today, the Rally of Bulgaria was canceled when navigator Flavio Gugelmini was killed and his driver Brian Lavio injured in an accident on Special Stage 7.

That was followed by an accident at Brands Hatch this afternoon that claimed the life of 18 year-old Henry Surtees - son of Formula 1 World Champion and Motorcycling World Champion John.
It would appear that an errant wheel from Jack Clarke's crashed car struck Surtees' on the head leaving him unconscious. From that point on, an unconscious Surtees pressed down on the throttle and eventually hit a barrier at the following turn head on. He never regained consciousness.

Surtees has come through the ranks of Formula BMW and Formula Renault after many years competing in Karting championships to find himself in the reformed Formula 2 series that his father helped to set up and this incident comes just one day after his first ever F2 podium finish. From all accounts thus far, it would appear that this is just a horribly unfortunate accident with the worst possible outcome.
Henry Surtees (1991 - 2009)


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A Night at the Opera "Crowded Cabin Scene"

This is here purely because I love it. Having been a Marx Brothers fan for a very long time (hell, Groucho is still one of the funniest people to have ever walked the Earth), I have plenty of time for their films and this little snippet of A Night at the Opera is no exception.
It is a roll of the famous "Crowded Cabin" scene where various groups of people from their ocean liner pile into the room for the most pointless of reasons... but it is very, very funny.




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Steven Van Zandt (Tower Records, Dublin, July 12th)

Steven Van Zandt will be broadcasting his Underground Garage Radio show from Tower Records on Wicklow Street at 1pm on Sunday afternoon.
Van Zandt - best known as the guitarist / mandolin player from Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band on various occasions and as a the character Silvio Dante in the Soprano's - will be hosting the Wicked Cool Records Day Show at Tower until 5pm and will be followed by sets from local garage band, The Urges, and the UK bred and based artists, The Len Price 3.
The show will also be broadcast live on Dublin City FM.

Thanks to Chewy for the shout out for this - this is a rare appearance for the actor/musician and should be grasped.
For more info, just check out the Tower Records Facebook page.
The Underground Garage Radio Show

The Urges
The Len Price 3
And to think that so many ventured to Oxygen instead... (sighhh)

Currently watching:
Formula 1 "2009 German Grand Prix; Friday First Practice Session"


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David Firth "Music Predictions"

Even though I work in the "entertainment industry" to a small degree (ughhh...), I (as a rule) generally despise most of the people in it; although I also happen to generally despise most people everywhere.
However, one must to add to that, an event on Thursday found me despising even more people that I had only just met. It may have something to do with the fact that I am a spiteful cunt who is desperately trying to figure out what went wrong; it may also have a lot to do with the fact that I am now only officially happy when I'm angry or it may just be because the human race is an infested swamp with shit-bricking, dog-wanking, child-whoring, fat-sucking, penis-stabbing, cock-dicking arseholes.
I might also be incorrect about that too.

The short video, below - by animator David Firth (of Salad Fingers fame), is a pretty good example of how the "entertainment industry" works and makes rather quick work of the human pimp machines involved and the brainless fuckers that are fed dog food for music on a regular basis.
The video is also quite funny...



Currently watching:
Doctor Who "Planet of Evil"


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Still Alive

Still here.
Moving house.
In the searing heat.
Via the London tube network.
...fucking nightmare!
Will be back shortly with stories, news, thoughts and reviews; but meanwhile...










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