David McFarlane

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Predator is one of the best action films ever made, in my opinion.

On paper it looks as though it will just be another generic "bang bang" film, but the reality is much more different - and it’s probably due to the dialogue.

From Jesse Ventura’s "I ain’t got time to bleed" to Arnie’s "stick around" or "GET TO DA CHOPPA!" the dialogue in the film is top drawer. Not the same kind of expression of the English language you would expect to see in a Shakesperian performance, but effective none-the-less.

I recently caught the sequel when it was on TV, and I wish I hadn’t bothered. It’s wrong on so many levels (Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Bill Paxton - enough said) that it just flat out stinks.

Don’t get me started on Alien Vs Predator either - what an absolute mess that was (and the sequel to it looks pretty shit as well).

I like to pretend the other films never happened and just stick with the original.

It’s the best thing to do.

The Messiah hath returneth home.

Is it a good thing that Kevin Keegan is back at Newcastle though?

I’m in two minds. On the one hand, he was the last manager to really excite the fans with some really entertaining football - but on the other, he has proven to be somewhat tactically inept at times (attack, attack, attack!).

It’s an exciting time to be a Newcastle fan though. A new manager, coupled with a 4-1 cup win over Stoke last night, has helped rejuvinate a side that looked pretty poor in recent weeks - just need to get some decent players in to really start making a difference.

Will King Kev’s return culminate in a surge up the table?

I will love it if he turns the club around, love it.

Who gives a fuck what people think?

I remember reading that Thomas Edison said about the lightbulb:

"I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have
succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have
eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will
work."

Without these crazy bastards around, where do you think we’d be?

Probably in the dark.

One of the problems I face is having loads of ideas but not having enough time to set them in motion.

I’ve decided to do something about this by at least throwing stuff out there and working on them more when I have the chance to do so.

The great thing about working on the Internet is that you can literally start something for pretty much nothing and then scale it if it starts to take off - my opinion is that too many folk are too quick to give up on something that could really explode at any time.

Look at Facebook, or MySpace, or Plenty Of Fish, or any number of other different places - all of them started with one idea (even if it wasn’t necessarily a unique idea) and gave it the chance to shine.

Business is a fantastic thing to get into - you literally only need to be successful once, and that’s it.

It’s being successful that’s the difficult part!

I certainly don’t think I am, but I suppose to others I might be a little.

You see, being a 24 year old it might come as a surprise to learn that I don’t smoke (never have), don’t drink (not for at least 2 or 3 years anyway) and have never done drugs - and I can’t ever see me wanting to do any of them either.

It’s not that I’m against people doing any of them (my philosophy has always been that you can do what you want), it’s just I’d rather spend my time on more interesting activities.

To be honest with you, I’m not really that bothered if people think any of this makes me weird - like Popeye, I am what I am (or was that Gloria Gaynor?).

Oh yeah, on a totally unrelated note, like I said yesterday, I watched Jeepers Creepers 2 last night - nowhere near as good as the first one, but still worth a watch if you like no-brainer films.

That probably makes me weird as well!

I watched Jeepers Creepers last night.

I’d actually forgotten that Justin Long, of Dodgeball and Die Hard 4.0 fame, was in it.

Aside from that, I’d also forgotten how good a film it actually is.

OK, there’s some fairly stupid plothole-type things - where does The Creeper go when he’s in his van (actually, why does he even have a van!), why did he not attack the people in the diner - but these are minor complaints.

The sequel’s on in about an hour, so I’ll probably end up watching it as well (I’ve seen it before and it’s a total no-brainer, which is my kind of film).

I’m not even a really big horror fan, to be honest - although I’ll never ever watch Arachnaphobia again (spiders, OH MY GOD!).

Just a little insight into my boring ass life.

Good fucking lord.

6-0 to Manchester United. 6. Nil.

Awful, awful, awful.

What else can I say?

They were good, if not great, in the first half - but the second half was one of the worst displays of football I have ever seen in my entire life.

No pride, no effort, no fucking chance.

If you have kids, bring them up to support a team that might actually give a shit - trust me, it’s better in the long run.

I’ll have calmed down by tomorrow.

Howdy folks.

Sometimes people on the Internet do wacky things that they think are hilarious, but really they’re not. Gizmodo (a tech blog thinymajig) have stepped over the line of common decency with this little stunt, in my opinion.

Yes it’s funny if you pull this shit off when you’re in a classroom or at home, but when people are spending boatloads of cash on showing their wares and some punk blogger comes along to fuck up their presentation you’re overstepping the mark - people’s jobs are on the line when you do this crap.

John Biggs at CrunchGear (who use to run Gizmodo) sums it up well by pointing out that most of their bloggers are kids.

Loren Feldman at 1938 Media basically says what I think is true about this event - it’s not cool in any way at all.

Don’t fuck with people’s livelihoods.

I actually meant to post about this the other day, but it totally slipped my mind.

If anyone’s been watching Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack on e4 then you’ll know who Liam Young is.

If you haven’t seen it, he’s an 19 year old guy who claims to be a huge business success - but the reality is very different. You see, Mr Young has been speaking out of his arse about how well he’s actually done.

First off he claimed to be turning over £200,000 a year, which would be fine if he wasn’t going about asking how to lie about how much money he was making. The impressive guys on the Digital Spy forums have also managed to dig up some dirt on the snivelling little turd.

My main gripe is that Channel 4 can let somebody claim such outrageous bullshit without first doing their research. A simple Google search for his company (Oxy UK) would have pretty much revealed everything they could possibly need to know.

For for more info on this cretin, have a look here and here.

Idiot.

Nothing much to say today but I did read this over at Calvin Ayre’s blog, and thought I’d share it here.

This incredible video shows a guy with autism showing that anyone can do anything they want, as long as they believe.

I’ll be back with a longer post tomorrow.

Enjoy.