I don’t think I had even listened to Les Paul musically until I heard one of the old Les Paul Shows on archive.org. I knew of him because he had his name on guitars, obviously, but through my own background I was well aware of how he was also the innovator of recording techniques that paved the way for how we listen to music now. Until digital recording came along we were using versions of the techniques developed by Les Paul, and even now we’re doing the same thing but in modified ways. Multitrack recording, overdubbing, tape delay – he was at the forefront.
I don’t really care about US politics. While I’ll still casually listen in on what’s happening over there, I’m resigned to the fact that whatever happens, our government over here will kiss your ass just as willingly.
Charlie Brooker (that guy who used to write the good bits in PC Zone) has written a new series for E4. It’s based around the Big Brother concept and the producers (a subsidiary of Endemol) have let him use the Big Brother house as a set. It looks like it will be a complex tale about the evolving relationships between the contestants in the house, and also a look at their lives when they leave the house.
I just followed a link to The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman & I think it might possibly be the most awesome fan movie I’ve ever seen. Considering I think all fan movies are an abomination, that’s pretty high praise. The attention to detail is, to be frank, worryingly close to obsessive but it just adds to the charm of the film.
Plus, the Penguin’s “Wer-wer-wer” noise was fantastic, once I realised what is was.
The whole thing’s been made available on YouTube too, first part below :
Although now that I think about it, there was another couple of films from around that era that featured a cool trans-America underground monorail thing… Can’t remember what they were though. Fairly sure it was at least two films that were interlinked in some way…
