Just thought I would take some time out to share my love for their work:

Spa­ced

Shaun of the Dead

and now…

Hot Fuzz

and here’s another oldie with Simon Pegg that many may have for­got­ten about:

Big Train

My second mix tape for you all. I’ve gone for the dark haun­ting lullaby-noise theme that cele­bra­tes both the fear and won­der of the night. I let loose some of the sca­rier tracks in this, so be warned.

I love it when Blog­ger takes six hours to publish a post that I make via email. It fills me to the brim with joyous green radioac­tive goo, none of that half assed polo­nium busi­ness though. I apo­lo­gise for my pos­ting fre­quency in January – my resi­den­tial cam­pus Inter­net pro­vi­der ban­ned me for 28 days due to “sus­pi­cious use” which pro­bably cons­ti­tu­ted using a wire­less rou­ter to con­nect my Wii and a wee­kend uploa­ding blitz that saw me bac­kup 10GB of digi­tal pho­tos to some web space I have.

With no con­nec­tion to the outside world I found time to com­plete all sorts of life chan­ging things, from my pre­vious posts it is evi­dent I wor­ked on my foo­bar designs; I also com­ple­ted a num­ber of assign­ments and pro­ject work. Life without the Inter­net wasn’t hard, more incon­ve­nient.  Scrubs got me through (until I reached the rather unfunny down­fall that is sea­son 3… but that’s another story).

Any­way, I was going to make this post about something. Yes – the price of cinema tic­kets these days. I wan­ted to see Hot Fuzz on Satur­day in the Odeon but we thought bet­ter of it – no way did we feel that a dis­coun­ted £6 stu­dent tic­ket was worth it, con­si­de­ring within 12 months the film could be purcha­sed for that amount or less. I hate to think what the full price was. A shi­ning exam­ple of the per­fect cinema is the local War­wick Arts Cen­tre cinema — £2.50 for a tic­ket and every sixth film is free. What’s more it shows qua­lity art house films, clas­sic cinema and has com­for­ta­ble homely seats. Even sit­ting in the very front row for the enti­rety of Babel I did not feel uncom­for­ta­ble (the sound­track for which is immense). So ins­tead we deci­ded to watch Woody Allen’s Match Point, a bri­lliant (and very dif­fe­rent to the stan­dard Allen) thri­ller sta­rring my favou­rite Scar­lett Johansson.

My next point is the inter­net movie data­base, more com­monly refe­rred to as IMDB. What on earth have they done with their design? It is cate­go­ri­cally the mes­siest and worst rede­sign since the all-music guide abo­mi­na­tion. Huge over sized middle but­tons, with an indis­tinct side­bar and non-fitting page high­light. Did they not rea­lise that Web2.0 was/is a fad? – IMDB was the last sta­ple & suc­cess­ful “web 1.0″ site. Now sec­tion hea­der ima­ges look small and out of place; the cast list is oddly inward shif­ted; the text is too small; it’s not ins­tantly clear what the infor­ma­tion you are loo­king at rela­tes to; nothing matches up; ratings are in a less impor­tant page zone and when I vote I need to count the stars. Give the main body some colour – make sec­tions more dis­tinc­tive, shade cells in tabled infor­ma­tion, make the side­bar big­ger, put the rating back in the middle of the page… it is that impor­tant. Yikes, I am very glad that the for­mer IMDB layout is still online here.

In other news, I bought Okami for PS2 – a very ori­gi­nal and inte­res­ting video game.

Many have asked for this, rather than rush out the first release I spent a while refi­ning the code and com­men­ting the various sec­tions. Hope­fully everything will be rela­ti­vely unders­tan­da­ble. All image sour­ces are defi­ned in varia­bles at the top of the code, as are font sizes, colours and align­ment varia­bles. Please look at the readme.txt file which con­tains links and infor­ma­tion about the requi­red com­po­nents, fonts and ima­ges. The code is in the new stan­dard .pui for­mat which should be pla­ced in your ” C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\foobar2000\PanelsUI” fol­der and loa­ded through Foobar2000’s Panel­sUI pre­fe­ren­ces dialogue.

The code has been relea­sed under the Crea­tive Com­mons Attribution-NonCommercial–Sha­reA­like 2.5 license which allows deri­va­tive works. Please do not remove the link back to this web­site or the copy­right information.

Down­load Ver­sion 0.2

I am now openly accep­ting fea­ture requests and ans­we­ring ques­tions.
NOTE: For Sin­gle Column Play­list, Row Height: 17, Group Rows: 5
My Win­dows Visual Style is Inverso Reborn Balan­ced and a dis­cus­sion and link can be found here. A good resource for down­loa­ding artist ima­ges is http://​artists​.tri​vial​being​.org

Com­po­nents Required

• Latest Ver­sion of PanelsUI
• Quick Search
• Cus­tom info
• CWB Hooks
• Column­sUI
• Foo Run
• Album List Panel
• Win­dows Explo­rer Panel

Fonts

• Bebas
• Cali­bri — Comes with Win­dows Vista and can­not be redis­tri­bu­ted (but you may find a site that has it)
• Big­Nood­le­Tit­ling

Match Point — a very dif­fe­rent Woody Allen film. So very very tense, the per­fect thriller?

3-Iron — A quiet and allu­ring love story, astoun­ding work by Kim Ki-duk.

Old­boy — Another Korean film. I’ve been mea­ning to watch this for 6 months now. Having seen this I must now seek out the rest of Chan-wook Park’s ven­geance trilogy.

Lady in the Water — An inte­res­ting fairy tale but nothing to match Pan’s Laby­rinth. I also spent the whole movie trying to work out the twist.

Le Ballon Rouge — a short and sweet french film.

Ong Bak — A fun filled action pac­ked romp (or just another OTT kung fu flick, though at least bet­ter than most — but they did make sure to show all the good bits twice… every big jump was shown from ten dif­fe­rent angles).

Wait Until Dark — Another top thri­ller, although Hepburn’s por­tra­yal of a blind house wife isn’t enti­rely con­vin­cing. This trai­ler is horrific.

Renais­sance — The super­mo­del of movies — beauty without brains.

Miami Vice — Terrible.

Adrift — Terrible.