Nearly 5 years ago I thought Boot in 60 (well more Boot in 30) would never get finished, let alone help inspire another project, but both has happened. Eddie Pedalo aka mastertronic had a similar idea to Boot in 60, hence myself releasing it to foolishly show him the whole utter futility of the whole idea. Well weirdly it had the opposite effect, and so thought sod it, if you can’t beat ‘em then join ‘em and got involved.

Now it’s called 72, referring to the 72 hours ie. 3 days to create your piece…it’s already on part 7 – check out the great part by Lee Spoons.

It’s interesting watching the whole (much faster and most likely better organised!) procedure now, the new(er) media and file sharing make something like this much easier. Back in the day (grandad!) the whole FTP thing just added days or weeks to the whole thing, as people struggled with my FTP server and their clients, whereas online sharing, email without tiny file limits and Mediafire/Divshare I bet just make it far easier.

Well that’s what I’m telling myself as they roar over the 10 minute mark

Still looking for people to ‘play’ and get involved, so contact Eddie via this thread on GYBO I guess is the best.

A new podcast with the estimable Ian Fondue in the can, and coming to you shortly despite feeling suddenly an hour behind the rest of the world (it’s like deja vu – must be the Matrix), but I had to share these great film reviews by Shitcase Cinema.

Totally NSFW but brilliant guerilla cinema in the realm of ‘Get Stuffed’ (remember that?) and suchlike – low budget but highly funny, and most importantly RIGHT.

Here’s their take on the movies of Elvis and the Beatles, to keep it music themed, and correctly stating that if you’re a musician DON’T MAKE MOVIES. You’re a musician, stay that way!

Their review of the Batman franchise (and no prizes which of the films really gets it in the BatArse) – make sure you watch Part 2 also to find out what happens to Professor Bruce:

And the review of all the Friday the 13th movies (it’s quite gruesome and horrific, not the films, I mean the hacking to death they get by the reviewers!). I even agree with them about #6, the only one I could actually watch although still really bad. Good work!

Check out their Commando and Arnie specials, and nitpicks about The Thing too. Noticed they’re only getting a few hundred views for these – criminal, they deserve MANY more.

Thanks to Not-I for the tip.

Alcohol? Check!

Wandering to The Asylum 3 years later to see the Laura Ashley hell it has become? Check!

Talking about the economy, Fred Goodwin,riots and radicalism and putting the world to rights with Uncle Steve Supercollider? You betcha!

Printer Jam now on YouTube! Finally…Thanks to my manager, speed up video, reverb, spectral NR, phaser, invert, swap channels…

But I’m now finding other Printer Jam videos using some of the same YT footage (that cat, the office rage) on here – weird when I did my trawl (and I mean trawl – was looking at every printer related video on YouTube, downloaded 50+ of them) a few weeks ago I didn’t find them. Oh well not as original as I thought! Certainly when I made this I’d only seen the official video and the one with the still of a cat on here.

So sorry if anyone thinks I ripped them off, I’ve not seen most of them til now.

I think this is because there was a competition to create the video? None of them have Office Space in them though

Here’s one by Terpsichord (NSFW):

And RemixClubXX with that damned cat:

Damn I should be more original next time

A little voice inside my head said: “Don’t look back, you can never look back.”. Well actually it was Don Henley but in the case of The Asylum, home of the legendary Bastard, one the world’s first ever mashup nights (well that was King of the Boots, also run by Cartel Mike and Johnny, and might have been there too) in London back in 2001 or 2002 until 2006, it’s very true.

This was the club that was so underground (it wasn’t properly licensed!), grungey and accidentally hip, that not only did Chris Morris base the pisstake of the club in Nathan Barley on it, the owners went onto run the Macbeth in Hoxton, where one of them or their staff got into that whole Blake/Amy debacle.

It seems that The Asylum has been kidnapped by Laura Ashley, and forced to wear floral wallpaper, union jack underpants and Ye Olde tourist-trap trinkets. So sad.

History – right there. Or was…

(not pictured behind them is the Ye Olde fireplace, the patio chav-style windows at the end, the union jack chairs, the WI tea cups used as ice holders and the tablecloths. I shit you not. Go look at the pictures from upto 3 years ago and compare!)