Oasis covering Slade’s ‘Cum On Feel the Noize”. I think it works rather well.
Monthly Archives: June 2019
The Old Ways
“In early versions of the Mouse program, you could enter the call sign of the AP bureau to which you wanted to connect.”
This is a funky little tale of a cub reporter and his TRS-80 back in the early days of computerised journalism.
16 Years Later: An (almost) review of ’28 Days Later’
Sorting through an old box of crap, I accidentally came across my ancient DVD of ‘28 Days Later’.
Ever-happy to put aside something I should actually be doing and procrastinate, I popped it on and spent the next two hours (ish) rewatching a film I’d not seen since I first bought the DVD back in autumn 2003 – some 16 long years ago.
Continue readingDOOM
A trailer for the new DOOM dropped at E3 yesterday and I have to say that I’m rather looking forward to it. I’ve played DOOM – in it’s various incarnations – since the mid-late 90s and, in a world where stories seem to be ever more complex, the simplicity of DOOM is a refreshing change.
- A portal to hell is opened.
- Bad things come through.
- Kill them all (and, preferably, do it to a rocking soundtrack).
It’s mindless escapism with black and white antagonists which, given my ever more limited gaming time, manages to strike a deeply appealing note to me.