Daily Archives: August 11, 2010

The Japanese Popstars feat. Green Velvet - Let Go.

  By Lisa McInerney | August 11, 2010 - 12:00 pm | Music
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… aaaaand we’re over the hump of the week. Happy Wednesday afternoon, everyone! Why not celebrate by making a nice cup of tea and bouncing along to this? Norn Irish electronica monsters The Japanese Popstars with utter ledgebag DJ Green Velvet? Yes pur-lease. This is the forthcoming release Let Go, which has been a massive festival hit this summer. If you could om-nom-nom a song, I’d om-nom-nom this one. Although those clubbers are far too clean-looking to be authentic. C’mon, lads! They look like they drink West Coast Cooler! They look like they’re going home after!

See The Stars At New Vegas! (well, hear them anyway)

  By Lisa McInerney | August 11, 2010 - 8:00 am | Games, wantsies
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Vegas. To celebs it’s like a great sparkling jar of sugar-water with a funnel in. Sure Celine Dion hasn’t left in years. And it looks like New Vegas is just as enticing, if Bethesda Softworks‘ announcement of the cast for the latest epic episode in the Fallout saga is any indication. Which it is. Because what other New Vegas would I be talking about? Fallout: New Vegas is, of course, the next release in this series of bloody brilliant and much-loved RPGs, and it’s coming our way on October 22nd. Set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mutants, weirdos, mutant weirdos and giant nasty things of the insect persuasion, you play a courier who’s been robbed and left for dead and is probably a bit cranky about it. You’ll be in good company, though. Matthew Perry, Kris Kristofferson, Danny Trejo (who will reportedly lend his growls to a playable companion … There’s more →

Ad Nauseam: McDonalds, please don’t SuperSnooze me

  By Éilish Burke | August 11, 2010 - 12:54 am | Adverts
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So I was watching a TV commercial which I was sure was for Budweiser when at about the 5-seconds-to-go point I realised, no this is actually an ad for McDonalds. The ad has a lo-fi acoustic soundtrack, the main character is a hipster-ish type in his late twenties and the whole atmosphere is one of lazy summer fun. The only inkling it might be an ad for Maccers before the 20 second mark is the odd flash of faded red (certainly not McD’s bright brand colours) in a t-shirt or a haphazardly thrown frisbee. It reminded me of the ad Budweiser brought out a few years back where the guy is going to meet his mates at a party but gets entangled with objects and drags them all along with him (I can’t find it on YouTube but I’m sure you’ll remember the one). Make the Most of Sum..