El Pibe

tick tick tick tick dang - sainsbo's only selling c-word scented ones glowing balloons luminous plastic bats cobwebs (this is really down to La Piba's diminutive stature and my inability to point hoovers upwards)

I'm rooting for Police Academy 4!!

not to mention http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,350900,page=1 SJ

But for god's sake keep her away from Marian. It's even more insipid than Thomas the Tank Engine.

"It says "get in line"." :)

As a one-time Potter I'm partial to 'duck'.

For when he's not watching Peppa Pig.

Viccy Coren is the signifier is it huh? Damn. What does a Katy "I Can Cook" Ashworth fetish say about me?

Out the way?!?! It has already started!!! http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8331/8121740203_5e8f5285cc.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8335/8121756542_4b8ed04154.jpg

H20 (Halloween 20 Years Later), not actually a remake of Water, was just fab. Very briefly seriously, I quite enjoyed Exorcist 3.

Fast and Furious 5 is fab, it's the Police Academy 4 of the series.

I don't think anyone has explained 'less is more' to him. Still the punters seem to be lapping it up.

For the record this is from the guardian live blog. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/19/the-x-factor-live-blog-third-live-show

"This week, Indie Matilda Kye Sones is singing Who's Gonna Save The World Tonight in what looks like something horribly close to a replica Ground Zero. I mean, it's too close to Ground Zero to justifiably be anything else. It doesn't matter how Kye is singing ? although, for the record, he's dull ? because this is by far the most tasteless that X Factor has ever been. I'm actually quite appalled by it. Maybe next week he'll perform next to a burning replica of the Hindenburg, and all the dancers could be on fire and stuff. I mean for crying out loud."

"Oh, thank heavens. He's not doing I Will Survive. He's doing Say A Little Prayer For You. This is absolutely a Jahmene song by the numbers. Shaky start, more confident middle, and an ending that sounds like a dolphin running for a bus, falling down the stairs and setting itself on fire."

Besides, Octsober scans better.

coooool, lightning in super duper slow motion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1mB5rM8WHU "It starts with a branching bundle of charge?the ?leader??descending from the cloud. This is what you see in the first part of the video. It spreads downward at speeds of tens to hundreds of kilometers per second, covering the few kilometers to the ground in a few dozen milliseconds. The leader carries comparatively little current?on the order of 200 amps. That?s still enough to kill you, but it?s nothing compared to what happens next. Once the leader makes contact with the ground, the cloud and the ground equalize with a massive discharge of more like 20,000 amps. This is the blinding flash you see. It races back up the channel at a significant fraction of the speed of light, covering the distance in under a millisecond?all within a single frame of that video. (Technical detail: while it?s called a ?return stroke?, charge is still flowing downward. However, the discharge appears to propagate upward. This effect similar to how when a traffic light turns green, the cars in front start moving, then the cars in back, so the movement appears to spread backward.)"

I spent the whole six weeks thinking about how much I'd like a drink. You do get more stuff done though!

I know, as a sort of understudy to your archcynicism, that I should take it all with a pinch of salt, but I can't help feeling that these programs not only manipulate young impressionble types (or older should know better frankly types), but that it has managed a sort of pervasive spread of these values in a way that that the amaterurish, rather tawdry likes of Opportunity Knocks never managed. Anyhow, Bah Humbug etc. Hmm, I should really make that my signature if I didn't find signatures so irritating ---------------------- Bah Humbug Etc.

Touch? ;)

I was struck by something the soppy norn irish girl said on the voice *insert obligatory floods of tears* "I'm from a small town in county Fermanagh (or whichever) and this is my only way out, this means literally everything to me" Well, I guess you could do well at school, get yourself some qualifications and apply for a job in a place you'd like to live, you know, like everyone else in the world. Is this just the directors encouraging this sort of hyperbole to format, or has the cult of celebrity bred a generation who genuinely think like this?

I guess doing the holiday camp circuit is, strictly speaking, 'changing your life' though probably not what the teary-eyed hopefuls are dreaming of as they bandy that term about. What a fantastically insightful snapshot in to the world of the post-x factor world Otta!!

I managed 6 weeks back in february, the longest I'd managed since I was 16.

Apparently Public School is why we were so good at maintaining an empire on a shoestring with hardly any soldiers. A greater mind than mine will work out how ritualised bullying prepares you for leadership, but it seems to do the trick, ask most of the cabinet!! Hmm, on second thoughts becoming a leader and being any good at it are clearly two different things.

gems from this week's live blog "Now for Union J, who had a nightmare last week by basically singing the loading noise of a Commodore 64 game." "We're back. Next up is Ella Henderson, who is so obviously going to win X Factor this year that we may as well give her the recording contract now, knock off early and all watch Merlin together... Ella, who has unfortunately come as Stars In Their Eyes Adele, is singing Lovin? You by Minnie Ripperton. It?s a song that serves a dual purpose. First it showcases her flawless voice. And second, it proves that she?s inherently phobic of high-tempo songs. Just like Leona Lewis was. Leona, don?t buy anything on hire purchase for the next few months. This one?s coming for your job. Goodness, this is quite excellent. Seriously, just let Ella win it now. We can move Christmas forward if that helps." "This week, James Arthur took Nicole Scherzinger to a pub. Because that's what he does. He goes to the pub. He only uses cutlery that's been carved from wood. He's suspicious of computers and electricity. He's authentic, see?" "Nicole is more of a fan, telling the group that they're like an apple pie, but one that needs ice cream and Tabasco sauce and baby oil. Nicole Scherzinger really, really needs a decent meal. Can someone mail her some chips or something?"