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I have a guilty secret. I have been watching a LOT of wrestling recently. The way I look at it is that I don’t watch sport and I don’t watch soap operas. Wrestling is the perfect substitute for both. The ongoing dramas are better than ever and the recent run of guest hosts on Monday Night Raw (Don Johnson, Mike Tyson and Bret Hart) has made it unmissable viewing.

Last week’s host was the legendary William Shatner, with a hilarious performance. Here is one of the intervals, in which our beloved captain treats us to his own inimitable renditions of some popular WWE Wrestlers Entrance Tracks.

When I heard him do ‘Sexy Boy‘ (Shawn Michaels) I almost ruptured a funny fuse. Not least because I have a propensity to sing it myself on occassion.

I have been playing around with this little Veoh player recently. It works nicely. Here’s a Saturday afternoon treat for you all, Boris Karloff in Mad Monster Party, which is a wonderful slice of 60′s stop motion animation. Watch, enjoy and if you like it, go buy the dvd. ^_^

The kid sounds eerily like James Stewart too.

(NB: Veoh plugin required. It’s really easy and quick to install.)

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip released their new video today; it’s for ‘Get Better‘, which is really bloody good. It’s taken from their upcoming album ‘The Logic Of Chance‘ Lyrically, it is reminiscent of Pip’s early stuff from his ‘No Commercial Breaks’ era, socially aware and intriguing wordplay placed within clever vocal structures. Dan le Sac’s work on this is fabulous, it’s such a subtle little beat that really works its way inside your skull and repeatedly permeates without you realising it. I’m not going to start saying ‘It sound’s like…’ because that’s lazy. It sounds like Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, and we should be thankful that they are here to provide us with an alternative to the deluge of rubbish that’s currently out there.
DLSVSP are touring this spring, take the opportunity to go and see them if they are anywhere nearby, I know I will be.

As a little bonus here’s the boys doing a wicked Sugababes cover from their last sojourn to Ireland.

Wow. That’s kind of something isn’t it? Tom Waits suits being an angry cloud. I wish that the angry cloud that follows me sounded like Tom Waits.

This is taken from the collaborative NASA (North America South America) album ‘Spirit of Apollo‘. What with the recent release of The Black Keys blues / garage rock / hip hop album ‘Blakrok‘, could this be a turning point in hip hop? Does this mean that there might actually be something worth shaking out of the old dying mare?

Who knows?

Who cares?

This is great though, let’s hope that the album holds up as well.

With Oasis having a barney that no one cared about and cancelling their headlining spot at Rock en Seine, it was up to Bloc Party to deliver the ‘sad’ news. Hopefully, this will mean the final collapse of the brothers lame. Farewell Oasis, you wil not be missed.

No Lenny Bruce, No George Carlin, No Bill Hicks. No nothing. That’s just the way it is.