Archive for January, 2009
New bike for a pro like me (read: all the gear no idea)
Stolen bike replaced by one that exceeds my skills a million percent.
Return of the supercool?
Fiat takes the fight to Mini – please don’t let this car outsell itself.
I’m a fair guy but this heat is making me crazy
Hey – It’s bargain time. Let’s go shopping. You may not have any money, we may be paupers, the economy may be forcing us to go uphill racing on the marmite motorway, but what’s a little fantasy shopping between friends?
Frost / Nixon
The excellent dramatisation of the bout between Frost and Nixon in the 70’s – both looking to save a career at the expense of the other.
Battlefield: Bad Company
An enjoyable, if forgettable, contemporary war simulation that mixes humour and realism to provide an exciting single player campaign and long lasting multiplayer benefits.
Paul Hartnol: The Ideal Condition
The other side of the Hartnoll brothers, this is more closely resembling of Orbitals old work.
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke in thundering, depressing tale of loneliness, desperation and sacrifice. And some bad ass wrestling too.
Er, anybody at home? Wake up economy
Apparently there’s no money left in the world. Let’s cheer for capitalism. Or was it socialism? Although I did hear we were close to communism. I could be the walrus…
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead, Valves latest masterpiece based on the HL2 engine, breaks convention and unleashes new life to the online gaming arena not seen since Counter Strike.
Latino DnB?
Going Drum n Bass crazy lately and this from Hospital Records is an often pimped out album. Not convinced though…
Long Rage: Madness and Me
What do the Hartnol brothers do now that Orbital doesn’t exist? They go their own ways and continue to create music as they know best.
Absolute Sandman
The inexcusably brilliant Sandman now in collectors hardback. Gaiman’s masterful tales of omnipotent beings inextricably linked to daily human lives.
Dances with Wolves (Silverstone)
My presence at Silverstone provoked inexplicable directional changes to the GT3, ultimately altering trajectory and velocity in an almost out of control, yet perfectly placed, balletic display of show-boating and one upmanship. (Read; oversteer everywhere)
New GT3 pictures surface – I want my mommy
So it’s been over 2 years since the launch of the current model 997GT3. I’ve owned this car for the same time, having bought this car from new and yadda yadda yadda, you know the rest. But with these images released and talk of product details launching end of this month, my mouth salivates with [...]
Henry’s new M3 chases the bloodline
Having mastered the M3 CSL for the extended period he owned it, opting for a factory new E92 M3 was proof of Henrys avoidance of expected conventionalism. Excellent at doing the GT thing and equally competent on circuit. A couple of cheeky photos with the C2 Alpina showed a comical trace of the 3 series bloodline that went back over 22 years.
Video: GT3 hooning on the German Autobahns
This was on a trip between the Nurburgring and Papenburg. There’s a fantastic delimited motorway between these two locations that lasts for about 100 miles.
I saw an indicated 207MPH on this trip which was an incredible experience. You can empty a fuel tank on this autobahn in 20 mins.
997 GT3 and 535d BMW on Autobahn
Henry [...]
Oh and the Q7..!
Yeah it’s been a nice year. In removing the Golf from the household, we need a replacement family steed – in steps the Q7.
I can feel the anger already and I’ll only plead you dispel with your internet raging so I may justify the reasons for having what is possibly the largest utility vehicle this [...]
Oh forgot about the C2..!
In my chaotic deliberations of the last year, I’ve ommitted to share with the world wide intraweb some of the more interesting acquisitions I’ve made of late, specifically this Alpina C2 2.7.
I’ve been looking for an E30 BMW (80’s 3 series BMW) for a couple of years now and have just been watching them with [...]
Glamour shoot for Cargo magazine
Way back in 2003 when I had finished pretty much all my work for the V-Spec Nur GTR, I was approached by Cargo magazine, an American mens lifestyle magazine. For its launch issue, they wanted to showcase a handful of cars that the US market were not able to obtain and the GTR was one [...]
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