Wow, I really haven’t been updating my recently-viewed films. Fixed now! So many I’ve seen! The best being (IMHO) Mike Leigh’s ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’, which is pretty damn near perfect. You should probably check it out.

Yesterday I drove the Nissan GT-R.

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E3 is pretty much over, and here are the disc-based games that I’m looking forward to in the next 12 months:

• Gran Turismo 5
• God of War III
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Assassin’s Creed 2
• Uncharted 2
• The Last Guardian

As you can see, originality is (nearly) dead in the console market. Pretty much everything is a sequel or a clone of another title.

This speaks for itself, really. The PS3 is starting to attract the game developers that have always drawn me to the PlayStation platform. Quirky, offbeat titles are far more my cup of tea than the typical shooting/fighting games, and Team Ico have never released anything less than stellar products. I am officially very excited for this one.

Here’s the cover art for Janis Joplin’s ‘Cheap Thrills’ album.

Now, here’s the Muppets-ised version.

I am very impressed. If you are also, go visit the artist’s blog and let him know.

1. It’s the end of the financial year, and that means tax return time!

2. Gran Turismo 5, the game that tipped me over the edge to buy a PS3 over an Xbox 360.

3. WWDC. With luck, we’ll be told the release date of the new OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, and a new iPhone will be launched.

4. Ghostbusters on Blu-ray!

More reasons as they come to me.

NEW SATELLITE PHOTOS!

Katie Couric rocks.

This is all your fault, JONATHAN POH!

Expect a call from my lawyers!

…okay, so I tripped over the Singstar mic lead by myself, but I wouldn’t have been playing it if YOU hadn’t suggested that you’d get more trophies than me!

Short review: Entertaining, and a fantastic sound mix. Not quite up to Pixar standards visually but a lot better than, say, Shrek. I do get annoyed by Dreamwork’s insistence on using big name actors even when they don’t fit the character they’re playing (I’m looking at you here, Seth Rogen).

Stunning low end in parts too, and how would I know that? I do wonder.

Note to self:

When you measure out a distance between two spots on the floor, REMEMBER TO ADD A COUPLE OF METRES for slack! And for the distance between the switch and the hole!

What a waste of time and money. Back to Jaycar I go to get 15 metres of ethernet cable instead of 10!