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Darth Vader – Luke’s Father AND Whistler’s Mother




Get yourself over to Worth1000.com to take a look at their challenge to get people to drop Star Wars characters into famous works of art. Some aren’t too great, to put it mildly – but some are truly excellent.

May The 4th Be With You

If you didn’t know, today is Star Wars Day

Wookiees: The Iranian Army’s Secret Weapon


News from Iran: Whilst the world’s attention has been focused on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s verbal attack on Israel at the UN Racism conference (though Israeli heckling and disruption beforehand & the boycott of people like the USA is apparently perfectly okay… you can behave like total wankers and get away with it so long as you’re not Iranian it would appear), few seem to have noticed that the Iranian army actually paraded Wookiee snipers through the streets of Tehran at the weekend on the country’s annual Army Day.
This should be of far greater concern to Israel – as these fellas, particularly if combined with a crack-squad of Ewoks, are bloody dynamite.
Wookiees originate from Kashyyyk (which now that I think about it could possibly be an Iranian name) and contrary to the photo, tend to prefer the bowcaster over the AK47.
You can find out more about them at Wookieepedia. Naturally.

‘Ello ‘Ello ‘Ello… Nicked My Son You Are…


One thing that *does* make me proud to be a Brit is the fact that some 390,000 declared our religion to be Jedi at the last national census.
It also appears, in what can only be a good thing, that a proportion of Scottish police officers are Jedi too
(Insert joke about The Force here…)

…And Relax


Hovering on the verge of a potentially fatal Anger-Stroke on account of Jacqui Bloody Smith (see previous post) – I have to say ThankYou to Chris for lightening the mood by passing me this picture of a particularly dangerous squirrel.

Although I find this one more scary…

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In short, my name's Gareth and I'm the Director of VROOM MEDIA Ltd. I'm a designer, writer, musician and MotoGP nut. I'm a shameless fanboy for Alvaro Bautista & Apple. I go moist over Spanish band El Canto Del Loco, and I'm a total Mac geek. This blog is an ongoing journal of random notes, thoughts and bits of stuff...
...And things.

You can email me here: Clicky Clicky...

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The Rain Dogs

The latest recordings by my solo music project, The Rain Dogs. These are tracks I'm pulling together over a period of time - some old and some new - and just putting out online for sharing.

only a part not the whole
trust in the you of now
in transit

Smallcreep

My 'formerly industrial' band with my mate Rob. We grew out of wanting to be another NIN some time back and have developed into a far more interesting, singular, challenging and fun. With Rob's emigration to the USA, our way of working and creating was fundamentally altered, but we continued to push the boundaries of possible musics as we always have. Rob's return holds promise to pick things up some more - to develop more ideas, sketchpads, rhythms and approaches to keep us on the cutting edge - and maybe a refreshed approach which might even see us revisit and complete our unfinished masterpiece "BACKLASH". Yeah, right...

Rivercity

Fifteen minutes into the future, a hot, dry summer in Hull: Coates, a researcher and investigator, is hired to trace the whereabouts of missing adolescent Dominic Russell.
Is he the latest in a number of gruesome blood-letting murders attributed to the city’s “Marginals” that exist somewhere in the underbelly of the population?
That’s what the Police say, but it’s not what the boy’s mother believes - and as Coates digs deeper into that underbelly he discovers that Dominic’s disappearance is just a tiny part of a much bigger story: one that will bring his world crashing down and endanger all those around him...

Rivercity is a book that can be read at many levels, weaving a main plot - a clear homage to the “noir” detective genre - with a vampire story and a myriad of strands about perception and reality, human nature, signs, superstitions, the histroy of Hull, aesthetics, the occult and political expediency. Above all it's a novel about philosophy and the nature of truth and knowledge in the electronic age.

Rivercity is now available to purchase online: Click here for info...