choffer

TalkSport just saying Heskey and Lennon dropped, Defoe and Milner playing instead, like for like swaps.

How can Talksport know this when Fabio himself said yesterday that he wouldn't be changing timing of the announcement of the team?

Becuase of what happens in training.

Doesn't make any sense. Players complaining that they never know what the team is until 2 hours before a game, Capello says that's how it is and it's not going to change but Talksport know the line-up 28 hours before a game based on a closed training session (apart from the first 10 minutes of warming-up)? This is Talksport, remember and as such, this has to be no more than speculation.

TalkSport just saying Heskey and Lennon dropped, Defoe and Milner playing instead, like for like swaps.

How can Talksport know this when Fabio himself said yesterday that he wouldn't be changing timing of the announcement of the team?

Did that last line make it sound like I have the kind of dreams I imagine gabby15 has? :shock:

Does anyone else have really vivid dreams? I keep on having them and it's as if I am actually there. Sometimes it can be a good things, yet other times it can be scary as anything...

Lucid dreams are what you want. Being able to control your dream. Imagine the possibilities!

Very rare but I've had them

Funny, I'd presumed everyone could do it. I'm evidently in a small minority then.

My favourite is when you wake up a bit, think about the dream and where you want it to go and then go back and carry on the dream as you'd imagined it in semi-conscious state. I always get the girl

Excellent film. I do hope you checked out the extras. Really interesting interviews from a first-time film maker there.

I like Kuyt.

Ditto - always thought he comes across as a decent bloke and I'd like to see him in a Villa shirt. Sure lots would disagree but I think he'd offer a bit more energy through the middle.

I can't find the 'VT Musicians' thread. I tried the search but it's coming up with nothing. Can anyone else try before I create a new one?

Here?

Nice one Dom! Love this thread.

Definitely prefer it without the strap-line.

Could have sworn this had been mentioned earlier in this thread but couldn't find it so now I'm not so sure.

Michael Rapaport signs up for clinical trials and the pills he is testing give him super powers (or do they just send him mental?)

And those replies above were for you Choffer...sorry should have stated your name in the posts.

Guessed as much

Apparently we did receive a fax from Liverpool re: MON and told them to go away.

I love the fact that such things are still done by fax in these modern times.

From what I hear though, we have no money unless players are sold!!! And it is also been speculated that MON and Randy don't get on that well but that MON is here for now because there is in Randy's eyes no one better for the job.

Not my words...

Where did you hear that? I was fairly sure that Randy said pretty much the opposite in his recent round of interviews.

I have heard bad things about the machines they use to make McFlurry's. Things to do with the lack of proper cleaning etc...

I've heard similar type stories about the machines they keep bar 'hot nuts' in. But they're too damn tasty to stop eating.

Such stories exist all over the place though. I worked for a big chocolate producer who didn't cease production when they had a rat infestation. I also did some work at a fizzy-drinks plant and the pipes they used to transport the syrup concentrate around to the bottling machine was replaced every few months because the syrup corroded it so badly (big, thick, steel pipes).

Then there was a friend of mine who worked in a cheese factory. He told me that his job was to collect the F.C. so that they could use it as the main constituent ingredient in the cheese slices (the ones you get on your burger etc). I didn't think anything of it until he pointed out that F.C. stood for Floor Cheese and that "collecting" it basically meant sweeping it up off the floor.

I think if you knew the production processes for most of the things you eat, you'd die pretty quick if you let that knowledge affect you.

Villa, obviously. Then again I'm Scottish (but I'd still pick Villa over Scotland - not that it would ever be an issue )

5 ft 7 is small but it doesn't matter if your good enough. Xavi, Messi and Iniesta are all 5 ft 7....

As is Wesley Sneijder

OK, so this might be a big ask but if you can get past the day-glo Miami-Vice style intro credits and the fact that the entire score is written and performed by Wang-Chung, you might find a really good 80's movie in To Live and Die in L.A.

I vaguely remember seeing it at the time but dug it out again this week. It's very dated and it's not quite The French Connection but it's still a hugely watchable film.

I'd say Jersey-centric, but the point stands. Good show too.

Oops - my bad. I just listened to an episode where they were talking about where they grew up in Highland and I presumed it was LA.

Has he talked about how chronic (pun intended) his new movie is? As bad as Jersey Girl? not quite, but shite all the same. Very disappointed.

Not seen it but from what I've heard, it's pretty poor.

Think he's a bit sensitive about it though:

Director Kevin Smith has unleashed a furious rant at critics after his new film Cop Out received a flurry of negative reviews - insisting he'd rather see members of the public give their opinion instead of "nasty" movie experts.

The comedy, starring Bruce Willis as a New York police officer, was released last month and has been slated by reviewers, with many claiming the movie is let down by a weak script, lackluster jokes and a contrived plot. Smith is fuming about the unflattering comments, insisting he feels like his film has been "bullied" - and has vowed to force critics to pay to review his movies from now on.

In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "I gotta say that every day I hate film theory & film students & critics more & more. Film fandom's become a nasty bloodsport where cartoonishly rooting for failure gets the hit count up. Watching them beat the s**t out of it was sad. Like, it's called Cop Out; that sound like a very ambitious title to you? You REALLY wanna s**t in the mouth of a flick that so OBVIOUSLY strived for nothing more than laughs. Was it called Schindler's Cop Out? Writing a nasty review for Cop Out is akin to bullying a retarded kid. All you've done is make fun of something that wasn't doing you any harm and wanted only to give some cats some fun laughs."

And the experience has convinced Smith the system is "backwards" - he'd prefer to turn the job of reviewing movies over to members of the public.

He adds, "Realized whole system's upside down: so we let a bunch of people see it for free & they s**t all over it? Meanwhile, people who'd REALLY like to see the flick for free are made to pay? Bulls**t: from now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: you wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week. Why am I giving an arbitrary 500 people power over what I do at all, let alone for free? Next flick, I'd rather pick 500 randoms from Twitter & let THEM see it for free in advance, then post THEIR opinions, good AND bad. Same difference. Why's their opinion more valid? It's a backwards system."

Surprised nobody has mentioned Smodcast in this thread yet.

It's basically Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, etc) and his buddy, sitting around, clearly stoned, talking crap to each other for an hour. It's very California-centric and can be downright filthy but it's generally pretty funny too.

Speaking of weird gear, what is with the Ed Hardy craze at the moment?

I don't know why you would want to wear a shirt covered in tatoos but they seem to be everywhere.

From what I've seen, it's all the same people that were wearing Von dutch trucker caps a couple of years ago. Someone famous and cool wore one for a millisecond a couple of years ago and it's now filtered down to the masses.

(apologies to anyone who wears the aforementioned garments!).

Really enjoyed this last night:

And now finally settling down to watch this:

Thought I had a pretty strong constitution as well as a very inquisitive nature but I lasted all of 10 seconds of that video before I had to turn it off.

Good to see you rockin' the Martin Allen-style tank-top, Dom.

Not a new one at all, but I watched Sin City again yesterday. First time I saw it I thought it was decent, but nothing special. 2nd time, though, I thought it was great. Awesome movie. I've heard there's a 2nd coming up. Can anyone confirm this?

Must dig that one out again at some point. I really didn't like it when it first came out but I think my tastes have changed a lot since then so it's got to be worth a second viewing.

Classic heist caper - had it on the list for ages but finally got round to watching it last night. Quality stuff:

Recommending this as much for the DVD extras as the movie itself. The film is a fairly interesting study on the male psyche, specifically about an obnoxious womaniser and his motives/tactics/shallowness.

The extras are a film geeks dream though as they contain:

- Actors commentary (fairly standard stuff)

- Director/cinematographer commentary (where they go into detail about how they composed various elements of the film from a technical standpoint)

- Dissection of one key scene

- "Featurette" interviews with director, composer, producer, etc.

Dylan Kidd is the first-time director and has obviously gone to a lot of trouble to explain the film-making process and it's a genuinely fascinating watch.

Anyway, the movie in question: