Posts Tagged ‘Napoleon-Dynamite’

Following on from the Napoleon Dynamite soundboard, someone’s now come up with the Rex Kwan Do soundboard. Of course, you’ll need to discipline your image with these bad-boys too.

This week I’m participating in the RAJAR National Radio Listening Survey, which produces the official audience figures for UK radio stations. Now by my reckoning, I have the power to add nearly 19,000* extra listners to a radio station’s figures. Of course if there are any DJs or radio station executives reading this, I want to make it quite clear that as I couldn’t possibly consider accepting any bribes for inflating their audience numbers. No way. Bribes might take the form of cash, drugs, or advance copies of the new Foo Fighters and White Stripes albums, and would, needless to say, be totally unethical.

Speaking of which, I see the Foo Fighters’ new album In Your Honor is going to be a double album, released in 18 days (maybe less for me if there are any enterprising, go-getter radio people reading this). Really looking forward to hearing it, as One By One was such a corker, and also because according to Dave Grohl there were “Many viewings of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE” during its mixing, which is definitely encouraging.

Speaking of which, two Napoleon Dynamite links for you — a sweet soundboard with some great lines, and even better, Learn to Dance with Napoleon. (Both require Flash). For those of you who haven’t seen Napoleon Dynamite, it’s just come out on DVD, so close your browser and go and watch it immediately.

* My calculations may be way off, but are as follows: RAJAR surveys 2,500 adults every week. There are about 46 million adults in the UK (I used 46,913,776 from the 2001 census), so presumably one survey is extrapolated to represent approximately 18,765 listeners.

I finally made it up to the Apple store on Regent Street on Saturday, dragging a few friends in tow. Unfortunately I hadn’t considered the mass of students and backpackers using the shop as a free internet cafe, and consequently couldn’t get anywhere near the iBooks. After spending a while trying (and failing) to justify the £2099 price tag of the 30″ Apple Cinema Display to myself, we ended up retiring to a nearby bar for wine and chips.

A wonderfully out-of-it evening ensued, starting off by watching the brilliant Elf, before spending hours listening to FSOL’s Lifeforms and Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden (enough said?). By the early hours of Sunday morning we were ready for Napoleon Dynamite, (which I’d not seen before, and turned out to be so wrong, and so, so funny) and genépi. The night culminated with us compelled to eat chicken soup at 5.30am after watching the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld.

Also worthy of a mention is the lovely Sunday lunch Simon and I had at Le Chardon in East Dulwich the following day. The tuna steak is highly recommended.

Anyhow, I eventually managed to get my hands on a 12″ iBook this afternoon after Rob and I had had our usual post-meeting fry up in Soho. And I have to say I was impressed - it was nice and solid, and had no trouble handling the things I asked it to do in Photoshop. The keyboard and display didn’t feel too cramped, which was my main concern, so I think I’ll definitely get one very soon - with the larger hard drive and some extra RAM from Crucial. We also had a play with the Mac Mini, which really is a nice bit of kit, even if, as I discovered inadvertently, the power lead does come out quite easily.

So with my mind made up, I’m now wondering about a bag or case for my forthcoming 12″ iBook. I’m rather taken with Crumpler’s range - their bags look suitably cool, don’t shout “Mug me!”, and more importantly they’ve got funny names: Mac Bain (my favourite), The 12″ Gimp, Very Busy Man and Cheesey Disco. Crumpler’s site is a particularly mad Flash experience too. Any iBook bag/case feedback welcomed though.