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</description><title>Adam is confused. It hurt itself in the confusion!</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @adamgrundy)</generator><link>http://adamgrundy.com/</link><item><title>I have the power.

Edit: is that a flying saucer? I only just...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n1rf6MTK1qa1pyoo1_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have the power.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Edit: is that a flying saucer? I only just saw it. Crazy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23802583004</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23802583004</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:32:38 +0100</pubDate><category>sun</category><category>summer</category><category>photo</category></item><item><title>Thoughts.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kr6lx6uq1qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23727673667</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23727673667</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:44:45 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Here is a representation of me in the sun. (Taken with...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4iwhmCU461qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a representation of me in the sun. (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank"&gt;instagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23665928697</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23665928697</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:44:09 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The End of House M.D</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s a sombre time when any series comes to an end, but it’s even sadder when it’s one of you’re favourites. I have so many mixed emotions for the end of House.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Spoilerific.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Considering the fact that House ran for eight years, it’s little wonder that I was able to grow attached to Gregory House and his various interchangeable team members. People who don’t get caught up in TV I think often perceive it as a little odd someone can be a little teary at the end of a show, but I thought &amp;#8216;Everybody Dies&amp;#8217; captured the sense of the shows finality quite well, a funeral of sorts, for these characters you won’t see again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought the whole faked death/ride off into the sunset was a neat way to end it all. Will House really change after Wilson is gone? I don&amp;#8217;t know, and I&amp;#8217;m glad we&amp;#8217;ll never get to know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hate to admit, I was totally fooled when House &amp;#8216;died&amp;#8217;. 8 seasons and I still get suckered! Just a day earlier I&amp;#8217;d spoke to a friend about the episode and predicted the death of Gregory House, but how wrong I was, and I&amp;#8217;m glad too. The show left you wanting more, but which I&amp;#8217;m glad I&amp;#8217;ll never see.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, did you catch that special before the finale? If you&amp;#8217;re interested in the making of TV, &amp;#8216;Swan Song&amp;#8217; is such a cool little retrospective on the whole process of making House. I don&amp;#8217;t think I&amp;#8217;ve seen something like it before.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So now what? I need to start a new drama I guess. Or not. I&amp;#8217;m a free person. Don&amp;#8217;t look at me like that. I will get around to watching Season 2 of The Walking Dead, and I&amp;#8217;ll make a start on Game of Thrones. But not because you told me to, scornful reader.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23621200589</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23621200589</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:31:56 +0100</pubDate><category>house</category><category>tv</category><category>recap</category><category>house m.d</category><category>goodbye</category><category>everybody dies</category></item><item><title>It’s real sunny you guys. (Taken with instagram)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hawsCwsY1qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s real sunny you guys. (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank"&gt;instagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23608168623</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23608168623</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:00:27 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>This is relevant to my interests.

Infographic of the Day:...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m48iatgPv61qzpwi0o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is relevant to my interests.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infographic of the Day:&lt;/strong&gt; Starting with the original “Not Ready For Primetime Players,” an epic 37-year history of the cast and guest stars of &lt;em&gt;Saturday Night Live.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cabletv.com/snl-cast-timeline" target="_blank"&gt;(Embiggen.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.cabletv.com/snl-cast-timeline" target="_blank"&gt;cabletv&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23541112190</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23541112190</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:28:31 +0100</pubDate><category>snl</category><category>saturday night live</category></item><item><title>This is brilliant.
thedailywhat:

Mashup of the Day:...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19953040" width="400" height="265" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/23514935771/mashup-of-the-day-cinemashup-artist-jeff" target="_blank"&gt;thedailywhat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mashup of the Day:&lt;/strong&gt; “Cinemashup” artist &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user3544174" target="_blank"&gt;Jeff Yorkes&lt;/a&gt; skillfully sets footage from Orson Welles’ &lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/em&gt; to The White Stripes’ &lt;em&gt;Kane&lt;/em&gt;-inspired song, “The Union Forever.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yorkes writes, “The first time I listened to the song, I was like, ‘how do I know all these lyrics,’ only to realize that they’re all bits of dialogue from &lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.stuffjournalistslike.com/2012/05/citizen-kane-mashed-up-with-the-white-stripes.html" target="_blank"&gt;stuffjournalistslike&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23536346716</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23536346716</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:01:12 +0100</pubDate><category>citizen kane</category></item><item><title>SNL</title><description>&lt;p&gt;A whole summer without SNL is already adding to my list of &amp;#8216;shows I can&amp;#8217;t believe I&amp;#8217;m going to be months without&amp;#8217;. But last night&amp;#8217;s episode was a real tear-jerker at the end. Wiig&amp;#8217;s departure/&amp;#8217;graduation&amp;#8217; was quite emotional, definitely choking me up on par with the final montage in Community&amp;#8217;s episode this week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While I did love &amp;#8216;Lazy Sunday 2&amp;#8217;, it acting as a book-end for Andy Samberg&amp;#8217;s time on SNL, I do hope that this isn&amp;#8217;t the end. If so, it&amp;#8217;s crazy they didn&amp;#8217;t give him a big goodbye along with Jason Sudeikis, who is also rumoured to be leaving.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I guess you always want to see more and more of the actors and characters you like, but sometimes it&amp;#8217;s best for these guys to move in. It&amp;#8217;s hard to imagine what the show will look like without arguably three of the most influential cast members, but I&amp;#8217;m definitely cautiously excited for what Saturday Night Live will resemble once season 38 kicks in.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#8217;t it the final episode of House tomorrow? Everything must end.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23436523871</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23436523871</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:51:27 +0100</pubDate><category>tv</category></item><item><title>Life as a hipster is now complete. (Taken with instagram)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4a4u8mBtm1qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Life as a hipster is now complete. (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank"&gt;instagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23357628728</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23357628728</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:06:07 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>I've Solved The Recession</title><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons the country/world/universe is in a recession all the time is because, essentially, there are some greedy people in the world who squander the county&amp;#8217;s money on totally ridiculous wars and such. It&amp;#8217;s also wasted, in some cases, on upper management taking hefty bonuses when people lower down the chain try and do double the work so Napoleon can sit at the farmer&amp;#8217;s table and eat in-doors. Four legs good, two legs better!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#8217;t know how to stop all that, so I&amp;#8217;ll talk about the other thing that props up a recession.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people don&amp;#8217;t have jobs. Without jobs, they depend on the state. It totally sucks. It means that tax money that could go towards employing that extra nurse or social worker for your granny now goes towards keeping people on the breadline. It sucks! It totally sucks!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Has the topic of being a day or night person come up with you and your too-cool-for-Adam friends? I think everyone knows what they are. Some people relish waking up at the crack of dawn every day, opting for an early night. Some are total night-owls. Like the Zodiac Killer, I&amp;#8217;m good with either. I prefer night, but I think it&amp;#8217;s all about getting into a habit. Y&amp;#8217;ALL KNOW THAT, RIGHT? Good, anyway, &lt;strong&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve solved the recession.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Society will be split into two; the day-dwellers and the night-ingales*. What does this mean? Well, you&amp;#8217;re claiming to be &amp;#8216;more of a night person&amp;#8217;, put it to the test! What it will boil down to is that half the country will work during the day and half at night. Essentially, every job will now contain two people. For example, let&amp;#8217;s look at nurses. On a hospital ward, there are already nurses that have the day shift, and nurses that control the night shift. Let&amp;#8217;s extend that past the public sector. Sure, your office hours might be 9:00-18:00, but for Steve, his hours will be 21:00-6:00. This is a fool-proof, genius plan. Factories will have people working round the clock, pumping stuff out 24/7. The country will have to hire more young builders and tradesman to handle the fact we&amp;#8217;ll be erecting some kick-ass buildings all day and night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, that road near your house that&amp;#8217;s been dug up for the better half of three weeks? Well, the new road-people will have it done in twenty-four hours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How many times have you just wanted to go to watch a film at like, 4am? I used to work in Leicester Square and let me tell you, a lot of people knocked on those glass doors at Vue wanting to see a film. Sure, a lot of places in London stay open real late, but not everywhere. Up North, everything closes early anyway. It sucks! It totally sucks! With all these night jobs, the vast majority can be filled by people who are out of work, therefore boosting the yadda yadda yadda and meaning that X amount is freed up to spend on Y and Z.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The idea will be to change the perception we have of day and night. There is and should be no distinction. Time is merely hours, minutes, seconds. Just because it gets dark doesn&amp;#8217;t mean everything should come to a halt, not when there are millions out of work! Why does daytime TV lack the quality of night-time programming? Because everyone works during the day. Not in my world, bucko.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things I Might Not Have Considered:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;What happens to children? Do we eventually have Day Children and Night Children? Does that not sound cool as hell, yet ridiculous now that I read that back to myself?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How do people sleep during the day/night when construction goes on 24/7?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This is a terrible plan. Forget it. You win, world!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;*I was toying with a Dayman/Nightman reference here but I refrained&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23296661738</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23296661738</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:10:47 +0100</pubDate><category>bad ass ideas</category><category>writing</category><category>plans</category></item><item><title>Dreamcast. (Taken with instagram)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m417cy3V761qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dreamcast. (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank"&gt;instagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23058239877</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/23058239877</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:22:00 +0100</pubDate><category>sega</category><category>dreamcast</category><category>video games</category><category>consoles</category><category>gaming</category></item><item><title>Last night I watched Richard Attenborough’s Magic,...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9xXKrW860P8?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last night I watched Richard Attenborough’s Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://adamgrundy.com/post/11947885279/i-watched-the-caesar-and-me-episode-of-the" target="_blank"&gt;I know previously I’ve talked about how much I enjoy the subject matter when  ventriloquist dolls are involved, &lt;/a&gt;but this film really is outstanding.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think what I enjoy the most about this type of story is that it can explore one of two different approaches on the subject of the ventriloquist doll. Sure, the doll can have a life of it’s own like in that old Twilight Zone episode, or the doll can, like in the case of Magic, be an extension of the puppeteer’s personality. Which really, isn’t that what acting can be, an actor exploiting one side of their personality? Bringing that side, whether it be angry or void or burning with a thousand emotions, to the forefront? I think what Magic does is it really highlights how one person can have two different personalities, one clearly more dominant than the other, and how someone deals with that inner struggle. In this case, Corky (Anthony Hopkins) uses Fats the doll as his way of creating some charm in his magic act.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t want to give too much away, and you probably shouldn’t watch the entire clip above, but I really enjoyed the film. Definitely rent it or whatever you kids do these days.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22622088682</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22622088682</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 01:44:17 +0100</pubDate><category>film</category><category>magic</category></item><item><title>Here’s my haul from Free Comic Book Day on Saturday. I...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nv6f1p2l1qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here’s my haul from Free Comic Book Day on Saturday. I spent the day travelling, so I only had time to briefly stop at Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue. Didn’t really make the best of this precious day of the year, but I think last year I missed it due to work, so hopefully next year I can hit up all the London stores and join in some real events.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway, free stuff:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars/Serenity&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Buffy/The Guild&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Transformers Regeneration One&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2000AD&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;bought stuff:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men #3&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scienthorlogy&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ultimate Comics X-Men Vol 1 (issues 1-6)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, I really, really don’t like Transformers, and I’m not big on Judge Dread at all, but free stuff is free stuff. I remember a few years ago attending FCBD at Travelling Man in Manchester. It was pretty open with what you wanted to take, all the issues were laid out on a table and you could just take your pick. Now obviously, this means some people miss out on stuff they really want, or some greedy guts take more than one issue, so I totally understand why places like Forbidden Planet hand out bags with an assortment in rather having people go crazy at one table, but I was pretty bummed not to get any Marvel books. Still, I enjoyed The Guild, Serenity, and Star Wars freebies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I took a chance with Scienthorlogy, and it’s so funny I’m going to have to keep up with the series. I was thinking of picking up Iron Muslim and Captain American Idol while I was at it, but I may just wait it out for any collection that comes out in the future. But really, you have to give Rick Johnston’s Scenthorlogy a chance. It’s such a twisted, witty parody of Hollywood/Thor, definitely worth a read.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AvX is getting better. Still don’t feel the need to pick up any of the Versus series, I enjoy the fighting, the allegiances switching and what not, but I don’t feel the need to read an entire book of just two people fighting. I much more enjoy the big groups going at it both verbally and physically.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway. that’s what I got.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22591873168</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22591873168</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:30:15 +0100</pubDate><category>fcbd</category><category>london</category><category>comics</category><category>marvel</category><category>dc</category><category>dark horse</category><category>x-men</category></item><item><title>I’m a day late, but here goes. Yesterday was my annual watching...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3clqnHZZC1qa1pyoo1_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m a day late, but here goes. Yesterday was my annual watching of Chungking Express. It’s the day I watch the movie and eat tinned pineapples, just like Wu does. Why? It’s a tradition I set myself. Why do you celebrate Christmas, eh? Anyway, I forgot to do it yesterday, which bummed me out a little, so I’m doing it a day late. Next year I won’t forget. Hope y’all have got some cool film-related traditions of your own.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Btw, I hate pineapples. (Taken with instagram)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22193031805</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22193031805</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:39:45 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>A Nightmare Future Part 2</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Consider the notion that one day, maybe thirty years from now, there will be a remake of Step Up. And as you open your SpaceIpad (for the record, I&amp;#8217;m not giving up on the fact that in the near future, space colonies are a thing) to the news section, there will be a piece that details how this remake of Step Up &amp;#8216;will never live up to the high standards previously set in the original series&amp;#8217;. Consider that someone/a sentient journalist robot will type those words.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contemplate the idea that one day, the Underworld series will be rebooted. Although now you sit there and scratch your head, trying to rationalize how such a lame series of films could make nearly $460m at the box office, know that this success will cause a reboot to come to pass. Because&lt;em&gt; it was successful&lt;/em&gt;. And just how people look at classic films like &amp;#8216;Guess Who&amp;#8217;s Coming To Dinner&amp;#8217; in awe of it&amp;#8217;s daring message and heart-wrenching final scene monologue, the people around you will be outraged that the execs at Planet Hollywood (not to be confused with the restaurant. We live in space, remember?! Although there are Planet Hollywoods on Planet Hollywood, 3 in fact) even dare to touch the sacred entity that is the Underworld series. Kate Beckinsale will be turning in her grave!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&amp;#8217;m not saying Kate Beckinsale will not be around in 30 years. Just delete where appropriate, future reader.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because I think that the quality of a movie can sometimes be attributed to the experience you had while watching it. While many young people, even &lt;strike&gt;plebs&lt;/strike&gt; people my age may scoff at black and white films, they forget that to audiences in the past, seeing these movies on the big screen was an unrivalled experience. So when kids nowadays see films like Citizen Kane, they may utter the phrase &amp;#8216;I don&amp;#8217;t see what the big deal about it is&amp;#8217;. But the further we go into the future, the more real the nightmare becomes. These idiots will inherit the Earth. They will determine what gets remade. They will look at Jurassic Park and laugh at the special effects. Did you just slap the side of your face and scream like in Home Alone?&lt;em&gt; Future beings won&amp;#8217;t even get the reference.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In thirty years, it may come to pass that someone in an office somewhere looks down upon three remake treatments; &amp;#8216;Marmaduke&amp;#8217;, &amp;#8216;The Hottie and the Nottie&amp;#8217; and &amp;#8216;White Noise&amp;#8217;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;We&amp;#8217;ll take all three&amp;#8221; they&amp;#8217;ll say. And that will be the day the word &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; is retired.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://adamgrundy.com/post/15528466712/a-nightmare-future" target="_blank"&gt;(Here&amp;#8217;s Part 1 in case you forgot what a terrible world we will live in)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22131910708</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22131910708</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:01:35 +0100</pubDate><category>film</category><category>ramblings</category><category>nightmare future</category></item><item><title>Regulars</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-Y9P-xT5kc" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;ve ever worked a day in your life in customer service, you&amp;#8217;ll understand what I mean when I say that every workplace has it&amp;#8217;s regulars.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve worked in a variety of different establishments since I was a kid. Even when I was cleaning blood from the floor of a butchers, I still noticed the odd person who would make a habit of visiting. Believe me, it was better to think about locals coming in for their meats rather than focusing on the pig carcass hanging in front of me. This is also the reason I&amp;#8217;ve never turned my nose up at doing something, because when people say &amp;#8220;nothing could be worse than this&amp;#8221; I remind them I worked in a place that also housed its own abattoir. Clean out a dusty stock room? Yes please!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those keeping track of my &lt;strike&gt;depressing&lt;/strike&gt; thrilling life, you may remember that when I took &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/bumTEQEhLSg" target="_blank"&gt;a year off to do music&lt;/a&gt; and save up money, I worked in a cinema in my hometown. We always had this one old lady who came in. Her name was Pat if I remember correctly, she was pretty bad ass. She&amp;#8217;d always buy a bag of Malteasers or Minstrels and made it her mission to watch all the films a bunch of times. She saw the newest Rambo more times than anyone should&amp;#8217;ve, but it was cool to see someone her age who still had a passion for cinema, and in my hometown too, where the biggest film one year was Eddie Murphy&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Meet Dave&amp;#8217;. She was cool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a Vision Express advert out right now involving a man whose glasses keep getting nicked by mischievous monkeys. It&amp;#8217;s not funny, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Y9P-xT5kc" target="_blank"&gt;despite what the comments on Youtube say&lt;/a&gt;. But it got me thinking. If everywhere has regulars, what type of person would an optician&amp;#8217;s regular be? There must be someone out there who wakes up and thinks &amp;#8220;I fancy popping in to see [name] at Vision Express!&amp;#8221;. What kind of monster does that? Sure, the guy in the Vision Express adverts has an excuse, those monkeys have poor eyesight and require bifocals in order to see where exactly they&amp;#8217;re throwing their feces at. But surely this is an isolated incident?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What other obscure places would have regulars? Safari Parks? &amp;#8220;I just love going to the safari park each week. Yeah, my wing mirrors usually get pulled apart, and my bumper got dented by a rhino once, but I just love it! Worth every penny. How dare you insinuate I&amp;#8217;m a moron!&amp;#8221;. Do rhinos run free in Safari Parks? I don&amp;#8217;t think people realize that if you cycle through Animal Planet you can have your fill of wildlife &lt;strong&gt;without having to leave your house&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See, cinemas I can understand. Restaurants, bookshops, hairdressers, clothes stores. These places have regulars for a reason. Sometimes it&amp;#8217;s about the community that involves itself with the store. If a kid loves playing Warhammer 40k, but doesn&amp;#8217;t have any friends who do, he could easily find people at say, a Games Workshop, who share his hobby*. But what kind of deranged human spends a significant amount of their time and money on new glasses?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I sat on my glasses the first week of moving to Hackney in September 2008. Still wearing them. Maybe I&amp;#8217;m just jealous of someone who has such disposable income. Humph.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;*I used to buy Tyranids and Space Marines. There was only three of us who played. I also spent twenty minutes while writing this to figure out if it really was the Tyranids. I&amp;#8217;m still none the wiser. Has all this changed your opinion of me? I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22077761242</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/22077761242</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:47:11 +0100</pubDate><category>real talk</category><category>me</category><category>adverts</category><category>glasses</category><category>warhammer</category></item><item><title>The Avengers (No Spoilers!)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It will be a surprise to no one that yesterday I went to see The Avengers and no, I won&amp;#8217;t be referring to it as &amp;#8216;Marvel Avengers Assemble&amp;#8217; because I am not a six year old playing with his toys.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;However, much like a young, impressionable child, I was euphoric with giddiness to see the movie. It wasn&amp;#8217;t a case of &amp;#8216;will it be good?&amp;#8217; because the films that have been setting up to The Avengers (Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Captain America and Thor) have been on the whole pretty good. There was also Iron Man 2 but the less said about that the better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Okay, sidenote: Iron Man 2 stinks. The putrid, watered-down plot made me wonder if the fingerprints of George Lucas might be found on an early draft somewhere. The fact that the major fighting happened between Iron Man and some drones? No. I&amp;#8217;m not having that. No.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thankfully, Marvel&amp;#8217;s Super Secret S.H.I.E.L.D Soldiers To The Rescue was actually really, really good. What more could I have expected from Joss Whedon?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want a proper review, there are a thousand and one places for that. I&amp;#8217;m just going to list what I liked about it, and I&amp;#8217;ll try to find a few sour points from somewhere&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;I saw the film in 2D. Instead of the naff plastic 3D specs, I got to use this revolutionary new piece of engineering called &lt;strong&gt;my actual glasses&lt;/strong&gt;. I saw everything! All the colours! No -40% visibility! (I&amp;#8217;ve been wielding that number for a while and I&amp;#8217;m not sure I&amp;#8217;m right. w/e)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The cinema was packed. I had to sit apart from the people I went with. I don&amp;#8217;t mind feeling like a loner in a film screening, as I&amp;#8217;ve been on some awkward cinema visits where I didn&amp;#8217;t even like the person next to me. The kid I sat next to was wearing an Iron Man shirt. I knew I was in good company. Good company meaning &amp;#8216;He makes me look cool&amp;#8217;. To be fair, we both probably had that opinion.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I thought that the balance between all the characters interactions was handled perfectly. You can tell that this was a labour of love for Joss Whedon. Everyone had enough screen time, enough time to outline their individual motives, their reasons for being there.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I think a great example of this was Black Widow/Hawkeye. I just really dug how much time each of them got, whether interacting with each other or the rest of The Avengers.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michael Bay should watch this movie. He will notice that yes, New York is being destroyed by alien visitors, but what&amp;#8217;s this? The female lead isn&amp;#8217;t void of character merely there for some ass shots? She has lines and is strong and just as likely to serve a beat down like the rest of the team? WHUT!?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A lot has been made about the representation of The Hulk in The Avengers. Did Ruffalo do a good job? I think so. I loved the scenes where Bruce Banner got to interact with Tony Stark. It was refreshing to see Banner be able to converse with someone who&amp;#8217;s more like his equal but isn&amp;#8217;t intent on stealing some of that Hulk blood to make himself a monster. Where the scenes with Hulk impressive? Sure. I loved seeing him all greened up, smashing shit to bits. It was the first time we&amp;#8217;ve been able to see just how powerful the Hulk is compared not only to humans, but alien beings. The fact is, Joss Whedon is not going to let someone in his film be there just for the sake of it. He&amp;#8217;ll give them a back-story, a chance to grow on screen, but I just don&amp;#8217;t want to see people poo-poo Edward Norton&amp;#8217;s performance as Hulk, because I think Mark Ruffalo was lucky he was able to play this Hulk. Ed carried the film he was in. Could Mark have carried it? Are the days where making a stand-alone Hulk film over? I hope so. Because the rest of the cast in this added enough flavour that seeing the Hulk on a war-path didn&amp;#8217;t grow stale.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It was so cool seeing Loki interact with everyone. Tom Hiddleston does such a good job of taking Loki&amp;#8217;s deranged demeanour to the next level. This isn&amp;#8217;t a spoiler by any means, but I hope Loki will be involved in Thor 2 or even the next Avengers instalment. He&amp;#8217;s a cool cat.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The bad-invasion-army (don&amp;#8217;t tell me that&amp;#8217;s a spolier) was pretty faceless. I&amp;#8217;ve even forgot their name. But they didn&amp;#8217;t need to have a personality or even a complex reason (though I enjoyed theirs) to start shit with Earth&amp;#8217;s Mightiest Heroes. There is so much going on in just over two hours that any time spent developing them would&amp;#8217;ve meant cutting out the set-up dynamics of the team, and that would have sucked. So yeah, they were pretty faceless. Deal!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What is Zak Penn&amp;#8217;s problem? Does he have some sort of Jekyll and Hyde thing going on? He co-writes The Avengers and Incredible Hulk, but also had a hand in X-Men 3 (also known as The Film That Broke Adam&amp;#8217;s Heart), Elektra, and the terrible new show Alphas. Does he fall asleep and wake up and see a script saying &amp;#8216;Untitled Jennifer Garner Superhero Script&amp;#8217; and just hands it in?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;While there is a focus on uncovering the motives for each of The Avengers  being there (duty/guilt/no choice&amp;#8230;), make no mistake that the film was about these volatile beings fighting. That&amp;#8217;s where it&amp;#8217;s at, right? Arguing and scrapping between the team as well as the enemy? But everyone is pretty much at the same point as they were before shit went down, right? Like, has Captain America&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;duty calls&amp;#8221; schtick been shook? No! But it didn&amp;#8217;t need to be. This film was about the action, and I think this is the type of standard that some action films need to take. There was a balance of character as well as a hefty load of cheesy-as-shit pose-downs I could&amp;#8217;ve done without.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;BUT I LOVED IT! Time will tell with The Avengers. I&amp;#8217;m excited to see where the series will go. DC executives need to take a long, hard look at their franchises and figure out how to out-do Marvel, because Marvel really have made it their game.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;OH. And the after the credits bit had me so pumped. I was shell-shock. Like, I only got mega-pumped on the way home. If you&amp;#8217;re puzzled by the after-the-credits action, don&amp;#8217;t worry. We&amp;#8217;re in safe hands! It will be cool as hell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do think it&amp;#8217;s un-fair to say &amp;#8220;Well, The Avengers was great, but The Dark Knight Rises will be better&amp;#8221;, because they&amp;#8217;re completely different tones. They may share the superhero tag, but they&amp;#8217;re so different there isn&amp;#8217;t a comparison, and I will shout you down if you even try that with me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So yo, I don&amp;#8217;t need to tell you to watch it. You will. Whether you enjoy films or you list the Saw films as one of your favourite series (you&amp;#8217;re a pleb), you can&amp;#8217;t tell me The Avengers is a bad film. Because you will be wrong. Bozo.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21928617530</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21928617530</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:29:01 +0100</pubDate><category>marvel</category><category>film</category><category>movie</category><category>superhero</category><category>the avengers</category><category>iron man</category><category>captain america</category></item><item><title>Finally tried Brooklyn Lager. It was alright. (Taken with...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2uk3bG8YS1qa1pyoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally tried Brooklyn Lager. It was alright. (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank"&gt;instagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21520911113</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21520911113</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:40:23 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>3 Better Uses For The Tupac Hologram Technology</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="western"&gt;A holographic Tupac singing on-stage with Jay-Z and Snoop at Coachella? I guess that&amp;#8217;s impressive, but let&amp;#8217;s not sing the praises of such a feat just yet. If you ran home from school waving an English exam paper with a grade C on it, your parents would be glad you passed, but it&amp;#8217;s still just a C. I can&amp;#8217;t help but think of three instances where holographic technology could have been put to better use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;&lt;img height="200" src="http://www.ftrc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/War-of-the-Worlds-From-the-Red-Carpet.jpg" width="300"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="western"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Re-staging The War of the Worlds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;When a young stage-actor named Orson Welles (“who?” I don&amp;#8217;t know either!) directed and narrated the most famous adaptation of the H.G Wells&amp;#8217; tale of a Martian invasion, a nationwide panic set in. Anyone with a radio, or anyone unlucky enough to hear their neighbours piling into their cars before heading for the hills, reacted in the same way anyone would at the notion of an alien onslaught: total hysteria.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;You can read a thousand sub-standard college dissertations on why the population of America reacted in such a way to the Welles broadcast, but it all boils down to the fact that people genuinely believed it was happening. Why would the radio lie? Besides the fact that the whole thing was a fictional re-telling of a literary classic, never underestimate how easily manipulated the public can be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;So what better use of holographic technology than to stage our generation&amp;#8217;s very own version of The War of the Worlds? Forget that Spielberg version, my 2012 version would be the granddaddy of them all. What would make for a better opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games than a holographic Tripod tearing through the East End? London is full of unemployed actors, it would be no problem wrangling enough of them together to play panicked bystanders or corpses. Plus, who said Beijing&amp;#8217;s opening ceremony couldn&amp;#8217;t be beaten? Not me!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;There might be riots, some looting, a lot of tears, but the most important thing is that at the end, once it&amp;#8217;s revealed that everything was a hoax, I am willing to have Tupac arise from inside a Tripod and sing Hail Mary, which leads me on to my next idea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Second Coming&amp;#8230;3D&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;You may see the high ratings for The Voice and think to yourself that the end of the world deserves to happen soon, but it won&amp;#8217;t. The decline of humanity will continue until the 99% are completely under mind-control or someone just blows something up, somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;But what if we could stop that?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;A 3D projection of a returning Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, complete with motorbike and Dog the Bounty Hunter-type hair, would blow people&amp;#8217;s minds. If a friend told me that Jesus was a) real and b) he just came back and is about to start the rapture, you can bet I&amp;#8217;d be on my knees in worship. I have no shame. I&amp;#8217;ll bow down to the first thing that opens the skies and promises me eternal joy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;But what if Hologram Jesus appeared to the masses and simply told everyone to just chill the hell out? Quit all the fighting, the oppression, the inequality, the worshipping and just get along?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;I can&amp;#8217;t see a fault with such a plan. No really, I can&amp;#8217;t. What&amp;#8217;s that you ask? Could Jesus perform Hail Mary with Jay and Snoop? I don&amp;#8217;t see what not!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;&lt;em&gt;side note: I&amp;#8217;m also willing for the spaghetti monster or Cthulhu to make an appearance. Whatever works best for you guys.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;The most realistic use of this technology would be to create the vision that Dr. Hammond set out for humanity, a plethora of prehistoric monsters roaming the Costa Rican jungle. Everyone held their breath when the soon-to-be-T.Rex-snack lawyer Gennaro suggest to Hammond that regular people would have access to the park on &amp;#8216;Coupon Day&amp;#8217;. When and where can I acquire such coupons!?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;Hologram Jurassic Park wouldn&amp;#8217;t have to be all the way in Costa Rica. Miami, Paris, Hull. Such delightful cities (and Hull) could house their very own Jurassic Park. But it&amp;#8217;s not enough just to see the dinosaurs chomping on goats, everyone wants to re-create the dramatic scenes from the film! You&amp;#8217;ll be chased by &amp;#8216;raptors, run with the Gallimimus, and be haunted by Hammond&amp;#8217;s sob-story about his flee market. Exciting!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;You&amp;#8217;ll hurry away into a waiting jeep as a hologram T.Rex fights off the hologram Velociraptors. This time, Dr. Grant has decided to endorse this park. It&amp;#8217;s 100% holograms and 100% fun.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="western"&gt;If you build it, they will come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21331199271</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21331199271</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:41:42 +0100</pubDate><category>tupac</category><category>hologram</category><category>war of the worlds</category><category>writing</category></item><item><title>Steven Spielberg&amp;#8217;s Laser Cats sketch on Saturday Night Live this week had me in stitches....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Steven Spielberg&amp;#8217;s Laser Cats sketch on Saturday Night Live this week had me in stitches. Totally unexpected.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It was a good episode. Go watch if you haven&amp;#8217;t already.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21183307786</link><guid>http://adamgrundy.com/post/21183307786</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:44:57 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

