August 3, 2007
RADIO, TV AND VARIOUS GOOD STUFF NEWS!
I’VE BEEN AWAY!
But now I’m back and despite the weather going all biblical and television finally being exposed as the cesspool of deceit I always suspected it might be I’ve got a fair bit to enthuse about. First let me tell you how my gig at the Albany went before I went so rudely AWOL.
MY GIG AT THE ALBANY, 12th JULY 2007
On my way to The Albany I was cycling past stationary traffic on Whitehall when someone opened the passenger door of a black cab and I slammed right into the edge of it. I went most of the way over my handlebars and sustained quite a serious bashing to my right shoulder, left thigh and shins. I didn’t flip out but I said to the guy who was looking at me with a mixture of alarm and indignation, “what are you doing opening the door without looking!?†He came back with “what are you doing cycling up on the inside?†“That’s generally where people cycle†I replied. Yesss! Score 1 for me!!! He looked chastened but not perhaps suitably chastened. The show was starting in 10 minutes so I decided against a pointless row and peddled on, a little shaken and achy. I suppose in those situations the correct thing from a legal point of view is to exchange details in case my injuries turned out to be more severe than I thought and I decided to call Baines & Ernst or whoever. I can’t help feeling that life’s too short though.
The gig went OK to begin with but I quickly lost control of the filthy mother. For a start I had foolishly drunk a pint of fizzy lager backstage and for the first few minutes of my act I was negotiating with a belch that refused to surface and torpedoed my concentration somewhat. Plus the lights on the tiny stage, which were only a couple of feet from my face (but several faces from my feet), seemed unusually bright. I could see Rob Baker, who was an AP on The Adam & Joe Show sat in the audience. ‘Fuck’ I thought, ‘I haven’t seen him for ages and now he’s going to think I’m a loser.’ All in all in was in a bad frame of mind and that was before I got to the new stuff I’d just finished writing just hours earlier.
Needless to say I was no way on top of these shiny new nuggles and after a few minutes I managed to completely silence a previously very jolly room. In my defence they went quiet during a dramatic passage for which silence was entirely appropriate, but later on when some laughs would have been welcome, they remained disrespectfully silent. In fact it was probably the quietest reaction I have ever got for anything I’ve done live. It was so extremely quiet I couldn’t help laughing a little at the utterness of the quietude. They only started laughing again when I had left the stage and Dave Armand & Nick Tanner had returned.
In the past that kind of reaction would have shaken me a fair bit but for the first time I found myself not minding too much. I knew the stuff I had written was good and I just needed to do it more to make it work. It’s worse if you know deep down that you’ve gone out with some ropey old shite and been busted for it.
Anyway, I’ll let you know when my next experiment with silence is due. Now for the rest of this week’s inconsequential fartcloud.
THE TAO OF BERGERAC NEWS!
Back in mid June I played a part in the first episode of a live recording of a new Radio 4 comedy series called The Tao of Bergerac by Will Smith and Roger Drew, who I met while working on Time Trumpet. Inspired by an audio book of John Nettles reading the Tao, the show features Will ‘navigating the minefield of his life’ and it’s very good indeed. I can say that without smugness because I had absolutely nothing to do with it’s creation other than turning up and reading one of the parts on the night in the incredibly fancy new BBC radio theatre in Broadcasting House. You can listen again to the show here and catch future episodes on Wednesdays at 6:30pm on radio 4.
One of the most amazing parts of this excellent programme is when at the end Will links random films to episodes of Bergerac by connecting the work of their featured stars. I should stress that only the first of these was scripted. When we recorded the episode Will took about 6 or 7 films shouted out by members of the audience with no prior preparation and was able to link every single one to specific episodes of Bergerac in less than six steps with no hesitation whatsoever. It was one of the weirdest, nerdiest and most strangely impressive things I have ever beheld. Check it!
BBC PILOT NEWS!
This month I start work on my pilot for the BBC with the provisional title of MeeBox (although that may well change as there seems to be a glut of projects with ‘box’ in the title at the moment). The overall idea is to create a sort of spoof of the kind of material you find on places like You Tube, ie. clips, virals and ‘vlogs’ from various ludicrous characters (including Famous Guy and possibly Ken Korda) spouting off about all kinds of moronic crap. I’m aware that there are probably about 100 other projects not dissimilar to this either being pitched or in production at the moment, but I hope I’ll be able to make it my own somehow! Basically I’m going to try out all kinds of different bits and see what fits and what doesn’t.
One of the things I wanted to do was incorporate some phone call stuff that wasn’t so much pranky as character based but having seen a few clips of E4’s excellent Fonejacker, I might steer clear. If it was just another shit Crank Yankers type thing it wouldn’t be a problem but Keyvan Novak and his chums have breathed enough new life into phone japes, I’m worried that particular route might be a bit redundant for the time being, although as with Trigger Happy TV, I’m always amazed when someone does just one thing, albeit very well, for a whole half hour and then makes a whole series of it. That’s the way to get into people’s head though I guess. Keyvan Novak’s clearly a talented guy though. Can really be the same unfeasibly handsome Iranian actor who appeared in Holby City, Spooks and Syriana?! If so, I feel another Sasha Baron Cohen coming on…Bastard! If you haven’t already seen it, type ‘fonejacker ‘ into You Tube and get watching, you’ll definitely like at least one or two. I’ll keep you updated with pilot news in the next few weeks.
VERY LATE FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS RADIO & TV SERIES NEWS!
As usual I’m a few years late with the latest comedy sensation, but over the last month my life’s been improved by Flight Of The Conchords. In case you’re as tardy as I, they’re two engaging Kiwi chaps who write very amusing songs, mainly parodying various musical genres in a non tedious way and banter winningly in between. I only just listened to their radio series a few weeks ago. It’s a peach! This week I got hold of a couple of episodes of their US TV show from Bit Torrent and it’s an even more delicious peach! Joe, if you’re reading this, check out this amazingly loving and spot-on tribute to the sublime ridiculousness of early Pet Shop Boys from episode 2. How much more kindred do you want your spirits!?
I’m telling you, if you’re partial to super talented, funny musicians (see also Matts Holness and Berry and Julian Barratt ) and the kind of enjoyably odd conversational rhythms that the Boosh do so well then it’s time to book your Conchord flight! (yeah? Get me a job on a shit magazine, IMMEDIATELY! But not NOW!) Look out for many exciting US comedy talents in the Conchords TV show too, some of whom, like Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schall, were on the bill with David Cross when he was over here a few weeks back. Here’s one more blast; surely the last word on pathetic rap (although nothing will ever stop me pathetic rappin’!) ‘I’m a motherflippin’!’
July 8, 2007
LUDICROUS VOTE NEWS!
VOTE VITO!
Vito Rocco who directed The Last Chancers (the comedy drama I was in back in 2003) needs your help! He’s got himself involved with some bad people who are pitting talented young directors against eachother in a ludicrous internet vote thing for the chance to make their own feature with a budget of 1 million quid. Do the guy a favour and lend him your support by voting here, but do it quick! There’s only another day to go as I write this. Also, if he gets his film made, I reckon I’ll get a part. I mean what kind of tool would get his friend to harness the awesome power of his blog chums then not hand him a delicious peach of a part as a thankyou? With your help we’ll find out! Vote Vito!
June 21, 2007
ADRENALINE MORE NEWS!
BIKES AND GRINDHOUSE PT. 2 (WITH SOME ENTOURAGE & SOPRANOS OFFAL THROWN IN AND NO BIKES)
Firstly, please excuse the fact that I appear to have temporarily turned into another internet critic, a form of life so humble that not even David Attenborough would be curious about it’s filthy rituals. OK, let’s go.
The first episode of Entourage series 4 was bad. In fact it was perhaps the worst episode of the show so far. They’d done it as if it was a documentary about the making of the film they were working on. Unfortunately the badly observed conventions of the genre acted like a giant wall between the audience and all my much-loved Entourage buddies! We were left with a weedy sounding British guy providing a fake voice over that failed to parody any recognisable film show or behind the scenes documentary maker I’ve ever heard of, shots of people having dramatic plot based freak outs that would NEVER be caught on camera (let alone cleared for use in a behind the scenes piece), and unfunny interviews with Entourage protagonists being indiscreet in a way that you simply never, ever see on an interview of this kind.
Now, obviously I’m taking all of this much too seriously and Entourage doesn’t pretend to be surgically accurate with it’s portrayal of Hollywood life, but if you’re going to fuck with such a great formula, at least stick to the flipping rules! I’m sure they’ll be back on track next week. After all, for my money the Sopranos took a bit of a dip at the beginning of their sixth and final season, but the last 8 or 9 episodes were right back on target and the controversial finale was absolutely what you’d hope for from a show that was very seldom didactic or simple minded. OK, so it was no Lenny’s Britain, but the Sopranos was an extraordinary show and I’ll miss it very much. If you’ve never seen it, well, I wish I was you and I still had it all ahead of me is all I can say.
If you’ve never seen Grindhouse, er well, your nerves are possibly a little less shot than mine. Edgar Wright organised a screening at London’s trendy Soho Hotel last week so that he could show both films with fake trailers in between (one of which Edgar directed) the way Tarantino and Rodriguez intended. Indeed, this non stop double bill format was the way American audiences saw Grindhouse but I believe the two films are being split in the UK, which seems a shame as part of the genius of the whole thing is the way you respond to various kinds of tension after spending such an unusually long time in the cinema (or not if you’re one of the millions that stayed away in the US).
First of all the screening itself was fun because half the world of British comedy was there, including various members of League Of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, Garth Merenghi and Little Britain. Also Peter Jackson! When we’d all been reminded not to go to the toilet during the trailers in the middle and risk missing Edgar’s contribution, the lights dimmed and the first film, Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, began.
It was pretty good. It reminded me a lot of the kind of films that Joe and I would go and see of a weekend at school, for example Reanimator, The Hidden, Return Of The Living Dead, The Stuff etc. As with those films, I was sort of amused and slightly grossed out a couple of times but it was never really terrifying or really funny, which is the problem with a lot of genre splicing outings for me. The scene in Dusk Til Dawn where it looks as if Tarantino’s character might rape Juliette Lewis’s character has more grimly real tension in it than anything in Planet Terror. Also it’s weird how seeing a girl with a machine gun attached to the amputated stump of her leg is much less exciting than being told about it.
Planet Terror finished and the fake trailers rolled. I’m biased but I thought Edgar’s (‘Don’t') was quite easily the best. As a properly funny spoof of the imagery and tone of those kinds of late 70’s, early 80’s horror trails it was head and shoulders above the others. Eli Roth’s effort was OK, albeit revolting and not that funny.
Roth turns up in the first section of Tarantino’s contribution, Death Proof. As I said before, part of the effectiveness of this film may well have been down to having just sat through Planet Of Terror and being totally immersed in the Grindhouse experience subsequently, but I came out of Death Proof feeling completely shredded in a way that I have only been a few times going to the cinema. E.T. and Schindler’s List spring to mind. And Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies.
It starts inauspiciously with a long scene in a bar featuring some unappealing young women and a couple of unappealing cameos from both Eli Roth and Tarantino. It’s all self indulgent to the point of parody. Then it goes beyond parody and into boredom. Then Kurt Russel turns up as a gnarled stuntman with a scary black car who sits at the bar and eyes the unappealing women. Then he seems fairly nice so any tension there is dissipated. Then, seemingly aware that the audience will be getting quite bored by now, Tarantino pretends to drop a reel (a joke which, along with some deliberately ropey edits, is used a lot for the first part of the film then abandoned) so that the film literally, cuts to the chase. I won’t spoil it by going into too much detail but for about 5 minutes the tone suddenly darkens considerably and I found myself completely gripped and unbelievably tense!
5 minutes later, it was all over and the film seemed to begin again with a new set of slightly more appealing young women. This time there’s no jokes about dodgy edits, scratchy prints or dropped reels, there’s just these women on a road trip. Then they stop off for some lunch at a café and have a lady chat. Ooh! It’s Kurt Russell at the bar again! What’s he going to do!? Well, we’ve got a pretty good idea what he’s going to do but how long are we going to have to wait before he starts doing it this time? The answer is A VERY, VERY LONG TIME INDEED. The scene in the café with the women talking in sassy, super modern, empowered Tarantino-ese about, er, gosh I honestly can’t recall, must have lasted about 20-25 minutes. The sassy chat was again, banal to the point of parody. Then again, it waddled past parody into profound, suffocating torpor. But it’s Tarantino, I thought, he must know what he’s doing, though what can he possibly do to enliven such utter dullociousness? 10 minutes later I found out. The final minutes of Death Proof are as relentlessly exciting as anything I’ve seen for a long time, maybe ever. The question is, would I have felt that way had I not been so fucking bored for so long beforehand? Was it all a masterclass in deconstructive pacing? A brilliant cat and mouse game being played out not only between the characters on screen but between the director and the audience? Or was it a shit film with 2 really fucking good bits? I’ll leave that up to you, and if you can, go for the double!
Right, now back to dealing with frigging Facebook requests. No doubt I’ll telling people how wonderful and fun Facebook is in a few months, but right now I’m still in the very early hate and denial stage.
June 20, 2007
ADRENALINE NEWS!
BIKES & GRINDHOUSE PT. 1
My heart’s really pounding! I’m shaking a little. I’ve got enough nervous energy to power a small nervous factory. I’m converting that energy into blog. This is the second time I’ve felt like this in a few days. The first time was last weekend when I went to a screening of Grindhouse organised by Edgar Wright, more of which later, but right now it’s because I was just on an emergency nappy mission in a lightning storm! The lightning and nappies weren’t the problem though. I returned from the garage and parked the car across the road from our house just as the rain was starting to pelt cartoonishly. I got out with the nappies and ran into the road without properly checking for traffic (it’s a quiet road). Suddenly someone screamed incredibly loudly in my ear, “OI!! YOU FFFUCKING PPPRICKKK!!!” A tall guy on a racing bike, dressed entirely in special cycle gear whizzed past me. I came back with “calm down you stupid twat!” but he kept on going without looking round. A passer by laughed. I couldn’t tell if he was laughing at how insane the cycle dick was, how brilliant my comeback was or how much the peddle ponce had freaked me out.
I ran into the house out of the rain but for 5 minutes I had to fight the urge to get back into the car, catch up with the cyclist and mow down the miserable fuckstick. OK maybe not mow him down, because of all the consequences, but give him a slice of my mind at least. ‘I’m sorry I stepped out in front of you’, I would have said, ‘but that does not give you the right to immediately scream at me as if I’d just burgled your house and shat on your girlfriend. What’s wrong with a ‘careful mate!’ or a vigorous tinkle on the bell? Your over the top, knee jerk aggression is helping to tatter the already threadbare fabric of modern existence. And you look like a very low quality Nancy.’ Then he would have cycled the rest of the way thinking carefully about what he’d done. Yes, that’s what would have happened. But I came to my computer instead and now I feel a bit calmer. Fucking cyclists. No wonder everyone hates us. I’m going to watch the new episode of Entourage I got off Bit Torrent. It’s the first of season 4! That should calm me down completely. I’ll tell you about my Grindhouse night tomorrow.
June 5, 2007
MORE LOAD OF NEWS!
YO, YO, YO, CHECK THIS OUT!
I finished shooting on Modern Men last week. It’s going out later this year as part of a kind of comedy playhouse that Channel 4 are doing, a little like a bigger budget Comedy Lab. The show (which will not be called Modern Men when it goes out because there’s an American show with the same name) was immensely good fun to do and more than ever I hope it gets picked up for a series but it’ll be a while before we find out. I’d love to tell you more about it and show you some pics, but I’m going to have to wait a bit to avoid stepping on any toes.
Someone told me they saw me in another one-off comedy thing on BBC3 the other night. I think they must have been talking about a show I did earlier this year called The Scum Also Rises about shenanigans in an advertising agency. This was also a hoot to be part of and was produced by Iain Morris’s company Bwark. Iain used to host a show on Xfm with Jimmy Carr of course and during his time as a commissioning editor at Channel 4 looked after Bo Selecta and Peep Show among others I believe. Apart form anything else he was always a very loyal supporter of Joe and myself and it was good fun to get to work with him.
Before I continue with other news I want to say thanks very much to everyone who’s been indulging my non-line communication stance and writing actual paper letters to me recently. It’s really amazing to get post that isn’t grim and it also makes me feel a bit like a pop star, which is of course the whole point. Sorry if it’s taken a while to get back to you, but I swear I will eventually as long as you don’t forget those SAE’s! For a reminder of why I tend to duck out of on-line communication, check out the ongoing fartstorm of hilariously semi literate lunacy under the Help Tha Police clip on You Tube. Thanks if you’re one of the people that occasionally leaves intelligent and constructive comments under these clips, but as far as talking sense into some of the other nutbuckets goes, you should probably take up grass straightening if you want to see quicker results.
ADDENUDUM – JULY 2007
The original HelpTha Police clip has now been removed along with all the insane comments, which is a shame but I wouldn’t be surprised if this copy eventually yields more of the same…
A&J COKE PODCAST 8 OUT NOW
The 8th Adam & Joe Coke New Music podcast is now available for free download on -tunes (type in ‘coke new music’) or visit The Coke website here. If you’ve already heard Podcast 8 then the pic below is proof of my story (note the hair). If you haven’t heard it yet then all will be explained when you do! This is the first of our new shorter, more regular Coke podcasts (they’ll be every two weeks now). Hope you think it’s an improvement. If you don’t, we guarantee a full refund of your no money!
ADAM & JOE RELATED IFFLE
We did an interview recently for an excellent website called Cut Out And Keep. Read it here. Joe has answered a lot of questions put to him by his My Space chums here (although he incorrectly suggests I’m not that keen on live radio; I loved the fact that our Xfm podcasts were more dense than our live show, but I still liked being live). Also our friend Zac, who was largely responsible for the best songs in The Adam & Joe Show, has put together this beautifully designed website for his proper band Astroman that you might like to peruse. I don’t think they do The Robert De Niro Calypso at gigs unfortunately.
LOST FINALE
None of my visible friends watch Lost so I’m afraid I’m going to have to share my thoughts about the Season 3 flash forward finale with you imaginary chaps. Maybe it caught me at a bad moment but I was left feeling quite depressed when it finished. After a few episodes which made me think the writers really did have some sort of ingenious overview already worked out, the sudden jump to a miserable future seemed to suggest they were back to throwing any old shite at the wall and seeing which drips were the most engaging. Perhaps I’m just bitter because I WANT THEM TO TELL ME WHAT THE JIMMYLOVING BLACK SMOKE IS ALL ABOUT!!! How the fricking heckfire can they possibly come up with a half decent explanation for a malevolent black wraith that makes machine like clicking sounds? Of course, they may be saving that one for some future revelation-fest, but as it was set up in the very first episodes, I think we deserve a few clues by now! All that said, I enjoyed seeing pop eyed Ben getting at least some of the shit kicked out of him by Jack and I was delighted when Charlie finally died after weeks of frustratingly close calls. I jumped around the room singing You All Everybody at the top of my lungs (if Oasis covered this I would worship them like genius twats). Also, good to see my old friend Penny back for a second season finale turn! Come on Penny, get in touch! Let’s re-live those fun photobooth times!
If you’re a Lost fan (and if you’re not you must have been very bored and confused for the last couple of minutes) you’ll enjoy this enthusiastic review of finale 3. There’s a string of comments and entertaining speculation beneath the review that’s remarkable for being neither stupefyingly dull nor peppered with lame brained abuse, surely a first for a discussion about pop culture on the net! Or maybe it had just been mediated. Anyway, worth a look if you care at all about Lost. Now with 24 gone too, what the shitting hell am I going to watch until January 2008? Wait a second, I’ve just realised that there’s 8 episodes of Entourage Season 3 I haven’t seen yet on Bit Torrent!. Hey heeeey!!! I guess if I had comments on this blog, someone would have told me, but that’s the price you pay for peace I guess.
HOW TO DOWNLOAD THINGS OFF BIT TORRENT
I know that the vast majority of you will be familiar with Bit Torrent and the notion of file sharing but for those of you who still wait until THE MAN says it’s OK to watch your favourite TV shows on your vidilamp (or ‘TV set’ as they used to call them) here’s an idiot’s guide to watching what you want when you want for nuffin’, the way TV-Jesus intended! I’m using a Mac so if this method doesn’t work for you try following the instructions here. Also apologies in advance if this is badly explained or technically inaccurate!
STEP 1. DOWNLOAD ‘CLIENT’
The software that enables you to download the actual movie files is known as a Bit Torrent ‘client’. There’s a lot to chose from but I use a simple, basic application called Transmission, which you can download free here. Chose the version that says it will work with your computer and once you’ve downloaded it to your desktop (which takes only a few minutes) double click on the icon to open and install it on your hard disc.
STEP 2. CHOOSE YOUR ‘TORRENT’!
Before you use your client to start downloading the movie files, you need to download the ‘torrent’. This is a very small file that your client uses to access the movie. Think of it as the invite that gets you in to the party! No invite, no entry, so to download the torrent you need to go to one of the many file sharing sites on the net. I use Isohunt, which you can find here. Once you’re at the site, you type in the name of the show you’re looking for and you’re shown all the various episodes that kindly folk have uploaded!
Now, this is the only slightly tricky part. On the right hand side of the screen you should see a couple of columns with an ‘S’ and an ‘L’ above them. This refers to the number of people who have the whole file on their computer (Seeders) and the number of people who are in the process of downloading parts of the file (Leechers). In order for your file to download quickly (a fast torrent may still take an hour or several to deliver a 30 minute show) you need to find a torrent that has the highest amount of both. The fewer people there are seeding, the longer it will take to get your file. Click on the ‘S’ and the files will be arranged for you in order of ‘most seeded’. Now the only other thing to look out for is the format of the file you’re about to download.
Once you’ve found the episode you’re looking for click on the title and a window will open beneath it. It says ‘DOWNLOAD TORRENT’ followed by a load of info about where the torrent came from etc. Scroll to the bottom of the window and you’ll see a list of the actual files contained in the torrent. I tend to go for anything that has ‘.avi’ at the end of it as this suggests I’ll be getting a single file that I can open and play easily with an application like VLC (which you can find here). The TIPS PLAYING CLIPS section of this site above has more info for Windows users about playing movies.
STEP 3: DOWNLOAD TORRENT
Once you’ve selected the file you want click on DOWNLOAD TORRENT and after a few seconds a file will appear on your desktop. This is your torrent. Now open Transmission or whatever client you’re using and import the torrent by clicking OPEN and locating the file on your desktop. Once the torrent has been opened by the client, your movie file will start downloading to your desktop (or wherever you have directed it). A progress bar will tell you how long you have to go, although this tends to fluctuate wildly depending on how many people are logged on and sharing at the same time. Sometimes, it’s a question of leaving your computer on overnight and letting it download at its leisure.
THINGS THAT USED TO WORRY ME ABOUT BIT TORRENT
- IF I SHUT MY COMPUTER DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF A DOWNLOAD DO I HAVE TO START AGAIN?
No. Once you turn your computer back on and re-open the client, it picks up from where you left off.
- CAN I DOWNLOAD SEVERAL FILES AT ONCE?
You betcha! The more the merrier, especially if you want to get hold of a whole series. Downloading multiple files doesn’t affect the speed.
- CAN PEOPLE HACK INTO MY COMPUTER WHILE I’M DOWNLOADING?
If you have a router (which nearly all broadband services come with) then no. If you’re worried about security take a read of this.
- DO I DUMP THE TORRENT AS SOON AS IT’S FINISHED DOWNLOADING?
Well, that’s up to you, but this whole system is made more efficient when people share as many files as they can for as long as they can, in other words it’s good Bit Torrent etiquette to leave the torrent active in the client for as long as possible to enable other people to share it too. Obviously this becomes impractical once you’ve got loads of files or you want to shut down your computer, but it’s worth bearing in mind.
- WHAT HAPPENS IF THE TORRENT JUST STOPS FOR AGES?
It could mean either that none of the seeders are on line and you just need to wait til they come back, or that the file is incomplete. The pain and frustration of an incomplete file is something you just have to get used to with Bit Torrent. I’m still receiving counselling after thinking I had located Eat The Document, the rare Bob Dylan doc, only to watch it stall at 65%. Thinking at least I had two thirds of the film, I tried to open it but found only scrambled pixels of Zimmerman. A very sad day.
- CAN I GO TO JAIL FOR DOING THIS?
You’re just as likely to go to jail for posting a copyrighted clip of The Adam & Joe Show on you Tube, ie. not. Personally I wouldn’t want to encourage twats who upload shitty pirates of new film releases by downloading them, but I have to admit that I’ve checked out the odd film once it’s out on DVD and someone sticks it up there. If it’s any good, I buy the DVD for the added quality and all the extras, but if it’s some piece of lazy shite (The Holiday for staggeringly rotten example) then I feel very happy not to have forked out for it. Anyway, the best application for Bit Torrent as far as I’m concerned is catching up on TV stuff, which should be free anyway. Why anyone would have a problem with more people wanting to see your show is beyond me. Well, OK the advertisers have a problem with it, but it’s easy to screen out ads on most recording digi boxes anyway, so it’s up to them to concoct new ways of insinuating their stinky messages for an on-line audience. I recommend they try using my voice to do it. It’s proven to get results!!! Good luck and if you haven’t already, check out Entourage! It’s the shiznit biatch!