Wait, don’t leave! It actually looks like it could be an interesting movie with a gripping story full of back-stabbing and … more back-stabbing.

From the trailer, with its soundtrack of “Creep” by Radiohead, it looks like Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg), the ‘founder’ and CEO of Facebook, is portrayed as a student who ends up out of his depth when a smooth-talking Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) – head of Napster – encourages him to pursue an idea that may never have been his to pursue.

The movie comes out in earl October in the US so probably not too much later here in New Zealand.

The official website is here and of course there’s a prominent button to recommend the movie on Facebook. I wonder what Zuckerberg thinks about that?

Knows as Piano Improv, this guy spends his time on Chat Roulette. Chat Roulette is a webcam-chatroom combo with a difference. Basically, you don’t know who you’ll be chatting to next. This has it’s down sides as often you’ll find yourself face to schlong with some guy who has social problems.

But, a plus side is that you may come across this guy. I’ll let the videos tell the story but basically, he plays a piano and sings a song that he improvises based on what you are doing/wearing/look like in your webcam.

Once you’ve seen the first video and got the jist of things, if you’re still here you’ll find his second video even better.

To find out more about his motives, check out the interview with Piano Improv guy (Merton):

I didn’t pay much attention at the time but since then a mate of mine has drawn my attention to the unique way he actually records his music.

Just in case you missed it, the video is here:

I was pretty rushed at the time so couldn’t hang around to find out any more details, but I’ve since learnt that the guy is known as DubFX. If you’re into the likes of Shapeshifter and Massive Attack you’ll love his music.

After looking through some more of his videos on YouTube, I’ve realised that the guy is even more of a musical genius than I first thought. He uses a system called the Roland Effects and Loop Pedal to record all of the sounds in his music himself. There’s no drums, no bass guitar, it’s all him. Check out how he makes a song live right in front of a bunch of people. This is DubFX singing and recording “Love Someone”:

and here’s Dub FX performing “Flow” live with Woodnote on the Sax:

Apparently the guy hasn’t signed to any record labels and you can’t buy his records in shops as he doesn’t want to commercialise his music and lose the passion. You can find out more about Dub FX on his website and you can see the guy in action. You can also listen to all of his tracks in full and purchase them for download. No price – just pay how much you think it’s worth. What a legend.

He’s playing in Christchurch this Friday, 19th February.

Then there’s the guy that thinks quality is all about how loud you can shout. And the guy with the bag-pipes that can play for hours without producing anything that sounds remotely like music.

Having said that, and especially having just had the World Busker’s Festival here in Christchurch, there are some top buskers out there. Here’s a few that I’ve seen around town recently. If you see these guys about, drop a coin or two into their collection container of choice:

Aviator dude with an interesting style (similar to Newton Faulkner):

Dub bloke with side-show dancing girl:

Piccolo/Flute Man – plays in Christchurch Cathedral Square most days:

Irish Dancing people:

Beat-Boxing Legend:

After reading many posts, it seems to me that a pattern has emerged.

Here’s a video to show what you can expect from any typical Playstation forum thread.

Gisborne is a nice place but it’s downside (and probably it’s upside too) is that it’s pretty secluded. My uncle once joked that if you fell off the world you would land in Gisborne.

You can’t fly to Gisborne from Christchurch without going via Auckland or Wellington first. And because Gisborne airport is so small, you end up flying in a plane that wouldn’t surprise you if they strapped the luggage to the roof-rack. Take a look at the video below to see my own experience.

Air New Zealand’s Beech 1900D passenger plane features about 12 seats on each side, a co-pilot that takes the job of the air-steward/stewardess and our own plane also featured a not-very-relaxing smoke effect.

The pilot said it was just something to do with the air-con but I’m pretty sure the kid sitting right next to it thought we were on our way down to crash on some island with polar bears and button’s that you have to press every 108 minutes or so (the buttons, not the polar bears).

All in all, I’m not quite sure that we got our money’s worth on this flight. Just shy of $1,200 for two people return from Christchurch to Gisborne. No kidding. I did start to explain to my in-laws that we could have flown to Australia’s Gold Coast for less but my wife kicked me in the shins.

On this show, ad agencies are tasked with creating an advert for something you couldn’t advertise. In this case, it was invading New Zealand.

and here’s the original 100% Pure New Zealand ad it was based on.

John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, appeared on the Letterman Show and listed the top ten reasons to visit New Zealand …

and here’s Letterman listing the top ten reasons that John Key’s opposite in Americaland, President Barack Obama, needs a vacation. Maybe he should come to New Zealand?

P.S. We think Letterman’s script writers should also come to New Zealand. We can try and send them back with a sense of humour (notice how number 1 doesn’t even get a snigger?)

Quite a crowd is gathering so hopefully they make some decent money. Every few minutes the horse-drawn tram rumbles past to give the onlookers something extra to take photos of. Those onlookers that don’t fall beneath the 12 hooves of the giant horses.

One question though: Why are the World Irish Dancing Championships held in Glasgow? I mean … I’m no Geography teacher but I’m pretty sure Glasgow is in Scotland.

The Medal of Honor hype has begun.

Yesterday an exclusive debut trailer was premiered at the Video Game Awards on America’s Spike TV. All the footage is claimed to be in-game and, compared with Modern Warfare 2, the graphics are looking pretty polished and rounded.

In the video you can see there’s plenty of MW2-style aerial action, as well as some drivable vehicles. The helicopter controls are looking a lot more like you get to be in the pilot’s seat and rain down some awesome carnage.

Medal of Honor’s uniqueness is that they are focused on the soldier himself. If past games of the series are anything to go by, we should be seeing a lot of soldier-pride in this game. Emotional story telling and flash backs will be the order of the day.

The game is set to be released in the later stages of 2010. Preorders in the US ship on 30th September 2010. By that time, the publicity surrounding Modern Warfare 2 will have died down and hardcore shooter-fans will be after something else to wet their appetite.

The MedalofHonor.com website went up earlier this month but currently is just giving away ‘teaser’ short videos of motivational messages.

A ‘preorder’ section links to sites like Amazon.com and EAgames.com but neither mention any extras that come as a bonus to the preorder at this stage.

In fact a quick search of EAGame’s site doesn’t mention Medal of Honor at all! Other than a copy of Medal Of Honor Airborne Assault for the PC! Being EA Games, you’d think they would be a lot more onto it!

The developers are embracing social media to build the hype before the game’s release. They can be found at twitter.com/matthewpruitt and twitter.com/medalofhonor. Don’t forget, PSGameface can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/psgameface.