Pleasure you can't Measure

I tried the demo of World of Goo (available here) and it's a nice little puzzle game. The epic, tragic background music and the suspicion that you're saving the goo only for an unspecified, nefarious end adds to the fun. Nefarious fun with goo. What's the rating on this game?

I never really spent much time in Coventry Market when we lived in Coventry. I think I bought part of a Hallowe'en costume there once (a tubular bandage that I cut holes in and shoved over my head to look like a man with a tubular bandage on his head. It made my scalp go red and left me with ribbing patterns on my cheeks - legs aren't as big as heads). Award-Winning-Producer-Siobhan, a friend of ours that went to school with Blues produced Coventry Market the Musical.



I love it. My favourite parts are from about 2:40 and the old fella with the harmonica, the kid with the amazing voice and Mr. Dapper himself at 3:40. There are some great voices in there (and some people who have obviously had some training in the dramatic arts), but the most important thing, especially for a community project like this, they are all obviously having a fantastic time and throwing themselves into it with abandon. Go Coventry!

Pika Pika is a shop in Japan Town that consists almost solely of 7 large, Japanese photobooths. Though that does them an injustice. They have automatically rotating backgrounds that drop in and out behind you, some spangly, some lurid pink or pea green. You can photograph 10 different poses and then customise the prints with near infinite variety of insane additions (gerbils, stars, microphones and santa hats). This includes touching up, so Blues edited my thinning wig with luxurious Bob-Downe-in-dark-brown lusciousness. They print almost instantly, once you can tear yourself away from the editing screens. And they're stickers. Stickers?! Genius.

Finally, my favourite song title of the week: Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle from The Mountain Goats and Kaki King. The Mountain Goats are great - try this live cover for example: Mountain Goats - The Sign (Ace of Base)

Pleasure you can't measure.