This weekend I was thinking back to Tim Parks’ book A Season With Verona where he talks about why we support the teams we do and what it tells us about ourselves as people.  When was the last time you sat back and thought about why you are a fan of one club but not another?  Or why you watch ...

As someone who plays a lot of video games and has done so since my brother brought home a Commodore 64 over twenty years ago, I’m completely out of touch with the idea of what makes a popular video game.  I don’t mean popular just amongst other gamers, but popular products like the Wii and Guitar Hero that transcend their ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0SNYPBmgYE[/youtube] L.A Noire is a video game made by Team Bondi and is being published by Rock Star.  It caught my interest when they showed the first trailer FOUR YEARS AGO.  The game has since all but disappeared off the map and been in development under wraps since.  Well, they finally released the first real trailer with in-game footage today.  ...

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It was a top of the table clash on Saturday night between the Roar and the former league leaders Adelaide United.  This match of the round would pit the two most entertaining sides in the league against each other and promised to deliver fast, free flowing football.  Due to the A-League’s bizarre fixture arrangement, this would also be the Roar’s ...

I started reading A Season With Verona a couple of months ago when it was handed to me by a friend.  Written in 2001, it follows a season with relegation-battling Seria A football club Hellas Verona FC from the perspective of a British author who has lived in Italy for a number of years. It’s a well written book and ...

Casey Affleck’s mockumentary I’m Still Here showcases Joaquin Phoenix’s career path not long after he was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Johnny Cash in Walk The Line.  He publically announces that he is quitting acting to pursue a career as a rapper.  Of course we now know that Phoenix was acting but not unlike a Sacha Baren Cohen film, ...

Ricky Herbert is a man who never loses. Ricky will always make sure that he dumps a girlfriend before they get a chance to dump him.  He always back the horse with the shortest odds and he buys homogenized milk.  It’s this cautious approach to life that has made Ricky a world-renowned football manager.  His conservative, ultra-defensive style of play ...

The Walking Dead It’s finally here!  Frank Darabont’s pilot of The Walking Dead aired on Sunday night in the States.  I’ve just finished watching it and I am absolutely blown away by what an excellent job Darabont’s production crew have done in bringing this comic book series to the small screen. As a huge fan of the series, this episode ...