Lovely (albeit oddly unsettling) stuff here from Mitchell & Webb:

Farewell James! The Apprentice, alas, will be significantly less quotable now that you’ve gone.

Neither of the finalists (Kate and Yasmina) are much cop really but I’d prefer Yasmina to win, if only because she seems to have a bit of personality and – from certain angles, in certain lights – is actually quite attractive.
Here’s (I [...]

The Apprentice Quote Of The Week™

Back to Ben this week, here pondering what the sign for the ‘London Gateway‘ might represent:
‘Gateway’ suggests that it’s a… gates to somewhere’.

This weekend I started some preliminary work on a proper old skool rave mix. Rooting around on YouTube I came a cross a couple of videos from ‘Dance Energy‘, the BBC’s token ‘yoof culture’ music program from the early 90’s which featured early performances from The Prodigy, SL2, Run DMC (!), and Bizarre Inc. (embedded [...]

The Apprentice Quote Of The Week™
From James this week, describing the inspiration behind his idea to adorn the cartoon parrot on the front of his teams cereal box with a breakfast bowl and a pair of crossed spoons instead of the traditional skull-and-crossbones:
‘I didn’t want to have something that looked like it was poisonous on [...]

The Apprentice Quote Of The Week™
Once again from Ben (this man is a machine):
‘I’m not nervous. Whoever’s up against me, their arseholes are going to be twitching like rabbits noses’.

It’s hanami season here in Japan right now. Hanami (or 花見 to use the lingo) is, ostensibly anyway, a centuries-old celebration to mark the blooming of the cherry blossoms and the coming of spring but basically it’s an excuse to get pissed in a field. You leave work early, grab a couple of moderately-priced lager [...]