www.brokensea.com

Podcasting Hooliganism new material every Friday.

WTF! is exactly right. Who thought it would be a good idea to make a teen gridiron film with rugby instead? And wait! They're not done... After a tanking in the States they're releasing it in a country that is guaranteed to be offended by the gratuitous use of some of our most treasured national icons. It's right up there with exporting Pascal's Eskimos to Canadian inuit tribes.

Is it a little bit sick that I'm sort of looking forward to the media outrage?

I was all WTF with Forever Strong as well, but I looked into it and it's actually based on a high school rugby team from Utah, where there are quite a few Pacific Islanders and apparently Maori too who taught the team the haka. And apparently the coach won't let them perform it until they all understand the story behind it and the reason it is sacred etc.

Have a look at the IMDB threads - the NZers are kinda embarrassing and I would take a guess that they themselves don't even know much about it :P

Beside that though, go the Desperate Housewives coaching team alongside the 'other side of the tracks' kid from Gossip Girl :'D

That's interesting background about Forever Strong, Lovefoxxx, but did you see that bit where he translates the haka text tattooed on his arm? He reads "Ka Mate, Ka Mate ..." as "I score, I score, that's what I do".

@ the dude - hmmm, I must have missed that part :S

The video for the new song from The Checks- You and Me at www.myspace.com/thechecks. Brilliance, directed by Tim Van Dammen, drummer for Collapsing Cities who's new video he directed cant be shown on C4 before dark.

I've recently seen the most amazing and emotional documentary. It's called "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father". It's just come out on DVD in the US and I don't think it's been released here yet, but if you can track down a copy you owe it to yourself to see it. The director, who's to memorialize his murdered friend, discovers that the woman who killed him is pregnant with his late friend's son - who she names Zachary. It all gets SOOO twisted from there so I don't want to ruin it. It's the most tragic true story I've ever seen, but one that simply had to be told.

Can't recommend it highly enough.

Peter Jackson presents District 9: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/district9/hd/