Max's Café Américain

Saturday 22nd January

2011-01-22T10:35:00.000-08:00

Saturday 22nd January and I am watching television. All New Total Wipeout. I haven't blogged since August 10th and that was about that horrible John Terry. There is nothing on later except The British Comedy Awards. On Channel 4 for the first time.

I could do with a kebab and all the trimmings. Garlic sauce, chille sauce, ketchup. But I think I'll make myself a nice grated cheese sandwich.

No Affair

2010-08-10T18:57:00.000-07:00

Okay so Vanessa Perroncel (c) denies having an affair with John Terry (l). Doesn't mean she didn't sleep with him though. It's all words. It's terrible this has all come out and wrecked the families of three people whoever is to blame. The paps certainly don't help.

The Empire of the Gemma & Poor Tulisa

2010-08-10T16:14:00.000-07:00

Just have a look at this. Gemma Arterton has been nominated twice in two different years for an Empire Best Newcomer award! How can anyone be up for a newcomer's award two or more years running? Sound to me like Empire! do not know what they are doing.

I really feel for Tulisa Contostavlos in a many ways. She is one of the three members of N-Dubz (short for NW as in North West London). She is hot, she is not a big head or bitch and she had to look after her mentally ill mother. My heart goes out to her.

Vampire Room Escape

2010-08-10T15:59:00.000-07:00

Another room escape game completed. OK graphics. More of a pixel-hunt than a proper, satisfying game.

Tina and Amy

2010-08-09T15:17:00.000-07:00

I decided to check out Amy MacDonald on the net, like Ellie Goulding, her name kept cropping up here and there, probably as some Ad marketing push on the WWW. I was amazed to discover how much she looks like Tina O'Brien, Sarah-Louise Platt in Coronation Street. The resemblance is striking.

Eurovision 2010 First Fav

2010-05-31T10:09:00.001-07:00

Sexy II.

Eurovision 2010 Second Fav

2010-05-31T10:06:00.000-07:00

Sexy I.

Witch House Escape

2010-03-07T07:50:00.000-08:00

Have just completed this game as well.

Escape the Small Bar AKA Mild Escape

2010-03-07T06:33:00.000-08:00

Just completed this game. Very good graphics and not too difficult.

Room Escape Game "Alloy"

2010-03-06T12:07:00.000-08:00

Just completed this game. Great graphics.

Windows 3.0

2010-02-21T15:46:00.000-08:00

This room escape game is called Escape 3.0. and is fairly easy to

Curling Eve

2010-02-19T16:46:00.000-08:00

Eve Muirhead is simply stunning. Phwoar!

Codes, codes and more codes

2010-02-14T10:40:00.000-08:00

Here's one.

16y89nfmhc

Just for me to know I suppose and nobody else.

:)

Wow! This R.E.G.

2010-02-06T16:34:00.000-08:00

I have to blog because I am going to log off now and watch a French film called Tell no One ****.

This room escape game is visually stunning and one save one's progress so one can quit and continue where one had left off.

It's called CDX - the game. Thank goodness for this top 150 flash games or I would never have found it. Number 39.

M.

A+ For Extra Effort

2010-01-18T13:56:00.000-08:00

doodie.com

Another I did without cheating

2010-01-10T13:11:00.001-08:00

Game.

Did this without cheating

2010-01-10T12:54:00.001-08:00

Game.

Three Things I Need To Blog

2010-01-03T05:18:00.000-08:00

There are three things I need to blog.

Firstly, I stumbled on to a Room Escape Game, and you know I am more than a bit fascinated by them. You can access the game by clicking on the following image.

It really is a beautiful game, visually. Photo quality images. The puzzles can be too complex. I was up to 4am playing this game and had to abandon it in act three, if you will.

I just logged in again. I had the Continue or New Game options. Unfortunately it did not save my game in the early hours of today but I shall look forward to playing it again now I know what to do.

The second thing that caught my eye was the Google video on the introduction of Android 2.0, their operating system for smart phones. So without further ado, here is the video.

Thirdly and lastly, I also need to blog another Google video, on their cloud platform roll out of their operating system later on this year. I like the idea of online tools and freeing up resource on my computer to make it work faster and more efficienty. And to log in quickly as well. So, here is the video.

As a postscript to this, I cannot help thinking how much the Manchester United kit looks like The Incredibles's.

Mind you, I could be thinking about Watchmen's.

Nena

2010-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

Bob Dylan's fans are gob-smacked

2009-12-20T11:21:00.000-08:00

God I Love Kesha

2009-11-22T12:29:00.000-08:00

Another sexy singer...sigh!

God I Love Britney

2009-11-22T12:14:00.000-08:00

I love this song by Britney. So sexy in a classy sort of way. But the bit that gets me is the beginning and at 2:55.

Another Suitcase In Another Hall

2009-08-29T14:20:00.001-07:00

Another Suitcase In Another Hall

2009-08-29T14:20:00.000-07:00

Stickman's Bad Day, Part 2

2009-08-15T15:52:00.000-07:00

Well, I found it. I searched under "bad day", "sniper game", and other words, until a sniper game happened to mention the key word ("bloody"). Of course, "Bloody Day Part 1".

So here it. Gory, but dare I say it fun.

Stickman's Bad Day, Part 1

2009-08-15T15:15:00.000-07:00

I keep doing this. I am looking for a stick-man shoot-em up game by a French gamer. I had a bit of time looking for it last time and did I blog it then? No, I didn't. So. This is part one.

Part two, I hope, will be the blog of the aforementioned site.

Hot Day

2009-08-15T15:12:00.000-07:00

Another hot day. First day of the Premiership. Second Charlton victory.

Strawberry Cafe Escape

2009-08-09T07:07:00.000-07:00

Another R.E.G. - sorry - this one looks fun.

I Am So In Love With Alexandra Bastedo

2009-08-09T04:04:00.000-07:00

I love ITV4 and the reruns of shows like Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Saint, Minder, The Sweeney, The Professionals and The Champions.

I love seeing the young actors then who are still with us today.

The young actresses then were beautiful, articulate and charming. Whilst most of them had guest-starring parts, like Kate O'Hara, Stephanie Beacham and Ann Lynn, few had leading parts.

Like Alexandra Bastedo. I am so captivated by her beauty and when I saw her in a couple of episodes of EastEnders I was so looking forward to her in the show, but alas, like Susan George, that was all it was. Seeing her in reruns of The Champions really lighens up my Sundays.

She even has a blog, good for her. And I have added it to my links.

Boxed Inn: Panic Room Game

2009-08-08T09:34:00.000-07:00

This is a very good room escape game.

So easy.

It even saves your progress.

I'm playing it on two computers: home and work.

I'm still playing it!

Old and New Minder

2009-08-06T14:15:00.000-07:00

Next week's New Tricks should be fun. The show stars ex-Minder Dennis Waterman. Guest star?

New Minder star Shane Ritchie guest stars.

Escape The Working Room

2009-07-26T10:41:00.000-07:00

Just completed Escape the Working Room, a very nice and easy room escaper.

Come on, 'ave a go.

The Fog Fall Game

2009-07-18T16:33:00.000-07:00

From the people who gave us the covert front games come this. A kind of post apocalyptic Threads type scenario.

Covert Front - A WW1 Espionage Game

2009-07-18T14:45:00.000-07:00

This is a point and click game - like those rooms escape ones. It's a three parter and I started at no. 3.

I completed three and now one. The latter I did without the need of a walkthrough (cheats).

This is also a WW1 espionage game with eerie violin in Kaiser's Germany. Quite addictive.

Trapped (Game)

2009-07-15T13:28:00.000-07:00

Interesting game this.

A Small Favour (Game)

2009-07-15T12:24:00.000-07:00

From the people brought us Reemus, see below, here's a neat little game.

The Several Journeys of Reemus - The Collection

2009-07-13T13:20:00.000-07:00

Now that you have had a taster and love the graphics and the groovy music. Come here for the the rest.

Journeys of Reemus - The Prologue

2009-07-13T12:52:00.000-07:00

Before chapter one there's the prologue, "Lair of the Ant Queen." Great music, funny, the usual you'd expect from Reemus and his purple bear side-kick, Liam.

Play it here.

Journeys of Reemus

2009-07-13T12:13:00.000-07:00

Journeys of Reemus is a game, but its more. There's a story, great music, and really fun. Only I played this weeks ago like The Visitor below, and like The Visitor I could not remember the name, but I remember I found from playing The Visitor. So revisiting The Visitor (haha) I found it and here it is. Give it a go, you might like it.

The Visitor

2009-07-13T12:08:00.001-07:00

Sometimes you have to blog the games you played weeks ago. Otherwise you have to google goodness knows what to get there.

Take The Visitor. Cracking good, if somewhat gory game. Now I could not remember the title, The Visitor, so googled the images for ALIEN WORM GAME. And found it from there.

Here it is, you should have a go. Great graphics, moody music, the scene is magnificently set.

The next blog is the real reason behind finding the The Visitor.

Confederation Cup

2009-06-28T14:02:00.000-07:00

A bit gutted to see USA go out to Brazil. Brazil who cheated RSA in the semis. Still never mind, eh?

I have been spending all day playing Room Escape games.

Now I am gonna chill.

Stephanie Beacham's Powers

2009-06-21T14:27:00.000-07:00

I went to bed late last night (Saturday) being online doing goodness knows what and of course the telly was on. An 1968 episode of The Saint was on and starred many recognisable faces. I must have caught the last five minutes of it and I had seen the episode before a few years ago on ITV4 or Men & Motors. When it finished I channel hopped to Dave De Ja Vu or whatever the Dave +1 channel is called and caught an episode of Harry Enfield and Friends which I had no time for to be honest.

At 3:30am and dawn rising outside my window I went to bed. 7 hours later I awoke and charged my mobile. About as many hours later I remembered I was still charging my mobile phone.

After I awoke and had a shave the same episode of The Saint was on and I watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, because Roger Moore was good in it. Smooth, articulate, debonair and cool, he gave a totally realistic performance. His eye brows did conjure up send-ups of him on Spitting Image though.

For example. Roger scribbled something on a piece of paper followed by a picture of The Saint logo, but we never got to see it. Maybe Rog has a bit of Method in him.

But back to the point of this post. The stars in this episode, called Legacy For The Saint. TP McKenna, Edward Brayshaw (Rentaghost's Mr Meaker), Kenneth Farrington (Corrie's Billy Walker/Emmerdale's Tom King), Reginald March and in her first television role, because she said so in the My First TV Performance segment of the Radio Times: Stephanie Beacham.

As a footnote did you know Roger Moore guest-starred in the 1997 film version? As a voice on a car-radio?

Div

2009-06-19T17:46:00.000-07:00

I recorded Divided today, the teatime quiz show on ITV1 what replaced Jasper Carrott's Golden Balls (snigger) and what a load of tosh.

I am not going to slate Andrew Castle for his charmless style or go on about his eye-candy appeal to women viewers however the show is horrid.

Three people start off as "pals". Then they get questions which they have to unanimously have to answer from multiple choices and the prize money for each question runs down the longer they take. That's my first gripe. Prize money going down.

Then they have three lives and after that they go away with nothing. My second gripe.

At the end with any of their lives intact the "pals" turn on each other as the greed sets in as we reach the cusp of the show: dividing the loot. The show splits the money three ways but not equally, obviously. So they squabble about taking the top spot and in doing so the dividends drop.

There's nothing to like about this show. The producers ensure noone gets the money and if they do it won't be huge sums and at the same time our sympathies are no longer with the contestants. Makes me pine for 3-2-1!

Actually, I lie. I like it when the whole studio goes green when they get a correct answer.

-o-

Just a footnote. Not connected to Div-ided. Blogger froze on me and I thought I had lost the post above but it saved it as draft. So, Blogger, I love you.

The Crimanal Cleo Laine

2009-06-18T16:21:00.000-07:00

Cleo sings, "All my sadness
All my joy
Came from loving
That thieiving boy....."

The YouTube is here.

The narrator kinda shoots himself in the foot selling us this movie, The Criminal, as he rattles off the stereotypes...

More Room Escape Games...and Jnr.

2009-06-17T19:40:00.000-07:00

Stumbled across a Room Escape Game and was going to head straight into Escape Hotel 2, then decided to do 1 first. They're quite good and I recommend them.

First is this.

The second is this.

As with all these REGs there are walkthroughs (tips, solutions).

Sadly there are 5-10 second ads preceeding these, but don't let that hamper you.

-o-

I just love this.

Confederation Cup

2009-06-15T18:04:00.000-07:00

I forgot MOTD was on today. On BBC3. I had missed 5 minutes of the game and had to PVR the rest of Coronation Street, Part I, EastEnders, Coronation Street, Part II and Big Brother.

I know the match finished around 9:15pm - way before Big Brother - but I wanted to watch Coronation Street and EastEnders first.

After that I was channel hopping, looking for films to watch, I started watching Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou, then switched to Batman. I always love the bit when Jack Nicholson says, "Never rub another man's rhubarb!"

USA with ten men took the lead, but lost 3-1 to Italy. The next game is on Wednesday unless there is a Red Button I am not aware of where South Africa play New Zealand.

WWTBAM

2009-06-13T11:55:00.000-07:00

It's back.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire. So what's new? How about the first question? Hard or what?

Which of these countries gives its name to a type of goose?

A Russia B Canada C South Africa D New Zealand.

The poor woman had to ask the audience and went with 96% of them who rightly said it was [B Canada].

The Apprentice - Ladies Night

2009-06-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

Watching the final of The Apprentice: Jasmina v Kate.

Carry On Night

2008-07-13T09:59:00.000-07:00

Last night I stayed with BBC 2 and watched an evening or 6 hours of Carry On films, plays and tidbits.

First it was Carry On Camping, then Cor Blimey and Fantabalusa (sp?) and Carry On Matron.